Let's Scrap - Sketch 14-7-10

There's a new sketch at Let's Scrap and this week I felt like trying something totally out of my comfort zone. I don't really have a style, layouts take a life of their own while I'm working on them and they turn out to be completely different from one another so I can't define what my style is - I don't think I want to, actually. But sometimes I push things a little bit and try things I've not tried before, and this was one of those times. Here's my layout for this week:

I'm not sure if I even like it or not (depends on my mood when I look at it) but trying new things is part of the learning process, otherwise my albums would all look the same. The hardest part was punching out a wave pattern on the light blue paper behind the photos (which took ages - plus my daughter complained as she couldn't hear what Handy Manny was saying) only to realise once I turned it over that it was very hard to see the waves in it! Anyway, the punched out holes are a striking element, different from just using the patterned paper, even if the waves are extremely hard to notice!!!

Gotas - Let's Scrap Sketch 06-02-10

Late for posting this week's layout for Let's Scrap, too much work for the crafts fair next Friday! This week's sketch included a mushroom, and Cheri asked if we could use mushrooms in our layouts. I didn't have any at home so I started looking at mushroom images in Etsy, to get an idea of what I wanted to do. I finally paper-pieced this mushroom set, which l like a lot.

 So now I had the background cardstock, the photos, the mushrooms... and no idea wha else to do!!!!!!!!!!  I did have some fantastic new paper from my monthly Scraproom kit, and I decided to do some fussy cutting, and then started adding beads, then some more beads... and I couldn't stop!!!

And this is the final result, a layout called Gotas (Drops). The subtitle reads: a few drops are enough when you have a new umbrella!!! (as you can see in the pictures, it was not raining, just cloudy, but my daughter could not wait to use her new umbrella and raincoat!).

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