Showing posts with label onwards and upwards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label onwards and upwards. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Onwards and upwards: as free as a bird x

The final challenge of the weekend was to be as a free as a bird, and immediately some photographs I had taken in Bristol city centre came to mind. I was crossing a pelican crossing and the insides of the barriers had been adorned with beautiful painting and graffiti art. This payout celebrates the peacock imagery in one of these art pieces.



Firstyl, I chose the pink background paper and the yellow patterned papers. Whilst I was rummaging trough mountains of stash I found the beautiful blue and brown paper by Hambly screenprints which has a feather design on it. Not something I would usually go for but perfect for the theme. I also found some beautiful gem stickers which I carefully cut apart to use.

I found some wood veneers which I painted with mists to match the layout and added in banner pieces and some circles cut from pieces of the feather paper. I found the yellow sticker with art, create, beauty etc which was perfect on the layout and the little blue camera and the gems to add onto the design. I also used a blue washi tape.



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Onwards and upwards: go up, up, up x

For this challenge Jennifer suggested using a stepped or upwards moving layout so this is what I came up with.

For this layout even the title involves using the word ''Up'' in it. This photo was taken many years ago when I went with friends to the Hospital ball. I loved the dress I wore and my friend Louise's dress is a bluey'grey so I used those colours predominantly. I found a patterned paper with doily shaped bunting and cut those out very carefully using a knife. I then put lots of pop dots on the back and put them at the top of the layout to show the upward movement and make it look like a decorated ceiling at a party. I had already used some mists to make blue and red splashes on the cardstock and I added some star shaped sequins as confetti and some little blue gems.

I also found a glittery pink ribbon which I used across the lower portion of the page and as an element block at the top righthand corner.



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Onwards and upwards challenge: be inspired x

The second challenge I completed was to be inspired by something we had seen on the blog that weekend. When I saw this card I knew exactly which photo and story I wanted to tell. Jennifer had made a beautiful sun image using patterned papers so I wanted to use this idea.


I went to Australia about 14 years ago now and we went to Ayer's Rock at sunset and sunrise so the sun idea was perfect for the sunrise photographs and a specific story of that day. Here is my interpretation.........


The picture is of the really tiny looking people climbing Ayer's Rock on that morning. I used a lovely blue cloud patterned paper and an orange patterned paper and followed Jennifer's instructions to make my sun and rays. It was really easy. I then layered up all my elements which included a lovely camera stamped image, some arrow stickers, a car wood veneer to show our mode of transport, although actually it was a minibus.


I love how this page has turned out and am so happy to have used this photograph at last x



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Onwards and Upwards challenges: the recipe challenge x

So last weekend, I took part in the bloghop for Jennifer Grace's Onwards and Upwards weekend and then spent a fun time scrapbooking and learning loads of fun things.

The first challenge layout I completed was for the Recipe challenge. In this challenge we had to make a layout or card suing the following products:

1 small square photo (you can crop down a larger photo) or square element
Something shiny or sparkly
Some encouraging / uplifting / happy words
At least one sticker (alphas don’t count for this)
At least 3 stars
Some yellow!
One stamp.

And here is my layout.................

I actually chose a large picture of my view whilst climbing Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons but I did include a small square elements in the top of some birds flying across an Amy Tangerine cut up sheet.

For my shiny/sparkly element I first coloured the butterfliues and then painted them with glimmer glam which a glitter paint/glue. I found a quote in a stack of postcards I had bought for Project life and as it was yellow as well it covered two more list items.

I used a number of little phrase stickers on the layout and also found a stamp with encouraging words like ''courage'', ''vision'' which I also added in.
I also added in three Jenni Bowlin stars which look like medals of achievement.


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Friday, 10 May 2013

Onwards and Upwards blog hop x

Hello and welcome to my post for Jennifer Grace's bloghop ''Onwards and upwards''. If you have arrived here from the hop then hello and if not, then you might like to go visit some old and new friends by visiting the blogs listed towards the end of my post. Jennifer is hosting a fab weekend not only of bloghopping but of challenges and giveaways so it will definately be well worth visiting all the bloggers joining in.


 

So what better way to celebrate crafting than to do some...........................scrapbooking. When Jennifer announced the title, I knew I had some photographs from The Bristol Balloon Fiesta somewhere and spent some time finding them. And this is the layout I made...........................


As the photos were 7 x 5 I decided to do a double page spread so it would make them stand out more. I shopped the stash and found a beautiful red vintage distressed patterned paper which luckily I had 2 sheets of. I then stuck down the photos. Knowing I would have a gap I looked for another patterned paper and found the beautiful lemon and white cloud design which fits in perfectly with the theme of flying onwards and upwards. I then picked out the blue from two of the balloons and used two colours of washi tape and some red, yellow and blue stickers.



Here is a closer look at the left-hand page..........................


....................and the right-hand page........................



I found this great balloon stamp which I think is by House of three and added the word sticker because the stamp had a phrase which didn't fit the theme and was too difficult not to ink. I added in some Studio Calico wood veneers in the shape of butterflies. I coloured these with some Glimmer mists and once dry I added Stickles over the top to add some glimmer.


To neaten the photo edges I added some patterned paper borders, washi tape and used a Fiskars punch


I also found some lovely gems in pale blue to make the butterfly trails.



 If you comment on all the blogs in the hop, finishing at www.jennifergracecreates.com to let Jennifer know you've been all the way around, then you'll be in with a chance to win a prize pack of cheerful Glitz Designs Color Me Happy and Simple Stories 24/7, worth over £25! All entries must be received by Monday the 13th of May at 10.59pm BST. Your next stop along the hop is at Jo B.



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