Monday, August 22, 2011

Black with Two


Okay so those that follow me know that I love using black for my backgrounds, enough so that my friend Tracee Provis found this blog challenge site "Black with Two"and this Months Challenge was to use Black + Green and NO flowers.... Black I love to use and green is one of my favourite scrapping booking colours to scrap with and the NO flower thingy, who needs those things anyway, lol. I also stumbled over another Challenge whilst over at ArtyScrappy Blog to go to Sandy's Space and her challenge is to do a little boys page whether its one you've done or if you want to create a new one, so I thought I would up load this page to that as well.

Not that I ever need an excuse to scrap but I thought the colours where definitely a good excuse to scrap some more of these portrait shots I still have floating around of my son when he was 3. I mainly used scraps, this is the fun thing about these challenge sites, getting to use your scraps up. I still used two new sheets of paper the background black was made up of BG Scarlets Letter Night and I think the other one was Pink Paislee Halloween die-cut.



I matted the photo in some of the PP Die cut paper and used some prima packaging for my journal tag behind the photo. I did some machine stitching around the edges of the background papers and then distressed them heaps.



I colour code my scraps I just reached in and took some left overs out from Sassafrasslass, Bazzill Basics Swiss Dot, and another green that I used my craft workshops star template on then cut out.



I punched the BB Swiss Dot with a Ek Success punch, and I had a strip of glitter paper from a DCWV stack. Other cutouts are from Basic Grey Oliver and Graphic 45 papers. I used a Journal Sticker from Autumn Leaves. Anything that wasn't quite green received a treatment from either chalk or glimmer mist. What a fun challenge, can't wait to do more.

Thanks for looking and I hope to see some of you checking out the site and playing along.


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11 comments:

  1. What an artistic LO ! Love the way you mix and matched so many brands. Thanks for linking up to my challenge.

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  2. 1st of all... I love the title so cute... reminded me of my Matin too... when hes younger!!! SHy boy.... the color combo is very unique... love the whole vitagey looks on this layout... its just gorgeous... you always did a stunning page!!!..... TFS Fi... have a great week ahead.... hugs...xoxo

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  3. Love, love, love... and I'm so checking out the site! :D

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  4. You rocked this! and that pic is just sooooo cute. Tx

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  5. Oh Fi I just loooove this page. I love how you have sewed, I love how you have gone crazy with you edge distressing. Just love it all. Whats not to love. Cheers Di xx

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  6. Fi, this is gorgeous, love the scarecrow at the bottom of the pic and the green and black is amazing together, take care, Doreen x

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  7. Wow! Fi this is fantastic! Love what you did with the criteria...perfect, perfect, perfect!

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  8. Fabulous collection of embellishments! They work so well and give such detail to your layout!
    Thanks for playing with us at BW2!

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  9. This is just amazing!! Love all your embellishments!! Such a cute photo, too!! Great job!

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  10. Awee Fi, how cute is the pic!! he he he yup, you sure love your black and it always serves as a brilliant backdrop to any fabbo design you create. Always gobsmacked at how many different brands and elements you elegantly pull together. You're getting to become a true Debbi!

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  11. So love your layout Fi, looks fantastic. Thanks for playing along at BW2. xx

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