AJC10: These boots...

This morning I heard "These Boots are Made for Walking" on the radio and it made me think of my Grandad. I once told my mum that this was one of my favourite songs and she told me how my Grandad had held me as a baby when they were playing this song. Apparently I had shook my head in time to the music as he held me up to walk. The small picture I've included in this piece is one of my favourites, as it's one of the few ones I have of him and me. It was taken on my Christening day. Sadly Grandad died just before my 2nd marriage. He had been ill for sometime but the Christmas before, he seemingly gave his approval of my choice for 2nd husband, having not really like my 1st (but then 1st one wasn't really that likeable). So with the wonderful memory of my grandad in my mind, the layout put itself together. (The journal behind the feather headdress is the same as that on the first filmstrip). He wasn't perfect - you only had one chance to make a good impression - but Grandad taught me to look for the adventure in everything and encouraged my interests in history and gemstones. I could listen to his voice telling me tales of Iron Age settlements or ring and ditch enclosures... and he loved to tell my brother and me jokes. I wish he had had a chance to meet our son, but I believe my Grandad is my guardian angel, so he probably already knows, keeping us under his protective wing :) He was the only Grandad that I knew - my Dad's dad died when I was 2.


Credits
Background paper - Ruby Rynne, Nat IV backgrounds
Pink flower skirt, legs, black top hat and feather headdress - Tangie Baxter, Ultimate Doll Kit elements
Black and white banner and pink swirl circle - Tangie Baxter, Enchanted Art Box Altered addons Be yourself, Remember and The Best Memories buttons - Baer Garten Designs, Girls will be Girls, Flair kit
Happy Moment button - Baer Garten Designs, Autumn Orchard Flair
Filmstrip and multicoloured baubles border - Glam Fairy Designs, Pimp My Art Elements
Oh Wonderful Day - Tangie Baxter, Wonderful Day elements
Diamond rain - Studio Manu, Listen to Your Heart elements
Red stitching - Tangie Baxter, I am a Fanpire elements
Loving Heart spread and Loved scrap - Baer Garten Designs, Love of my life, Loving kit

AJC10: On Bad days my thinking's rather Black and white, but I dream in colour

This idea came to me as soon as this week's task of playing with colour was announced - I have a filofax in which I put my weekend ideas down for the journal until I can work on the layouts during the week. As it happens, Monday was a bad day - I burnt myself by spilling tea over me and then I was told as a bombshell that I might not have professional help with sorting out my binge eating issues, and so I cried most of the day. My burn has now blistered and I had a headache all yesterday, but today's a different day.




The black and white page was actually difficult to make yesterday as it hurt my headache, but it's how I feel when I'm having a bad day - it's all or nothing, yes/no, success or failure. Black and white, no grey to the options, but this is not me all the time and as I say "I dream in colour".


Credits:
Black and white papers - Tangie Baxter, Chronicles of Imagination, Chapter 11 papers

Colourful side:
Pink background paper - Tangie Baxter, Chronicles of Imagination, Chapter 5 papers
Turquoise bracket page and corrugated bracket frame - Studio Flergs and mgl Scraps, What Dreams May Come Bracket Album
Bed and Window frame - Lorie Davison, Flying Dream Storybook, Magic Bedroom set
Moon and Cloud, Stardrops and Sparkle border - Tangie Baxter, Chronicles of Imagination, Chapter 3 elements
Rainbow - Tangie Baxter, Chronicles of Imagination, Chapter 13 elements
Star puffy stickers - Craft Creatives

AJC10 Week 4 - Playing with colour - Don't be Messy

This week's theme is: "Letting Loose with Color" with the instruction "LET GO! LET LOOSE! BE FREE!". So you're thinking what's the above to do with that? It's part of a multipage thought but also an exploration of being messy (including paint splats in the layout, which I've not really done before), although as I said in the journal the irony is that as a digital page, no physical mess is involved. The red tag caption says: Some rules were made to be broken.

Credits:

Background paper: Baer Garten Designs, Whites paper
Central paint panel: Tangie Baxter, Splattergraffiti Red Border
Red tag and black string elements: Studio mgl, Dreams in Colour 2.0 elements
Red and black splodges: Elizabeth Weaver @ DSP, Black, White & Red All Over kit
Black pen for journalling - Kuretake