Once upon a Sketch had a challenge up on June 1st to use this sketch:
June 1st - Nadia's sketch
… to make a layout about a woman, and to journal about her in 2-3 sentences …
Well, the days kept passing, I did other layouts, I did the DT assignments first so that I wouldn’t stress out, and on the 14th, I was chatting with my dear friend Zeffy, after waking up from a nap … and I was telling her about my dilemma … should I or shouldn’t I do it … who should I scrap about … I can’t find an inspiring photo, blah … blah … blah ….
and she jokingly says: Do me!
… and I did!!!
Granted the photo that I had of her was taken last Christmas at her house where we had all got together to scrap and share in some Christmas cheer, but did that stop me? NO!
[LOL, I can hear her voice right now: “Oh mannnnn, Eleeeni … hey you’ll make me rezili!!!” – that was my best South African imitation]
Here it is:
A True Spirit of Inspiration
Zeffy is one of my ”scrappy’ friends that I met thru the scrapbooking.gr forum … From the first moment I knew that I had a kindred spirit in her, crazy about life, about our hobby, great sense of humour, who I could laugh with, who made me laugh to0! A jolly soul, a listener as well as a talker! What can I say, life is definitely richer with her in it!!!
Some details:
chipboard accents, ribbon, paper / sticker strips ...
I’ve used Echo Parks Christmas pack [don’t remember it’s exact name]. The paper itself had the scallop circle on it, but I wanted it to jump off the page to give the illusion that it was a page on a page … so using the cropodile I cut out the holes off the four sides that I could, and placed gems on the other ‘holes’ .
I had some snow flake chipboard pieces from an old Sarah’s Card Kit, which I painted with Gesso to get them white … then I used some of them as masks to mist the paper, so I ended up with some blue ones, then decided that I needed some red ones to add to the embellished pieces!
Title -sticker alphas, Unity stamp on canvas paper
All the while that I was doing this layout I had the chat open at Scrapbookers in Greece … talking to Zeffy and others … told her that I was having trouble with the Title … [I’m usually VERY good at coming up with titles]
So I went thru my Unity stamps looking for inspiration, and I found the word inspiration … and as Zeffy is dressed up as ‘Mother Christmas’ I thought the word SPIRIT would be suitable … and then while doing the journaling it all came together … because she really is a true spirit of inspiration for a lot of us!!
journaling, hanging snow flakes!
It’s all about the journaling, and I think it says it all!
Clustering embellies
Lots of stuff there: Fancy Pants snowflake glitter cut, the dies, stickers from the Echo park sheet, and I’ve put the two birdies. Zeffy likes owls so I stamped the Unity owl and dressed her in Santa’s hat … isn’t she a HOOT?? [I’m talking about the owl and not Zeffy! 🙂 LOL]
Detail of masking - misting - die and gems!
Unfortunately by the time I was halfway into the creative process I remembered that Once upon a sketch is on Australian time, and when I went to look I saw that the deadline was already up … but that didn’t stop me, and I kept on going, until I finished hours later, satisfied with the end result!
Finally a side view to get a 3D feel of layout.
This weekend I’m going away to Aigina, along with some ‘scrappy’ friends and their families … if you can and want to, come along with us … we are definitely going to have fun! Info is on the Scrapbookers in Greece forum …
Time to get organised and pack page kits … so I don’t know if I’ll have any more of my layouts to show you before Monday!
