Saturday, 30 April 2016

April Finale

I'm just squeezing into the tail end of April with a final page from my current Counterfeit Kit.  It was started for Challenge #2 way back at the beginning of the month; included a Forgery for the Fourth, but sadly wasn't finished until today.

Did I mention that I'm skilled in the Art of Procrastination?!

Anyway, for Challenge #2 (take inspiration from the February posts of the C'est Mgnifique Design Team), I found a lovely page by Shanna where the giant arrow was used as a background for the photo.

Layout detail - Pattern layers - JimjamsSo I set about making a giant arrow to use.  In Microsoft Word I inserted two shapes, an arrow and a chevron, and overlaid them to form an arrow.  I grouped the shapes together and expanded them to fill the width of a piece of office paper, before printing it out to use as a template.  I added dots of colour arround the edge to match my photo and kit.  In the end my arrow wasn't long enough so I split it in two and put it above and below the photo.

The actual page is based on the mirror image of the April Sketch from a Sketchy Scrappers group on Facebook.


Layout - Elly @ 4 - Jimjams

Child No.3 had a toy cooker for her 4th birthday and enjoyed frying eggs for us!  I'm also joining in with the UKS SLYMI Challenge #6 to scrap a happy story ... she was certainly happy with her birthday present.

5 comments:

  1. Love it! It all works together so well. Jx

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  2. Love the patterns of your paper with that photo. Fab page.

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  3. Looks like a very trendy marquee arrow, plus I love the #4 stencil.
    (She looks like her thought bubble would say, "Yes, but who will do the dishes?")

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  4. A page that takes a whole month is an achievement in itself! The forged arrow is perfect here and looks fabulous but I particularly love the short and succinct journalling! How cute is that!

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  5. Super page, I love the large arrow and all the dots around the edge really set it off :)

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