iluvcats and scraps: Echo Park

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Whatcha Readin' ?

My daughter sent me this photo of Marcy, my favorite Grand-kitty, on 4/7/17.

Marcy loves her MaMa more than anyone on Earth and sometimes she's just got to show up
in the wrong place at the wrong time for attention - LOL!

I usually scrap her in very vivid Fall colors, but not this time!

It's all girl!

I rummaged through my old stash, which I have a lot of, and found this wonderful
2011 Echo Park paper collection "Times & Seasons".

It has the perfect old newspaper print that I cut into a shape I liked;
then edge inked in jet black and adhered to the main page.

After positioning the photo, I used foam adhesive circles to mount The Dusty Attic chipboard Flourish Frame at an angle to make a diamond shape. It's heat embossed in Blue Fern Studios magnificent Imagine Ink color Celestial with its jet black base and tiny specks of red, green, blue & gold!

To help tone down the stark black, I added The Dusty Attic Swirly Vines #3 to two sides of the diamond shape. These are heat embossed in Stampendous! color Blushing Pink.

This is a very pretty baby pink but I felt it needed to be toned down as well.

So, I stamped it in jet black archival ink.

Since I off-centered the photo and large chipboard,

I decided to add a flower arrangement in the top left corner of the page.

Thanks to my daughter's MIL, Molly, who gave me these wonderful ivory/mint latex roses.

Since this page is about 'reading', I used the stick on letters from this paper collection to spell the word 'read' which I adhered to chipboard and cut out, inking the edges in jet black.