Over the past 2-3 weeks [in my free time & weekends] I’ve been trying to rearrange, organise & take an inventory LOL! of my scrap supplies!
I’ve finished with the paper, and next was the alphabets, chipboard, and sticker sheets. So I emptied out & reorganised two drawers for easier access!
Of course, my problem is that I usually find something along the way, that takes me off in a tangent … and that how this layout came about!!!
I had packed away, the photos, paper, stamps, printed out title, in a 12×12 bag and it was hiding in the drawer for many 2-3 years now??? Yikes !!!
So, here is the finished layout which I’ll be submitted in the Miss Arts Papercrafting School Sketch challenge over at the PageMaps blog … Becky Fleck has uploaded another brilliant sketch:
The Sketch
and here is my take on it …
The Layout
These photos were taken in 2006 in Naxos. The girls at the time were not quite yet 4 years old. I had bought for them these funny books by Evgenios Trivizas a brilliant author, who loves to use great adjectives and rhyming in his stories.
Anyway, this story is about a porcupine who goes into hibernation and one by one … people come to take his ‘needles’ because they need them …
Minini and Minono are two Japanese girls who need his needles to use in their hair … and they are wearing ‘silk’ kimonos …
So we [my SIL, the girls & I] started this game of what is silk, so we got out my SIL ‘sexy’ silky nighties, and put them on the girls, put some straws in their hair, and I just followed them around with the camera while they were play acting the story! LOL
Some details of the layouts:
Title, string, japanese elements!
The title and subtitle are printed in Greek using my inkjet printer and some clear overlay paper … I’ve used string to create the circle and used ties of red string to mimic the straws in the girls’ hair … I’ve used some Japanese postage stamps, and these fake coins that have been sitting in my stash since donkey years!!!
Cluster
More postage stamps, the coin, stamped images from a set from Banana Frog stamps, and the little red peeking out from the bottom is a quote that reads: We are not in Kansas anymore Toto!!! LOL
The pattern paper to the top left, as well as the green version of it, is actually Japanese origami paper that my cousin Tasoula had brought back from her trip to Japan! 🙂
Bottom cluster, journalling
The base paper itself had a compass, I add the circle on top, put a brad thru the coin … added a red journalling box, but what’s lovely here is that small photo … even from such a young age, Sofia’s character and teasing nature was evident! She’s cornered Katerina and trying to have a duel with her with the straw in her hair! LOL
This layout was so much fun to do, and I can tick off another memory preserved for the future! 🙂
