Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 44)
A mishmash of words!
Why not combine titles and journaling, playing with words, fonts and
colors? Let's discover together the ideas of the creative team!
by Catherine Labeeu, Stéphanie Leschiera and Mylen Chartier
Capitals ahead!
An acrostic poem is a mind
game, a form of riddle in which
the solution is revealed line after
line. There are famous, naive,
flirtatious, modest ones... It's
mental gymnastics that can be
done by all, from a very early
age. Here is one from Lewis
Carroll's Through the LookingGlass. In the final chapter, in «A
Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky»,
we have a wonderful acrostic
of the Alice's real name: Alice
Pleasance Liddell.
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
« Papillon (Butterfly) » by Catherine Labeeu
Journaling and
acrostic poems
As a piece of trivia when Catherine was expecting her son Solal, she fondly called him
"Small butterfly"; so it was natural for her to
refer to it in the title. To play the card of originality, but also to pay tribute to a scrapbooking technique very fashionable at the time,
she made her title as an acrostic. To recap,
an acrostic is a poem whose first letter in
each line forms a word when read vertically.
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SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream Lingering in the golden gleam Life, what is it but a dream?
The letters of the word "butterfly" are scattered throughout the text and are highlighted
thanks to stickers which contrast with the
text, itself written by hand. The colors of the
design in pastel shades, blend smoothly with
baby Solal's photo.
Finally, tissue paper, cloth embellishments
and twine add substance and a delicate
touch around the picture.
Supplies:
patterned paper (American Crafts, Webster's Pages,
Crate Paper), alphabets (Kesi'Art, Atilolou), embellishments
(American Crafts), badge (ColorConspiracy), fabric embellishments (Dame de Kit), dies (Sizzix),
gesso, watercolor, twine
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
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