The Story of the Princess Bride

Another day, another scrappy challenge. I can't get enough of them this month. Call it inspiration striking perhaps. Or more accurately perhaps call it procrastination..... I've got another exam looming at the end of October ;-)

Either way you look at it I'm happy to be scrapping. I really liked the look of the Mood Board at Scrap Around the World and couldn't wait to play along. Initially it was mainly the image of the cushion on the bottom left that I wanted to emulate, and hopefully you can see the resemblance to the design on the left of my page?

Next I wanted to just generally capture the feel of the overall colour scheme so I've kept lots of white and added in the pink and blue.

I've been giving a lot of love to my JBS stencils lately and this layout is no exception. I used gesso with the 6x6" graphic feather stencil before liberally spraying it with pink mist to highlight the shapes. All the papers on this layout are from the JBS August Papercrafting Kit.

Moodles loves to dress-up. It's certainly her favourite activity at creche - she always heads straight there as her first priority. This wedding dress is amongst her top choices of outfit. But she insists that she's not a bride, that she is in fact a princess. She claims it's not a veil but rather a crown.

I've tried to clarify her confusion but to no avail. Never mind, I'm not ready for her to be practicing getting married yet anyway!

The Story of the Missing Starfish

Two exciting things happened this month (or late last month) and I couldn't wait any longer to share my version of events with you. These things aren't secrets, and they're not really things that happened to me... well... maybe they are kind of.

Firstly, Evalicious released a brand new collection! It's called Escape and it was designed as a travel line, but is just as versatile to be used for everyday events too. But given I just got back from a tropical holiday and I have 1000 beach photos to scrap I'm choosing to use them for their original purpose.

The second thing that happened is a new challenge blog has hit the streets. Yep! You know I'm always up for a good challenge. Scrap Around the World has got me suckered in already people!! Especially as their sketch called for 3 photos and as I just mentioned.... I've got a lot of them to get onto layouts.

The colour scheme got me too. It's not a colour challenge as such, but I have to admit that the thought of teal, brown and white with a splash of pink really appealed to me. Not the first thing I think of for beach photos but ultimately I think it really worked.

The story of the page is this: 2 years ago we went on holiday to the exact same beach destination. One of Munchy's fondest memories from that trip was the discovery of a multitude of starfish washed up on the beach. They were in the rock-pools and the little puddles in the sand. Our return visit last month wasn't planned for more than 4 days beforehand. We were blessed with a gift of accomodation that was too good to refuse (that's a whole different story!) She's got a memory like an elephant my little girl, and the thing she wanted to do most of all was go hunting for starfish. Unfortunately there were none to be found on this occasion. Which is probably for the best if you're a starfish.

So I had a tonne of fun playing with my new Evalicious stash on such a fun challenge. I can't wait to see what's coming up next month :-)



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Evalicious Escape Large Tags Evalicious Badge Buttons: Escape V1 Evalicious Escape Miscellany Tags Evalicious Escape Snipsnip Labels Evalicious Stamps: Hello Photo Set Evalicious Stamps: Cloud Outline

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