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Thursday, 16 July 2009

Splish Splash

As I have just started to type this it has started bucketing down!!! Huge drops of horizontal rain. How fitting, seeing as the latest challenge for scrap whispers is to create a water themed layout. I have so many photos of water it was really hard to choose one. They range from boat trips, to swimming, to my dd feeding ducks, but I love this photo of my dd just quietlywatching swimmers in the pool a couple of years ago in France.

Even though you cant see her face, i just love the tranquility of this shot so immediately chose to use muted blues and aquas. I tore some Wasail Basic Grey paper and inked along the edge with black ink. Then I used some Marrakesh Basic Grey paper and cut semi cicles into it with m hole punch to give a stamp effect. Then added a piece of Aqua paper from Dovecraft, a random piece of white vellum. Then to finish off I added some white and blue gems, pearls, buttons, lace, organza ribbon and a photo turn, along with a tag threaded with twine. The title is French for I look - Je Regarde and for this I used Heidi Swapp ghost letters. As I said before I do not speak French so I got the translation from a random google search, but when I was adding the letters I forgot the "e" at the end so I had to cut that by hand from a piece of acetate (I ran out of e's) and attach it with staples. I was a bit annoyed as I spent hours on this LO, but it is all part of the French learning progress.

This challenge is up til midnight on saturday. And as I finish, the rain has stopped! Just in time for the school run.

Thanks for looking, kel x