Elmer's Birthday 2012 : Me?

I think I am favored by the heavens despite being bed bound recently! I got to hop blog of Fall in to Fall by Lets Get Sketchy, and for the week's challenge - I prepared this layout based on their sketch. I used a black and red plaid ribbon that qualified me to enter it at Kaboodle Doodles Challenge!

Thus, being of a less healthy mind, I could not think much of which papers to combines, lacking imagination, I just followed the sketch... hehehehe. But to add spice to the red and black scheme of the sketch, I used a wooden stamp with writings - and for it to show, I used gesso on the rubber stamp, smearing it with my fingers for the black paper. Then the conventional black ink on red.

Filstar All About Scrapbooking has no black paper - so I used one of the pages from their black kraft album.  The stars, ribbon, and that laser cut are from All About Scrapbooking.

The layout is entered on the challenges of :

1. Lets Get Sketchy for 2012 November week 2
2. Kaboodle Doodle Challenge number 145

LGS 2012 Nov wk 1 : Elmer

I made the layout based on Lets Get Sketchy 2012 November week 1 challenge, surprisingly... I qualifies also for the Kaboodles Doodles Challenge Blog! 

The layout is special and extra easy with - WASHI TAPES! I got to buy 3 rolls of it from Lasting Impression earlier together with stamps, so I used it for the border and the horizontal lines.  The papers and the ribbons - were sourced from All About Scrapbooking of Filstar.

LGS 2012 October 2nd week - Nico's Birthday

I love scraps - making use of those that would had been thrown away. The blue bar is actually the negative of birds on a wire chipboard by Dusty Attic - already used the lower half and stamped it red. The upper portion I stamped blue - and just right for the challenge.

Nico is a friend I met on the internet and his birthday was 10 October - but he did not mind celebrating it with me two days earlier. We had a buffer dinner at Saisaki restaurant - an opportunity for the Japanese Geisha stamp I got from Ria.

I did this early morning so I just chose two ribbons for the upper left hand corner.

All materials are from Filstar 's All About Scrapbooking except for the stamped blue negative.