It's Masters Share Time

Warning - Long Post

Hi Ladies.

I am just about to head off on a Scrappy weekend away with Malinda, Leonie and Melissa.
Just the four of us this time.  So so required.....school holidays are wearing that little bit thin.  I think the kids will enjoy me being away too.....lol.

So I have popped in to leave you with  my pages that I entered for the Scrapbooking Memories Masters competition.  Although I didn't make Masters, I am thrilled to be on the Creative Team which has turned out to be a bigger challenge for me....

So my first page is based on the sketch provided by SM. I will also add in my inspiration/blurb thingy bit that we had to add with each page.

"I wish" 

I wanted this LO to capture the true, natural expression and personality of my daughter.  She is a deep thinker and a ‘big’ talker and at the time I created this LO quite a few times each day she would begin her sentences with “I wish” and follow with something about being a mummy or a lady so she could do something that I had done or spoken of. 
I wanted this LO to be natural, pretty, feminine and soft which is everything I would use to describe Emma.

And the next page was to include a 5x7 photo.

"Childhood"

During our “Farm Day” we went to a paddock full of hay bales.

The children climbed the bales and ran across them and down them without any fear whatsoever. 

This photo captured two 3 year old girls, high off the ground, without one care or fear in the world so I wanted this LO to capture the innocence of their childhood. 

I wanted it to include natural, soft, feminine elements like those captured in the photo.

I wanted to highlight the girls so I duplicated the photo and placed a bracket around them.

My double feature was published in the mag so I will just show you a sneak and my blurby bit.

"Best Day Ever"

I was inspired by the wonderful day my children experienced on the farm and I wanted my layout to tell the story and show each child riding the horses and to capture their reactions.

I loved this color combination as they were neutral colors for the theme of this layout.

I wanted to keep the natural theme of the farm so I added some raw chipboard pieces like the fences and barbed wire and also the string.

The main element I wanted to capture was my title.  This summarises everything this layout is about.

And my last page was to include hidden journaling.

"My 5 Strengths"

I recently completed a survey which identified my 5 strengths, so when I read the criteria of hidden journaling, I thought that this theme would be perfect.

So I built a LO around myself and I wanted it to “pack a punch” in some way because it was about being ‘Strong’.

I began with a large photo of myself (which is something I wouldn’t normally do) and I wanted the embellishments and paper to be feminine yet in bolder/stronger colours.  I also wanted my hidden journaling to be created in a unique way and I think the result was exactly what I imagined.

I wanted the design and details to all tie in as you opened the page.

So if you made it through, thank you.

Hope you have a fabulous weekend. I am sure I will.....

Jasx