" Love This "

Hi and thanks for taking the time to stop by my little blog. 

I really appreciate it.

Today I'm sharing my Design Team layout for case file 190 at 

Color,Stories and Inspiration

This is photo of my youngest son " Wade " and our fur-baby " Charli Girl"

not long after we got her. We had a pool way back then and Wade would take her for a little swim in the pool.

Today she got a little tired and went to sleep in his arms. 

Wade didn't mind as he was cool in the pool.

For this layout I tore my papers down the page. 

I added the white and the striped as it was just missing something without them.

The bottom paper had some dots added with texture paste. 

The birds were stenciled on with black Distress ink 

How cute are the little fish "swimming" across the page?: 

I just love to add lots of pretties to my pages.

They didn't photograph well, but there are 2 sign posts in the bottom

cluster with Wade and Charli Girl on them

The case file evidence called for something in wood so I found this anchor and decided to 

leave the title "a la natural "

Of course I had to have flowers on the page so I changed the colour of the 

daisies and the little Green Tara ones. I love the jute string ribbon also from Green Tara

and have just been waiting for a page to put it on. Adhered some Micro beads to it.

I have a few of these wooden thongs and how good do they look on 'a 

" beachy" page. I found the little white anchors and the ships wheel was white 

too, so I changed its colour to match the page.

Oh I just love this ScrapFX light house. This is a 2 pack and I used the smaller one.

I had it white but it was missing something so I added the stripes, LOVE IT!!

My journalling is on the tags behind the photo.

I always keep a look out for those little pretties, those gorgeous embellies when I'm

out shopping or at garage sales and on the internet. In this layout you can see heaps 

of them including the sunglasses in this photo.

Oh the last thing I did was to add some Micro beads and I think they look like 

weed under the water.

Case File 190 at CSI. If you haven't played along yet

its as easy as 1.2.3

Case file Elements

The Scheme...I have used all the 5 colours listed

The Evidence..I used the following stripes,bird,nautical elements,scallops hearts,wood, 

The Testimony... I chose to write about a special bond and it is on the scalloped tags behind the photos and it reads:

Wade and Charli Girl relaxing  in the pool we used to have. Wade came with me to get Charli Girl and since that day they have been inseparable. When she was so little he would carry her around, putting her in the pool ever so gentle just to cool her down. He would put her on the surf board and float her around the pool. He never put her in the water on her own and never left her unattended near the pool. You can see here in the photo that it all just got to much for the little Charli Girl, so when Wade stood, chatting me me she walked over, climbed into his arms and went to sleep. She knew she would be safe. Wade didn't move  for ages and when he finally did, he lifted her ever so gently and placed her in her bed to continue her sleep. She knew she was safe in his arms.

Friends forever !!

Some of the products used:

White card stock

Kaisercraft Sandy Toes collection  

" Ocean"

 "Flip Flops"

" Seashells"

Bella BLVD Color Chaos " Ice Strandz"

ScrapFX Chipboard

Prima flowers

Kaisercraft wooden anchor

Dusty Attic chipboard

Kaisercraft cutouts

Green Tara jute ribbon

Green Tara Fantasy Blooms

Petaloo Forget me nots, Botanial Collection - gray blue

2Crafty chipboard

Jo Sonja paints - Brown earth, Nimbus gray

Distress Inks , Faded jeans, black soot

gauze, Micro beads, string, wooden hearts,shells,fish and all the other embellies...

thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

"Don't Follow your Dreams Chase Them "

Welcome everyone 

 I'm here today sharing my latest Design Team layout.

This one is for Color, Stories and Inspiration (CSI) Case File 184

I must say I absolutely love the colours in this case file. So soft and so pretty.

This is a photo of my daughter and my gorgeous granddaughters at the Street Art festival

in the beautiful seaside suburb of The Entrance NSW.

I used a plain white cardstock as the background for this layout. I added some of the circles

with a stencil and some small triangles of pattern paper.

Gelatos with lots of water to get it to drip down the page.

I even added a couple of chipboard dream-catchers to the background 

but there a little hidden.

You can spy the triangles in the background and then I added

plaster tape, and lots of stamping. I think I used 3-4 different stamps on this one.

I am so in love with the little birds peeking out of the flower clusters, so real looking.

Oh I almost forgot the wooden owls that I embossed white.

I use some tulle and made bows out of it, gorgeous effect.

Random punched the edges and added some lace.

Touches of gesso on the edges of the flowers and leaves.

I painted the circle frame in white and added a coat of white shimmer paint.

Using the pegs to hold on the journal tags as per the case file elements

I painted them with glitter which was also an element.

The title and the dream-catchers are painted in the charcoal colour of the 

case file elements. The last thing I did was to flick the remaining Gelato

colour all over the finished layout with some charcoal colour too.

Case File Elements:

The Scheme all five colours are easily seen on this layout.

The Evidence.. I used the following: stars, animals, ribbon/bows, triangles, branches, glitter, grid design, circles.

Testimony: I have handwritten my journalling on a series of labels which I had made. You can see then pegged around the layout.

Some of the items I used:

white cardstock

Martha Stewart punch

lace

Gelatos

texture paste

Finnabair stencil - random bubbles

2Crafty chipboard

ScrapFX chipboard

plasterers tape

Kaisercraft Stamps

Prima flowers

Petaloo flowers

feathers

D-lish flowers

Studio calico 

Stamping up owls

Green Tara flowers

Cremacoat paints

thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx