Birthday Treats

The CSI 269 case file was wonderful inspiration for scrapping some photos I had sitting around of my sister's birthday celebration a couple years back. For this challenge, i pulled my own inspiration from the photo, using light and dark pink, light and dark blue and white. I also used stars, banners, and flowers, inspired by the photo. My journaling was about our birthday celebration. Journaling reads: For Laura's 41st birthday, we went for Dinner, then an arcade--delicious food and dessert with a surprise (Pacman bites--warm donut holes with a chocolate filling inside).  The chocolate squirted out when we took a bite.


My layout:

I used some mixed media (ink spray and modeling paste to create the background. )Then added some stickers, stars and enamel dots. This was a fun color palette to work with! Come join the challenge(s) over at the CSI blog, here: http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/

Rendezvous of Relatives

Our weather the last few days has been almost like spring, with temperatures in the 50's. So, I had the perfect inspiration to work on a CSI challenge (270) with springy colors. The challenge can be found here: http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/

For CSI 270, I drew my own inspiration. I was inspired by the purples, light and dark green, white and brown, and used all of these colors. I loved the pretty flowers, leaves and clock and also used those elements in my layout. The sign inspired me to pull out a photo of a family reunion--when our family had gathered together--so I jounaled about that.

I did some mixed media work for the background, using some ink sprays, modeling paste and stamping. Then I added in some flowers and a die cut clock.