What a neat idea to make a big sushi roll. Like all the details you've included like the Neko in the corner, and the little sushi images and of course the folded origami paper fans. And of course the hand sewing is pretty impressive.
What a fun and absolutely creative layout you've created, Ava!! Love all the wonderful,bright colors and details. You can tell you put a lot of thought into it. Those fans are outstanding! You did an excellent job showcasing the theme and that cute and funny picture! Love this. I enjoyed reading your profile, and wanted to thank you for the lovely remarks in my gallery!
It is wonderfully Japanese! My dh works for a Japanese company and I see these colours all the time in the goodies he brings home - really beautiful! One of these days (post lockdown!) I'd love to go with him - he doesn't eat sushi though!! A really stunning layout.
I wanted to make a layout about my love for Japanese food (for the foodie challenge) and challenged myself to incorporate as many Japanese elements or icons as I could. Since I hardly had any Japanese or Oriental themed papers, I decided to use some Origami papers that one of my Japanese friends had gifted me a while back. I made simple origami paper fans as the main embellishments for my page. Then I dug into my stash and choose some papers inspired by the photo. I decided to make an artistic representation of a sushi roll as my backdrop for the paper fans and the photo. (The dark brown cardstock for the nori/seaweed layer, the white pp for the rice, the mint for cucumbers or avo and the orange for salmon etc). I hand drew, cut, paper pieced and hand stitched along the “sushi roll” in gold embroidery floss.
Since I didn’t want to take the attention away from all the Japanese elements on the layout, I decided to hide the journaling inside the sushi roll! I printed my journaling and scored a hinge on the patterned paper and stuck it behind the doily and “scrolly” border on the left. I inked all edges of the borders, papers etc to make them stand out a bit more.
I then matted the photo, used border punch, doily etc to highlight the top right embellishment cluster and photo. I used other Japanese elements like lanterns, lucky cat, happiness banner, sushi food stickers etc. I also tried to use lots of gold on this layout as red and gold are considered lucky colours in oriental cultures. I used gold alphas along the sushi edge as my title. The title is a play on words as both my hubby and I love Tempura!
I was very happy with how the layout turned out and hope you like it too. Thanks for looking and I appreciate all your comments, love and support.
Have a Wonderful day! Ava
Entered for the following challenges: - NSD 2020 Scrapbooker's Choice - May Journaling challenge - NSD May Hoarders Challenge - 2020 May Foodie Challenge - May 2020 Scrap with your scraps challenge - NSD/May Boy only/girl only challenge
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