Ice Ice Baby

Hi there!

Happy Canal Days!  Today, I am keeping to my annual tradition of posting a layout of the previous year's parade float on the weekend of Canal Days.

I started this layout with the pieces of light blue paper (which are the same colour but for some reason photographed differently) and used some gel medium and a snowflake stencil to create the background.  When the medium was dry, I rubbed some silver ink over each snowflake to give them some dimension.

The photo collage was created in Photoshop using a really old Cathy Zielske template. Unfortunately, when I went to print my photo, I was out of photo paper! So, I just printed it onto white cardstock and I think it worked quite well. 

Every year I make the sign for the float. This year, I cut hundreds of snowflakes with the Silhouette for the sign and the float.  I still had the file saved, so I cut some more for the page. I used the same font for the title and made my own chipboard alphas by stacking three layers of cardstock. The swirls and date are from a very old set of Pink Paislee chipboard alphas. There are sequins and cotton puffs thrown in because, well, it's a parade theme layout. You can't have too much glitter or sparkle!

This is quite a simple page compared to most of my parade layouts, but it was a fun page to make. I was busy creating costumes and signs for this weekend's float, so this was made when I had a few minutes here and there.

Thanks for looking!

Sylvie

A funny thing happened on the way to the airport

Hi there!

Today, I am sharing the last layout in my Las Vegas vacation album!!  I'm pretty happy that this album is finished. But, I'm kind of disappointed in how this last page turned out.

I have been using the Shimelle Go Now Go collection for this album.  And on my desk sat all the branding strips.  So, I thought I better get them down on a piece of paper or I knew I would never use them.

So a few days ago, I created this mosaic with all the strips.  There are a few extras from Crate Paper thrown in that were also sitting on my desk.  It was very easy to adhere them to the full page of an older paper from another Shimelle line. I love how all her collections mix and match.

I fussy cut the flowers on the left side of the photo from a piece of 6x6 paper I had and added the Lilybee alphas to create the title. With all the business of the page, there wasn't much embellishment that needed to be done. I loved the layout so far, and I only had the journaling left to do.

Fast forward two weeks, and this layout was still sitting on my desk, waiting for journaling. I am expecting company this coming weekend, so I wanted to put this page away. I sat down to do my journaling, in a hurry and that's when I ruined my pretty page.  I made so many spelling mistakes.  And I hate how I went around the title with my writing.  Now, it has that funny space around it.  Ugh! Oh well.  It's done now.  And the album, is finished. I am happy with how the album turned out over all. And lesson learned.  If I don't have the time to tell a long story, I shouldn't even attempt it.

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie

First Class Dining and Show Time

Hi there!

Today I am sharing the last two pages that I made for International Scrapbook Day, using the  Paper Issues Challenges.

This first page was for the Pretty Patterned Paper challenge where only pattered paper could be used on the page.

Most of the supplies on this page are from the Shimelle Go Now Go collection, except for a the "First Class" 3x4 card, the camera die cut and the yellow star paper which are from Pink Paislee's Atlas collection. This page isn't overly fancy, but with that busy background page, I wanted to stick to a basic design.  That "delish" flair is a VERY old American Crafts piece.  I love it when I can use old stash on a page and it all works.

This next page was supposed to be for the Black and White + One which was to use black and white supplies plus one other colour. 

I started out the page thinking I would use white, black and gold.  But, I had a crazy weekend and could not get the page done it time for the challenge submission.  Since the photos were so red, I felt like the page needed a bit of pink and red to tie it together.  It doesn't show well in the photo, but the star wreath is shiny gold paper that I cut from a Paper Issues cut file.  It does look much better in real life. ;)

Thanks for looking!

Sylvie