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【12×12】CSI N°291 Case File / Yay! My dear Grandma

This layout is made for CSI (Color, Stories, Inspirations) August challenge. Based on the Case file NO 291 inspiration, I chose pink purple color scheme and hot-air balloons as a starting point for my layout. In addition to some purple scraps, I chose to use some patterned papers from Maggie Holmes’ Carousel collection. I hand cut a hot-air balloon and a Ferris wheel out of two sheets of patterned paper from this collection and used them and some purple die cuts from my stash to decorate my page. I used a photo with my grandmother when I was back to Taiwan to visit my families back to 2011. I haven’t printed photos in a large scale for two years as …

【12×12】 White with 1 / Deep and pastel purple

It’s my first time to participate in the challenge organized by White with 1.The topic of August is to use the following sketch to create a layout with a focus on deep and pastel purple. I seldom use purple on my layout, but I still found out enough purple supplies to create a layout for this challenge. I chose to use buttons, masking tapes, purple cardstock, thickers and a collection of purple die cuts. As to the photos, I chose my white and black wedding photos to add some “white” on the layout. I aimed at finishing this layout during my son’s nap time. I hence decided to simplify my process to focus on papers instead of using mixed media. …

【12×12】Transparencies / Osaka

Here is a layout I made during the weekend to participate in Moon Lee’s June 2018 Facebook challenge. The topic of this challenge is about “Transparencies”. It’s a great chance for me to use some transparent sheets that I’ve been hoarding for ….hmm forever I guess. After a small “shopping” in my stash, I pulled out all the items that I might want to put together on a layout. You can see some green, blue, yellow, red and orange. How to The start point is the 12″ transparent sheet from Fancy Paint back to “2007”. I did mention that I’ve kept some transparencies for a while, right? I focused on this fancy transparent sheet with bright blue and orange colors …

【12×12】Jot Magazine / Forever

I created this layout to participate in Jot Magazine June Mood board challenge. When I saw the mood board I couldn’t help but keep saying Wow Wow Wow in my mind. It is so beautiful and elegant. I told myself that I must do a layout about this color scheme. I firstly went through my patterned paper stash and found out a piece of paper featuring pink flowers that looked similar to the one shown in the image 7. I decided to keep my layout simple by focusing on this piece of paper. I used some gesso on the background paper and stamped some short messages around the photos. I chose two black and white 3″x4″ photos randomly and put …

【12×12】Paper Strips / Nijojo Kyoto

For this layout, I tried to focus on Paige Evans’ collections as much as possible. It is also created to participate in the biweekly challenge held by Happy Scrappy Place Facebook group. The rule is to “scraplift” Paige’s layout(s) to create a new one. I love the idea and have no problems at all to do so as I have already “scraplifted” many of her layouts. I firstly pulled out of my stash all of Paige’s collections and then cut off the paper strip of each pattern paper. I layered these strips to form a cross sign and had some washi tapes on the central part of the layout, where I decided to have my title. I chose two photos of …

【12×12】Hip Kit Club / Zong Zi

I created this layout for Hip Kit Club Friday challenge. Instead of following a sketch, the participants of this challenge need to do a “boys only” layout this week. I found a photo featuring Jé eating a Zong Zi when we visited my family in Taiwan years ago. I think it is a perfect picture to celebrate both Father’s Day in France and Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) in Taiwan the day before yesterday and yesterday respectively. As to the design of this layout, I punched out two different sizes of circles out of some paper scraps I picked randomly without selecting particular colors. I just wanted to use up as much scrap papers as possible. Then I folded four …

【12×12】String Art / You are awesome

Here is a layout featuring string art of a big heart. For a person who doesn’t know how to sew with a sewing machine, do the string art with a template is by no means a great and effective way to create an easy but stunning layout. I bought this string art template long time ago and didn’t use it until I saw Paige Evans’ Facebook group Happy Scrappy Place challenge. This template is from Paige’s Fancy Free collection with Pink Paislee. The rule of this challenge is to create a layout with any heart design with Paige’s collection. What a great opportunity to use the template, right? In the beginning, I thought it was easy to finish the heart …

【12×12】Hip Kit Club / That’s a good memory

I created this layout for Hip kit club’s June 1st Friday Sketch challenge. The following is the sketch I followed. This sketch is not easy for me as I spent some time in finding out the combination of different pieces of scrap paper. I hand cut some flowers and pink hearts and tried to place them according to the sketch. The title is from a project life card. I like to use ready-to-use title and project life card serves a good purpose. Here is the close-up featuring the cluster I created in the center of the layout. It is not easy to choose photos for this sketch. However, I managed to find out old photos of my trip to London …