Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 36)

They are a must! U.S. tags We love them, we put them everywhere, mini or maxi, natural or in a "splodge" version - here are some ideas to decorate your layouts with tags. by Gaëlle Fauglas, Sophie Hermand, Ana Bondu, Birgit Koopsen and Ula Kopciewska A funny pacifier! « Coco Lapine (Coco the rabbit) by Gaëlle Fauglas » As a background Gaëlle used tags to create a textured background. She began gluing them on a 30 x 30 cm cardboard (12" x 12"), and then applied a coat of gesso over the whole background. Before drying it, she sprayed it with a pink ink and spread it with a brush, roughly mixing it more or less to the gesso 36 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 areas. She dried the whole and worked with inks and stencils, then with stamps, in various colors. She then dropped in a few blobs of blue and white inks. Once the background was completed, all that remained to do was to place picture, embellishments, title and journaling. Once upon a time there was a little girl who, as a baby, had taken the satin edge of the blanket of her little bed as a pacifier. She always got to sleep smoothing the edge with her hand until the action happened to slow down, and sleep came over her. One day, she discovered another pacifier, which she adopted: it was her dad's earlobe. To go to sleep, nothing more enjoyable... for the child than massaging it, but what about the father's position, squatting on his heels, trying to overcome the cramp that threatened his leg... One day, the little girl fell ill with such a high fever that her dad, a doctor, due to emotion running high, could make neither head nor tail of it! He called his best friend: a renowned pediatrician of the city where he lived. It was a nasty fever, but she would recov-er, said the called-for specialist, who noticed the strange merry-go-round of the little girl trying to get hold of her father's ear. He was interested in such issues about pacifiers and collected samples of them, going so far as to photograph them. What do you think happened? It was the specialist's ear the baby seized!... Morality: never without my pacifier! Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill), cardboard, stamps (Craft Origine, Carabelle), alphabets (American Crafts), die-cut machine and circle die (Fuse / Fiskars), stencils (La Pause Créative), wooden shapes, chipboards and die-cut (Studio Calico), inks (Les Editions Infocréa), gesso, clothespin, flower, doily

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Rendez-vous
Letters from our readers
Let's play around with color - Tempted by transparency
Are you a beginner? This page is especially for you!
Readers' Idea Gallery - Summer activities - Combo
Tale of a sketch - Put the photo in the spotlight
Letter from our translators
Ideas
One page, three options
Matching decorations
Make-over session - for Christelle's and Emilie's layouts
U.S. tags - They are a must!
A mishmash of words
Honors go to photography
Graphic and stylish - Sew in your layouts
A mini-album with labels - to be downloaded on page 99
Techniques
A few little graphic rules - to adopt without delay !
Let's tame color
A background in 6 steps - Transform your patterned papers
Butterflies
Are you a tea - or a coffee person?
A background in 9 steps - Ink, paper, that's all!
A background in 9 steps - Flowers and colors!
A maxi-album - A floris't shop
Discoveries
We have tried out for you
Marseille - Provence 2013
Meet the artists - Delphine, Carole and Laetitia
It's on trend - Marine anchors
Scraptherapy - How about talking scraptherapy?
Rendez-vous on the blogosphere

Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013