Sunday 11 May 2014

Scrap Around The World - May Challenge

Hello everyone,

Scrap Around The World are having a huge month. So many amazing prizes to be won to celebrate their 1st anniversary. On top of which, they have a gorgeous mood board by the talented founder of SATWHelen Tilbury:




My initial inspiration for my layout came from the fabulous shoes. My eldest daughter has always had a fetish for shoes (she LOVED these ones) and I had some photos of her from her birthday sitting on my desk waiting for just the right challenge to come along. Seeing as one of her birthday dresses was also mint in colour, I just had to use this mood board.


My other inspiration came quite obviously from the balloons, however I only added 8 balloons as she was turning 8, but the colours and the gold glitter I just loved. The pink bow tying he balloons together comes from the bow from the top left photo as well as the shoes. The twine around one of my photos and doily layer came from the bottom right photo. I have also added 2 little hearts to the layout which come from the cake pops on the bottom left photo. Also from that photo is the silver platter - I used a flourish which had some silver looking gemstones - polished and shiny which reminded me of the platter. Lastly, I used the word 'celebrate' on my layout from the top left photo.

And some close-ups:



This is such a fun mood board, I really enjoyed working with it. The colour combination I would never have thought to do, but I really like it. The only thing I will say is that the black flower I used doesn't look so heavy in real life - when it comes to the photo, it seems to look heavier. Note to self - when working with black flowers, try to lighten with gesso or glitter...or use charcoal.

Thank you for coming by. The challenge ends at the end of the month so still plenty of time to join in.


21 comments:

  1. This is soooooo gorgeous! LOVING those balloons!!!!!!!

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  2. Beautiful, stunning layot :) Thank you for playing along with us at SATW!

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  3. Wow! Those balloons! And the 'collection' of photos....love how you've used colour and B&W....they look great together...& that sort of 'tiled' bg work in the mint peeking through....just sooo much to look at here:):):)

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  4. So beautiful Zeneva! Great design, you incorporated so many of the themes of the moodboard so well, and those photos are just adorable! love it ;)

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  5. Loooooovely work. I appreciate that you created the background by yourself. There are so many details in here that I could watch it the whole day. Thank you so much for joining us at SATW this month. Good luck!

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  6. Love your page, so many fabulous details,especially those balloons. Good luck with the challenge.

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  7. WOWOWOW!! I just love your layout!! I love those balloons and the background! Well played with the mood board. Thank you for playing at SATW!

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  8. So clever to use both b&w and colour photos. I think it worked beautifully!

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  9. OH WOW! This is absolutely perfect LOVE IT xxxx

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  10. This looks wonderful.. such a lovely take on the mood board, love the balloons.. well done..

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  11. Beautiful page and love the balloons and your sweet photo's! Beautiful background....

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  12. Wow what a stunning interpretation of our mood board! Your balloons are perfection!! Thank

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  13. Thanks for playing along with us at SATW - great page! Love the composition too!!

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  14. You did an awesome job with our Mood Board! Your balloons are fantastic love the little bow! Your page is really well put together! Love this! Thanks for playing along at SATW! http://mybeaner.blogspot.ca/

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  15. Wonderful page!!!! Beautiful design and techniques!!! Thank you for playing with us at SATW!

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  16. Zeneva,thanks for the comments!!!!
    You have a very bright, cheerful, fun page!!!
    You are awesome!

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  17. Absolutely gorgeous page! I love how you made those balloons!

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  18. Too bad I can't choose my winner this month because it would be you ***GRIN*** I really adore that you've made those balloons exactly like the mood board......Jaw dropping gorgeous....sight LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! Thank you so much for playing with us this month at Scrap Around the World hugs Amy

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  19. Absolutely beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing with us at SATW!

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  20. Absolutely love the layout...its beautiful..love all the details in it especially those balloons...exactly what the mood board depicts!!

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  21. Stunning page, I can see exactly where the mood board inspired you and those balloons, WOW!!!

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