THE PROMPT: My Favorite Things
ie: a few of the things you LOVE about someone you love. Can be alive or dead.THE STUFF: Lists and ephemera
ie: have a few tokens from that someone? Maybe the cover of the CD with "your song" or a napkin from the restaurant you both love to eat at...THE TECHNIQUE: Pockets
ie: Use pockets to store those "things" on your page.
I knew I had this picture of my Grandfather from his local newspaper (because I have been cleaning my craft room, little by little) and I wasn't sure what I would end up doing with it. Then I decided- why was I saving it in a box? Right? So out it came into my art journal and I ended up loving the page. The ephemera is the honey label I cut from one of his jars. I could not figure out how to add a pocket so I left that out (something I don't normally do for AYITL but I knew it wasn't against the rules). One thing I found that has been difficult is the size of my altered book. It's not very big so I have to find very small elements to work with.
I have also added this page to the Scrap Your Crap challenge to use 3 different stamps. The mini bumble bee is 1, the words inside the hexagon is 2, and the hexagon itself is 3. I bought the stamp set because it was shaped like honey comb. But sometimes the words in the center didn't fit. So I took one I didn't think I'd use often and cut the words out of it. So happy I did because now I can stamp my own background papers. Bee keeping scrapbook supplies are hard to come by!
Thanks for looking and be sure to leave a comment so I can check out what you've made for the challenges too!
13 comments:
What an awesome take on our challenge. Love your stamping!
Thanks so much for joining us at SYC
what a wonderful page! love the background you stamped!! thanks for playing with us at SYC!
Awesome journal page!! Love that you made your theme appropriate ephemera!! Thanks for joining us at Scrap Your Crap!!
Beautiful, thanks for playing along with us at SYC!!!
It's perfection!! I love it. So cool to see your take on the prompt!
I really like the honey colored tones :)
I LOVE your page - its beautiful and you managed to get in ephemera! I didn't :( but may try to make more pages with the prompt at a later date.
What a lovely page! You are right about the newspaper cutting, why keep it in a box when it should be shared! I wish I had joined in on this art journal thing, it looks like fun!
Wow, guess what, my grampa was a beekeeper too!!! Love this and it made me smile!
Wow, guess what, my grampa was a beekeeper too!!! Love this and it made me smile!
oh i love this, I wish i had a newspaper photo, that would have been so cool. Your stamps are gorgeous, I love it all!
This is super cool! love that you used an article about your grandfather! Thank you so much for joining us at SYC!
Love it!!
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