Thursday, 3 April 2014

The Wrong Runes

This month's challenge over at S J Crafts is a mood board.  It got me scrapping in 3 columns using bright spring colours and helped me complete another page for our Scandinavian holiday album from the left-overs of my January Counterfeit Kit.


I was showing Hubby the wonderful ancient site of Anundshög, just outside Västerås where I was convinced that I'd had a photograph taken 30 years earlier.  We wanted to reproduce the picture and I duly posed next to the wonderfully carved rune stone.

However, when I got home and compared the photos, I realised that the stone must have been somewhere else entirely.  Either that or it had grown in the intervening three decades!

Short rune-stone, fat thighs, grumpy face!
Last month Annie was offering a prize for one lucky challenge joiner-inner - the winner is will be announced  over at S J Crafts here along with some featured pages.

There's a prize for joining in with April's challenge too.  What inspiration will you take from the mood board?

ETA: This layout was part of my style-scraplift with Karen - she's now been prompted to blog her style-scraplift of it!

21 comments:

  1. I love this layout and I must blog my lift of it. Great story too.

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  2. Great story, great layout and great early photo! I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has been so sure she was right about something like this :)

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  3. great page but I love the grumpy face best of all, you must scrap that one too

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  4. funny but I think it would have been even better if you'd included the original photo too! Still a great story though!

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  5. Super cute layout, I do that with my Hubby all the time, eh we try :)

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  6. Great layout love the story behind it.
    Jenny x

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  7. You mean the rune stone didn't grow? Ah well - love the grumpy face and the outfit - I'm sure I had one like that back then too.

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  8. Either the stone's grown or you've shrunk LOL! Is it my imagination or is there a lot of yellow and green inspiration floating round the web lately?
    I hope this comment manages to stick - my iPad was having an off day Sunday and didn't let me post a comment.

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  9. Loving this Jemma....how funny that you mis-remembered the stone..btw..loving those hot pants in the original photo!!

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  10. Hee hee, love the older photo, I can just about tell it's you!
    Great story highlighted by a great layout :)

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  11. How funny. Amazing what we misremember!

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  12. Colourful page. I love how you mis-remembered. I do that too.Love both photos.

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  13. Colourful page. I love how you mis-remembered. I do that too.Love both photos.

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  14. Beautiful design, love the clean lines of your layout ! Funny story ;)

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  15. Made me laugh Jemma, love the attitude! Hope you find the right rune one day!

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  16. It's all that rain we've had that made that stone grow lol.

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  17. Oh that's gorgeous - love it love it love it!

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  18. I love the grid style on your layout! I love seeing your photos as the chance of my visiting Europe is very remote.

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  19. Fat thighs? I don't think so! You look fabulous! In fact, you still do!

    Love the layout style and bright, spring colours :)

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