Scrap Around The World

Hi again,

I seem to be on an online challenge mission this month. Not sure why! I think it's just that I have the time atm.

I thought I'd have a go at the Scrap Around The World challenge as the mood board is stunning. They've changed the rules and the sketch is now optional. I didn't use it so I haven't included it here. Here's the mood board - the images are so striking!

I was immediately struck by the second image and have definitely taken my inspiration from it. I was attracted to the doodled organic shapes in particular. Here's my layout:

I really wanted to use the strong black and white contrast featured in the mood board but I also wanted to highlight the stunning black and yellow colours of the flowers in my pic. To achieve this I sprayed a background around the pic of bright yellow Dylusions but kept the rest of the layout completely black and white.

I had a bit of fun "pegging" a banner to the photo to create the title. Here's a close up:

I was originally going to doodle the entire leafy background but I then remembered a TCW stencil that I had and I thought that tracing around this with a black pen would look cool so I used a combination of both stenciling and doodling to create my organic shapes. By using the stencil I could achieve an open "white" look then I doodled the black leaves by hand to form a strong contrast both in colour and form.

I used all sorts of bits and bobs to create the border - leftover punched shapes, bits of washi, punched out sections backed with black cardstock and good old ink and pen.

Even though these Kennedias are gorgeous, the sad thing is that they keep taking over everything else in the garden and I'm going to have to pull them out! There might be one I can leave though. I have four plants, all under a year old and all about 5 metres across! They're climbing up other plants, over fences and onto paths. I really needed some ground covers but not such aggressive ones! It's such a shame.

Til next time.

Heather

One of my favourites

Hi everyone,

I know we all love making our layouts and hopefully we really love what we create. Every now and then though, we make a layout that we are particularly pleased with .This is one such layout for me. It was published in Scrapbooking Memories, Vol 14, No 10.

This is a real favourite of mine. The photo is of my daughter who is into gothic lolita clothing, amongst other things. The makeup she wears with this clothing is amazing and I wanted to create a layout with as much impact as the eye makeup and accessories had.

My daughter's coloured contact lenses are purple so I knew I wanted a black, white and purple theme. I had grabbed the purple ribbon from my stash and I accidentally dropped it onto the page. It fell in something like the folded pattern above and the rest, as they say, is history.

Looking at the other products on the page, I don't think any of them were particularly new. The letters are quite old - I don't exactly have a large stash of purple letters! It just goes to show you don't always need the latest and greatest products to create a page you love.

Anyway, I'm pretty stoked with this layout! I hope you like it too.

Heather