Sunday 24 August 2014

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens!

Hi everyone.

I hope you had a great weekend. I've been busy putting together a layout for this month's Scrap Around The World challenge. You can find the challenge here.

Here is the mood board for this month:


My take on this may not be a conventional one but I swear the subject matter was the first thing I thought of when I saw the mood board!

My layout:


Yep - that's a very brightly coloured rooster! My main source of inspiration from the mood board was the shoes. I was thinking that they look like bird cages and then I knew straight away which pictures to scrap! I then used the colours of the cotton reels as colour inspiration and added a feather on the arrow as a nod to the feathery hat the lady in white is wearing (plus it matches the rooster).

My journalling runs around the edge of the page and says how much the men in Bali love their roosters. We were in one village where a few people coloured their roosters with dye. This one was the best but he was inside his cage so it was quite hard to photograph him.

My background has a Prima diamond stamp (like the diamonds on the cage) pressed into texture paste then I've sprayed three colours of Dylsuions over the top. I stamped again over the top with white ink and highlighted some of the diamond shapes with pen.


I painted a wooden skewer and turned it into an arrow with a feather, ribbon and paper.


I tucked some Dusty Attic chipboard behind the photos to enforce the cage concept and added a few fun embellies.



I love this cute little guy!


I hope you got a smile from my not so serious page and that you are as amazed at this rooster as I was!

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

21 comments:

  1. So colorful and gorgeous Heather, my new favorite!!

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  2. OMG ... loveeeeeeeeeeeeee this Heather x

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  3. Oh wow Heather. I just love this LO. The colors are awesome and boy are those Rooster pic beauties. XX

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  4. This is fantastic, those roosters look so colorful! Love the skewer with the feathers, very vibrant, looks greatHeather!

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  5. An inspired take on the mood board, brilliant photos and magical colour spritzing of colour. It's a winner for me :)

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  6. Your photos make me smile...I can understand how they inspired you for this challenge. Bright and cheerful. Beautiful background work Heather xx

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  7. What a AWESOME looking rooster!! I loveeeeeeeeeee this!! I love love love love the colors and how you matched them to your photos!!!!!

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  8. Beautiful layout Heather! Fantastic photos! Love your inky background! The vibrant color palette looks fabulous!

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  9. Had to pop over for a closer look at this one Heather - I love the brights and I can totally see where your inspiration came from :) Love it!

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  10. I LOOOVE this Heather, as I said on FB today. Strange custom but they certainly look fab. So glad to have you join us at Scrap Around the World and so glad we were able to inspire you a little. Cheers Di

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  11. Love this page Heather, absolutely spectacular to match those gorgeous photos, wonder if I could gt my Frizzle rooster to stay put whilst I jazzed him up like that, now there's a challenge.

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  12. Gosh. I love this.The vibrant colours, the fabulous photos and the bits of texture...yum!

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  13. I love this layout. The boost of colours. This is exactly what I need today! Thank you for playing along with SATW.

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  14. I love the colors! This layout just makes me so happy! Fantastic take on the challenge! Thank you so much for joining the SATW challenge this month!

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  15. AWESOME!!!! love your take of the moodboard. the colors are vibrant and happy....love the cool rooster. Beautiful work Heather...Thanks for playing at Scrap Around The World! :) x

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  16. This layout is AMAZING in so many ways..... Thank you for playing along this month over @ Scrap Around The World!! x

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  17. I love this funny layout !! The fabulous photos and vibrant colours!! Thank you so much for joining the SATW challenge this month :)

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  18. What a brilliant layout! Love the colors! Your misting and stamping work looks great! And I love love, love the rooster! All the best from SATW! :)

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  19. This is so clever Heather! Love it!! Thanks for playing at SATW!!!

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  20. Great! Thank you for playing with us at Scrap Around The World !!

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