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Shades Of Cranberry

Hi everyone! This week’s layout combines various shades of cranberry with a start white background. The photo I used is from my 2018 trip to Iceland when my husband and I spent an afternoon at the Blue Lagoon. I still have so many photos from that trip to scrap! Since I won’t be traveling any time soon, maybe I’ll actually catch u with all my photos.

I used basic white cardstock for my background and mixed a custom burgundy color of acrylic paint to splatter around. I used a piece of burgundy print paper from the My Mind’s Eye’s Everyday Tango stack and supplemented it with some paper scraps and ribbon of similar color. I painted some small wood pieces and I swear in person they are dark burgundy even though in the photos they look almost black.

This page was created for the July challenge at White…With 1. I love their pretty mood board and the fact that cranberry usually reminds me of winter and Christmas, but it was the color chosen for summer. I never would have paired the photo I used with this color since you wouldn’t usually pair water or summery scenes with cranberry. That’s what I love about challenges! I often come up with such unique pages while fulfilling challenge criteria.

This page was also created for the Sketches in Thyme July challenge. I definitely drew inspiration from the watercolor effect in the background and layering of lace and patterned paper behind the photo. I chose to use one photo instead of three and substituted a metallic embellishment along the left of my photo. I used an epoxy sticker by the Paper Studio for my title as well as a metal reddish-copper tag by Tim Holtz.

Thank you so much for visiting everyone! Stay safe, stay scrappy and I’ll see you next time!