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Monday 24 October 2011

Can She Do It?....

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.......Yes, she can! Well, the first two parts anyway! Prompt 3 found Shimelle challenging us to put a 'pretty paper kit' together....'What's so difficult about that?' I hear you say.....


Well for me, the  difficulty was that we had to do that and then go on to put some pages together, using said kit......WITHOUT knowing what pictures were going to be used! I have NEVER attempted this before -I always start with the picture(s) and pull my colour scheme from there.


After having seen what some of my classmates said about having the same problem, and what they  then went on to produce, I knew it was time to bite the bullet!


Here are the papers I chose:



Tonight I've gone a stage further and cut up the papers and put the pages together..... and I actually quite enjoyed the process! I'll know if I'll repeat it once  I see  if the photographs I'm about to print off actually work with the pages!! 

Thanks for dropping by!
take care of you
Alison xx

16 comments:

  1. Good for you! Looking forward to seeing your pages :)

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  2. woohoo! Go you! can't wait to see the finished pages. I like your choice of papers, quite neutral so they should go with lots of photos.

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  3. Oooh, well done! I'm going to attempt it this weekend so I shall watch yours with great interest!

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  4. Well done,Alison....you've done better then me....I couldn't actually bring myself to cut them up first!!!!
    Baby steps!!!!

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  5. Well done - the hardest bit is over now:)

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  6. Well I love what you ave chosen to work together - it all looks really well co-ordinated. I always used to match my photos to my papers but now not so much and yes it still works somehow!

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  7. Love the color scheme! Yay to you for cutting the papers, I bet you find some wonderful photos to go with them!

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  8. I see some purple in the mix!! Love your collection Alison, and BTW your new photo looks Fantastic!!

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  9. Great papers Alison! Way to go with the challenge. I couldn't bring myself to put the pages together without the photos. Now that my kits together, I'm pulling photos & putting pages together - 3 layouts so far.

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  10. Lovely selection of papers Alison. I admire all you ladies who have managed to cut them up, I know I couldn't do it!

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  11. looking forward to seeing more and being able to do more of this class myself!

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  12. Neat idea. Great pp selection! Can't wait to see the finished LO's! ~ Blessings

    http://gracescraps.blogspot.com/

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  13. What a nice assortment! I'm sure you'll do great.
    Rinda

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  14. Lovely papers, can't wait to see what you come up with xx

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  15. I've been making kits for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog all year and don't find this a problem as long as I have a variety of photos to scrap - it helps that I have years of unscrapped photos to choose from!
    What does flummox me is Shimelle's starting point challenge where you seem to make most of the page and then add the photos!

    Good luck with your creating!

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  16. Looking great! I adore your papers! I shall be checking out what you create for sure! Enjoy the party xxx

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