Catalina Journey

Neon Green, Marigold And Melon

Hi scrappers! Join me again for another Color Dare challenge! This week’s color combo is bright, warm and summery. I used some photos with some contrasting colors so they would really pop.

These photos were taken a couple of years in the city of Avalon on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California. It can be reached by a 1 hour ferry ride from Orange or Los Angeles counties and is incredibly beautiful. Look at the color of that water! Some of the architecture feels vaguely European and a few of the buildings date back to the 1800s. The hills are also full of buffalo, yes, buffalo! It’s a really fun and unique place to go, known as an incredible scuba diving location.

I started with Bo Bunny’s Courtship paper from the Brighton collection as my background. I used a circular punch to punch out the shadows of my husband and I in the water, then a corresponding circle out of some pink polka dot paper from the Hello Little Girl 6 X 8 stack. I used this same paper to mat my larger photo, for my title using Tim Holtz alpha dies, and even a few hexagons. I ended up using the whole sheet on this page!

I pulled lots of other little scraps from my stash and punched out hexagons as well as a scrap of green cardstock which I placed behind my photo and layered some paper die cut flowers over and topped with some enamel dots in the center of each one. A pair of butterflies by All & Create were the perfect color and I hand stiched some details in two of the corners with some marigold embroidery floss.

I hope you’ll join us at Color Dare with your take on this week’s colors! They certainly aren’t colors I would have combined together but that’s the fun of these challenges! I ended up making something I never would have otherwise.

This page was made for the Challenge YOUrself 137 challenge which was to use butterflies in your layout. The ones I used are definitely big and bright!

Lastly, I used the sketch from Brandi’s “Let’s Get Sketchy” NSD challenge for this page. I almost never use circular photos on my layout but I squeezed one in this time. Every time I try to cut out a circle freehand, I see all the imperfections and don’t like it. Using a punch makes my life easier because I know the circle will be perfect, but that means I have to find a photo small enough to fit. The hexagon punch I used was a little larger than the ones in the original sketch so I used less of them. I replicated the misting on the page with Distress Oxide Spray in Saltwater Taffy over my doily and in the upper right corner, but most of it ended up getting covered with other embellishments.

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