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