Chris on Carole:
Scrapping Carole's style is deceivingly difficult! The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Carole's style is her 3D flowers, so I immediately wanted to create some of those for this layout. Carole has the 3Ding down to a fine art and my flowers don't really compare to her magnificent creations, but they are my best 'carole' flowers! I chose to use the Heidi Swapp glitter flowers and Hero Arts jewels as I know Carole likes to add a bit of sparkle to her pages. Even the Little Yellow Bicycle letters have some glitter on them.
Carole also loves decorative edges, which led me to use this gorgeous Little Yellow Bicycle decorative edge cardstock. What a buzz it is to try out Carole's style and to scrap her beautiful boy Chaise.
Suz on Carole:
Chris is right - Carole's style IS difficult! I've been a long-time fan of her wonderful 3-d effects, and knew that her style must be time consuming - cutting out all those patterns and layers does take time. What I didn't necessarily acknowledge is the great skill it requires to combine all that layering and create a layout that balances perfectly and still maintains the photo as the focal point.
I opted for Crate Paper's Blue Hills range and cut out and layers the flourishes to 'frame' the photo. Carole loves her dimensional magic so i used that to highlight the peacocks tails and the edges of the swirls. She generally handwrites a little note on her pages and doesn't necessarily have a big title, often preferring an embellishment or rub-on phrase to do the talking for her. Overall it was trickier than I thought it would be but great fun to scrap little Chaise. Made me all clucky!!
Carole on Carole:
This layout is of my little son Chaise, we were on holidays at the time, and he was simply exhausted after all his activities.
For me creating a layout is about relaxing and enjoying the process. I would say I am more of a designer with my layouts - it's more about the creative side. Though I love the memory side of keeping my albums and photos of what we have done as a family, I do love to take my time, and just have fun with each project I do, so there is no time limit for me.
I love patterned papers, I generally make my own embellishments with paper or use stickers, rubons, anything that I feel fits, and I can generally use any type of patterned paper, I will always come up with something. I found these Jenni Bowlin papers gorgeous to work with, and because of the colour scheme I could get away with using butterflies and flowers on my son. I cut out the flowers and layered them slightly, created most of my layering in the buds at the end of the flowers for this layout.
I cut out the butterflies bent their wing and layered them over another butterfly, I also layered a larger butterfly over a butterfly diecut. I love to 3D - everything I create has some type of layering on it, stickers, patterned papers, flower etc! I also added some extra bling, and I used the new Heidi Swapp Glitter Florals, which I love, as well as the Heidi Swapp Gems.
If I journal I always use a journaling block or tag, I don't like to journal straight onto the layout.
Carole on Chris and Suz:
I absolutely love what Chris and Suz created, there layouts are awesome, and I think they captured my style really well, Suz really got the layering with patterned papers down and Chris with the flowers and the scalloped edge, which I love. Thank you so much for your layout they are gorgeous, love them.
