Tuesday 29 July 2014

My First Jot Challenge

Hi all,

I meant to get this post up a few days ago but kept running out of time! I've made my first layout for a challenge at Jot magazine. This is a very cool online mag - and it's free! You can find it here.

There are several challenges but I've elected to go with the mood board. It's a great mood board and suited the papers I had perfectly. Here's the mood board:


And here's my layout:

I had finished making my layouts with the July kit from Scrappy Chat Designs and I had a few pieces of the gorgeous October Afternoon papers left in teal and mustard colours. The mood board couldn't have been more perfect for me! 

Here are some close ups:



I wanted a more textural background to suit the textural feel of the mood board so I rummaged around and found an old sheet of this embossed paper. I think it creates that textural feel well. I used girls in my photo, as there's a girl in the mood board and I switched the hearts to butterflies as I thought girls of this age might not appreciate too many hearts on their page. Way too soppy for them! I picked up the tan/brown from picture four and used a distress stain in this colour to ink the edges of everything.

Happy Scrappin'!
Heather



12 comments:

  1. Gorgeous page and such a super design. Love the colouring and the lovely embossed paper.

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  2. This layout looks wonderful.. love the strips and the colors are perfect to match the mood board, and love the embossed cardstock you have used too..

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  3. Absolutely STUNNING....those papers...my heart is going flutter alongside that gorg butterfly!!! I really, REALLY like this design.....FAVE...oh, you NOTICED???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. Ohhhhh this is gorgeous!! I love love love the colors and the butterfly!!!!!

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  5. Beautiful layout Heather! Love the texture and all the butterflies fluttering about!

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  6. Gorgeous layout. I love the balance in the page and I really love the interest you created when bringing together the patterned paper and the embossed piece vertically. Lots to learn from you!

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  7. A perfectly balanced page with unusual colour combo which really works. Love the textured paper. Thanks for the inspiration :D

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  8. Love the soft feel of this page...and the textured background.

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  9. Gorgeous page Heather, love the use of these colours as well!!! I've been reading Jot for a few months yet but haven't had the chance to play along. Thanks for the inspiration to do so!!!

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  10. I adore this page Heather!! Thanks so much for joining in on the challenge over at Jot! So glad you liked the colour combo I chose :-) and those papers sure were perfect for this mood board!

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  11. OMG Heather , this is so enchanting and funky at the same time . love love love this .. I have been looking at Jot for awhile and am thinking about participating in one of their challenges ... this one is gorgeous, beautiful work as always x

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  12. Love the colour combo in this layout, great design! Love your work:) Have a great week!

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