I was lucky enough to attend the brilliant Scrapbooking with the Stars Scrapbooking Retreat at Phillip Island in mid November! The gorgeous Karen Shady and Stacey Apps did an amazing job organizing such a wonderful event and I already have my name down for next years retreat!
At this retreat I was hoping to get some of my mojo back. I wasn't putting too much pressure on myself though. I ended up scrapping 4 layouts so I was pretty happy with that. My first and my favourite layout of the weekend was one featuring my now heavens angel Missy Precious. She was a gold Labrador so I wanted to use yellow and gold all over the page. I still had heaps of old My Mind's Eye Lost and Found papers I had been saving for a special occasion so that help.
I used Matte Medium to adhere some Prima Art Ingredients - Glass Beads in Butter and Mica Flakes in Gold around the edges of some gorgeous Prima flowers and accessories. I also added some gold sequins. BTW I think I have a sequin addiction??
Anyway one of Missy Preicous' many nicknames was 'Old Yella'. And because this was a gold/yellow page I thought to myself well I can't finish the page until I find someone who has a chipboard cutting machine to do me a custom Old Yella title. In comes Miss Karen Shady to save the day! She introduces me to Dusty Attic owner Jenn who is at the retreat and the gorgeous Jenn is kind enough to spend time with me choosing a font and size and positioning of a custom chipboard title for my page!
I was so gobsmacked I nearly cried! This was a major major highlight of my weekend and I still sincerely thank Jenn from Dusty Attic for taking the time to do this for me. When they arrived in the mail I was thrilled. So the other day I sat down and inked the title in Walnut Stain and then added Dimensional Magic and I thought, I'll just add a sprinkling of gold glass glitter. Well, um hmmm I think I got a bit carried away and added too much glitter but what the heck!
I absolutely love it!
This page was a very emotional for me. It took me a long time to finally get it started but once I was started I didn't want the layout to be finished.
I couldn't miss my Old Yella more, but I tell you looking at this everyday sure does help.
Once more THANK YOU to Karen Shady and Jenn from Dusty Attic, your generosity was much appreciated :)
