Case File No. S365-1

I find the challenges on the CSI blog very interesting. Each week, they provide us with an inspiration board, as well as ideas to use to create beautiful projects. This month, they collaborated with Scrap365 magazine, and provided the following information:

 

When I was WAY, WAY younger, I travelled through Europe for a month, in a car borrowed from a friend. One of the first places I visited, was Gouda in the Netherlands. I found a little market place with the most beautiful cathedral. Once back home, I found out that the pictures of men in traditional clothes, carrying big, fat, round cheeses on weird wooden contraptions, that I had seen in magazines when I was a child, were taken here! There is an annual cheese festival in this market place. Obviously none of those guys were there on the day that I was...

 

Here's the layout that I created:

 



I used a combination of Simple Stories, Echo Park and some very old Making Memories paper. To this I added washi tape, a few Kaiser Craft rub-ons, some tiny green flowers and a bit of stamping.

Here are a few close-ups of the details:

Thanks for stopping by, and thank you CSI for such a great challenge!

Precious moments

What fun it was to make this page of my now "all so grown up" son, in his full body swimsuit, playing with kelp at the beach at Oudekraal when he was about 3 years old! Those little legs, the cutest little bum in the world, and the gasps when he entered the FREEZING water in the little bay. No wonder they say that a picture speaks a thousand words. This really did bring back a lot of memories.

 

 

This layout really is a product of a "search and rescue" operation through my stash. Nothing on this layout was specifically bought for this purpose. Leftovers can be beautiful too...

 

 

A bit of fussy cutting allowed this gorgeous cluster to be visible. The bright red moth is a rub-on which I rubbed onto white cardstock before cutting it out and adhering it with foam tape to create a dimensional element. Washi tape helps to create interest to the left.

 

A new border punch was put to good use on the right hand side of the layout. I used a few red postage stamps and part of a stamped doily to balance the red moth on the other side of the layout.

 

Butterflies that once graced the packaging of a set of Bo Bunny's rub-ons were given a new lease of life to complete the cluster of embellishments around the title. Stamping and a quote to add the obligatory "wise words" complete the layout.

 

TFL. Until next time!

 

 

 

Prima August BAP

Prima has a new "Build a Page" challenge, using this sketch. The only other requirement, is that you use about 90% Prima products:

  

I rotated the sketch, and used a smaller photo (8 x 4"), to create this layout:

  

 

I combined the Almanac and Nature Garden collections, which has been sitting in my stash for a while. I originally bought this paper for a different project, but changed my mind when I printed this photo for the challenge. That sweet little fairy - who can resist her?





 

I cut out a second fairy, so I could raise the image for a more 3-dimensional look on the layout. A touch of Shabby Shutters Distress Stickles adds a bit of bling to the flower that she is holding. A few more Prima touches, such as the swirl, flowers and canvas alphabet stickers complete the layout.

 

 

The tiny Prima butterflies in different colours, scattered "randomly" over the layout, picks up on the butterflies in the patterned paper, and also helps to tie the colour scheme together.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 



 

Old layout, new look

Welcome to my new blog! This is where I will be sharing projects I make "just for fun" - so no class kits here... For information on class kits, please continue to visit the Pics 'n Tales blog, where we will continue to provide information about the classes presented at Pics 'n Tales.

I recently taught a class in Hartenbos, and helped a few of the ladies who did not want to use the class kit, to put together their own combination of paper and embellishments to create the same layout. This is the layout that I taught:

After the class, one of the combinations I'd put together, was still left on the table, an I couldn't resist this gorgeous Kaisercraft paper. So I recreated the same layout, but this time swopped the two pages around:

I added a little bit of bling to some of the smaller details, to make the page "sparkle" a little. This girl is so beautiful, she doesn't really need anything to make a layout shine...

A few close-ups of the details:

 



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