Sunday 12 September 2010

Using my stash

I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've been neglecting the May Flaum class that I am taking over at BPS, going back to work has really interrupted my craft sessions,but I fully intend to correct that in the next week.

Today I chose to use a photo I had been meaning to scrap for a long time. It's a picture of the husband and I taken back in June. I like this photo as we both look totally relaxed and neither of us is blinking or pulling a silly face. The challenge that I used for it was to create a page on plain cardstock and use no patterned paper at all. Any patterns had to be created by stickers, stamps or embellishments. I picked out a box of 'bits' from the cupboard and decided that I would only use whatever offcuts I had saved from previous projects in there. I'm not a great stamper or rub-on girl but I liked the finished result using these things to create the pattern on it. Maybe I need to revisit the stamp shelf at the local craft shop .....

10 comments:

Denise said...

Deb,I love this, that's what I so like about May's class,you get to do things you wouldn't normally do.It's a lovely photo of both of you too,one of my faves of yours xx

Sian said...

That's the one I've been planning on doing next! I've been neglecting it a bit too - but I love her class notes, very inspiring.

Deb @ PaperTurtle said...

I love the simplicity of this, Deb. Cute picture and very nice layout!

Jennifer Grace said...

I like your use of stamps, well done for pushing yourself to use them as they look great! x

scrappyjacky said...

Love how this has turned out,Debs.....and what a lovely photo.I really enjoyed the class of May's that I did.

humel said...

Love it - great photo, great use of white space, great little touches of embellishment xx

Anonymous said...

Lovely page Debs, what a super photo.

Scrappi Sandi said...

I love what you did to 'keep it simple' & a lovely photo!!

Good luck with restoring your craft time!!

Amy said...

This is a great layout Deb - you did very well on the challenge and I really like the colours you went with!

Rachel Brett said...

Another gorgeous layout Deb, I like the minimalistic look- simple but very effective :)