Scrap Friends - August sketch

Hi there scrappers...thanks so much for visiting my blog today.
I am back to share another challenge layout...for Scrap Friends August sketch #16 that I completed on Sunday.

Before I get started though, I'll fill you in on how my background chevrons came about.
Originally I had wanted to do them as in the sketch (like 2 halves of different papers to form the one chevron...and then some of them just left as halves)....well, OMG....I sat attempting it for I don't know how long, but it was totally doing my head in!!! LOL  I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't get the angles and the pieces to work...plus they all kept moving on me! grrrr 
So I gave up & went with this style of chevron.....solution solved & it was much quicker! Plus my head was very thankful! LOL

so anyways...here is my layout....

Using some fairly old (a few years) Echo Park papers - Victoria Gardens

Because the photo is a fairly colourless & dull looking pic, I felt the page needed brightening up with some colours, so that's why I went with these papers :)

Pic is a selfie of DS & I....all rugged up on a bitterly cold day.

Here is the fabo sketch, which I have turned on its side

I've layered papers, tickets, paper doily, journal cards & spots as well as a 2crafty chipboard circle around & under my photo.  I also used a few stamped images - my trusty typo camera stamp (this is starting to become something I put on just about every layout....great value for a $2 stamp!!!) as well as a few Technique Tuesday "with flair" stamps (the round ones you can see in a few different places around the page)

I also put trimmed down strips of washi tape along my rows of chevrons

Here you can see one of the Technique Tuesday stamps....the OMG (for the bitterly cold day that it was! LOL) and a really old My Minds Eye ticket poking out from under the doily) with a few glimmermist drips & splatters

Here you can see an overall view of the chevrons...which I have distressed & inked the edges to give them a bit more POP off the page


I really do love to journal on my layouts, but usually find I have to condense it so much to fit on the layout. I think I will continue to do this, but, I've been inspired lately by a lovely online friend, Val Thorpe, who adds a whole heap of journaling to the back of her layouts....so I've decided I need to do this too!!!  The story really does need to be told, in my opinion....not just photos & pretties on the page.  After all....isn't that what scrapbooking is all about?!?  So, as I said, I will probably still do a bit of condensed journaling on the front of the layout (because I do love the look of this) but also tell the story in a lot more detail on the back of the layout...although I may not always share it here on my blog, depending what the journaling is about :)

so, this is the journaling that I've added to the back of this layout....


4.8.2013

It has been quite a while since I last came to a track day with you for motocross, and oh boy, did I pick the perfect day for it! {said with jovial sarcasm}.  It was a bleak ol' wintery day...the wind was howling at about 30kmph...straight up the gully to the top of the hill where the spectator area & pits are.  It was a "keep your woollies on all day" kind of day.  The temperature reached a maximum of about 9 degrees.  The sun poked out here and there for a few minutes at a time, and wow, you could really feel the warmth from it when it did.  But as the day went on, it seemed to get colder and colder....and yep, I kept those winter woollies on all day!  We did get a little bit of relief for an hour or so when it was our turn to flag down on the track.  Being down in the gully, it seemed to be sheltered from the wind...especially compared to the top of the hill where we had been sitting all day. By the end of the day I felt so wind battered...and once we got in the car to come home, my face was then burning from wind burn, but oh how good it felt to be so nice & warm in the car and out of that dreadful wind :)

But on to other things besides the weather....it was a really great day, and I really did enjoy it despite the bitter cold.  You rode fantastically without any incidents - which is always a bonus!  This was only the 2nd or 3rd time that you have ridden the Bathurst track, but you seemed to know it like the back of your hand.  Of course, I took about 100+ photos of you at various positions throughout the day (something to help take my mind off the cold!), which will no doubt end up on scrapbook pages at some point in the future.  All in all, we both had a great, fun day and I'm so glad that I didn't let the forecasted cold weather stop me from coming & spending the day with you <3


Okie doke peeps, until next time....take care!  xx