SHCG: Sharon! I love this. I would have never known that you didn't use patterned paper! It in no way looks like only cardstock. Fabulous job of rocking the challenge. I am totally digging your little tidbits of information that are on the strips. What great memories! I always adore your journaling touches and this time is no exception. The gold paint on the edges really set the pictures apart from the cardstock and add a beautiful guilded touch. Pomp and Circumstance-ulous!
SHCG: How awesome is that crackle paint? I had to read through to find out what it was made from...at first I thought masking tape all scarred up...I love it. Great idea. The font you used for your journaling is perfect for this page as well. I also really like how you have used so many photos on this page, but that it is not overwhelming at all. The little square brads next to the titling of this page are awesome and fit right in with this look...I think I would like to see more of them across the bottom of this page, just to add some dimension. Totally not necessary, but a maybe if you were looking for something else.
SHCG: This is a great response to my challenge! I love all the texture you added to the LO and the stamping along the border. I would suggest adding maybe one more color to make the LO pop. Thanks for stepping up to the challenge!! :)
SHCG: I love how simple yet interesting this LO is. I know you said that not sanding was a mistake, but I LOVE that some cracked off. I also am fond of the way the colors in the photos work with your gold theme. Great job! My only suggestion would be to possibly make the title stand out a little more. Maybe make it larger and have it overlap your crackle paint some.
SHCG: Thats so snazzy!! Really like the placement of the photos and how you've done the border on them. I think the journalling has been put in a good spot. And the transformation on the cardstock is well done. The layout isn't too busy but at the same time theres plenty to look at.
SHCG: I love the pp you created with the stamped border, and the filmstrip photo placement. I also love the inked caption strips. The square brads on either end of the title is a nice touch. My only suggestion is to place more of those beads on the crackle paint, but not as many as around Greg's photo, only in certain sections--one on each of the top/bottom left corners of the first photos on each filmstrip, and two side-by-side where a photo meets the next on the filmstrip, again on the top and bottom. I hope this makes sense. An example for the top crackle strip across the two pages would be .________. ._________. ._________.
SHCG: I LOVE this page! I love the paint, and especially the crackling effect. Love all of the cold ink on the journaling strips and title. Love the stamps (I had to look twice because I thought it was a pattern already on the paper). On this page i really love the doulbe film strip look, may have to try this sometime.
This is one side of my response to ~Alma Scrapera~/Nitza's “Cardstock, Cardstock, Cardstock” challenge for Scrap Happenzz Critique Group to not use patterned paper & focus on cardstock technique. Just try to visualize the smaller pics make film strips across the top & bottom that lead to the 5x7 on the right page of my hubby graduating from grad school (the right page looks a little weird without this left one next to it). Also note that my very cute parents are very private & prefer to be blurred online! The right edge cuts off a little in the scan.
I stamped the background & matted the photos in crackle paint. Since the photos have a glossy nonporous surface & I forgot to sand the edges prior to painting, the paint started crackling off. So I had to seal it in w/ decoupage finish. I also inked the paint mattes w/ gold ink & added gold/coppery seed beads around the big pic; the bling factor of the gold ink, beads & brads doesn't come across as nicely in the scan as in person. I Mod Podged the title & journaling strips, to add shine & contrast. (I also ended up spilling paint & decoupage finish, having to retouch & reprint a photo TWICE but we won't talk about that, grr…)
This LO chronologically comes before my “You Are My Hero” LO, in which you can see a better pic of my sweetie graduating - http://scrapbook.com/galleries/41507/view/1084409/-1/20/1.html. Also, this page is a lift of Kim Collee's “Dream Come True” page (Scraptivity's Notions newsletter & website).
Journaling: - “Greg's graduation from Fordham's Graduate School of Social Work was held at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. - Many fun memories! I was Viddy-ing & Digi-ing, & later passed along camera duties to Michael, who had closer seats w/ Charlie & Barbara. - We found Shelly, Patty & Jeff via cell calls w/ Greg & fellow grad/family friend Marci. - ‘I forgot my tassel & everyone's wearing one!' - ‘What does Greg want now, juice?' - When I saw Greg & Marci, I got all misty w/ pride; Shelly got misty too! We cheered ‘em both. - Text messaging to Greg after he walked across the stage: ‘Congrats Bub!' Answer: ‘Kkkhee!' - ‘Mom, you're like the paparazzi!' - Greg had to be there early, so he brought a sandwich, which later ended up saving a grad having a diabetic attack! - I am so very proud of my Bubyhubby & his accomplishments!”
ETA: The date appears on the LO that will come before this about what my parents & I did earlier in the day (went to the wax museum!).
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