Channeling my inner Heather Jacob . . .

It's no secret that I love everything that Heather Jacob creates.  She is an amazing artist and a true inspiration. There's just one problem . . . she lives in Australia. So stalking her here in the U.S. is near impossible. So I cyber-stalk her.

Sometimes, life gets in the way of creating and the thoughts/ideas just don't happen quite as easily as other times. That's when I turn to bookmarks that inspire me. This morning I ran across this bookmark of Heather's work:

http://heatherartandlife.blogspot.com/2012/06/color-room-115.html

and decided I would use a recent photo of Beau and his new dog Leroy. Following some (most) of Heather's layout ideas, I created this:

The layout I created still needs some things like a title and maybe more embellishments. It's much plainer than Heathers, but I so enjoyed using her ideas and working with some new things I've recently acquired:

• Both the gold metal pieces and Imaginarium chipboard leaves were first Gesso'd and then painted with Viva Silks and Twinkling H2O's.
• The doily is a Spellbinders die
• You'll notice on Heather's designs that she stitches a lot. I love that look but am horrible with a sewing machine. Instead, I faux stitched by using a Tim Holtz ruler, a paper piercer and some ink. The *dots* were connected with a Copic multiliner.

I loved incorporating stamping, inking and painting onto a layout. Now to look for letters for a title and maybe some other embellishments. 

Comments

[AnnWerner]

Thank you for sharing! I love this sort of layered scrap book page for those moments that are captured in a single photo.

[Val Thorpe]

Ah this is lovely ... I also love everything that Heather does - she is iconic....

[Bonnie Heggemann]

Love this layout, Nancy. Leroy is adorable. So sorry to hear about your family illnesses. Hope you are doing OK. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. Hugs.