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Retro Prints With Bold Colors

Hi everyone! This week I scrapped a selfie taken at a restaurant when I actually bothered to do my makeup! Fun fact: like many women in the late 2000s, I fell into a YouTube makeup tutorial wormhole and frequented Sephora on a monthly basis. I have more makeup than I will probably use in a lifetime and the irony is that post pandemic, I seldom wear it anymore! When I do wear it, I tend to go big, and will often use bright or unusual colors, at least in small amounts because a) it’s fun to be creative and b) I will never use up these colors if I don’t! This day I had played with a combo of purple, blue and gray, which happens to work well with my hazel eyes.

Although this photo was taken last year, I am an elder millennial whose childhood occurred before the invention of compact disks, and remember my parents having an extensive cassette collection. Amy Grant and Jimmy Buffet were road trip staples and the bold tones in this amazing paper worked well with the background colors in my photo.

I found this amazing Cedar House paper in my stash and used my usual trick of cutting it into two pieces so both the cassette and mottled teal designs would show. While the cassettes are really cool, I feel like they would be too busy and overwhelming as a background paper. Using this design as the base for my color palette, I pulled, red, orange, teal, gray and seafood green colored items to add to my page. Some tags from P13’s Free Spirit collection also fit really well because they retired retro technology with a similar color scheme. How perfect is that mic texture tag and we can practically hear the sound of our tape deck eating that cassette, right?? I suddenly having a recovered memory of using pencil to wind mangled tape back onto a cassette.

I used a couple of punches to make tiny heart and pennant shapes that I glued on my page and found a pack of vintage camera stickers by Navy Peony that included a Polaroid camera. That was a piece of retro tech that I personally never owned, but there’s several school photos teachers took in the early 90s as part of a bulletin board display that I then took home at the end of the year and kept in a photo album! Apparently waving the Polaroid doesn’t make it develop any faster but I don’t know anyone who didn’t do it!

I added some brads and baker’s twine along with a few circular stickers by The paper studio as finishing touches. The 6 X 6 paper behind my photo comes from the Dolled Up collection by My Mind’s Eye. Does anybody else have a dozen or so 6 X 6 stacks and forgets they exist? I actually used a page in its entirety this time!

This page was made for February challenge #1 at The Counterfeit Kit challenge. I love the concept for these challenges because I have acquired so much scrapbooking stuff over the years, I could probably approximate a dupe kit for just about any collection out there. This collection really caught my eye and if you look carefully, you may see a familiar paper. Yes, I already had a paper in my stash from the original kit! Talk about lucky!

Challenge #1 specified to add hearts in honor of Valentine’s Day, so I punched some small hearts from scrap pieces of paper in my stash and arranged them along my photo and the right side of the layout.

This page was also made for the My Mood challenge at A Cherry on Top Crafts which involved combining two elements from each layout above to create a new, custom layout. I had never made a layout like this before but was up for the challenge. I chose the following:

Sketch 1

strip of paper on left
single photo

Sketch 2

paper behind photo
circles

Sketch 3

pennants
cluster of embellishments in corner

Lastly, this page was made for challenge 738 at Lasting Memories. The ask was to use a 6 X 6 paper on a 12 X 12 layout!

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