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I wish Rainbow Bridge...

We recently lost our beautiful dog to old age and to say it had been a journey was an understatement! It was a tough battle to rehabilitate her but she got there in the end. She was 14 1/2 when she went over Rainbow Bridge...a good age for a dog with German Shepherd in her.

So I have been wanting to scrap a page about her final journey and the iNSD sketch challenge at Cocoa Vanilla got me inspired:

Of course, the papers in Cocoa Vanilla's 'Happiness' range were perfect being full of rainbow colours but it was the clear sticker sheet that I used so, so much on this page. I love that stickers are back in vogue! Come on rub-ns...you're next ;)

The entire orange square and pink background were created by layering clear stickers! Super quick and I loved the colours. Of course I used watercolour and stamping on the page but enhanced the effect with more clear stickers.

You can see that I mounted some of the stickers on to white card and use them as embellies.

On to the next page now!
Have a great day :)

Dr Who Dr You

Dr Who....Dr You!

For a teenager with a Dr Who obsession he sure did look the part! He could recite every episode of the Matt Smith and David Tennant reign word for word. We visited the BBC studios and stood inside the Tardis set. His room was full of Dr Who related items. We joked he should be the next Doctor!

Ha! He fits right in ;)

I was inspired to create this layout by CSI Challenge #278 and knew exactly the photo and title I wanted to use as I had scrapped this before but it is one of those pages that never quite came together and I knew one day that I would remake it. I had to add a lot of navy blues to create the space background but the main palette and inspiration from the challenge is all there.

I had so much fun creating this background which started off as a piece of aqua cardstock. There's a lot of sponged acrylic paint and embossing powders finished off with some white ink details.

To make sure this page was overloaded with 'Who-ness' I mixed metal charms,stamps, an Ingvild Bolme wing (Weeping Angel reference), with printed dings from Da Font ( Whovian and Doc Who 2006).

Happy Easter Weekend! Em x

Morocco. It's a beautiful place. I have many memories of our childhood holiday there.
For my father it was something more. It drew him back. He once rode a motorbike from the UK to Morocco to take pens for the Bedouin Tribe children because he had seen them learning to write by drawing in the sand!

This layout is a hybrid. I had been playing around with watercolours brushes on PSE trying to get the look I was going to create with real watercolours, but loved it so much that I blended the photo onto the background, added the journalling and then printed it onto cardstock. I continued adding stamps, patterned papers and printed photos and my page was done. Sounds super easy and quick....it wasn't, but I enjoyed the process.