Make A Funny Face

I created this layout for the Flying Unicorn September challenge "Embrace the Space." I didn't actually get to enter it because when I finally got around to posting it I hadn't yet joined the site and I wasn't approved yet on the day I was ready to load it up.

The requirements of the challenge were:

• Not a digital layout
• 1/2 of the space must not have an embellishment
• Must be a new design as of September 1st

So here it is. I've always been a proponent of the "funny face" photo. As a matter of fact it's probably harder to get a photo of me without a funny face. It doesn't matter where I am as long as I'm surrounded by the people who love me I will act a fool (this does not mean I'll be rude just that I'll be silly).

 For this layout I used a lot of paper piecing's that I created myself. The rainbow is different cardstock that I cut out in an arch and layered and attached to the cloud. For the cloud I had originally had a cloud that I stuck on top of the rainbow, however it didn't look quite right to me that way, so I cut the wavy line through the center of the cloud and inserted the end of the rainbow so it would look more like the rainbow was actually coming out of the clouds. 

I used my circle punch to cut circles out of the same cardstock I used for the rainbow and lined the bottom of my photo with it. I was originally going to layer the frames around the photo in all the different cardstock's as well but it was making the border too big and I would have definitely covered more than half of the page if I had done so, effectively kicking myself out of the competition I was unable to enter anyway LOL. Thus I chose the three primary colors to do my border in, for without red, yellow, and blue there would be no rainbow. The paint drips beneath the photo were made using my watercolor brush pens. I just held them in place for a really long time until the paint started to drip out, then I held the paper vertically so it would run down the page, finally I went back and added the splatters manually because the drip method didn't create any.

I used the Tooney Noodle font and colored the letters using sharpie markers. The silly faces I drew are also done with the sharpies and I had lots of fun making them. This was one of the most fun pages I've made in quite a while. The whole thing was silly and I really enjoyed it. I hope you liked looking at it as much as I liked making it.