so much to enjoy I had to click on the picture and see more details... if you blog I wanna follow your blog.Your work is always so detailed and awesome
WOW...that title really gets your attention! I love that you scrapped about this subject. Fantastic LO...love the feathers and the chicken wire. Great details
Love squirrels, hate raccoons. They are not even sweet looking little things. But I do love your page and every little detail in how you scrapped this. Adore your feathers and the chicken wire. So very perfect for this. you do such a great job incorporating such relevant embellies into your LO's.
ok, first i love thi lo, great colors and just wow!!
i never knew that racoons were so mean.....i know killer whales were, but i thought racoons were just mischievous....like got in your trash and made a mess kind of pains in your rear, makes me mad when there is senseless killing...grr
I love this... not only because of that fabulous catchy title and it looks great, but it's something I'd do as well... scrap even the oddest snippets of your life!! Love it!!
Really interesting page -- I love the combination of colors and textures. There's so much to look at, I'm going to back for another peek. And, it's not every day you see the word "murdering" on a scrapbook page!
Oh no Pat, not the poor little chickens. My grandmother (god bless her) had a shot gun by the back door (yep, in Kentucky back then perfectly legal). This is such a wonderful told story and the elements on this layout are just beyond awesome. Great page even though its for the chicken snatcher.
I like your journaling and you are totally justified! I live in the middle of nowhere so I can sympathize! Your lo is so rich and textured. I have to ask... was Mister Lucky a victim or did he die of natural causes? Love that you used his feathers!
This is awesome!!!! I absolutely love the chicken wire and flowers and feathers...ok...I love every inch!!! Its so funky and unique(thanks for the compliment by the way...I feel the same way about your work!)
Wow, this is amazing! Love all the techniques you incorporated, just awe inspiring. Love how you incorporated the feathers to really bring home the theme. Geez, that is a huge raccoon, i had no idea they got that big. Beautiful work!
This page is beyond stunning! I love every detail you put into this, Pat! The colors are awesome and I love the feathers with the flowers! The screws and the chicken wire are genius! Fave!
You are hilarious. I love that you did a whole layout on this. I love the nailhead brads and all the fun elements you put in here. You made such a great page out of such a frustrating situation.
Now that I have wet wiped my keyboard from spraying it after your humorous remarks...We live trap these nasty rodents, at least 5 a yr., and dh, too kindly in my opinion, packs them off to State Land a few miles away. Swear they know the way back! Probably follow the stinky mess smell they leave in the cage. Ugh! Like the sound of Moon Shadow Mist. You sure put a lot of creative work into this layout. Sorry that Mister Lucky, who wasn't quite so lucky, met his untimely demise!
Wow, a lot of elements going on! I never knew that about raccoons and the chickens. I just know they're pesky critters that get into your garbage cans and make a big mess and carry rabies. I love the chicken wire fence and how you were able to feathers from your rooster. Hope he didn't suffer from the raccoons.
Wow this page is awesome! I love that chicken wire chipboard! I didn't know this about racoons....I would call them murdering savages too! Going into my faves!
Wonderful layout Pat!! I just love your stories & descriptions, too!! Thanks for all the info on how you created it & why you used certain techniques & materials - it really inspires me to push myself more. And my sympathies to you for your poor little birds.
You know you're a true scrap booker when you take pictures of the raccoons that have been killing your chickens and then plan an entire scrap book page around them.
This is the first of several coons that ended up in the live trap and were subsequently dispatched to heaven (or probably not, since they ARE murdering savages, after all).
I don't begrudge a hawk, or even a coyote, an occasional bird. Those predators kill quickly and then carry the prize home to their babies. They're just being good parents and doing their best to raise their families. And they actually HUNT in the daytime, which gives the chickens a sporting chance. A hen can fly into a tree to escape a coyote or get under the porch to evade the hawk. But a raccoon sneaks in at night, while the chickens are asleep, and then it's just recreational killing from there. They don't eat the birds, they just tear off their heads and their wings and their legs and leave the body parts strewn all over the coop. I have NO sympathy for them.
I'm entering this a few places.
#1. The Technique Challenge. I misted the chipboard letters for the title using some MoonShadow Walnut Shimmer Mist. This stuff is similar to Glimmer Mist like Brad Pitt is similar to my husband. It's a whole 'nuther level. It's two toned and acts like a holographic shimmer - look at it one direction, it's green; look the other direction, it's brown. It's incredible stuff! I also used Magical Mica on the Dusty Attic Chipboard Chicken wire - I used a combination of rusty brown, silver, and some green patina so it would look like real metal that is a bit tarnished. And I distressed a bunch - paper edges with my Zutter, water distressing for the flowers (which are made from chicken patterned paper), and modeling paste mixed with paint on the background chipboard.
#2. Scraplift The Person Ahead of You Challenge as well. I lifted Mistymomof2's "True Love" layout. I hope I did her project justice. She's a really incredible artist, and her layout was SO much fun to lift!
Even though I played a bit with it, I tried to stay close to the heart of what she created. I kept the faux-screw brads and wire, the chipboard elements, the handmade flowers, and the basic skeletal paper pieces. I used flourish swirls instead of the punched papers, and substituted hand rolled ribbon roses for the bloomers.
#3. The ABC Challenge - letters D for Distressing, E for emerald green, and F for feathers. The feathers are actually chicken feathers from my late, great rooster, Mister Lucky.
#4 The Darker Side Challenge. Murdering Savages is certainly a dark topic, the colors of this layout are dark, the photo is dark, and this particular raccoon came to a dark end. My mood is dark when I think of how my poor birds ended up, just so he'd have something to do in the dark of the nights. My heart was dark as I dispatched him to Jesus - and he can ask for forgiveness there, because he's getting none here.
#5. The Monochrome Challenge for Week 3 - Emerald. I did not use any vellum, so I can't qualify this for the twist.
#6. Use Your Supplies - Week 1, Coloratization! I used Moon Shadow Mist spray on the title, Magical Mica and Perfect Pearls on the chicken wire chipboard. I used ink and water in a mist combination on the handmade flowers. I used Perfect Pearls and Dimensional Paint on the card stock die-cut flourishes. I used modeling paste with paint mixed in to distress the card stock base paper. I used Glam Paint as a bling on the flower edges. I used Alcohol Ink on the metal banner as part of the title. I think that's everything!
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