" Make a Difference "

REVEAL NO 4

Hi everyone this is my layout for case file no 136 at CSI (Color,Stories and Inspiration)

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/

This is my eldest granddaughter Emelia ( Milly ). She just loves to dress up as Princess. Milly is fascinated with all things related to princesses and I think she has every DVD that has ever been made about any type of Princess. Because she is still so little her interpretation of a princess is any girl in a long dress with a tiara and of course long hair. When I saw this case file all I could think about was the photo of  Milly in this little pink dress that I bought her and her tiara and bling.

I used a flower stencil on the background and some texture paste. Then I coloured the background with the pink from the Gelatos. Some black stamping and the black and white Washi tape oh and added some plater tape for some extra texture.
I coloured the doilies with Dylusions which I think they came out great and what a pop of colour to the background. I also used the same colour on the tulips in the flower cluster.

Now for the case file;

The Scheme; chartreuse, turquoise,white,ballerina pink and black, all used

The Evidence; In this layout I used, text print (stamping),curl or fold something (my journalling), butterflies,lace,string,leaves,wet medium,mesh and wings

The Testimony; I documented a solitary Pleasure being dressups and also used the Inspirational words of Joy, Solitude and drift.

In the little roll that has been tied with string just under the flower cluster I documented the following;

My Granddaughter Milly loves playing dressups.She loves to play on her own or with other. She will try to get Mum, Dad, Nanny or her little sister involved at any chance she can. She will DRIFT  in and out of her room showing anyone that is in range her beautiful creations of dresses, hats, boa's, tutu's and of course all the necklaces, bangles and the prized tiara upon her head. She always gets first pick of the dress up box and everyone else has to play with the leftovers. 

In the SOLITUDE of her room her imagination takes her to her imaginary worlds of beautiful dreamy places where princesses ride unicorns on rainbows. Where the grass is always soft and  green without a bindy insight. Where there is no rain to stop you going outside only the sun shining down from a big beautiful blue sky. Where at night firecrackers light up the dark sky putting on a display that looks like diamonds and other precious gems falling from the darkness. Where everybody loves everyones else and nobody is in pain. Where everyone smiles and all you hear is laughter as everyone plays at being friends. 

While Milly is in her thoughts you can hear her chatter as she takes on the roles of the people that she has dressup like. Her biggest JOY would be dressing up as a beautiful "Princess"

Question 4
What is your favourite part of CSI - the color the stories or the inspiration?
For me it would have to be the color. I love playing with the colour side of these case files.

                             This is the case file which gave me the inspiration for this layout


Thanks for stopping by

Carol xx

" NZ Summer Holiday "

Hi there all, this is a bit of a change for me to to a male page but this is my adorable Hubby on a recent trip to New Zealand.

When Scrap Africa http://scrapafrica.blogspot.com.au/

posted a challenge on travel I decided that this was a great advantage to start documenting our holiday with some great photos and incorporate it into a male theme which is something that I don't so often.

So this is my take on challenge no 33 Travel Adventures at Scrap Africa.

Oh and I have to thank my daughter for the T-Shirt that she bought that I might add he wore for most of our trip and yes it got some laughs, fingers pointed and giggles everywhere we went.

Part of the challenge is documenting the travel adventures. I have listed the date, location on the tags to the left but on the back of the page I've documented the following;

Pat (hubby) and I decided to take a trip to the south island of New Zealand in December 2013 for his birthday and our anniversary which is on the same day. What a breathtaking and wonderful country this is.

Travelling where we wanted to and not a plan insight we were driving along when we saw a sign on the road

 " Moeraki Boulders "

With no plans and no time frames we decided to take a look and have a coffee break. What a magical and very interesting place. " Koekohe Beach "  is where you find these boulders scattered along the beach where there are groups of these perfectly round rocks. We wandered up and down the beach and were enthralled by them. Local Maori legend says that these are the remains of eel baskets washed ashore from a canoe called "araiteuru". Scientist say that they have been underground and over time have been  uncovered by soil erosion. They came in all different sizes and unfortunately some had been broken by erosion. There were clusters of 2 or up to 15 in groups scattered along this very pretty beach of all different sizes. We decided that a walk along the beach before we went into the coffee shop was the order of the day and taking in this spectacular site was so worth the break from our driving. Our imaginations went wild with our stories of how these amazing boulders came to be there. They looked like marbles dropped from the heavens but just heaps bigger. Bowling balls of long past giants left in the sand. Us like many of the other visitors to this magical place had a ball taking fun snaps either sitting on top of them or leaning on them with your hands as if your were pushing them along. If ever in New Zealand I would highly recommend a visit to this place.

Heaps of layers of paper and corrugation which A painted in Gesso. My cog was painted and then I smudged some silver Inka paste on it.

The ribbon/bow is made out of a strip of hessian that I cut to suit and then frayed the edges. Rustic leaves and just a couple of " manly " flowers.

 Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed the journey

Carol xx

" Hey You "

                REVEAL NUMBER 3
Hi everyone this is my third reveal as Special Investigator for CSI (Color,Stories and Inspiration) for the month of August.  This is case file no 135 and I hope you enjoy my take on it.
                             http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/
This is my eldest granddaughter Emelia who is lying in her sisters baby play dome. When I took up scrapping way back in 2012 I never thought that I wold have so much fun scrapping this adorable little face.  Emelia and her sister Eliza are my main models for all my scrapping layouts and I have to keep reminding myself that there are other members of the family and other photos that need to be scrapped to.

The Scheme :  lemon yellow, kelly green, bright blue, chartreuse and carnation pink - all used

The Evidence : I have used from the list polka dots, speech bubble, other animal, triangles, birds, sparkles, doilies, ribbon/bows and kite.

The Testimony : I decided to write an Acrostic and you can see it on the banner.

The banner is part of the case file  requirement which I think is a fitting endorsement to my granddaughter. I added a little pink Gelato and glitter to the speech bubble and this it the title, cute and effective. Lots of texture paste and colour, lace and Washi tape on the background and of course the Gelatos are what I used  for colour.

I love to add fussy cut flowers to pages as I think just add that something. These little kites are gorgeous and as you can see either on girl or boy pages.

I love the polka dot ribbon which I did in a double bow for this layout. The big flower was a very pale yellow and need to have some colour added, Gelatos again to the rescue.

You can see the layers in this photo and again I love to use chippies and colour them to match my layouts and in this one they are all from 2Crafty.

Case file 135 so cute.

Question 3
What do you find most challenging when working on a layout?
Oh this is an easy question... leaving my layout alone and not trying to add something else.I have so many ideas and want to use all of them on my layouts. My mantra when working on a layout is
 " Step Away from the layout its done"

thanks for stopping by
keep smiling

Carol xx

" That Smile "

Hi everyone 

this is my gorgeous granddaughter Emelia with a whole heap of fascinators that I have been collecting for such a long time. Not needing them anymore I thought that the girls could use them as dress ups but maybe not all at once.

For this layout I have taken inspiration from 2 challenge sites being Scrap Around The World and Berry71bleu

With the Scrap Around the World mood board I used the feathers, beads, flowers, the frame of the cotton reels is the little frame at the bottom and the "Fashion Show theme" I didn't want to use heaps of colours with this photo so I chose to keep it the same as all the fascinators which are all colours  in the cotton reels. This is the beautiful mood board that I used.

http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.com.au/

With the Berry71bleu  I based the layout on the sketch for this month's challenge but moved the title to the other side. 

This is the fantastic sketch that I used.

http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com.au/

In the layout  my big heart took me so long to make. I spent all afternoon rolling strips of paper around wooden skewers and the sticking them onto double sided sticky paper. Once I had enough I traced a heart shape onto my rolls and cut out the heart shape. With some of the rolls I had such pretty Washi tape that I ran strips of tape down the rolls. This is  great way to use Washi to. A couple of pearls along the top and I think it looks amazing

 Thanks for stopping by
and don't forget your comments give me so much inspiration

Carol xx