Sunday 23 February 2014

White With Grape

Firstly, my apologies for not being online much lately. Sometimes, the time involved in being a mum runs into scrapping and blogging time and I obviously have to let that happen. I will try my best to be online more from now on.

Our daughter started uni today. I miss her already! The only things that stop me getting too sentimental are that I know she'll have a blast and she'll be home for the weekend in a week or two (or maybe three) anyway! Meanwhile our son is struggling to come to grips with the demands of year 12 so I've been very busy doing the mum stuff.

Anyway, before all this happened, I found out that I won the January White With 1 Challenge! Woohoo! In keeping with my 'fruit in the title' theme that I have seem to have going with the WW1 challenges, here's my layout for February. The colour this month is Grape.


I had trouble photographing this one - I had a terrible colour cast. My layout is actually a lot less blue than this but you get the general idea. I opted to not add a textured background as I was experimenting with making the grapes using gelatos. I didn't want any extra texture under those gelatos or my grapes would have looked more like sultanas!


To make the grapes, I drew circles with a  grape coloured gelato then added a highlight with a lighter shade.I then just washed over them over with a waterbrush. The texture of the cardstock added some interest to the grape shapes as well.


I added some 'wine glass stains' by applying a gelato to the bottom of a wine glass, rubbing this onto the page then wiping over with the waterbrush. I also added a bit of crazy stitching and I loved being able to use up some really old letters in the title!


I found this page a bit of a challenge as I rarely scrap with purple. I also had to really wrack my brains to come up with a solution to my self-imposed rule of having to have the colour in the title - plus I managed to get a bunch of grapes in there as well so I was pretty pleased with the end result!

I hope you can join in at WW1 this month.

Cheers
Heather


17 comments:

  1. You are so clever using the color in your title! This looks fabulous! And family always comes before blogging so don't apologise for spending time with them... We all understand.

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  2. This is sooooooooo gorgeous!! I love love love love how you made the grape in the background!! And no worries ... we totally get the life getting in the way :)

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  3. You know how much I love to incorporate a theme into my titles - that bunch is too fantastic!

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  4. Very clever including the colour in your title...Love your page Heather. x

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  5. This layout is awesome Heather!!! I love seeing what you come up with each month for the WW1 challenge :-) I adore that bunch of grapes - very clever!!

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  6. Hi Heather, so lovely to meet you! Thank you for your kind words over at my blog I hope you'll visit me again! ;) Gorgeous page BTW, very clever to add the bunch of grapes and the wine glass(bucket he he) ring, very cool page its making me thirsty! ;)

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  7. Awesome page Heather!! Love the grapes and the crazy stitching ... totally brilliant!! Absolutely love this!! ox

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  8. Very pretty Heather starting with the photograph!

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  9. Love this take on grape! Your bunch of grapes is fantastic! Thanks for joining us at WW1.

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  10. way too clever chick.
    well done on keeping up the colour/title trend.
    love it all!
    thanks for playing along with WW1
    I look forward to seeing what you come up with next month! ;-)

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  11. Love your design...very clever! And that photo is fantastic!

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  12. Love the background of this is just is perfect for the photo. Thanks for playing along with WW1

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  13. seriously , you make me smile with your clever work , everytime...
    this ones a cracker !
    ill be waiting for the Latte Layout this month with baited breath

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  14. LOL Heather you totally crack me up!!!!! Your grapes look fabulous and I'm sitting here wondering how you're going to get around the new colour at WW1!!!! We are soooooo catching up when I get back from SA in a couple of weeks!!! Fabulous, fabulous page!! :)

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  15. I don't find purple an easy colour to work with, but you've done an awesome job here.

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  16. Ooh Heather this is so cool I just love your grapes and wine glass stains thanks so much for joining us at White with 1 this month Blessings xx

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  17. This is so cool!!! Love it! Just visited the Barossa today! :D

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