Tuesday, February 12, 2019

You Are Pulchritudinous

Hello again on yet another snowy, wintery day here in Southern Ontario! We are under a Winter Storm warning again and it looks like a nasty one. All of the buses were cancelled in my area again, I think we are on Snow Day 9 or 10 since January now? I've lost count honestly. If this keeps up, tomorrow might be another one!

Let's talk about something nicer - CSI has a new "Cold Case" up! A Cold Case is something new we started last month and it's meant to be a bonus challenge for those who want to try to resurrect some of their old stash. You don’t have to only use old stuff, but try to make your older stuff prominent.

I'll admit it for this case, I didn't really use much of anything that was "old", except for the title rubons and stickers & a few Basic Grey buttons that I've had in my stash for a while now. But I just LOVED the inspiration photo so let's get into Case #274.

Here's the Freestyle Prompts :


And a closer look at the inspiration image, which comes from Claudia Tremblay.


I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this photo!! Isn't she beautiful??

Since there's no "tradtional" clue sets or colour scheme to go along with this image, here's some more prompts to help you get started :

PRODUCTS

Find older papers that match the palette.
Find older papers that have a winter theme.
Use buttons—lots of them.
Use ribbons.
Dig out some of those old flowers and use them.
Remember when owls were a trend? Surely you have some in your stash—use one! Sassafras Lass used to have them on their papers. Use some old Sass paper, even some without owls.
Use the older Webster’s Pages papers with the floral designs.
Use feathers.
Use mulberry paper.
18 is the magic number—grab the 18th paper or embellishment pack (or something else) in your stash and start there.


DESIGN

Grab some of your mixed media stuff you haven’t ever used (or haven’t used in a while) and use it on the background.
Use a stencil you haven’t used and add paint to your texture paste.
Create a wreath as the base of your design.
Use a red floral paper on the bottom half of your page.
Stamp in the background.

And here's what I created with this case:


This is my oldest daughter and I wanted to create something for her this time around. But I have no recent pictures of her, so I went snooping on her Facebook and Instagram and stole these ones. On the largest picture, I noticed that her boyfriend used the title word in describing her, so I decided to use it as the title of the page.

Here's how I solved the case:

COLOURS

From the image I chose to use the following colours :

Green (from the leaves in her hair)
Red (well, it turned out more pink in the end, from her dress)
White (from the owl)
Yellow (from her buttons)
Black (a good neutral)
Peach (from the top of the skyline)

PRODUCT

Buttons
Flowers
Feathers

DESIGN

I recently started trying out some more mixed media on my pages and started there with this idea. I follow Vicki Boutin and one of her design team members Nathalie is very inspiring. She made a layout called "Reason to Smile" which I love, and she made a process video explaining how she made her layout. So, I watched the video while I was making this layout, pausing it after she explained each step so I didn't miss anything.

Here's the video :




Doesn't Nathalie make amazing art?


As always, here's a closer look at my layout :






I spent quite a bit of time fussy cutting these flowers out of my patterned papers - one from Vicki Boutins Field Notes, and the other from Pinkfresh - Holiday Vibes collection. The Pinkfresh paper came in my SCT Sampler December 2018 kit. There's also a diecut or two from Vicki Boutins collection in there. Then I added LOTS of pop dots, a few yellow feathers and some petals from one burgundy paper flower. I wish I could say that there was a method here, but I really just kept adding until it looked right. Since I'm fussy, this took me quite a bit of time, plus I may or may not have walked away in frustration a time or two..... In the end, I LOVE how this came out. The buttons, ribbon, enamel dots and tiny Martha Stewart plastic flowers finished this corner perfectly.





Here's a look from the bottom of the layout up. I used the same process in this corner as I did in the upper left, just on a smaller scale.




And finally, this is a closer look at a little of the background work. I stenciled with gesso, and then watercoloured over it. In hindsight I wish that I had of flicked more of my colours onto the bottom half of the layout. It just seems kind of bare and less interesting. Something to correct the next time I make a mixed media page.


And, just in case you were wondering here's the definition of "Pulchritudinous" :

To create the title on this page, I used rub on letters on velum and then cut it out. There was a long end left after I finished, so I chose to roll it up slightly, rather than cut it off. I think it adds the perfect little "something" on that side of the layout.



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We've moved our sharing over to Facebook! And new for this month, there's going to be separate albums for each Case, making inspiration even easier to find! Head on over to our CSI Scrapbook Challenge Page for more details and to participate!

Thanks for popping by today - I can't wait to see what you've created!!



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