Alice Through the Looking Glass

Hello Again! I'm back with another beautiful case from CSI : Color, Stories, Inspiration!!

Here's the Freestyle Casefile Prompts :

Here's the traditional colour palette :

And the traditional clues to help solve this case :

THE SCHEME (RBG codes for the palette above)

255.255.255 – bright white
129.192.199 – sky blue
125.121.73 – olive green
205.193.139 – mushroom beige
150.62.60 – muted brick red


EVIDENCE

Solid white background
Swiss dots
Stripes
Floral pattern
Text print
Swirls
Hearts
Flowers
Doily
Teacups, teapots
Crown
Lace
Border punch
Tags
Keys
Clocks
Text/script stamp
Animals
Playing cards
Labels
Monograms/fancy letters
Stick pin


TESTIMONY (Journaling ideas)

Topic: Document a childhood memory
Prompt Idea: Choose a prompt from these random ideas.
Presentation: Write your journaling on a tag and attach it to something.
Writing Format: Write in the form of an invitation.
Inspiration Words: crazy, curiosity, wonder


And here's what I made with it :

Back in 2014, my husband and I were going to take our kids to see A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Stratford Festival. Then we heard from a friend that that play's particular interpretation might not be so child friendly, so we switched our tickets to go see Alice instead. We were very glad we did!

Here's how I solved the case :

COLOURS

All the colours are there with the addition of a tiny tiny bit of pink and a lot of black.

EVIDENCE

Swiss Dots
Stripes
Hearts
Flowers
Doily
Teacups, Teapot
Lace
Clocks
Animals
Playing cards

TESTIMONY

Here's where I strayed a bit from the traditional clues. I was inspired by the SUBJECT of the photo, rather than any of the prompts, but if I think about it I guess I am documenting a childhood memory for my children.

Journaling

In the summer of 2014, Richard and I planned to take the kids to see the play A Midsummers Night’s Dream at the Stratford Festival. One of their favorite characters at the time was Puck, so we thought it would be fitting. When we were told by a friend that maybe this interpretation of the play wasn’t so kid-friendly so we changed our tickets to see Alice Through the Looking Glass instead.

We were not disappointed. From the audience participation & jelly bean toss, to the awesome actors on stage, we loved it all! Since then, we’ve taken the kids to see a Stratford play almost every year.

This play also started the tradition of buying a fabric filled glass ball keepsake Christmas ornament. The one we bought has scraps of fabrics from costumes of the extra “Alice’s”.

While these photos aren’t perfect, being taken in a dimly lit theatre with a cell phone, they help to remind us of fun family times together.

July 2014


Usually I have some closeups, but today I don't. Instead here's a few details on the creation of the page :

I made the word "Alice" of my title in WordArt and fussy cut it to add the the page. When I do this, I use the RBG codes to get the colours just right. The rest of the title was cut from one of the playbills that we brought home.

The folder on the left hand side of the page was created using this technique that I found on Pinterest. It's holding the playbill from the show and also our tickets. The clocks on the background of the left side is a very old ColorCore cardstock - remember that product line??

The stickers and the tall Alice are actually a from a card kit that I bought at the Festival specifically to make a page about our time there.

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A Brand New Year, A Brand New CSI

Welcome 2018 - I'm glad to see you!!

A new year, a new month means a new case over at CSI : Color, Stories, Inspiration is up and ready to solve!!

Here's the traditional colour palette & photo inspiration - I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this palette! You'll find the traditional clues down at the bottom of the post for Case #245.

And here's the brand new freestyle case file prompts :

And here's what I made with it :

This page is for my husband. About a year ago, I saw a lovely George Eliot quote on Facebook and saved it. Recently, when it came up in my memories, it reminded me that he has been so amazing with and for me these past four months, holding me up and letting me do what I need to do. He takes all my short temper flareups in stride, knowing that it's not him that I'm upset at and it makes me love him all the more.

Here's how I solved this case using the traditional case file evidence clues & testimony:

COLOURS

All the colours are there.

EVIDENCE

Woodgrain (triangle pieces & title letters)
Polka dots (velum)
Triangles
String (in two places - under the badge and tied around the picture)

TESTIMONY

I chose the January Writing Prompt for this one, using Prompt #17 - "A quote that inspires you".

Here's the quote :

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having to neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” George Eliot

While looking up some more information on George Eliot, I learned that that was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans. She has an interesting life story. If you'd like to learn more about her, you can go here to her Wikipedia page.

Here's a couple of closeups of my page:

I printed the photo twice and layered them together, popping the top one up. My mini stapler, tearing and some string added some interesting textural elements to it.
I added some folded velum to the bottom of the layout.
The winter scene used in the case inspired the pom pom trim, since it reminds me of snowballs.
I've always loved the way that swirled thread looks on layouts, so I did that here under the badge that says "I love you".
The distressed paper clue inspired me to add some more texture to my blue polka dot paper by crumpling it and then smoothing it out, and then I used my border punch on the end before adding it the layout.

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