This is my first time completing a chalenge for the supah-rad crew at The Dares blog. The challenge was to pull out our old deco-scissors and (gasp)…use them.
I had to go dig mine out of my daughter’s bag. It’s been years since I’ve used them and the unique feel of the curvy scissors biting into the paper took me back to my early days of scrapbooking. Matching the last groove with the first groove of the next cut. Eyeballing the the edge of the paper to keep the cut straight.
I just might use those scissors again…
Anyway, this layout was a trial. I narrowed down my stack of photos, all of which looked just like these but with different facial expressions, to four. Doing four busy photos like this isn’t easy. Couldn’t let it get too busy. Had to keep it from looking like a long train of people and glasses.
I’m not 100% happy with it (I actually got lazy at the very end and wrote “New Year’s Eve” in really lame handwriting on that tag on the far right because I didn’t want to put any more time on it. I’ll probably go back and put letter stickers or stamps over it. Or maybe not…).
But I am very happy with some of the detailing, especially around the bottom tag.
Journaling (word strips):
Raise a glass to: friends, laughing, stories, playfulness, spouses who rock, tangents, detailed explanations, sillyness.
Products:
Cardstock: Bazzill, Stampin’ Up
Patterned paper: Badsic Grey, Creative Memories
Tag: My Minds Eye
Rub-on’s: My Mind’s Eye, Chatterbox, 7 Gypsies
Letter Stickers: Creative Memories
Stickers, word strips: 7 Gypsies
Stamps: Tim Holtz
Ink: Stampin’ Up
Pen: Creative Memories
Ribbons, small tag, flower brads: unknown
