Be A Wall

Today I am a Guest Designer at TheBugBytes.  I spend a lot of time watching my son Tyler play baseball!!  He is a catcher and one of the things we say to him is "be a wall."  I created this layout today with my cricut markers, cri-kits, paper and ink.  Let me show you how!

Both the font and the brick wall are from DC Comics Batman cartridge.  When I first got this cartridge, I saw this brick wall and wondered how I could use it in a baseball layout!! 

I put it on the screen at 11.66w x 8.82h as I wanted it to be a background for my pictures.  I moved it to the bottom of the mat.

I opened a Layer 2 and put the words BE A WALL on the top of the page sized at 1.82h.  I welded them together.

I put my Cri-Kits pen holder in my Cricut and put in a red pen.

I drew on the bricks.

Next I put in a black Cricut Marker.  I put the same paper in the cricut, but switced my Gypsy to Layer 2 and drew on the title.  I wanted a black shadow for the letters, and I also wanted to add some dimension to my layout.

Here is my white paper all drawn on.

I took three ink colors, red, brick red and vintage and started inking the bricks.  I used some scrap paper to mask out the outer edges of the wall so I could keep the brick color on the bricks.  I used make up sponges to ink the paper.

I went back to the Gypy and cut out the bricks again for the mortor in a gray color and inked it a little with Vintage. 

 I used pop dots to stick on the words.

I like the raised look.

Here is my layout ~ it looks a little plain....

I found these Fashion Caps at Michaels in black.

I added a circle in blue and a baseball brad with the litte legs snipped off.  I tied a little hemp cord knot on the top.

I finished the layout with some Vintage ink around the edges of the page, some more cord, two more baseball brads and a little jornaling spot.  This was a fun layout to do!!!