Monday 15 October 2012

Scrapping the Paralympics, finally.

I struggled with this one for a while. Probably because I had so many photos to scrap, and it's fairly rare for me to make a Double Layout these days.
Knowing we were going to the Paralympics, I'd deliberately saved some of my Portobello Road Union flag papers from when I scrapped the Jubilee. However, when I sat down to it they were all wrong.
I had lots of tickets and memorabilia which I wanted to use as embellishments, but they were printed on bright white and featured aqua and green, which just didn't work with the cream-based red, white and blue of Portobello Road.
Plan B was to use plain white cardstock but, with so many photos and no patterned papers, that didn't work either. So I took inspiration from Glitter Girl, made the embellishment clusters, and then put them away for a while.
When I visited Shopkeeper Gal's lovely den of iniquity on Saturday I found this Basic Grey sheet and Creative Imaginations alphabet which seemed like a good compromise - white-based, but not too stark.
I matted all the photos on different shades of cardstock to tie the colours together and used a double layer of letters to add some depth. The embellishment clusters are built on top of our Paralympic tickets, but I think we might want to be able to see them properly some time in the future, so I added the top layers with brads so they can be swivelled round.
The fact that the circles looked like Olympic rings had not occurred to me when I bought the cardstock, but once I noticed it, it seemed obvious to use the 5 colours and add the Rings across the two pages.
This will stand out in my album, as I rarely create multi-photo DLs anymore and I like that.

4 comments:

Tamika said...

Great way to used the tickets and things!Tamika #14

humel said...

Love how you've done this, Kirsty :) The paper is just right, especially now you've highlighted parts of it as 'Olympic rings'!

CraftygasheadZo said...

It looks fab and I love how you've created all the different elements to work, great paper choice too! Take care Zo xx

JoZart Designs said...

Great to meet up with you on Saturday for such a lovely event... Have posted my pics which you may like to see...Hope you've recovered, I have but it will take a while for my waistline to recover from all the cakes etc. see you Wednesday.
Jo x