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Every year while I was growing up my grandmother and/or great-aunt would make my sister & I matching outfits for pictures. As a result, I have a stack of photos of my little sister and I in outfits ranging from adorable to quite hideous (and I leave it to you to decide which end of the spectrum these land in). I am slowly starting to scrapbook the pictures and I'm really trying to do them justice.
I was 6 (& my sister 2 or 3) in this picture but I still remember loving this poncho - I would play with the pom pom constantly. This picture was quite a challenge to scrapbook though because the photo itself is quite damaged. Aside from the scratches and dust, there is also quite a bit of discolouration on my sister's face (she's the one with the weird green blotch across her eye). I cleaned up the picture as much as I could using Photoshop but I just couldn't get rid of the green until I converted the picture to black & white. Unfortunately, that also meant that the wonderful pink of these hand-made ponchos was lost. In the end I added the colour back to the ponchos while leaving the rest of the picture black & white. I'm quite pleased with the result.
I started this page with a raspberry Bazzil cardstock, then overlaid a white eyelet cut-out paper to mirror the crochet pattern of the ponchos. I then triple-matted the photo with subtle patterned paper. The sentiment was designed using SCAL and then cut on the Cricut. I added some gems to the "i" for a bit of shine. The flower was made from a disassembled cardstock flower (the first layer was the wrong colour so I replaced it with one I made using a spellbinders die). I also added gems to the cardstock sticker borders to add shine.
Recipe:
- Bazzil cardstock
- Making Memories white diecut eyelet paper
- Basic Grey patterned papers & cardstock border stickers, "Bittersweet" collection
- Cricut (to cut out sentiment)
- Gems (stash)
- Spellbinders nestabilities
- K & Company chipboard flower & hearts
Challenges:
- Scrapbook Challenges, recipe (4 DP, 3 letter/word title, 2 chipboard accents)
- Scrapbook Challenges, colour (pink, light blue, light brown) (pink is the dominant colour but there is lgt blue and brown in the accents)
- Midnight Madness, sketch
- A Spoon Full of Sugar, cute & girly
- Incy Wincy, blast from the past (it doesn't get more retro than these ponchos from the 70's)
