Monday, 23 July 2012

Creative Scrappers 218

As always a great sketch



And my take
 This picture of Rodney dozing on the back door step has sort of a pinkish tinge to it and these really old papers by Basic Grey matched it well, I was inspired by a scrapper whose work I admire very much - Heather Jacob - the queen of distressing and fab backgrounds go check her work out!
I had great fun creating the background with inks, stamps & stitching & I mixed the sketch up a bit replacing the 2 pictures with a couple of these old WRMK metal circles/brads and then moving the 3 banners over to the right. The threads came about quite by accident when I looked down I had inadvertantly glued some under one of the layers after cutting them off the back, but I liked it and so added more LOL
The team over at CS did an awesome job this week go take a look, but a warning: Be prepared to be heavily inspired!!
x Toodle Pip x

12 comments:

  1. Saw this at Creative Scrappers and had to come for a closer look. It is such a fabulous layout. The distressing and layering are perfect and I just love what you did with those 'old' papers.
    I believe I have them somewhere in my stash,too!
    Lucky coincidence with the threads... .-) Tfs!

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  2. I just loveeeeeeeeeeee this!!! I love love love that adorable photo, the colors and all the distressing!!!!

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  3. Loving the blog makeover!! Kristine does great work, doesn't she??

    This is a great layout- love your distressed and stitched layers...just beautiful.

    xErin

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  4. Gorgeous page and such a sweet photo. :)

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  5. This is fantastic. I love the LO

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  6. OMGosh you dog is so cute!! You have done great job with you page I love your title work too :)

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  7. I just saw your layout at CS. I love the layering and all the distressing. Your Rodney is such a cute dog. I have two goldendoodles that look very similar. What type of dog is Rodney? Love your blog!

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  8. WOWEEE this is one stunning layout!!! Love the inky grungy feel to this layout! Awesome work :))xx

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  9. Love, love, love this! You rocked the vintage BasicGrey, and love your interpretation of the sketch. Oh, and Rodney makes such a great subject!

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  10. VERY nice job Tracee! I am sure dear Heather must be most flattered & you have done a great job drawing inspiration from her work. It looks really cohesive & as I know her work really well I can see how much thought you have put into this layout with those unique touches. Great job at using those older papers in a totally updated way - really excellent!!

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  11. Oh WOW, this is amazing!! Loving all the layers and the distressing! Gorgeous!!

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  12. This is awesome Tracee! Love the distressing and layering!!!

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