Monday 7 May 2007

Aezine Challenge is back!!

I am so glad that Ali Edwards has begun setting the challenges & sending out the Aezine as it does give some direction.
The challange was to pare down your supplys. Well this is impossible. As a realtively new scrapper, I LACK supplies!! I have had kind people send me supplys for birthdays & then there was the orange stuff my teamies gave me for the challenge I did on the forum Bumbleberry Cafe.
I never have stuff to hand for new projects. I am very slowly building a collection of papers & embellishments but as I am on a very low wage, they are not top of my list. I am also a card maker so a lot of scraps are kept solely for this purpose. I only buy mulit purpose stuff & carefully chosen paper.
We were challenged to make a layout from something we haven't used in a while. I chose metal tags & decorative edged scissors. I have never scrapped 8.5 x 11 before so this is my very first attempt. The title is hand cut using computer font Lucida Hand & printed onto silver pearlescent paper. I also used metal photo turns which I have but hardly ever use. I had to paint silver as mine were all pastel (probably why i don't use them often!!) Papers are from amethyst pack. Clock face was given to me by Gillian.


I made these embellishments myself as I had nothing suitable for a boy in black & white. I simply typed the words on my computer in different fonts & selected black text boxes so the writing turned white. I cut them into stips & stuck them into a rectangle metal tag. I then used a star tag to stick over a piece of silver paper cut into a star.
I am very pleased with how this page turned out & made a second one about myself based on a Cathy Zielske design from her first book. I will share it later this week. Getting a decent photo is proving hell on earth!!!

16 comments:

Familie Kubben said...

Hi! Your LO is beautiful! I love the tags you mad yourself!! It is really good.

*Beatriz Jennings* said...

Very nice LO!!!!!


Bety :)

beth said...

cool layout!

Taniwha said...

Wow Paula, that is a stunning LO and I love your embellishments :)

Anonymous said...

great lo!! would believe that was done on "limited supplies"....it's so cool!!! Love the clock and star together!
xo

valerie said...

fab LO's paula

Anonymous said...

Awesome! I love what you did with the title and word strips. Plus that little cluster of stuff (clock, star, etc.) is great.

kelly p said...

great page! Love how you did the computer words in black text boxes - will have to try that!

Pearl said...

fab work ! great go at this A4 size !


most inspiring ! I wanna have a go at this 4 size soooon too ! lol - will let u know if i lift this l/o of yours ! lol


love the colors too !


good to know you're trying out new stuff ! lol

alas I have stmaping beckoning me ! lol
ttfn, Pearl

Gillian said...

WOW...WOW...WOWZERS Paula... this is such a SCRUMMY LO!!! I love it.. so masculine, but still has all the fun of a little boy!
Brilliant work!

Latharia said...

Love your take on the AEzine challenge! I am constantly paring down my supplies ... going to put some up in a garage sale in the next month!

Kathy said...

This is a real stunner Paula

m i c h e l l e said...

VERY cute!!!

Megan said...

Hi Paula!

This looks incredible - you've done an awesome job on this!

Ronda Palazzari said...

Love it! those self made embellishments are awesome! Great idea!

monika said...

I adore your layout and your card. I have missed checking in here.