Julene By Design

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Show us your stuff

The February challenge at Show us your stuff is to use the quote "Follow your heart and happiness will follow".
I've chosen to use a photo of my sister at age 20.
She was quite a fashionista with the Isadora scarf and the lace dress.

On my layout, which is evenly matted on a red background, I've used a fabric doiley with embroidery.
There is a Grace Taylor flower I made using layers of separate flowers.
A vellum pocket for journaling has the heart on the front.
The D-Lish bottle cap has twine wound behind it in the flower shape (my hand made item).

Monday, 3 February 2014

Ugly sweater layout. Challenge #1

I've used this sketch from "Let's get sketchy" to compose my layout for Counterfeit Kits.
The sketch was turned on its side.
We are asked to make a layout about an ugly sweater.

In my case it is an ugly vest that I knitted myself!
Back in the 1970s,the decade of ridiculous fashion, I knitted this sleeveless vest using wide stripes of gold/brown and green. I wore it with blouses or jumpers underneath and thought I looked pretty "groovy."
When I met my husband he had a vest knitted by his Mum in the same colour combination.

To me now the vest just looks wrong.

I used a Amy tangerine paper from American crafts as my background. The photo mat is the same paper in a different colour. Down the side I've used strips (offcuts) of co-ordinating papers.

For the splashes I used punched flowers.

I've taken a photo and uploaded instead of scanning.

It looks slightly wonky but it isn't.

Did you have an ugly sweater? We would love to see it on Counterfeit Kit challenge.

Shopping our stash

Several months ago I pulled apart an old picture dictionary.
I kept some of the pictures including this one of people playing cricket.
The shopping our stash challenge asked for something outdoorsy.
I've made a card to congratulate a good cricketer in our family.
The background paper resembles grass and the sentiment says "amazing".
Along each end I've used Adorn it sticker borders.

Sunday, 2 February 2014

Fusion card site

Another new card site I've discovered and of course the challenge involves love.

I chose to do the sketch, but have incorporated the theme as well.
Using white card, I've run a strip of heart themed washi tape across it.
The large heart is a sticker from Adorn it.
The text is MME Collectable left from last month's Counterfeit kit.

Let's capture our memories

Here is the colour palette and stimulus picture for Let's capture our memories.

It just happened to go with the Counterfeit Kit.
The coffee cup reminded me I had taken these 3 photos of washing up....it is a job I enjoy.
In fact I haven't bought a dishwasher as I enjoy it so much.
When I visit my daughter I always do her washing up first. They think I'm nuts!
It soothes me. With my Rheumatoid arthritis the heat of the water helps my hands.

Ok on to the layout.
I've used Heidi Grace flocked paper plus a Sandy Lion backing paper.
On that I added blue foil, then a red doiley cut in half.
Next I matted my 3 photos in sequence. I stapled 3 Heidi swap ghost hearts and added my title.

The journaling reads: