Challenges

Layouts as different from chalk to cheese.

I've been inspired by two sites to create layouts and follow the instructions. The first is The Color Room and the palette for #96. The second has many more challenge to be faced for it has journalling requirements and evidence requirements as part of the challenge. It is a new site. Go to CSI for this challenge. But either are just one of the many exciting challenges now on the net.

Altered photos

There are heaps of photo editing programmes available on the net and I love fiddling with the way a photo can be altered to produce a unique image. So in this layout is a take on using altered photos. How you alter them can produce layouts from the serious and sublime to the ridiculous.

Love this site!

The papers and inspiration from The Scrapcake Blog are a joy.

Tone on tone

I've had a spell from scrapbooking, hence the time gap in posting.  Life gets very full at times, but I have managed a visit to my LSS with the purchase of stash - papers and embellishments that seemed to co-ordinate, tone on tone.  Most of the papers are Glitz and the tones range from off white through to browns and autumnal yellow.  What's great about co-ordinating papers is that you can build a page really quickly, yet get lots of different looks. And you don't just have to use papers from one collection but across collections.

The double that became a single

It feels as if it has been days and days now that I've been sorting out my scrapbooking room. And I haven't finished yet. I've collected a stash over the last year that needed re-organising, so I could find what I was looking for without a major search amongst the older stash collected in years past!
And during this major re-organisation, I came across the beginnings of a double layout that I think I began in a class some years ago and abandoned.  It had just the background completed and a framed photo of a paternal grandmother who should perhaps have a number of 'greats' attached to her. I must find out more about this dark haired young woman. It must have been years ago that I began this double layout judging by the patterned paper adhered to the cardstock and the circular cut framing.
I really didn't like the colours on the layout - a bit dour I think, and neglecting the tidy up, decided that I would try something different. A more modern approach to scrapping family history photos.  And I wouldn't complete a double layout, but a single. I know that more often I'll have to challenge myself to do doubles again!  
So, I've attached a photo here of the left side of the double layout I found, to show what I began with, although I chose to use the right hand side for my revamped layout.  This was relatively quick to put together once I'd worked out how to overcome the colouring I didn't favour.
And I've added a layout of another family photo using mostly Webster's Pages. Much more finesse with that one I think.

Re-ordered, discovered, created