"Favourite Memories"

Hello again,

 thanks so much for dropping by.

Today I'm sharing a very vintage layout that I completed as part of the design Team at Color, Stories and Inspiration for case file 192. I loved the darker colours in this case file and to me they just screamed vintage.

This is a photo of my Dad's mother " Ann" as a young girl.

I decided that this time I was not going to re-touch the photo at all. I thought it was just perfect the way it was..

Lots of case file elements in this one. 

The tearing of the papers, the old fashioned newspaper prints then all inked in aged mahogany distress ink looks amazing.

This is case file 192 as easy as 1 . 2. 3

1. The Scheme all 5 colours here -  Charcoal gray, Light gray, White, Flax yellow and Maroon

2. The Evidence I used the following-  newspaper, birdcage, bird, heart, leaves, flowers, vintage elements, distressing, and tearing.

3. The Testimony- I wrote the testimony on the back of the layout and I wrote a list of at least 7 things. I did it in the form of the family tree and was bale to go back 8 generations.

I found this piece of old lace in my stash and I think it just goes beautifully here.

All the chippy pieces and the wooden birdcage all were painted then I rubbed

inka gold paste and finished  them off with a few micro beads.

Lots of flowers on this layout (as usual) I rubbed a little inka gold paste 

on some of the flowers for this layout. I picked up the little yellow resin flowers in  Officeworks, gorgeous and self sticking.

Love the added Microbeads

Lots of layers of papers, wooden clock and the die cut paper clock.

I found this " Mont Marte"mannequin in one of the $2 shops in my area, little bit 

of dressing up and I think it looks very vintage.

 Just the right embellishment for this layout.

Some of the items I used:

Plain cardstock

Carta Bella  paper " Yesterday Ads "

Kaisercraft  paper - Art of Life collection  " " Creative"

Ceramcoat - Maroon

Jo Sonja Naples yellow

Mont Marte Mannequin

2 Crafty Cartia's swirl

Scrap FX chipboard

Green Tara flowers - Blossoms Ochre, Blossoms, Fantasy blooms

Petaloo flowers -Wild Mini blossoms

Prima Flowers - Parchment petals scrolls, Cartographer Adventurer

Officeworks-  resin flowers

Micro beads

Inka Gold paste

wooden birdcage and bird

lace

Thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Totally Loveable "

Hi everyone and today I'm sharing a layout that I can't believe but it only took me 4 hours to complete.

Yes, 4 hours from start to finish. Isn't funny how sometimes you can spends hours and even days on one layout and then when the "Mojo" is just right you can create one with no effort.

Anyway this is for the Major Case file 169 at 

CSI; Color, Stories and Inspiration

This is my gorgeous little granddaughter Emelia. We decided to take her and her sister Eliza to " Oakdale  Farm " for some special Nanny and Poppy time.

What a wonderful day we had with these 2 gorgeous little people. We watched as they walked and looked at all the farm animals, fed the chickens and the ducks. They even were able to hand feed the baby goats and sheep with a bottle. Oakdale Farm is hands on so all the animals are used to be handed by the children which makes for a wonderful day.

We had a picnic lunch on the ground and then they played on the playground swings and slides. Two little girls were so tired after a fantastic day that they had a lovely sleep all the way home. 

To create this layout I took inspiration from Emma Stafrace and her brilliant sketch. I tore a piece of the top and the bottom of the paper then I laid the flower paper over the top part.

Major Case File 169 with the sketch attached.

Case File requirements;

The Scheme.. Turquoise, white, creamsicle orange, dark coppery brown and beige. 

The Evidence; I used Solid background, light bulbs, flourishes, diamond shapes, stencil, pearls.

The Testimony;  used the Topic " Document Family Fun" which I wrote down the side of the layout and it reads;

What a wonderful day at Oakdale Farm 2014. We watched you play with all the animals, feed the sheep, pat the horse that bit you on the tummy. Then you played in the playground for ages. We had lunch and then went home all tired but very happy.

All the chippy pieces were painted in the turquoise. 

I die cut out some brick work and added it to the background. 

I cut strips to make the tails coming down the page. 

In the fish tails I added some washi tape and daisy lace

then some beautiful beads to the centres.

 Pearls from Flourish with Bling drip down the page. 

You can see the hessian leaves, I hand cut them out to the size I wanted.

Matted the photos int he same cardstock as I used on the background layer.

 Milly's name was added to the frame which is the left over from a

2Crafty round frames packet. (never one to waste anything)

So many beautiful flowers on this layout. I didn't have any of the turquoise colour 

so I painted some white ones to match. 

This is such a great way to match your embellies to your page..paint them.

You can see I added a row of daily lace to the top and the bottom of the page. 

It fits into the daisy lace in the fish tails. I added some diamond texture paste to the 

background as per the case file requirements.

More of those wonderful flowers

some of the products used;

Papers by Teresa Collins and plain cardstock

Washi tape

Flourish with Bling pearls

Hessian

2Crafty chipboard

Scrap FX chipboard

Jo Sonja paints

Prima "say it with studs"

laces

Flowers by

Prima

Petaloo

D-lish 

Enthaily

Thanks for taking the time to stop by

and till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx