Thursday 19 September 2013

Scrap Around The World

Hi again,

I seem to be on an online challenge mission this month. Not sure why! I think it's just that I have the time atm.

I thought I'd have a go at the Scrap Around The World challenge as the mood board is stunning. They've changed the rules and the sketch is now optional. I didn't use it so I haven't included it here. Here's the mood board - the images are so striking!


I was immediately struck by the second image and have definitely taken my inspiration from it. I was attracted to the doodled organic shapes in particular. Here's my layout:


I really wanted to use the strong black and white contrast featured in the mood board but I also wanted to highlight the stunning black and yellow colours of the flowers in my pic. To achieve this I sprayed a background around the pic of bright yellow Dylusions but kept the rest of the layout completely black and white.

I had a bit of fun "pegging" a banner to the photo to create the title. Here's a close up:


I was originally going to doodle the entire leafy background but I then remembered a TCW stencil that I had and I thought that tracing around this with a black pen would look cool so I used a combination of both stenciling and doodling to create my organic shapes. By using the stencil I could achieve an open "white" look then I doodled the black leaves by hand to form a strong contrast both in colour and form.


I used all sorts of bits and bobs to create the border - leftover punched shapes, bits of washi, punched out sections backed with black cardstock and good old ink and pen.

Even though these Kennedias are gorgeous, the sad thing is that they keep taking over everything else in the garden and I'm going to have to pull them out! There might be one I can leave though. I have four plants, all under a year old and all about 5 metres across! They're climbing up other plants, over fences and onto paths. I really needed some ground covers but not such aggressive ones! It's such a shame.

Til next time.

Heather




13 comments:

  1. Wowwwwwww! This is gorgeous!! I am LOVING that pop of yellow!!!

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  2. Oh wow, love the combination of the doodling and stencilling, the black and white look so striking and I'm glad you were on a mission so we got to see this layout.

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  3. Wow Heather, this is so gorgeous. Love that splash of yellow and the stencilled image is very striking. A totally amazing page!! ox

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  4. Totally stunning Heather - love the doodling. Hey, no idea why my comments came thru 3 times though - weird. Let me know if you get this in triplicate :)

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  5. Aaaah well...at least you've got a page to remember them by, eh??? LOOOOVE this mix of doodle masking...works a treat:):):) Gorgeous pop of colour too - Dylusions - the word says it all, eh????!!!!!!

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  6. Wow ! Fabulous !! I love the bold black and the bright yellow combo. Your stencilling/ doodling is beautiful and a perfect highlight for your photo. Amazing page ..love it. Thanks so much for playing along with us this month at Scrap Around The World.

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  7. this is beautiful!! just love the photo and how you complimented it!! thanks for joining us again at SATW!

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  8. This is amazing!!! Wow! I love your doodling - absolutely love your take on this challenge!

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  9. Stunning layout Heather, great impact with the falling branches under your photo. great take on the challenge!!

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  10. This is so striking Heather! Love it!

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  11. I love how you have interpreted the inspiration. Love the added yellow with your photo, and the leafy background is fabulous!

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  12. Oh yah, totally digging your border work and the stencilling! This is such a striking page Heather! Thank you so much for joning in with us at SATW!

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  13. Love the photo and the extension of the doodling and stencil leaves.....the pop of yellow is fab....Gorgeous layout Heather. :)

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