Friday 4 July 2014

Wonderful Day

A new month means new challenges, and I've managed to combine four of them in the making of this page. But let's start with photos and paper - the photos are from our holiday in Norfolk in May and my daughter is wearing a purple dress which led me to choose Basic Grey's Plumeria range. This was the first collection where I bought the ephemera pack and although I've used most of the paper I still have a lot of the die-cuts and transparencies left. I tried to use a few up here, including the title. 'Wonderful Day' is an exaggeration, but 'Very Nice Day' wouldn't be much of a title.




I used the 1st July sketch with a twist from Paper Secrets for my page; this time the twist is to use items for each of the letters of the word SPLASH. I have Sequins, Purple, Layers, Arrows, Staples and Hexagons.

Paper Secrets are sponsoring Scrap & Play this month so they are sharing the same challenge.

I was trying to use up some old stash on this page which fits in with Stash Challenge 16 at Scrap Our Stash, where they asked us to use at least five different items from a list. I chose die-cuts and transparencies (obviously), plus sequins and wood veneer pieces. I also used two different punches in my embellishment cluster - the scalloped circle and scalloped border.

Finally, Jen set this week's challenge at UKScrappers and she asked us to look at our process for making a page and photograph each stage. She broke it down into Good (paper & photos in position), Better (distressing, inking, embossing etc) and Best (all the embellishments). The photos of these stages are (at time of writing) in the UKScrappers gallery.


Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper Story Teller, Basic Grey Plumeria
Die-Cuts & Transparencies - Basic Grey Plumeria
Wood Veneer Arrows - Creative Embellishments
Staples - Making Memories
Mist - docrafts
Sequins - from Stash

Tools
X-Cut Scalloped Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch

17 comments:

  1. Love this LO.. so good to see the whole process

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  2. Very nice layout! Love your display of photos and all the embellishments used! You did a great job with this challenge! Thanks for playing along at Scrap Our Stash!

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  3. beautiful page and great job combining the challenges!! Thanks so much for playing along with Scrap & Play and Scrap Our Stash!!

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  4. Great page and wonderful job with the Sketch and the Stash Challenge! Thank you so much for playing along at Paper Secrets and Scrap Our Stash!

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  5. wonderful layout, love the hexagon layer. thanks for playing along with us at scrap our stash.

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  6. Nice layout! Great job on combining the challenges! Thanks for playing along with Paper Secrets and Scrap Our Stash! :)

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  7. Love your colors on this fun summer page! Thanks for joining us at Scrap & Play!

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  8. This is so pretty! I love the purples! Thanks for joining us at Scrap & Play

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  9. Interesting to see your process---a lot like mine! Nice job with the shopping challenge. Thanks for playing along with us at SOS!!

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  10. Great layout and wonderful take on the sketch and stash challenge! Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Our Stash!

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  11. This is pretty, I love your elements! Thanks for playing with SOS!
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  12. Great page! Thanks for playing at Scrap & Play!

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  13. gorgeous page and LOVE your misting and colors!! thanks sooo much for playing along with Scrap & Play!!!!

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  14. WOW!!! Love your take on this challenge! Well done & thanks for playing along at Scrap & play!

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  15. Such a wonderful page! Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap and Play!!

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  16. great use of the Basic Grey-I so loved that line!!! and I wish folks used more purple in their layouts, it's such a fantastic color :) kate (SOS)

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  17. Wonderful take on the challenge! Thank you for joining us at Scrap Our Stash.

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