Cycling Team Inspiration from Carol Monson

Friday, November 11, 2011

Cycling Team Inspiration from Carol Monson

Hello all! Hope you have lots of fun, family time, and crafting planned for the weekend. To inspire you, I'm back with another project from our Get Your Game On Cycling Team, this time the incredibly talented Carol Monson! If you haven't seen Carol's blog, go check it out! You will love her style - her stitching is really cool - and her photographs are amazing!

Here's Carol to tell you about her layouts:

GO Nathan

The subject matter of this layout immediately made me want to include a repetitive circle pattern somehow.

To keep things moving and fun I decided to punch a bunch of circles and then punch out the middles on most to keep things light.

I pieced them together before attaching them to my layout so I could stitch around some of the circles. I find it easier to sew a circle pattern on smaller pieces rather than on the layout as a whole. Once those were done I glued them down to my finished layout and topped them off with a few chipboard stars.

He's our All Star

This product line has so many fun elements and papers in it that I really wanted to highlight a few of my favorite things.

I loved the sunburst patterns on the sports themed papers so I cut a portion of one out and emphasized that theme with stitching along each ray. I had one really great picture that needed to shine on its own and I thought that was a great way to do it.

I also loved all the different chipboards and sticker elements. I took one of the banners apart and switched things up by adding stickers and different paper patterns to it. I finished things off with several of the chipboard pieces layered together to make my title.