Friday, November 9, 2012

Embracing my Inner Purple People Eater

Warning: the photos in this post are very . . . . purple!
 
The obvious place to start with my Counterfeit Kit this month was always going to be with older photos from when I was first married. Not that I'm opposed to mixing older products with recent photos.  But I definitely think older photos go with older products, especially in large doses! The following things also apply to our early married life: anything DIY, anything cheap and cheerful, anything bright, even to the point of clash.
Oh, and definitely purple.  You know how you might wash a load of whites?  Between the clothes from those cheap hippy-style clothes shops and the tie-dyed pants,  I used to do a load of purples!

It wasn't hard to find candidates for the Purple People Eater treatment.  The first page of my photo album, in fact:


I never claimed to be a kit-only scrapper, did I?  As well as using my kit. I've added the mini DIY letter stickers, doilies, mist, and buttons - and I think this was the first kit I didn't put a sheet of ledger paper in.  Well, it's got one now! 


And the next candidate?  Well, the next photos in the album, as a matter of fact! When I realised they were going to face each other in the scrapbook, I thought I should use some of the same elements, although I did add a few extra papers as well.


From early '90s to early 00's, and I wanted to have a go at  the latest challenge at Let's Scrap, to incorporate polaroid-style frames.  I chose the LHS of this sketch here:

. . .and used a cut file from the Silhouette on-line store with polaroid frames and the words "today, here, now".  At first it felt a bit weird to use  that phrase on a photo that's 11 years old, but decided to run with it anyway.


Now that I'm looking at this page on the screen, I'm thinking I might move that photo down a bit.  Otherwise, I've got to say I've had a lot of fun releasing my Inner Purple People Eater.! Thanks so much for dropping by.

7 comments:

  1. Loooove the couch photo on the first layout! I don't scrap much with purple but have some in my kit this month, too! I really like the pop of orange you used with yours!

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  2. The colours are just so cool! Love the doily/button cluster!
    I do that too... how different it looks once its on the screen and then decide to move things LOL...
    What a great multi photo sketch too!

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  3. Lovin' the purple, it's one of my fave colours even though I hardly use it on cards (I think it may be because it's difficult to match the thousands of shades that are purple). Super fab embellies, especially love the DP flower!

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  4. Add me to the quickly growing list of purple lovers - great pages here. And I'm all about adding in whatever it takes to use up what is in your kit. You are on a roll - go purple!

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  5. I used to love the Purple People Eater song. I now love what you've done with all that purple - the touches of yellow really lift it. Great pages.

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  6. Great job. I really like that last layout.

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