Featured Member at Color Combos Galore: Challenge 210 and Me By Design Page

In an never ending quest to fill my ME album, I thought I'd take the opportunity when presented to make another page! Janet contacted me earlier this week and asked if I'd mind creating a page as a Featured Member! HAPPY DANCE!

The challenge is an interesting one to say the least. The colors are spectacular. What this challenge said to me was to talk about my family. I spent my childhood watching them roll out plans, discuss designs, and one room of our house contained a drafting table. Like I wrote in my journaling, I never learned how to write my name the appropriate way before Kindergarten. BUT, I could do it very nicely in block lettering!

Click on my photo to the left to read my journaling.

The beautiful tree in the middle of the page was rescued from a school project my Dad had done. The actual board it was pasted to was crumbly and nasty. But, he had sketched up this amazing tree on what he called "trash paper" which is really thin almost clear paper and then used adhesive to stick it on his project. It was so old, it easily peeled off so I could reuse it.

   I really love some of the elements I pulled outta my stash. I found these cute little folders that had originally came from Marilyn, a few Purple Pumpkin doilies and flower that were on a failed project (dyed one of them orange!), a little wood window I got on-line from ArtChix, a BoBunny ruler brad, and a fancy dancy paper clip from Helen's stash. Ribbon was passed along by Tink!

The letters used ARE actually brown. I am frustrated as they didn't photograph well. They actually started life various other colors and I used StaZon Brown to fix them. 

Google Images gave me a hand with this page as well. I had NOTHING to use as background paper that that would work. It was all fighting with my three main elements. Found this sketch on the web and used Picasa to turn it into sepia. Then printed it on my 12 by 12 printer. 
So, if you haven't  ever done a CCG Challenge, maybe give one a whirl this weekend. My materials list:homemade background paper brown  paper from Bo Bunny Back to BasicsPurple Pumpkin Doilies and FlowerWood grain envelope  from Little Yellow Bicycle (Album Kit)BoBunny Ruler Brad, Star & Cream & Brown Brad from Stampin' Up (inked up with StaZon)Letters:  Webster's Pages & Cosmo Cricket