4x6 Photo Love, August.

Every month in 2011 on the 30th Shimelle Laine does a free class that uses 4x6 photos. Each month you add another 4x6 photo to the layouts. For example, in January we had one 4x6 photo on the layout and for August's layout we had eight. This is my layout for her challenge for August 30th's class which consisted of eight photos. My husband and I took a road trip down to Charleston, SC and this layout is from the day we spent at Boone Hall Plantation.

Here's the sketch. Basically it's one 12x12 page and two smaller pages (about two thirds smaller than a 12x12 depending on your positioning on your larger page), the smaller pages act as an interactive flap that works with your large page. It's best to sew the smaller page protector to the 12x12 along the binding. This was the first time I've sewn since home ech in intermediate school, so I was pretty nervous! I picked up a small sewing machine at a garage sale last month and I thought I would dive in and try it out. I practiced a little on some spare cloth and then just went for it. Luckily it went well! yay!

Pin ItHere's the layout all tucked into the sewn page protector with the smaller paper resting on top of the 12x12 page. I really like how it turned out! Shimelle is awesome!

Pin ItAnd this shows how it looks when the smaller page is open. Cute, yea?

Pin ItThe front of the smaller page with my adorable husband playing along with my nonsense for me. I asked him if he could grab the fence ala Ryan Gossling from "The Notebook". He loves me, he does. ;)

Pin ItThe back of the smaller page with a pretty opening of some trees down a road the tractor uses to get to the farms which are still in use today and a shot of the only member of the Boone family buried on the plantation. He was the son of Col. Boone that planted the avenue of oaks. They take 100 years to form and the son wanted to be buried by them to watch over the trees he planted.

Pin ItThe 12x12 page by itself. This has photos of the Boone Hall home, the front porch (Where they filmed "The Notebook", "Queen", and "North & South"), the original slave cabins from the 1700's, and the gorgeous Avenue of Oaks. Some pretty with some history that shouldn't be forgotten.

Pin ItI used my Amy Tangerine stamp set finally, yay! I stamped the camera from the set on green vinyl ribbon with brown StayzOn ink, cut and placed on some kraft cardstock, then inked the edges with Tim Holtz's distress ink in vintage photo. Stamped it again on some kraft and cut out the heart only. Then inked the edges again and paper pieced it to the camera. I thought this added a nice touch as the Avenue of Oaks is one of the most photographed driveways in the world.

Pin ItI also did the same technique to the camera from Lawn Fawn's say cheese two set and adhered it to an Ormolu button to match the woodgrain camera button of theirs I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by and looking at my projects, I really appreciate it!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
Gaby