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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Hey everyone! First, I would like to thank all of you who left such sweet comments last week during our Garden Girl blog hop. I loved reading them and I really do appreciate all of your kind words. And now the winner of the $15 Two Peas In A Bucket Gift Card is ...
Congratulations! I will be contacting you via email shortly to finalize your prize details. :)
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Two Peas In A Bucket Garden Girl Blog Hop!
Wendy Sue Anderson
Julie Campbell
Jenny Chesnick
Laura Craigie
Nancy Damiano
Jennifer Gallacher
Lynn Ghahary <--- that's me!
Jen Jockisch
Shimelle Laine
Jen Martakis
Kimber McGray
Becky Novacek
Kandis Smith
Jill Sprott
Shannon Tidwell
Lisa Truesdell
Rebecca Trump
Jaime Warren
Kristina Nicolai-White
For my project I created a layout about a recent experience with my oldest son Darian and his first broken bone. I used the fantastic new Boarding Pass collection by October Afternoon. Now you may be scratching your head wondering what a travel themed collection has to do with broken bones but here's my thoughts on this one. It's okay to use a themed collection for a non-themed layout. Yep it is. Actually it's more than okay - it's awesome! It's a great way to stretch those scrap supplies and make sure that you get the most use out of your stash.
And here's the other thing - my layout is about a journey of sorts. It may not be about traveling the world or visiting some historic site, but it is about my son's passage into the world of contact sports (his first year in tackle football) and accompanying broken bones which was bound to happen sooner or later (or so I've been told by other boy mamas). Hence the title of my layout - rite of passage.
The Boarding Pass collection has a fun and vibrant color palette and lots of great embellishments. I especially love the Miscellany and the Tin Pins. The great thing about many of the bits and pieces included in the Miscellany package is that you can flip them over and use the reverse for double duty. And that's exactly what I did for the tag housing my journaling.
I also used several of the Printed Chipboard Shapes in a fun embellishment cluster near several of my photos. These shapes are so much fun and really easy to layer for lots of dimension and visual interest.
In honor of today's Garden Girl Blog Hop I am giving away a $15 Gift Card to the shop at Two Peas In A Bucket. Simply leave a comment on today's blog post to be entered to win. Comments must be received by 11:59 PM EST on Monday, November 7th. I'll announce the winner on Thursday, November 10th so be sure to check back in to see if you're the lucky one! Now head on over to see what the talented Jen Jockisch has in store for you today. Thanks for stopping by! :)
Supplies used (click images for links):
Two Peas Challenge
Hey everyone! I am hosting a challenge over at Two Peas In A Bucket this week and I'd love for you to take a peek and play along.
I don't know about you but my boys' Halloween costumes never seem to fall into the traditional black, purple, and orange color categories that are typical of the many Halloween collections available. Instead we seem to have lots of Spongebob yellow, Spiderman red, and Luigi green! ;) However, being the matchy matchy kinda gal that I am, I like my scrapbook products to match the colors of the photos I'm using. So what's a matchy matchy kinda gal like myself to do?
Of course one option is to simply change my photos to black & white, but there are those instances when I really want to keep my photos in color. So to accomplish this on my layout I simply choose products that represent the colors of my photos. There's no rule that says Halloween layouts must use Halloween colors or products. You can see in my layout below that I was still able to give my layout a Halloween feel through my title and my embellishments, but the "super" colors of my son's adorable Luigi costume definitely shine through.
I just LOVE these pictures of Brandon dressed up as Luigi from Super Mario Bros. last year. And boy was he proud to show off his awesome Luigi jump - "oh yeah!" - and super cute mustache. The colors in these photos were just fantastic I couldn't bear the thought of turning them black and white. So I simply embraced the colors and chose products that really highlighted my photos.
I die cut my title using my trusty Silhouette. There was no specific cut that said "Super Halloween" so I just mixed and matched two different cuts for the title I wanted. I popped up the "super" with some foam adhesive for even more dimension and added lots of star stickers for detail.
I used an Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday stamp to stamp the word "boo" on this sticker flag by Bella Blvd and added some fun brads below my journaling.
Another sticker (this time one that actually IS Halloween themed) and a few more brads added to the white space of my main photo help create a visual triangle and move the eye around my page. So there you have it. A decidedly Halloween layout using non-traditional Halloween colors. If you'd like to play along with this challenge for a chance to win a $5 Gift Card to the Two Peas store check out all the details here! Happy Haunting!
Supplies used (click images for links):
I don't know about you but my boys' Halloween costumes never seem to fall into the traditional black, purple, and orange color categories that are typical of the many Halloween collections available. Instead we seem to have lots of Spongebob yellow, Spiderman red, and Luigi green! ;) However, being the matchy matchy kinda gal that I am, I like my scrapbook products to match the colors of the photos I'm using. So what's a matchy matchy kinda gal like myself to do?
Of course one option is to simply change my photos to black & white, but there are those instances when I really want to keep my photos in color. So to accomplish this on my layout I simply choose products that represent the colors of my photos. There's no rule that says Halloween layouts must use Halloween colors or products. You can see in my layout below that I was still able to give my layout a Halloween feel through my title and my embellishments, but the "super" colors of my son's adorable Luigi costume definitely shine through.
This layout is copyright Two Peas in a Bucket
I just LOVE these pictures of Brandon dressed up as Luigi from Super Mario Bros. last year. And boy was he proud to show off his awesome Luigi jump - "oh yeah!" - and super cute mustache. The colors in these photos were just fantastic I couldn't bear the thought of turning them black and white. So I simply embraced the colors and chose products that really highlighted my photos.
I die cut my title using my trusty Silhouette. There was no specific cut that said "Super Halloween" so I just mixed and matched two different cuts for the title I wanted. I popped up the "super" with some foam adhesive for even more dimension and added lots of star stickers for detail.
I used an Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday stamp to stamp the word "boo" on this sticker flag by Bella Blvd and added some fun brads below my journaling.
Another sticker (this time one that actually IS Halloween themed) and a few more brads added to the white space of my main photo help create a visual triangle and move the eye around my page. So there you have it. A decidedly Halloween layout using non-traditional Halloween colors. If you'd like to play along with this challenge for a chance to win a $5 Gift Card to the Two Peas store check out all the details here! Happy Haunting!
Supplies used (click images for links):
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