Thursday 23 January 2014

Color me scrappy

The sale of my parents' house is looming, so I've been super busy cleaning and removing stuff in preparation for the photos being taken.
It has taken me nearly a week to complete this layout for Color me scrappy.
The criteria is this picture plus they asked for a tribal look.


Although I haven't used real feathers I managed to find a chipboard negative from some Scrapmatts Ferns. I drew through it with black pen and created a cluster of "feathers" in the top corner.

 
Now here is my layout.
The paper is Kaisercraft Basecoat.
The other scraps of paper are a mixture of Prima, Heidi Swapp, MME, Jillybean soup, even packaging from something.
The alphas are Fancy Pants October 31st. I thought the curly bits resembled smoke tendrils.
The flair button is also Fancy pants.
The rub on is Kaisercraft.
Wood veneer camera and wire camera paperclip, I've forgotten the make.
 
The story behind it is I stepped off the train one afternoon and started walking towards my car.
As I rounded a corner, there was a massive plume of smoke from bushfires in the Blue Mountains.
It was terrifying!

13 comments:

Dolly B said...

Beautiful Julene and clever use of the negative feather chippy. I think the colour palette is putting people off which is a shame, because it is stunning! I am loving everyone's layouts .I think the palette has been a nice surprise for us all. Cleaning a house out is a hard job

Unknown said...

Lovely layout...used the colour palette beautifully and I love the feather! Thanks for joining us at CMS!

Unknown said...

I love how you did the feathers!!! How creative! And you rocked the colors---thanks for joining us at Color Me Scrappy!!!

Sharon Fritchman said...

Absolutely gorgeous and terrifying photo. I just love how you scrapped it using this color scheme. Your layout is creative and your feathers look amazing, too!!! Such a clever idea!!! Thank you for joining us at Color Me Scrappy!

Unknown said...

So Beautiful,I like the feathers!

Tina Campbell said...

Wow that is a cool layout and I like what you did for the feathers

Kerry said...

Well done for adapting your chip board to make your feathers and I love the swirly lettering (they sure do resemble smoke tendrils!). Thanks for playing along with our colour challenge at Color Me Scrappy. xx

cinmfoster said...

Beautiful layout, love how the feathers turned out

Lynn said...

Great take on the challenge Julene! Love the feathers, very creative. Thanks for playing along with us at Color Me Scrappy.

Crystal Schneider said...

Great job with this challenge.I love how you used the feathers. Thank you for joining us at Color Me Scrappy.

JJsMomSteph said...

I just love the reuse of the chipboard sheet! That's awesome that you kept it. I would keep using it with that purpose! Thanks for joining us at CMS.

Unknown said...

I never through away a negative chipboard for this exact reason. You never know when you will need it again. Thanks for playing along with CMS.

Alexandra Boehnke said...

I love this layout! Really amazing - thanks for joining Color Me Scrappy!