Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Dancing Spirit - 123 Challenge

* Please note I am still battling away posting from my phone while my computer is out of action. Please excuse poor picture and content quality. Thank you. *

Welcome to my slice of the Internet. I have with me a scrapbooking page to share. I am finally recording more of the everyday moments and things that my kiddies DO rather then the 1 in a million picture perfect shots.
Chloe loves to dance/jump/spin/generally run around like crazy! When I'm in the kitchen she often dances to the ABC, so one day a just sat there and held my camera button down while she did her thing.


Inspiriation for this page came from the 1 2 3 challenge blog. The Febuary challenge went up a bit late so has been extended until March 22nd it can be found here 
http://123-challenge-blog.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/finally-fberuary-123-challenge.html



Colour: Purple. Well there is plenty of that. I think this is as close to a monochrome layout as I will ever get.
Word: Spirit. It is front and centre (technically bottom and right) in the title. 
Technique: Texture. It is hard to portray this through pictures but it's there. I have used texture paste, foam, glitter glue and sequins.



I enjoyed working with so many photos on the one page. My theory is more photos equals more story. It did make embelliahing and arranging a little more difficult, to fix this I used the 3rd dimension height. (Again hard to photo)


Ok, I have to be honest. This page took me a lot longer then what I thought/hoped it would. I knew instantly the general look, squares/rectangles in a diagonal small to big and back again. However just when I thought it was done I'd look back at it and think something is missing. I got to the stage below and considered calling it a day but it wasn't quite right and was described as "not fun enough"



Looking back at it again I still wonder if the right bottomish is still a little lacking.
Since painstakingly typing this up on my phone (seriously this is not easy) I have thought of a possible addition which might fix this and add even more texture. Not sure if I should or not. What do you think? Take it a step further? Leave it as is? Or have I already gone too far? Let me know.
XoXoX Nicole.

4 comments:

  1. Chloe looks so grown up in these shots! I'm not sure I like that! Love the background. I think it makes the colours in the photos really pop! Backing the photos with the different purple colours also enhances the shots. Smarty pants! XXXX

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  2. Nicole this is quite simply fabulous! You've achieved a gorgeous flow with all those photos and layering them the way you have done is oh so effective. I'm so glad you joined us at 123! :)

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  3. Gorgeous page full of fun and movement - I love the journaling around the edge of the page and the sprinkle of sequins and those pictures are so sweet! Thanks for playing with us at 1-2-3 this month :o)

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  4. wow, I just adore this page! I love how you included so many photos and I am totally going to steal that idea of layering them with foam squares!

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