Layout Recipe #34 ~ Happy 3rd Birthday Mia!

This week’s layout caught my eye at the DST gallery, it’s by jensurge (Jen Ulasiewicz) and is entitled Happy 3rd Birthday Mia! I love this layout! My DD’s 3rd birthday is on Monday so I thought it would be very fitting to showcase this layout today. I just love the whimsical swirls and colours, it’s pink, it’s girly… it’s everything I personally love! Please feel free to click on the image and leave this talented scrapper some praise!

Ingredients List:

• Cupcake by Betty Jo Martin from Birthday Sherbet Collab Kit from KB and Friends
• Background and Flowers from Peek A Boo Glitter by Tracy Ann Robinson
• Deeble Dabble Doodle Swirly Overlays by Lauren Grier
• Boho Flourish Frame by Michelle Coleman
• Doodle Frame (recolored) by Ida
• Sloppy Paint Alpha by Ashley Olson (no longer available?)
• Rainbow Brite Bozo Alpha by Gina Miller
• Save the Date by Darcy Baldwin

What was your inspiration for the layout’s theme or design?

My inspiration really just came from my daughter. I wanted the layout to be fun happy and colourful just like she is and above all, girly!

What special techniques/actions/effects did you use if any in creating the layout?

1. The only really cool thing I did in creating this was how I made the colour effect on the doodle overlay. After I put the overlay on the page, I did a colour overlay on it and turned it purple. Then I duplicated the layer and did a colour overlay of blue on that one. I used a large soft edge eraser and erased some parts of the blue overlay. I duplicated it again and did a green colour overlay on that one and did the same thing, erased some of it with a soft edge eraser and repeated these steps again with yellow.
2. Also, to make all of the shadows on the page softer and not stand out so much with that ugly grey, I made the drop shadows a deep pink shade to match the page.
3. For the alphas, when I did the colour overlay on them, they didn’t really look painted anymore so I gave it a small bevelled edge and added a texture to it so it would look a little painted on.
4. Oh and the swirly frame on the photo didn’t come in those colours. I took all the colours from the page to match the colours of the row of flowers.

Thank you to my readers for checking out my blog today, I hope this layout has inspired you to mix and match some great products, and stretch your creativity! Please click on the layout above and leave this great scrapper some love!

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