I am just playing everywhere this week!! These days, I'm loving to scrap along with various challenges. And I'm finally getting to play with The Color Room, and actually get my project in 'on time'!
Imagine The Possibilities
I have to admit that this one was challenging!! Besides the use of black, cement, chamois & mint green colors, which was totally outside of my comfort zone, the whole layout was just not working out the way I wanted it to. I almost gave up on it a few times!! I did walk away, and come back to it. I think it took me all day to just get on the paper, what I wanted. The problem was, that I really wasn't sure WHAT I wanted!!
Papers are Pink Paislee (courtesy of my Swirlydoos kit), except the green which is from The Crafter's Workshop. I used Pumice Stone Distress Ink on the Anthology paper. And then matted a Butterfly Garden paper & my pic, on some Best Occasion cardstock. Don't laugh....it was the only cardstock I had that went with my papers & the palette!!! I used a Martha Stewart punch on the edge, and added a 7 Gypsies tag, which I distressed.
Flowers are from Petaloo and I Am Roses, which I misted with Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Spray in Long John's Silver. The Dusty Attic chippie was inked with Distress Inks and StazOn Ink. The bling is from White Blossom. The skeleton leaves were embossed with LSG Queen Sheba Silver, and the metal leaves are Tim Holtz, and a Prima metal flower that I cut with my Tim scissors!!
Love the film strip ribbon by Tim!! And I definitely needed it here!! And then I added more Tim Ideology pieces.
I think the easiest part of this LO was the title!! And so easy!! I used, again, Best Occasion (hey! I told you not to laugh!) chipboard alphas, which I inked with Bundled Sage & Peeled Paint DI. I used a Tim stamp & StazOn Ink in Jet Black over the DI. Then added some Liquitex Gloss Medium & Varnish over top. And then I glued my letters together to form one long strip. The rest of my title was made using Tiny Type alphas from Cosmo Cricket.
The great part about using the Best Occasion stuff (it's from Wal-Mart, in case you didn't know) is that I'm using up my stash!!!! Since the New Year began, I've only made one project where I didn't use some older stuff!! That's pretty good!! And all things considered, I guess my purchases from 7 years ago, weren't too bad, since I am using them!! Okay, so they're coming in handy...at times!!! LOL
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
Love ya,
Lynne
