Wednesday 16 July 2014

A Winter Escape

Hi there,

I've just returned from a wonderful holiday in Bali. I'd really like to thank all my followers who kept on commenting on my blog posts even though I often didn't have internet access and couldn't return the favour. I'm honoured you kept the one-way communications alive!

Anyway, I'm back in the connected world now and thought I'd create a front page for my album about our trip. Yes, I went away for 10 days and took over 800 photos! I'm going to need a whole album!

My layout is based on the July sketch at Dusty Attic. Here's the sketch:


And here's my layout:


I've used lots of new Dusty Attic Goodies and plenty of stamping on this. For the title, I cut the 2014 from another title and coated it in Dusty in Colour Jungle Green paint. I coated the Bookman letters in Cranberry paint and the topped them both with a haphazard coat of Gold Nugget Tinby Metallic Melts. The effect this creates reminds me of the old rustic Balinese furniture that you sometimes see.

Here's a close up:


I made the flowers from Dusty Attic's Flower Layers #6. To get that motley effect I first spray painted them with white paint then stamped them Stampin' Up! water-based inks. These inks don't soak into the paint and they show all the texture. The downside is that they re-activate whenever a wet medium touches them so they can be messy to use. I took advantage of this by applying white paint in the centre of the flowers to create that streaky look. I rummaged around the bottom of my flower drawers and found a few flower centres to add to the chippie flowers.
For the smaller flowers, I simply painted them with Alabaster paint then added a light coat of Jungle Green to the centres.


Just as I was making this layout, some brand spanking new chippies arrived and I immediately added them to the page. For both the Page Pebble and the letters I simply stamped them with white ink. This left the recessed pattern as raw chipboard. I love this effect!



All the stamps are from Kaisercraft with the exception of the two smaller butterflies which are Tim Holtz stamps.

Here are the Dusty Attic products I used:
Flower Layers # 6 DA1078

Bookman ABC Set DA0666

2014 Year In Review DA1092

mini Blossoms DA 1090

Page Pebbles #8 DA 1113

mini ABC Tile Set DA1109

Thanks for looking. I can't wait to get stuck into the rest of my holiday pics now!

Happy scrappin'!

Heather


16 comments:

  1. wow , your work is so inspiring and innovative as well as charming .. love it all x

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  2. This is so tropical and absolutely gorgeous! Love the leafy stamp around your page! And 800 photos will take more than one album! Hehe! Sounds like a great time!

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  3. Wowwwww I love this layout! It's gorgeous! I really like all the elements that you used and how you have changed. The photo is very beautifull, like everything else in Bali. Congratulations on your holiday!
    Hugs.

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  4. EIGHT HUNDRED????!!!! Wow! Plenty of scrappy material...love how you've treated the flowers...they look fabulous----& you have sooo captured the 'essence' of Bali on your cover:):)

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  5. Glad you had a wonderful vacay!!! I love love love love this!!! LOVING the photo and all the flowers!!!!!

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  6. Hello Heather, Look who I ran into on Facebook? You, ha ha. You always leave the sweetest comments on my cards on Scrapbook.com and now I wanted to do the same for you. Love this project. I don't really scrapbook but if I did I would want to be able to make something like this. It is beautiful. Happy Scrappin........................Donna

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  7. Wow! What a stunning layout! Love your attention to detail! All the beautiful chipboard pieces look fantastic! Sounds like a fab vacation!

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  8. Beautiful page...love all the dimension and the texture.

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  9. Another a Gorgeous page...;stunning Project!
    Heather ,Love your creative and colorful pages!
    Hugs.
    xx

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  10. Love, love the colors, the photo and the great details on this page Heather!!

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  11. What a beautiful cover for your album Heather. I LOVE this, the colours are gorgeous, you really have created a beautiful , tropical feel to the page. Can't wait to see more of your pages of your holiday
    Mary

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  12. So Beautiful..love the colours! The flowers are gorgeous, fabulous detail! I look forward to seeing more of your holiday pics! Have a great weekend!

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  13. Gorgeous, gorgeous page and immediately one can see this is a tropical holiday...love your flowers, stamping and photo.....really a super, super page! Love it!

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  14. I'm absoluty fan of this page ! I love flowers, colors and the disposition of differents embellishments ! I love it !!

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  15. A fabulous page Heather. Love the colours and you certainly got the tropical feel down pat!! Gorgeous photo and I love the flowers and the stamping!! Stunning work!! ox

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