Saturday, September 4, 2010

I am a Llama (Scrapbook Challenges BLOG HOP!)

In another life I owned an art gallery & frame shop in Monument, Colorado. It was an amazing experience, and one of my favorite things was meeting lots of people. One of our regular customers owned an alpaca farm and invited us to visit. Besides alpacas, they had two "guard" llamas (apparently they are quite loyal and territorial) and two camels. I cannot tell you how bizzarre it was to see two camels standing quite happily in the snow. One of our resident artists, Janice Hill, was snapping photos and took this one of Frank and I.

I completed this page as yet another Scrapbook Challenge, this time for a blog hop! The hop starts at Pamela's blog, and you can view the entire list of hoppers here. Here is the sketch I used for the challenge:

Most of the paper is by Cosmo Cricket- the scraps of solids... who knows! I cut the title using the "stilts" setting on the Jubilee cartridge (Cricut). Oh, and I totally made my poppy! I flipped the petals of a paper flower so they were concave (I used a stylus to help it 'stick'), tied some DMC floss around a brad, trimmed it, and flared it out.

20 comments:

  1. The fun you had on the visit shows in your pic and layout!

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  2. Such a nice layout! I like red flower on that background!

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  3. love the red flower and the stripy paper. Well done!

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  4. wow, what a neat story, love your layout too.

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  5. very nice!!! love your hand crafted flower!

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  6. Beautiful LO! Love that picture!

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  7. Love your layout!!! :) Thanks for playing with us this weekend.

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  8. Cute layout. I am visiting here from Scrapbook Challenges Hop!
    Have a great day!

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  9. Love the red and blue combo! You rocked the sketch!

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  10. love the LO for that great picture

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  11. Fun layout! Love the background paper.

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  12. Great picture! I love the distressed look of all your patterned papers.

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  13. hehehe Llama!! reminds me of the Kings New Groove - hehehe. Love the topic and love your layout :) xxx

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  14. Great Photo...love the colors and the flower you chose.

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  15. what a great page! love the colors and that sweet little flower. great job!

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