Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Circa 1971

Have you all recovered from the surprise yesterday? I hope so, because wait...there's more!

Challenge number 2 from the Cybercrop over at Scrapsidaisy on the weekend was to create a layout about a father figure (which tied in nicely to Fathers Day on Sunday). While I was switching things around in my house the other day, I came across this photo tucked away behind something else in a photo frame.
It used to hang in our house many years ago...it's my husband with his Dad. A perfect photo for the challenge, don't you think?
I used a single piece of Echo Park paper called Fancy Floral from the "For the Record" collection pack, and kept the embellishments fairly simple. The real challenge came when I attempted the second part of the challenge...to create a card with the leftovers!

Since I only had one sheet of the paper (which I used), I had to resort to what was left in the paper pack "For the Record". I mimicked the look of the diecut label in the layout by adding a sticker...but had to use different colours as I had none of the originals left :)

I still have a couple of the challenges to go...but work is not leaving me with much time to complete them. Might have to pull another late night tonight :)

TTFN xxx

P.S Thank you so much to those of you who have left me such lovely comments lately...I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and love finding new blogs to visit xxx

4 comments:

Tracey said...

What a wonderful photo...love seeing your layouts again, this one looks great! Keep them coming:)

Linda said...

Your on a roll you can do it, sleep is overrated anyway. ha
xx

Sewandthecity said...

Hi Suzitee, I have been following your blog for a while now and it is lovely! I wanted to give you a Butterfly Award. You can pick it up here http://www.sewandthecity.blogspot.com/2011/09/so-exciting.html
All the best, Irina

Hope said...

Great photo, great page. Love how the photo is such a big focus.