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Shades Of Blue

Hi scrappers! I’m back with another layout created as a guest designer for Lasting Memories. I used a photo my husband took of me at the beach. A lot of times he will take photos on a weird diagonal. I think it’s weird and would prefer a straight shot but he insists it makes the picture more interesting. What do you guys think?

I used a piece of paper from the DCWV Far East stack. I bought this paper stack in the early 2000s since I wanted to scrap a bunch of photos I took while on a trip to Japan. I still have plenty paper from the collection left over so I figured I should try to use it up. I have no idea what the kanji on my background paper means but hopefully it’s relevant to the rest of the layout.

I used a big blue tag from a 7 Gypsies junk journal pack and scattered some Amy Tangerine stickers over it. I cut a strip of 49 and Market paper with a subtle botanical pattern template behind my photo. Some ephemera by Heidi Swapp and K& Company matched the ocean theme and added more blue tones with a few golden accents. I used a 6 X 6 stencil by The Crafter’s Workshop and two different texture pastes to add some mixed media details around the page. I finished with some brads in the tags and a scattering of enamel dots.

Lasting Memories provided this color palette. I used all the shades of blue and was inspired by the ocean theme as well an made sure I chose a photo taken at the beach since I have quite a few.

The sketch used for this page was weekly sketch 391 from A Cherry on Top Crafts. I turned it 90 degrees to better fit my photo. Instead of a tag in an envelope, I layered several tags in various sizes and added additional embellishments, like I always do.

This page was also created for the Grab 5 challenge. The elements I used were the following:

Doily
Brads
Floral Patterned Paper
Mixed Media
Color Blue

That’s all for this week. More ScrapAttack content can be found on Instagram and YouTube if you are looking for more video content showing how I make my pages.