Scrapbook Challenge
Kooza
Florals With Shades Of Wine
Hi everyone! I’m here with the 4th layout of 2025! Last year my husband and I went to see Cirque du Soleil when they came to town with their show Kooza. It was my first time every seeing them live and as a former dancer, was something I had wanted to see for a long time! Since the show was not in Vegas and was a traveling event, they set up a huge circus tent which was really fun to go inside of. The show had acrobats, contortionists, clowns, mimes, tightrope walkers and more! There was a red carpet area out front where my husband and I were able to snap these fun photos to remember the evening.
I started with some beautiful double-sided paper from the Prima Marketing Midnight Garden stack. I loved the copper accents and how the deep wine colors matched the backdrop in my photos. I cut the paper into three pieces and flipped the center panel so the other side of the paper showed. I then added a piece of plain wine-colored cardstock from the Splash stack by The Paper Studio so my photos with white mats really popped. I added tiny strips of washi from the Moonlit Garden collection by 49 and Market to make it look like the photos are taped down.
I found some paper scraps in shades of wine and burgundy and used my Mary Uchida punch to turn them into tags. I then ran them through my Sizzix Big Shot inside an embossing folder to give them some texture. Using some foam tape, I layered embellishments from 49 and Market, Simple Stories and Kaiser Craft, popping up some of the embellishments for dimension. I added in two little bronze puzzle piece charms and some phrase stickers by Heidi Swapp. Lastly, I made the title Kooza (the name of the show we saw) with an alpha die by Echo Park Paper Co.
I made this page using sketch 410 from the Cherry on Top weekly sketch challenge. As you can see, I added a lot more embellishments to my page and changed the title placement, but kept true to the basic structure of the original sketch.
This page was also made for the January Mood Board challenge which had two absolutely beautiful inspiration boards this month. The pulling items for this page, I actually struggled a bit to find products, scraps and papers that were the right color, but I found enough to create a cohesive page. The three inspirations I pulled from the board besides the colors were the following:
All the texture on the berries and yarn. I added texture with an embossing folder. Too bad a didn’t have one that looks like the berries!
Text surrounded by filagree. I used a tag that had text and an elaborate border.
Dark red flowers. Both my background paper and some embellishments I used feature flowers so dark they are almost black!
That’s all for this week! Thank you for joining me and I will return with another page as soon as I can. I’m having so much fun with all of these January challenges!