Sometimes when I'm editing photos, I see one that really pops out at me, and I know instantly that I want to use it BIG on a layout. I took this photo of my son fishing last summer during a camping trip, and I knew that if I cropped it down to a smaller size, it would lose the impact I wanted it to have. I really wanted to preserve the calm, quiet and vast feel of the image, and decided to print it out to 8.5x11 on my home printer after converting it to black and white. It helps if you have an image with some white space if you're going to be adding directly onto your photo. The bold summer subway wording pattern paper strip I used was perfect for my theme, but I wanted to keep the rest of my embellishments minimal so as not to compete too much with that. I sprayed one of the Kraft tags with some yellow mist, cut it down a bit, and ran it through my printer. I added a tag sale tag, stamped with a little title, and then layered a custom flair with my son's initial on top. By keeping my embellishments to a minimum, I think the photo really stands on it's own, and I love how this turned out. I encourage everyone to try scrapping with an enlargement, it's really addictive. :)
Happy Canada Day weekend to all my fellow Canadians!! And a joyous 4th to those of you in the USA. :)
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