Today’s the last day for the Lucky Girl Crafts May blog hop!
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Remember how I said that Shimelle’s 4×6 Photo Love class was really helping me get my 2008 trip with husband’s family onto layouts? Well, she’s done it again with the April four-photo sketch (andit’s here on her blog). On that trip, we toured to three Frank Lloyd Wright houses, because my mom-in-law loves touring houses, and especially loves FLW’s architecture. We took advantage of our location in IL to go to Springfield to see the Dana-Thomas House (and see the Lincoln Museum), and then we spent a couple days in Chicago and saw the Robie House and FLW’s Oak Park home and studio (and then spent some time at the Field Museum and walking around).
Of course, I had to make things a lot more difficult for myself than just using a sketch and getting the photos and journaling onto a page! See, ever since we went on the tours, I had it in my head that I wanted to incorporate the idea of FLW’s art glass designs from each of the houses into my pages. And so, I give you the first in the “series”**:
At the top of the page, I have paper-pieced a section of a skylight in the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio. I found a photograph of the skylight HERE, and used it as my guide. Yes, I did it by hand, and I actually eyeballed the whole thing (no measuring!!)– I cut out the different strips with my trimmer (and sometimes by hand) and inked every edge to give it a more stained-glass-like look. It took me two movies-on-instant-queue-through-Netflix to finish, but I am immensely pleased with the result. I have obviously changed the colors a bit (for two reasons, 1–I didn’t have the right colors of paper on hand, and 2–The colors I did use are better suited to my page design).
The title is cut with my Silhouette (Avignon font)…
and the title and vertical photo flip up to reveal a fourth photo, the tickets from our tour, and journaling about our visit.
Supplies:
solid brown cardstock: Recollections
patterned paper (light texture pattern): My Mind’s Eye Simply Delightful paper pad
title: Silhouette SD (with font Avignon for the letters and Rivanna for the ampersand)
black ink: Stampabilities
**see the others: the Dana-Thomas House and the Robie House
Vegetablog 
Love, love, love this!! You nailed it – when your post came up in my reader, I saw the top of your page first and IMMEDIATELY thought, FLW, before I even saw what you wrote. Beautiful!
So what were your movies of choice? My husband is on a fishing trip, so I’m about to embark on some projects that will require the entire BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
I LOVE the handwork and how the part flips up. I’m amazed that you didn’t measure!
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Thank you so much, Abbe and Nat!!
Nat– the movies I watched were mediocre at best, so I won’t recommend them– it was pretty much whatever looked halfway decent that I could stream on my laptop through the Netflix Instant queue. I’ve watched the DVDs I own quite a bit recently and wanted a bit of a change…
I have the A&E Pride & Prejudice (Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy) and recently watched it while working on projects and it was perfect for that! I love P&P (both the book and this movie version), so I have good memories associated with the projects I finished while watching it again– does that happen with you? When I look at old projects, I can remember what I was thinking about or what I was watching while I worked on them.
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