Key To My Heart (SATW & Berry71bleu July Challenge)

I had so much fun playing around with the June challenge at Scrap Around The World that i couldn't pass up the chance to play along again this month. 

The July SATW Mood Board provided by Keren Tamir is beautiful!

I love every single piece of it from the pale romantic colors to the metal vintage keys to the distressed wooden texture of the birdhouses down to the wonderful sketch with loads of hexagons and white space. 

As you will see, i tried to incorporate all those elements into my layout.

I also want to link this layout into the July challenge at Berry71bleu.  The theme is : Anything Goes.  Dana from Berry71bleu DT wants to see what we feel like creating this month, and as soon as i saw the SATW Mood Board, i felt the inspiration sweep over me and knew exactly what i wanted to create.

So here goes...

Some of the products i used are 13arts' All is Love collection, loads of Prima blooms and pearls, assorted metal trinkets and 2Crafty chipboard.

Just as much as i am in love with this picture of Yves and i (and with Yves himself of course), i love the way this layout turned out.  I tried and tried to take the perfect picture of it (more than a dozen takes, i swear!) so that the colors would all come out as close to reality as possible but i have to say that it's still not 100%.  But it's close enough :)

 

I used the Key to my Heart title (above) from 2Crafty and one of the intricate keys (below) from their Vintage Keys set.  All pieces of chipboard were covered with white gesso, minty green Liquid Pearls which i also dabbed all over my background papers.

 I also dabbed some gesso and liquid pearls on the metal key which had a dull gold finish, just like the "Love" metal plate and the brads which i added here and there.

Here you can see more details of the 13arts background paper that resembles old distressed wood in the same shades as the SATW moodboard.  I couldn't have picked more perfect paper!

 I put a heavy coat of molding paste on the 2Crafty 1" Hexagon shapes using a sponge dabber to give them texture, then followed with the same gesso / liquid pearls treatment.  In the image below, you can also see the beatiful Corner Geneive pieces which i used in the 2 opposite corners of my picture frame.

 

Hexagons layered with more hexagons cut out of the 2Crafty Chicken Wire Panel!  I love it!

Very pretty blooms dabbed with gesso and liquid pearls.

 

One last look...

Hopefully i've inspired you to play along too with this regal/romantic Mood Board from Scrap Around the World.  You still have a couple weeks to link up right HERE.

Also check out Berry71bleu's Anything Goes challenge before the end of this month for a chance to win some cool prizes!