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.

I hope you'll join us in solving this case. If you do, you'll be eligible for some great prizes from our fantastic sponsors!

Thanks for popping by and checking out my page today!