Friday 13 December 2013

White with Bananas!

I have a funny story to tell. I've been participating in the White With 1 challenges over the last few months and it has become a bit of a standing joke that I use the colour somehow in the layout, not just as a colour but as something else. For example, when the colour was watermelon, I used a photo of my daughter eating a watermelon and made watermelon 'slices' as a background. The next month was blueberry, so I made a layout titled 'Under Blueberry Skies'.

I couldn't believe it when this month's colour came up - it's banana. You see I have this collection of photos that sits on my desk, ready to be scrapped. Some are favourite older pics that I haven't scrapped yet, some are new ones that I've printed off as options for other projects then not used them. Among those photos are some gorgeous ones of my son when he was 2 years old. He was talking on a banana phone! Yep - I had to do it!

Here's my layout:


I used some of my new Heidi Swapp purchases for the first time. I haven't even unpacked from doing Heidi's class last month yet! I used her stencil and some Colorshine to create the sunburst pattern. I then layered up the background with stamps, rub ons and cotton thread. I painted the chipboard sun and cloud, the first letters of the title and the little squares in the stamped pattern with acrylic paint. I like this effect of random yellow squares in the grid pattern.

Here are some close ups:



My journaling:


And another closie:



I hope you can have a go at the White With 1 challenge this month. I love the effects I can achieve using these limited, but very interesting, colour palettes.

Happy scrappin'

Heather

18 comments:

  1. Heather this was the perfect challenge for these gorgeous photos, love the stamping too.

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  2. this LO is so cute!!! And I love the sunburst!

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  3. Another wonderful layout, love the photos, and love the run rays too.. and well done on your win at WW1 too!

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  4. LOL!! Loving the story behind the challenges you did and loveeeeeeeeeeee the lo!!!! Those photos are sooooooo adorable and loving the masking and the title with the banana "B's"!!!!!

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  5. Yup, i just hope they have Orange as their next one.....then things will be simply peachy...right??? HEEHEEE.......you've nailed it....this is THE perfect page. #1 new fave!!! Stamping? MAGICAL:):):)

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  6. What a gorgeous fun page!! Love the story behind this and love how you scrapped these adorable photos!! Fantastic background Heather and I also love the sunburst!! Fabulous work!! ox

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  7. Yet another fabulous LO Heather!! I love your attention to detail and creativity. Just fabulous!!!! :)

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  9. i am absolutely addicted to that screen ., your layouts rock and the extra effort in using the theme with not just the colour , but the word also is always a bonus to see scrap sista . Your the thinking persons scrapper :) cant wait to see your layout next month xx

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  10. This is just so, so sweet! Love the yellow rays in the background!

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  11. Love what you have done with this challenge - fantastic work. Yellow can be such a difficult colour to balance well but you've totally nailed it here.

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  12. I love everything about this Heather! Thanks for joining us at WW1.

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  13. oh you've done it again Heather.. so very very clever. Can't wait to see what you create for the NEXT challenge.. and that yep, I am setting you a personal challenge to continue with your trend use the word in the title. lol. ;-)
    Gorgeous work... as always.

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  14. I adore the way you've incorporated the Bananas into the title! Super cute pics and great composition

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  15. Love love your bananas in your title.... the misting is stunning thankyou for playing along with WW1

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  16. Gorgeous layout Heather!! Those photos are so cute and so perfect for the challenge. Thanks for playing along at WW1 this month. :-)

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  17. Hahaha love it Heather I cannot wait to see what you come up with this month for Tangerine! Thanks so much for joining us at WW1! Blessings x

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