My son went to swim camp for two weeks during the Summer holidays. He had been going swimming once a week since he was 5 when Covid hit. Since he’s having swimming lessons in 3rd grade in school this year, I wanted to make sure he was all set.
In Germany we have four different levels of swimming. Most kids get their basic swimming skills before starting school around 6. Then there are three levels for which you get a swimming pass – bronze, silver and gold. You need to pass a test to show your skills.
So on the last day of swim camp my son took the test for bronze and passed (enter proud mom face here). Obviously I wanted to document that.
I decided to make a flat lay of the swim pass and a photo of my son swimming. I took the photo with a lot of white space at the top because I knew I wanted to add my title and journaling there.
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I added my journaling in Photoshop after editing my photo. I felt there was still something missing and decided to play with the honeycomb stamp from the stamp set. I used Worn Lipstick and Peacock Feather. Always make sure you test inks on the photo paper you are using. Distress Oxides and my Epson photo paper are a perfect match.
For the title I used Gilmo Solid Line and cut the letters out by hand. The die set for the Gilmo Alpha stamps is finally back in the shop. Grab it here. I adhered the letters with a little bit of glue to hold them in place and ran them through my sewing machine.
Finally, I added two circle pieces from the ephemera pack by cutting small slits with a craft knife.
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