Week 6 Challenge

While I wait to see if I won immunity in this week's challenge (see post below), I figured I'd post the layout I did for this week's actual challenge as it's unlikely I'll win immunity.

This week's challenge was a bit different. We were given a great sketch that was created by Karan Gerber (I have her blogs on my list of blogs I visit if you're interested in seeing more of her amazing work).



In addition to the sketch, we had to use the following photo for 'inspiration' in any way we wanted to.



And to make it even more complicated... we could only use items we already had in our stash - no new papers or embellishments or letters, etc. Thankfully I had some great paper in my stash that I'd used to make invitations for a friend's surprise birthday party late last year... but I only had one partial sheet of the paper I most wanted to use, so it was tough figuring out how best to put it all together. In addition, we had to use an old, crappy photo instead of something new.

It's hard to see in the photo, but it's pretty grainy as it's a scan of a really old picture that I tried to fix up a bit to get rid of some scratches and tears.

I used white cardstock for the background, then sanded a black Coredinations cardstock with teal blue inner core so that it showed through a bit. I used the old teal/black papers from my stash, and put in a hint of the lime green with the one bar and the flower. I put Felt Fusion (by Queen & Co) over the lime green bar and trimmed it back (man is that stuff every sticky and hard to work with lol), and then carried the felt fabric idea through with the black letters in the title and the lime green flower over the big Prima flower. I also did some doodling by hand. I added in some crystal gems (by Prima I think) that I cut apart a bit and also used for the centre of the flower.

I put the journalling behind the main photo by making a pocket and printing it on coordinating cardstock and then inking the edges as I had done for all the other paper.