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- Take the Beige paper and tear a line across the page to form the base of the mountains.
- Using scissors cut out a set of mountains using the Brown paper. Attach the brown mountains to your beige paper.
- Cut a light blue strip wide enough to fill your mountains to the top of a 12x12 page. I did not use a base page to attach my pieces to. You can if you would like to use a full page as a blank canvas. Because I was doing the two page spread, I wanted to save on paper.
Making the Sun
- Using my circle cutter I cut the corner of my yellow paper to form a quarter circle.
- I cut the rays for the sun using scissors.
- I punched the swirl using my Sizzix Medium Swirls Die on gold paper to finish off the sun. I adhered to the page using 3L photo squares and Sailor Glue.
Paving the Road
- Using The Sizzix Personal Die Cut Machine and the Sizzix Road and Wavy Border punch enough sections of road to cross your pages. Mine took 7 once I filled in the edges.
- Cut yellow strips about a 1/4" thick and a couple of inches long. Long enough to cover the length of your little roads.
- Using the back of your road die cuts, cut along the line in the center of the road making it wider so the yellow strips will show through.
- Adhere the yellow strips to the back of the wavy roads using your adhesive. I used Sailor glue in between the dashes I had cut. Once I had the yellow strips attached, I used photo squares to affix the road to the desert.
- Cut yellow cardstock to fill in the windows on the van and place the van too.
- A great journaling technique is to journal in waves along the bottom of the road, or across the top.
Titling it All
- Cutting a strip of the map paper I began to punch the letters to my title topper.
- Using the Sizzix Dies in the Sizzix Fun Serif Big Alphabet punch "ROAD TRIP" in a straight line so the map will read correctly (don't you hate it when you punch just one upside down?).
- Mount your letters on the red cardstock and then mat that with the map paper. Adhere the title topper to your page.
Placing Your Photos
- Using my 12" trimmer I cut a square and a rectangle using the brown paper, and then matted them on dark gray.
- Using my circle and oval cutters I did the same.
- Adhere the shapes to your page and you are ready for your pictures.
The idea of this layout was to make something easy that incorporated not only the colors in the pictures I had, but also the feel of the setting. The weather was kind of gloomy, but peaceful, and the blues really helped to create the atmosphere. I liked the idea of the tiles because we took pictures in front of the tile fountains.Choosing the Colors
-As easy as it sounds, it isn't always an easy chore to choose colors for your layouts. I have to admit though, this one wasn't too much of a challenge for me. All shades of blue, especially those found in the fountain, and grey for the background to set the scene for the layout.
The Title Topper
-To create the title topper, I went to the Wyland website and cut and pasted a picture of his signature into a word program. I enlarged the image and printed it. After placing the navy blue cardstock underneath the signature, all I! had to do was outline each letter with a pencil or pen. This leaves a faint outline on the navy cardstock which I simply filled in with a silver opaque writer.
Piecing the Puzzle
-I don't know why this all came naturally to me, it just did. I cropped my photos to include all of the details I wanted, and then cut rectangular and square pieces of various blue papers and arranged them on the page. I just made sure that I didn't put two of the same colored pieces next to each other, and it all fell into place. I used an adhesive to place the tiles and voila! The page is complete.
