I'm BAAA-CK!!

Hello friends!!

I swear I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, I've only just moved. That's right - back in January, my husband and I packed up half our house to get it on the market. Unfortunately, that included ALL OF MY SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES. That's right, ALL. OF. THEM.

Can we talk about withdrawals?? Whew!

At any rate, the good news is, that the house sold really quick (for over asking price, AND in one week!! *gasp*) and now that I'm settled in, I can get back to it! In our new house, I have a whole ROOM to scrapbook in - no kidding!! It's all set up with built - in storage and desk and everything! When I get it fully organised, I'll post some photos here. For now, it's been a bit like Christmas around here, finding all my supplies again.

So, let's start things off with BEAUTIFUL case #252 from CSI : Color, Stories, Inspiration. Yellow and grey are still some of my favorite colours! Here's the freestyle case file prompts :

And here's the traditional case file clues :

EVIDENCE

stripes
dots
diamond pattern
text pattern
triangles
circles
doily
washi tape
light bulb/lamps
frames
banner/bunting
numbers
use the alphabet as a design element
clips
clouds
dry embossing
metal
puffy stickers
animals
hearts
mustache

TESTIMONY (JOURNALING IDEAS)

Topic: Document something about your home.
Prompt Idea: Get inspired by a word at Sunday Scribblings
Presentation: Put your journaling in a frame.
Writing Format: Write a numbered list.
Inspiration Words: fun, shine, edge

THE SCHEME (RBG codes)

219.213.65 – yellow with a touch of green
248.240.141 – light yellow
253.255.251 – white
224.224.224 – light gray
59.59.59 - black


And, here's what I made with it:

Since we recently moved, I wanted to document it in a simple way. While it wasn't my first pick of a home back when we bought it 16 years ago, over time I really loved living in this little house on that great street. If life hadn't gone the way it did over the last year, we'd probably still be there today. However the move was made for a really good reason, and though I'll miss it, this house is now my home. It'll take some time to really make ours, but I'm up for the challenge!

Here's how I solved the case:

COLOURS

All the colours are there, with the addition of a little bit of orange to make the little bird make more sense.

EVIDENCE

Stripes (in the black and white heart)
Dots (in the gold washi tape and the grey patterned paper)
Triangles (in the gold washi tape)
Doily
Numbers
Clips
Metal
Puffy stickers (small yellow heart on the house)
Animals
Hearts
Circles
Washi Tape

TESTIMONY

I used the Topic prompt for this page - "Document something about your home"

Journaling

So many memories were made here.
Goodbye little green house.
I loved every minute of our time here.


Here's some close ups of my page:

This photo shows the title work a little closer. It also shows all those great shiny gold accents! I'm still loving adding a little gold to my layouts. The number 16 is for how many years we lived in that house. I used a little foam tape to pop up the word "home", and the grey polka dot strip of patterned paper.

This is just a quick look at the top left side of the layout. I really loved this patterned paper and it's slightly distressed feel. I wanted to keep the bit that looked like scotch tape but felt it neeed more, so added in a little chipboard piece and a metal clip to make a "group" of three.

And finally a little closeup of the journaling. I don't usually like my handwriting, and you can see that I messed up my black lines in TWO places, but I knew that I wanted this journaling to look like this, so I just did it and I'm ok with the result.



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I can't wait to see your creations!