Saturday 13 January 2018

Flowers of the Valley

Last page from Tasiilaq, and this one has some of the flowers from the Flower Valley. The valley is named for the abundance of flowers there, but this is only an abundance when compared to the rest of Greenland. The plants are mostly small, low-lying clumps but they are perfectly suited to the short summers and long frozen winters there.

I printed four photos of the different flowers and picked the first of this month's sketches from Sketch-n-Scrap. The original has three photos in two sizes, but the switch was an easy one to make. 

All the pages in this album are on plain kraft cardstock so I added an extra layer of patterned paper behind the photos for interest. I wanted that layer to be a soft print that would work with the bold stripe, and I didn't have one in my kit so I dug out through my stash finding an old Christmas paper from Basic Grey which has the right colours. I'll keep the offcuts with my kit and spread the new pattern in small pieces throughout the album.



Supplies
Cardstock - Craft Sensations, Bazzill
Paper - Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage, Basic Grey Dasher, My Mind's Eye Hello World, Crate Paper The Pier
Letters - Basic Grey
Die-Cut - atd
Puffy Sticker - American Crafts/Shimelle Little by Little
Enamel Shape - Marianne Designs
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's. Docrafts

Tools
Woodware Square Punch

6 comments:

  1. Wow, what interesting flowers! I love your layout, your take on the sketch is so inspiring! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  2. Your purple highlight this layout so perfectly. Such a wonderful contrast to the kraft background. Thank you for entering your creation at Sketch N Scrap.
    Sharon Fontenot -
    higgledypiggledycrafts.blogspot.com/

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  3. Beautiful layout! Great pics! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap.
    Surama

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  4. Beautiful layout and such pretty flowers! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  5. Love that you documented the flowers! Great layout! Thank you for joining us at Sketch n Scrap!

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  6. What a beautiful take on the sketch! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap.

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