WOW!! I'M A STAR WITNESS AT CSI FOR THE CASE FILE #10 WITH MY LAYOUT "SOMETIMES I WISH..."
Tell Your Story. It's our tagline, and here at CSI, it's one of our missions to get our members to delve deeper into journaling--to document the meaningful bits and pieces that make up our lives. We would like to shine a special spotlight each week on a member who does an exceptional job telling their story.
DOING A HAPPY DANCE!
I WAS FEATURED AT ONCE UPON A SKETCH FOR MARCH 1ST CHALLENGE! Very happy and very honored!!!
I WAS FEATURED AGAIN AT CSI!!! YIPPEE!
So Much for You to Discover by Helena Virpi
Helena's photo is so darling! We love how it stand out against the light background. Her page has such a fresh, light, airy feel. Her background is an amazing array of layers and textures. We just keep staring at it to figure out how she achieved those interesting effects. The message contained in her six-word memoir and the supporting journaling seem the perfect story to go with her photo. How we admire Helena's artsy style!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!
I'VE ADDED MY LAYOUT FOR CSI #10 "Sometimes I wish..."
which I apparently forgot to add when I was writing the post....??!!
Back to business. I have two layouts to share: one is CSI case file #10
Absolutely gorgeous color scheme.
This layout started out in an unusual way: I wrote first a letter to Andrea and then built the layout from there.
As Evidence I've used metal (staples), fabric (canvas heart) and contrasting textures (fabric, paper, twine, gesso, gauze)
As for the Testimony I shed light on my 14 yr old son at this point of his life and I used 'hope' and 'light' in my journaling. The letter starts like this:
Sometimes I wish...we could skip your teen years.
I played with the textures here: the harsh stitching and the entangled twine represent the obstacles and difficulties teenagers encounter, the round chipboard shapes that I gessoed on the background and the circle stamping represent the softer patches and better times. The fabric heart of course is Mamma's love, but there are some staples in there: Andrea's words or actions that make my heart bleed.
Oh, well, I'm sure we'll make through these years without too many difficulties. I hope. :DD
Here are some close ups:
Here you can detect some subtle background stamping. The flower stamp is Studio 490. Love Wendy Vecchi's stamps!
Really loved working on this one.
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Here's TCR #101 color palette
And here is my take
The Best Times ..are those that are shared.
I had the pleasure of sharing a very meaningful time (our 30th wedding anniversary) with my Finnish friends. We lived together for 2 years while at the university, then lost touch for a while and were united again this past February. We live in 3 different countries so it's not so easy to get all three of us together.
I started out by converting my photo to 'antique' so that it would better fit with this week's palette. Once again I was challenged with muted colors but I loved working on this page.
I used modeling paste (colored with acrylic paint) and stamped on it. It's the velvet mauve behind the photo. I learned it from Solange at Miss Art's. A wonderful place and wonderful teachers at The Round Table there!
I also painted the chippy clock with antique blue.
some close ups
Thanks for those who made it this far :)
Yeah, tooting for myself;)
So so proud that my layout You & Me was featured at The Color Room this week amongst so many beautiful creations.
Doing the happy dance since I was featured or put "under surveillance" at CSI case file #7 with this layout since it has become one of my faves of all times!
Here are some recent layouts that I haven't shared yet here on my blog.
The first one was for TCR #96. This is the color palette:
These colors are not so me, but when I found a photo of me and my mother I wanted to give it a go.
This is a photo of me and my Mom 20 years ago when she was 59 and I was 33 years old. In 5 years me and my DD#1 will have the same age difference. This is what I contemplate in the journaling which is written in Finnish (my native tongue)
It's been 14 months since my Mom passed away and this is the first time I have scrapped a photo of us two together. I miss her but I know she's in a better place. Now I'm able to reminisce and enjoy the good memories.
The next layout was for CSI#6.
EDITED: I JUST FOUND OUT THAT I WAS PUT "UNDER SURVEILLANCE" ONCE MORE AT CSI WITH THIS FOLLOWING LAYOUT!!!!
These colors were fantastic. Here's my page "Few and Far Between"
"Few and far between are the times we all get to be together. Maybe for that reason we cherish those moments so much. It's such a comforting thought that we all feel the same way. It's clear how our love for each other shines through"
And then I attacked another "case file" for CSI. It's the number 7.
Oh man! This must have been the most difficult color scheme ever for me. I definitely am not a pastel-kind-of gal and would have never ever used these 5 colors together BUT I'm so very proud of my finished layout. I have a feeling it will end up being one of my favorite layouts ever!
Evidence: distressing both with Distress Inks (the chevron stencil with Weathered Wood)and with sandpaper(the edges of the background paper), metal (made a metal heart from wire and the title chipboard circle has been attached with staples), stripes (washi tape, tissue tape and the journaling with dymo labels)
Testimony: my journaling is a list with "quantities". It reads: 30 years of marriage, 3 kids, 1 home, endless love
The random stitching and the distressed edges portray some of the rough patches of our marriage whereas the big and bold hand stitching on the heart is a symbol of our long and strong union.
And last but not least, the layout for TCR#98
Love this color palette. Here's what I came up with
Used some gesso, book papers, dug out old foam stamps and stamped with acrylic paint, splashed some paint and mist and used the sewing machine.
The journaling reads: Mission impossible to find me a hat that fits. My head is too big!! Franco took this photo in Athens in January when we went shopping.
I really do like hats, but have a really hard time finding any that fits properly:((((
EDITED: I WAS FEATURED AT TCR WITH THIS LAYOUT!!!
TFL!
CSI is a fantastic new challenge blog. It started at the beginning of this year but I didn't get to participate in their challenges until last week.
Their challenges are called Case Files and every week five layouts that capture the team's eye will be chosen as their Most Wanted and put Under Surveillance.
And guess what? My layout "No Clue" was chosen as one of those this week!!!!!
Here's the Case File #4
And here is my layout:
I loved the color scheme: Tiptoe in the Teal, Gilded Frame, Patent Leather, Bouyant Beige and Watery Teal Green.
For evidence I used wet medium (teal acrylic paint and ochre Color Wash), I stitched a frame around my photo and I used some washi and tissue tape as stripes.
The testimony is my reflections on looking at the photo and I used the word "change". The journaling is in Italian and reads:
"When I took this photo of you at the end of April last year you had no clue whatsoever what you were going to do after the tsunami in Japan. Now you are on the verge of starting a new and exciting adventure. See, honey, change is almost always positive. It's us who don't give it often enough a chance. XOXO Mamma"
EDITED: MY LAYOUT WAS FEATURED AT THE COLOR ROOM!!!!
I've been slacking in the scrapbooking department too but here's my newest layout for The Color Room using their color palette #95
Chilli Pepper Red, Musk Stick Pink, Gum leaf Green and Licorice Black. Oh, so yummy and so right up my alley. Had to create as soon as I saw this palette and here's what I came up with. I even used the sketch!
The reds on the layout are a little bit darker IRL. The photo was taken in Athens two weeks ago. I was practicing with the self timer and Hubs was nice enough to go along;)
EDITED: I WAS FEATURED AT TCR WITH THIS LAYOUT:))))))
I created this layout for TCR color palette #91
Very summery with Sunflower Yellow, Poppy Red, Powder Blue and Sunny Orange.
I chose a photo from 1989 with Kristina and my godson Tiziano. The title is The Right Attitude From The Start and the subtitle is: Let the men work for you :))
Painting, misting, masking and stitching.
I dedicate this layout to my lil' one.
This week the color palette #62 at TCR was a whitewashed orange. I love orange so I loved working on this.
I used stamping, misting, masking and a lot of hand stitching which I performed last night while watching this season's last episode of Grey's Anatomy.
The June 5th challenge at Bird Is The Word is "amazing" so I got two birds with one layout so to speak.
Here are a couple of closeups
I almost forgot to tell you that I got an Honorable mention at WW1 for the month of May with my other orange layout.
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