Twirling Carousel

My sister and me on carousel horses on the merry-go-round in our local park, back in the Summer of 1966.  The patterns and colours on our dresses matched the Basic Grey Picadilly collection perfectly.

I made this layout in response to the Weekly Challenge on the Basic Grey blog - Double Up - Use papers/embellishments from at least two BasicGrey lines, two photos and a two word title.

The papers I used are from the Picadilly (two patterned papers and element stickers) and Eskimo Kisses (carousel horse and blue background paper) collections. Two little girls on two carousel ponies in two photos with a two layer, two word title.
The original layout on the blog is created by one of my favourite scrapbookers and BG DT member Georgia Keays . Thus this layout of mine is rather influenced by Georgia's style of using borders.

I used a dark red and blue Bazzill cardstock, to reflect the colours of our hand knitted cardigans. The photos were scanned from colour slides and they came over a little dark and with some loss of definition, but maybe this adds to their 1960's charm.

The carousel horse is created using the Cricut and the Once Upon a Princess cartridge, the title is from George and Basic Shapes. The other elements are all from The Picadilly Element Sticker sheet.

Thank you for looking and for the challenge which runs until tomorrow. Bit of a dark, grey, foggy day - hope to take a better photo another day.

Group Hug

The Photo

I found this old photo printed out some some years ago taken when we first had a digital camera and they were quite a new thing. I guess this was taken in 1999, judging from the 'gaps' between the children's teeth, they must have been about seven. Pictures taken in 2000 show them with new big teeth, and those in 1998 show them with rows of little teeth LOL!

Looks like I had been ironing looking at all the clothes hanging up in the background. An eternal record of my least favourite chore. Andrew in his favourite red and black Dennis the Menace top, Catherine on my lap and Emily peeking through the middle.

The Layout

My lovely friends Karen and Anita introduced me to the talented scrapper Georgia Keays, she has a distinct style and I liked this layout on her blog. She mainly used the Neighbourhood collection by Crate Paper, so last week I treated myself to a few sheets and made this layout. Normally if I'm scraplifting I would choose different papers. I must admit I thought the papers would be bolder colours than they are, but they are still really lovely.

I used similar papers for the main parts but created different embellishments. Mine were made on the Cricut, with punches and black and white gel pens. I had thought I would add a lot more bits, but stopped here as I was happy with the effect I already had.

Crate Papers - Garden, Visit, Together, Friendly and Picnic, because they are double sided this gave me 10 patterns to play with.

Cardstock - Black and white Bazzill

Punches - Stampin' Up and EK Success

Cricut - Walk in my Garden and Storybook

Other - Buttons, DMC thread, black chalk ink pad.

Thank you for looking.