Loved (Period).

I'm back again with the first case file from CSI : Color, Stories, Inspiration for April. It's starting to feel a bit more like spring every day here in Ontario, and I'm glad for it. Winters are long and dark here, and I am SO VERY READY for more sunshine and warmer, longer days.

Let's take a look at Case #278!!

Here's the Freestyle Case Prompts:

And the Tradtional Case File and Clues:

EVIDENCE

Solid cardstock
Map print
Circle patterns
Globe
Plane, other travel accents
Robots
Key
Triangles, circle
Lightbulb
Eyeglasses/ sunglasses
Google eyes
Buttons
Flair
Geotag
Clouds
Negative shapes
Drip something
Embellishments that relate to technology or science
Create an interactive/ moving element

TESTIMONY

Topic: Document something related to technology.
Prompt Idea: Google “random word generator” and use one of those to spark an idea.
Presentation: Use a circular journaling spot.
Writing Format: Create a bulleted list.
Inspiration Words: travel, advance, key


THE SCHEME (RGB Codes)

208197.169 – beige
188.74.133 – a purple between magenta and mulberry
99.173.156 – turquoise
252.254.253 – white
58.55.50 - black


And here's what I made with it!

Recently my oldest daughter and her boyfriend broke up, so I made this page for her as an encouragement while she works through her grief about it. Breaking up is really hard to do, and I feel terrible that there's not much I can do to help her as she walks through it.

Here's how I solved this case:

COLOURS

All of the colours are there.

EVIDENCE

Solid cardstock
Circle patterns (pink solid paper under the photo)
Triangles, circles
Buttons
Flair
Drip something (black and blue drips on the right side of the page)
Create an interactive/moving element (my journaling spots)

TESTIMONY

The PRESENTATION prompt helped this time, however my spots are NOT circular, just the pull outs are.

Journaling

One of my spots is a tag which says:

You are brave, fearless, bold and strong

And the other is a quote which reads:

no one is going to love you exactly as you imagine.
no one is ever going to read your mind and take every star from the sky at the perfect time and hand it to you.
no one is going to show up at your door on a horse, with a shoe you lost.

do you understand?

that’s why you have to love yourself enough, so that any other love just adds more candles to the cake you’ve already iced.

Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Here's some closeups of my page:

This is the background BEFORE I added all the pretty stuff to it. I LOVE how it turned out! I apologize for the terrible cell phone photo. I have got to remember to take pictures while I'm creating!

Here's the steps I used to create this :

First, I made the black and teal blue watercolour drips. After they dried I then used a heart stencil to dry brush teal blue art crayon. Then I laid another script stencil on top of the heart stencil and dry brushed the black art crayon over that. After that, I flicked some black, magenta, and teal blue watercolour over the whole thing. All of the art crayon, and stencils from these steps are from Vicki Boutin. As a final step, I grabbed a third stencil, and used my palette knife to push some texture paste through it. Those 2 products are from Tim Holtz.

From the bottom of the layout looking up.

A closer look at the top right corner.

Revealing the hidden journaling spots!!

And a closer look at the card with the quote. I used a clear enamel dot on the black tab as a play on the word "period" for the title of the page.

And finally, a closer look at the bottom right hand side of the page.

This month, we have nine generous sponsors. Click HERE to read more about our sponsors and the prizes they are donating. Winners will be selected randomly from all of our players, with a few exceptions where sponsors have asked us to choose from certain geographic regions. 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!!