Saturday 3 May 2014

Now I Can Reach

It's been a slow start to the month scrapping-wise and despite today being National Scrapbooking Day I'm not feeling super-creative at the moment. I have a long list of NSD challenges in front of me and I haven't even started one yet.

The page I am sharing today was made with the 1st May sketch from Stuck Sketches. I concentrated on the main photo-title cluster for my page and dropped the smaller part of the sketch, moving my journalling below my photo. The photo is of my son, then aged 5, on a mini obstacle course. We used to visit this play area every summer and he hadn't been able to reach the top chain the year before.

My background paper came in a kit and I've had it a long while as I've always found it to be too bright when I've tried to use it. I finally realised that I could tone it down a little with a really thin layer of white acrylic paint, which I spread out along two sides with an old credit card. It's caused the sides of the page to curl up, but I think it will flatten down in the page protector.


While I was assembling the page, I realised that it nearly met the criteria for the latest Stash Challenge at Scrap Our Stash - something old, something new, something fussy cut and something blue - a little more work and I had all four. My something old is the Jillibean Soup background and die-cuts (Summer 2012); something new are the floral and red papers from a 6x6 pad that I bought last month. I fussy cut the small grey chevrons from a Studio Calico paper, and something blue is obviously the blue paper.

Supplies
Paper - Jillibean Soup Macho Nacho Soup, MME Bright 6x6 Pad, Studio Calico Snippets
Letters - American Crafts Thickers
Dies-Cuts - Jillibean Soup Macho Nacho Soup
Border - Bazzill Half the Edge
Stars - Studio Calico
Paint - Wilko
Mist - Mr Huey's
Ink - Ink It Up!

15 comments:

  1. That's the trouble with all the lovely mist, paint and texture techniques - they do warp the paper! Still the paste added to the sides does look fab against the green background and the flower paper, photo and the tiny stars look great together. Thanks for playing along with our 'stash' challenge at Scrap Our Stash. xx

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  2. such a fantastic take on both challenges! So glad you joined us at Stuck?! I loved visiting and seeing your page!

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  3. I love how you used the acrylic paint! Fantastic take on the challenges! Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Our Stash! :)

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  4. Love your layering! Such a great layout for such a sweet photo! Thanks for playing along with us at Stuck?!

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  5. Super cute layout and photo. Thanks for joining us at Stuck?! Sketches!

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  6. very nice… love the layering! Thank you for playing along with us at Scrap Our Stash! :)

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  7. Great story for your layout! Love how you toned down the paper! Thanks for playing along with Stuck?!

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  8. Fabulous take on challenges, nice layering! Thank you so much for joining us at Stuck?! and Scrap Our Stash!

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  9. Such a fun page! Great take on the challenge! Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Our Stash!

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  10. Great take on the challenge. Great work on the background. I love it! Thank you for joining us at Scrap Our Stash.

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  11. thanks for playing with us at SOS this month; I will have to try that watered down acrylic paint technique sometime-never thought to do that! And those SC are my addiction so I love how you used them :) kate (scrap Our Stash)

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  12. Super cute Amanda! Love the simple composition and a perfect pho ice choice for that LO! Thanks for playing along with Scrap Our Stash

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  13. Love the clean lines against the artsy look! Thanks for playing along with SOS!!!

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  14. Love the bright colors! Thanks for playing along at Scrap Our Stash!

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  15. The use of the paint to tone down the background works really well. Great LO.

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