Friday 19 July 2013

I just want to Scrap Everything!

Hello again. We've been having some wild wintry weather here. It's nasty outside but cosy in my scrap room!

It's time for a new post for Scrap Everything. This month I have a gorgeous range called Sisters by Echo Park. It's available here. I had a few photos on my desk that I've been wanting to scrap for a while and I was looking through these with the Sisters papers in mind. I also received another sheet of Echo Park paper from the "here and now" range called chalkboard.When I found the photo of my daughter with a blackboard I realised I had found the perfect match!

Here's my layout:


Aaaaw, I forget how cute my kids were when they were little! This is my daughter who is a very talented artist now, so I'm stoked that I have a record of her early artistic days.

To create the background for the photo, I layered two of the Sisters sheets after punching along one side and inking the edges. I tied them up with Maya Road twine.  I cut out a chevron section from one of the papers and added this across the bottom. I backed the photo with two We R Memory Keepers cardstock cards, available here. I used more of the cards as journaling blocks. The journaling blocks set the retro rounded-corner feel so I rounded the corners on everything else too. I never tire of this look!

Here are some close-ups:



To make the blackboard background I raided my daughter's arty stash (quite appropriate really!) and found some chalk pastels. These worked beautifully on the paper. A few simple child-like drawings and I was done!

I reckon there are endless ways you could use that grey chalkboard paper as a blackboard on layouts.

I wish I had taken lots more photos of my kids when they were little. If yours are still small, get that camera out!

Bye for now.

Heather

13 comments:

  1. Wowwwwwwwwww!! This is gorgeous! LOVING the colors, the photo and love love love love that blackboard title work!!! Fab!!

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  2. The chalkboard background is so cool Heather!

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  3. Yep I know what you mean about the kids photos. My first 3 were young before digital and I remember putting the film in and waiting a day for it to get processed and you really did not know how the photos were going to look!! Not to mention they were so much more expensive then the photos these days.. Thanks goodness i can scan off reasonably good photos from the old photos and use them.. This layout is fabulous.. the back ground paper is perfect and love the colors and layers!! Have a great weekend!

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  4. Zoo cute! I'm with u, rounded corners always work a treat - great page- that blackboard pp is VERY nice!!!!

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  5. This is awesome! Love the chalkboard look background!!! Amazing!!!

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  6. Fabulous layout.....love it! The papers are perfect:)

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  7. Such a fresh and sweet page. Love the blackboard paper and how lovely you have a photo of this young artist as she started out. Like you, I have very few photos from when our children were young, but I make up for it now with the Grandchildren. Thanks for following my blog and now I can reciprocate :)

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  8. Gorgeous background - clever you! Also wanted to wish you all the best on the upcoming tour! There again - clever you! Have a lovely Sunday - Sandrine xx

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  9. love the chalkboard effect to reflect the photo, so cute :) have a great week :)

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  10. Hi again! I fixed up that link now! :D Cheers! xo

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  11. What an incredibly cute (and very clever) layout!

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