Wild Backyard Cardinals

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Love the photo for this challenge, very natural and has birds! I love watching birds, and have feeders in my yard, so I see a variety of birds out my window. Cardinals in the winter are particularly striking, so I decided to use a sketch from here: https://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/sketch/6068433.html
And document some of the Cardinals I have seen this February.

I decided to use the traditional color palette, all 5 colors are used and then used in my layout.
For my layout, the background paper is recollections, springy and floral (a newer acquisition) where as most other papers are older, from my stash. Red letters are BoBunny. Die cut the scalloped circle and banner. Punched the scalloped border. Used some wood butterflies from my stash. I stamped the hearts on the banners, and the date at the bottom. Cardinal at the top of the page is a die cut from my stash.  Also used some stickers from my stash (heart and awesome banner).

All colors used
Evidence used: birds (die cut), heart (sticker and stamp) and butterflies (wood).
Testimony: Journaled about something wild: birds. Journaling reads:
This year I set up bird feeders in my backyard.A pair of cardinals showed up and ate lots of seed. They are beautiful birds with a unique personality, striking against the winter snow.

Here is my layout:

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Walking on Sunshine

What a bright and summery color palette we have for us this month. (Which I think is awesome, since the weather here in Chicagoland has been snowy and dreary.)

For this challenge, I scrapbooked a photo taken on our 2016 family reunion, where a bunch of us are walking to a thrift store in the quaint little town of Milford PA. I did use a sketch, which I thought lent itself to my theme-which I rotated 90 degrees. (Sketch can be found here :https://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/sketch/6068437.html)

For this challenge, I used flowers, bird, something fridgy (frayed burlap) and mixed media background (added some orange mist with a stencil). And Journaled about a summer memory: our family reunion.

And here is my layout:

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Birthday Cookie

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This was a cute image with lots of inspiration to pull from my own childhood. My parents were always very creative with celebrating birthdays. On my fifteenth birthday, my parents got me a birthday chocolate chip cookie which was perfect, cause I loved chocolate chip cookies (and still do).

I was inspired by the hearts, dollies and clocks; and I am sharing a childhood memory of my 15th birthday.  I did a little mixed media in the background. I stenciled with some paint, added some drops of ink and ink splats. I also did some doodling (circles) and stamping (clocks). I die cut the red borders. and used a bunch of stickers.I used all 5 of the colors, but was also inspired by the gray-ish script writing and the dark gray hair in the picture and added that into my layout as well.

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Shine

Alas, Christmas is over, and a new year has begun....and CSI has a great challenge to kick off the new year. I spent Christmas with family and have lots of photos to document. The CSI challenge can be found here: http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/

 

Had fun creating this, used some mixed media (paint splatters and paste) ad used some older papers (Colorbok and G45).  For the challenge, I used stars, dots, string and banners.I used the word shine as inspiration. My niece is so happy in these photos showing off her Christmas presents, her latest beanie babies.

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Treat for you

The colors for this are beautiful for winter....so I broke out some inks and paints and had some fun creating a layout for CSI.

 Chhallenge 243, for December, is here: http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-12-09T07:59:00-08:00&max-results=1&start=1&by-date=false

For this challenge, I used all 5 colors, and the sketch. For evidence I used Christmas/winter elements: sleigh, reindeer, snowflakes; circular elements (frame around photo), and glitter (in background and on the tree).  I documented a winter tradition: every Christmas our family gets together and decorates cookies I created the background using inks and paints. (Inspired by Missy Whidden--I used her packaging technique). I fussy cut some of the elements (tree, sleigh, reindeer) from Bo Bunny paper.
And I die cut the top border.


Here is my layout:

     

CSI 242: Red Wine

For CSI 242
The challenge can be found here:
http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-11-28T15:37:00-08:00&max-results=1&reverse-paginate=true

My layout:

                           

I used leaves, birds text (on background paper.) and journaled on a tag about red wine.
Had lots of fun creating this. Hope you can join at CSI: color, stories and inspiration.

CSI 241: EPIC

November has been a busy month, between fighting off a nasty cold and family celebrations over Thanksgiving. I finished this layout a while ago, but just got it blogged. Never the less, I did squeeze in a layout or two....



My layout was inspired by a layout on Scrapbook.com by Nathalie DeSousa's layout here:
https://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/layout/5837441.html. I love her use of hexagons.
I adapted it for CSI and added a few of my own touches.
The CSI challenge:
                                   
                                         

My layout used I used a hexagon die to create a strip and created faux stitching bordering the hexagons. For testimony I used leaves, vellum and wood. For testimoney I journaled about autumn colors and flowers.