I'm Coming Home

One last layout to share with you from my recent stint as a JBS Guest Designer.

In fact, I've gone a little backwards on this, 'cos actually this was the first layout I created once I received my kits. Each month JBS has a 'Main Kit plus One' challenge where the idea is to only use the Main Kit plus the one other ingredient they specify each month. For May the challenge was to add vellum and/or confetti.

I knew I had to get this layout out of the way first and use up all the best bits in the Main Kit before I was too tempted to start mixing with the other kits I received. The woodgrain cardstock was a must. Closely followed by that vintage Hotel Reservation Card, and the Maya Road flower. And did I mention the Fancy Pants transparency and those mistable Pink Paislee alphas?

I incorporated my vellum in the form of gold journalling strips (which matched the gold stars on the transparency) which in turn inspired my star confetti punched from the Crate Papers. And did you notice I couldn't help but add the left over scraps of paper that I punched my stars from into my layout as well? Call me crazy, but it's because they reminded me of high-rise buildings which fit my theme of moving house back to the city again.

Can you believe there's still a few of these kits left for sale?

Supplies:

JBS Papercrafting Kit May 2012

JBS Mini-Album Kit May 2012

JBS Dime Store Kit - 2nd quarter 2012

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The Great Commissioning

We've got some friends who are organising their long-awaited wedding in a couple of months time. It's a second marriage for one of the pair and they're a little bit older and wiser now, so they aren't planning on doing the whole big formal traditional wedding thing.

But imagine my surprise, and Munchy's delight when they asked her if she could do a drawing to include on their wedding invitation! They didn't have any strict guidelines or direction about the subject matter, they just let her be free to draw whatever makes her happy as she thought about them. How exciting!!

I told Munchy she is now a commissioned artist, and this is her first piece of real artwork!
To mark this event I really wanted to scrap this photo..... I think it captures the essence of the brooding artist within her :-)

I mixed and matched a couple of products here.
The base cardstock in the delightful Core'dinations Cosmo Cricket woodgrain in coconut cream. It really is as yummy as it sounds! All the papers, alphas and label stickers are from the Authentique Blissful collection - I just adore the grey and yellow combination.... but you've probably noticed that by now! The Sassafras Sunshine Broadcast foldies gave it just a touch of pink to warm it up a little :-)

I'm totally digging the hand-cut title trend that seems to be going around lately. And at the time I did this layout I hadn't yet unpacked my Silhouette, so it was the perfect motivation to go the old-fashioned route of my trusty craft knife :-)

 

And for those of you who have asked to see what she drew.... this is it. Hopefully you are able to tell that this is the happy bride and groom getting married underneath a rainbow. The bride has her flowers in one hand and the ring in the other.  Happy days!