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Showing posts with label Pencil Lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pencil Lines. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Ooh La La

I have been busy working on the November kit for Scrapaholix. I have made two layouts and still have plenty of goodies left in my kit for another layout or several cards. This months kit features the use of cork on your page as the technique. The papers are from My Mind's Eye - Ooh La La for him range.

This first page features my daughter Emily's goblin, Magpie. Please see earlier posts here and here. I used a sketch from Pencil Lines as my inspiration for the shape of this layout. There is a lot of distressing on this layout bu crumpling, sanding and inking. I used sizzlets and the Side Kick to create the letters. The frames and swirls are raised up with 3D foam pads and I enhanced all the little dots on the paisley swirls with white opal (from a previous kit) and mint green Perfect Pearls and Cinnamon Stickles all by Ranger Inks.


Garden raffia finished off the natural effect started with the cork and the colour scheme.





In my second layout I have used an old photograph of Alan's grandfather Ernest Frank Cooper, born 1875. The photo was twice the size so I had to scan it in two halves and stitch it together.
If you look closely it has been heavily enhanced with pen and ink at some stage. Ernest lived in Bedfordshire and was a farm labourer.

For the layout I used tho sizzlets again and cut the title and the photo corners. Played around flipping the double sided paper and used lots of the paper embellishments.



November's kit contains:

8x8" sheet of cork
My Mind's Eye - Oh La La
2 x For Him Papers (double sided)
1 x For Him accessories sheet
4 sheets Cor'dinations card stock -
2 x Vanilla Cream
1 x Forest
1 x February Gold

Please see the Scrapaholix site for details of the November crops.














Monday, 1 June 2009

COLOUR CHALLENGE!


I had an email from Shimelle today at the start of a new on line class / challenge - Scrapbook your favourite colour - Colour Challenge. For the first day Shimelle asked us to 'Scrapbook our favourite colour', explaining: "And I mean pretty much any interpretation of ‘scrap’, so blog posts, photographs, paper or digital layouts, movies…anything that documents your favourite colour!" As I didn't discover the email or the challenge until late this afternoon, I decided to go for making a card. I did this in the style of one of my favourite scrapper/card makers - Nancy. I used lots of Scenic Route papers from several different lines.

I have already made a layout featuring my favourite colour when I attended one of Shimelle's classes over a year ago. We scrapped a photo of ourselves, using our favourite colour and a Pencil Lines sketch. Just in case there is absolutely any doubt, my favourite colour is GREEN!! (lots of shades of green and turquoise).


Spent some time today preparing some kits to take to the crop at Cardinal Colours (Jilly Beans) on Saturday. Last day off for a while as back to work tomorrow after a holiday. In the mean time I'm looking forward to tomorrow's challenge and hope I can keep up.