Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Scrapin' In

Just getting this in today - it's almost midnight!

Felt like journalling today so began three pages - none finished. What can I do (I hate to be so unproductive)? Decided to do my entry for a challenge on one of my Yahoo groups which was to colour a photograph with Distress Inks.

Had done this very muted page by taking some colour on a baby wipe from one of my other pages and smooshing it about so there was a page ready for me to use for a photograph.

What better photograph than one of my mum as a little girl and my grandmother.

Printed the photograph and then coloured my mother's dress with Tattered Rose and the collar (and grandmothers) with Milled Lavender. Made a little pocket at the bottom so that I can put tags with some journalling inside it and then it is kind of semi-private.

Did some gold embossing (fingers crossed whilst I was doing this as I did not know how it would be on a journalling page - no turning back) with a verse and a flourish and then a few flowers, a few words about "Memories" and it was finished.

Not at all like my other pages but I like it and I still miss my mum!