Cards Galore Scrapbook Challenge
The Cards Galore Scrapbook Challenge them is PATCHWORK and although this wasn't something that had me jumping for joy whilst I was looking through old photo albums with my Nan I came across lots of photos I wanted to scrap, most are of me and my childhood best friend Angela and some of me and my grandparents or doing activities with my grandparents. I should WARN YOU AT THIS POINT THAT SOME PHOTOS MAYBE OFFENSIVE.
As a child my Grandad and his friends went rabbiting and from a young age I learnt to skin and portion a rabbit. This is one of my favourite photos as my childhood favourite food was rabbit stew.
Whilst at my Nan's I was putting things away and realised that on my bed there I had a bedspread that was my Great Nan's and it's a patchwork bedspread, this gave me the idea for this LO.
I have to say I then spent several days sketching out a too scale sketch of how I wanted this to look. I felt that sewing had to feature because of the patchwork but throughout my sketch I couldn't decide if this should be real or faux. I admit my sketch changed and altered as my ideas developed during the making of the LO. Sorry my photos of the sketch are REALLY bad!
Once I had my sketch I prepared my photos, journaling and embellishment shapes and laid them over the sketch.
At first I was planning to use ribbon to edge the patchwork, for the piece that falls over the sides of the bed on the bedspread but ended up using a paper doily to replicate lace, although I glued it on I also used head pins {which hurt and makes a fountain of blood if you touch the wrong end} to create the impression of the lace being held in place ready to be sewn.
At this point I still really hadn't decided if I would use real or faux stitching so I drew out the shapes on my actual LO and then used a pencil to dot where I'd start/end a stitch if I stitched them or the distance for faux stitching then at the last moment I decided I would use real stitching so poked holes for the stitches and hand sewed between the patchwork shapes.
Once I finished sewing I slowly began the task of matching the shapes on the sketch to those on my LO and stuck each photo, journalling, and embellishment shape down.
This is my finished LO which is for the cards galore scrapbook challenge {link above}.
As a child my Grandad and his friends went rabbiting and from a young age I learnt to skin and portion a rabbit. This is one of my favourite photos as my childhood favourite food was rabbit stew.
Whilst at my Nan's I was putting things away and realised that on my bed there I had a bedspread that was my Great Nan's and it's a patchwork bedspread, this gave me the idea for this LO.
I have to say I then spent several days sketching out a too scale sketch of how I wanted this to look. I felt that sewing had to feature because of the patchwork but throughout my sketch I couldn't decide if this should be real or faux. I admit my sketch changed and altered as my ideas developed during the making of the LO. Sorry my photos of the sketch are REALLY bad!
Once I had my sketch I prepared my photos, journaling and embellishment shapes and laid them over the sketch.
At first I was planning to use ribbon to edge the patchwork, for the piece that falls over the sides of the bed on the bedspread but ended up using a paper doily to replicate lace, although I glued it on I also used head pins {which hurt and makes a fountain of blood if you touch the wrong end} to create the impression of the lace being held in place ready to be sewn.
At this point I still really hadn't decided if I would use real or faux stitching so I drew out the shapes on my actual LO and then used a pencil to dot where I'd start/end a stitch if I stitched them or the distance for faux stitching then at the last moment I decided I would use real stitching so poked holes for the stitches and hand sewed between the patchwork shapes.
Once I finished sewing I slowly began the task of matching the shapes on the sketch to those on my LO and stuck each photo, journalling, and embellishment shape down.
This is my finished LO which is for the cards galore scrapbook challenge {link above}.
OMG Sall this is AMAZING... WOW well done hun and Thank you SO much for taking the time to enter the CG scrap challenge xx
ReplyDeleteWOW WOW WOW! So much much work, so much LOVE!!! One of the very best I have EVER seen!!!!
ReplyDeleteWow! Not really a scrapper myself, but Sall this is as Marleen put it! "AMAZING" so much work gone into it, to such a fabulous finish! You must be so pleased with it? I would be, good luck with the challenge Hun xxx
ReplyDeleteWOW Sall what an absolutely AWESOME scrap page. The layout and the time taken to make this really shows it was made with a lot of love. Good luck in the challenge and in my book it is a sure winner.
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Linda xxx
Lovely photos Sall & such a lot of hard work gone into making the LO - it's very good.....Mgt.x
ReplyDeleteWOW - What a work - LOVE IT :-)
ReplyDeleteIts so good to see all the planning that went into this too Sall, you are amazing and this is one pf the best layouts I have ever seen well done! xx
ReplyDeleteThis must have taken forever...shuts fallen chin with hand to say...I love it. Good luck :0)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have ever seen a Scrapbook page with so much detailed work on it. Fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely amazing :) I love the amount of work you put into it it makes it such an individual piece that brims with love <3 Thanks you for joining in with us at the CG Scrapbook Challenge, Michelle x
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