Emsige Biene: Don't Dream it . . . LIVE it : Case File 115 CSI Colorstories Inspiration

This week I really LOVED the colour palette for Case File 115 over at CSI Color Stories Inspiration :-)

The Case File:

THE SCHEME - USE ALL 5 COLORS

§ Brunette Locks - dark brown, taken from her hair - 92.71.70

§ Love Me - pale peach, taken from the background - 248.235.226

§ Just Peachy - somewhere between pink and peach, taken from the background - 27.179.167

§ Drift Away - pale gray, taken from the leaves in the background - 229.230.224

§ Warm heart - dark crimson, taken from her sash - 119.6.12

EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 CLUES

§ hearts

§ lace

§ grid

§ bird

§ leaves

§ boats

§ flowers

§ clouds

§ rub-ons/stamps

§ pen work

§ mixed media background

TESTIMONY - CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 CLUE

§ Freewrite. Here is some guidance for how to freewrite.

§ Format the journaling so that it winds and curls around like her hair.

§ Be inspired by Friday 5 (inspired by the 5 clouds).

§ Be inspired by The Happiness Project.

§ Inspiration Words: dream(y), float, imagine -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title.

I really enjoyed creating this LO :-)

. . . and here is how I solved the case!

The Scheme : I used all 5 Colours

The Evidence : Hearts – Dreamy Hearts – Chippie : EnmarcCrafts

Lace – Bottom section of the LO

Grid – Burlap behind photo cluster as well as grid on top of the Chicken Mesh Chippie : Enmarc Crafts

Bird – Birds on a Wire – Chippie : Enmarc Crafts

Leaves – Part of the floral cluster – Painted green paper leaves with grey and brown craft paint

Boats – Boat on the middle photo to the left

Flowers – Lots of them ;-)

Clouds – Part of the title – Chippie : Enmarc Crafts

Rub-on s/stamps – stamped background randomly with different stamps

Penwork – Shaded the hearts with a gel pen

Mixed Media Background – Tissue paper, Stencils, Modge Podge, Craft Paint, Stamps, Acrylic Primer, Texture Paste, Distress Inks Victorian Rose, Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose

Testimony: I chose Free write and inspiration word ‘Dream’. My journaling is on the tags behind the large photo. It is about all the years I’ve been dreaming to go back to the Chobe for a holiday and not just passing through en route to Victoria Falls. Well, I DID live my dream and went there during September 2013. There are thousands of elephant in the Chobe and one can get very close to them by doing a cruise on a river boat. Whilst we were there, there were lots of new born baby elephant and they were just adorable! The Chobe National Park hosts numerous assorted wild animals and birds and the park is a photographer’s paradise. Chobe is situated where Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia more or less meet. We camped in Kasane at the Chobe River Lodge (Botswana) along the Chobe River. We spent 4 nights there, did tiger fishing, boat cruises and also went to Zimbabwe to Victoria Falls. One afternoon when we got back at the camp, we caught the baboons in the act whilst rummaging through the grocery boxes, turned the rubbish’bin’ over and made such a mess!!! Like my mother used to say: "there's nothing soap and water cannot clean!" Just a bit of team effort and no evidence was left behind :-)