SHCG: Okay, this is pretty cool. How fun! Only thing I might've done is make the journaling spots into circles to keep with the bubbles, but I like this a lot the way it is.
SCHG: Lots of good ideas here. I love the way you shaped the photos and the title to suit your theme. I never would've thought to use those stamps to create your own seaweed. Cool creative twist to mold the mesh into a banner. Teeny suggestion--I'd like to see the pp circle below left of the sea turtle photo swapped out for a solid blue one, just because I feel the left side is a tad bit pp circle heavy. Way to respond to two BWCs at once, yet again!
shcg: how cute love the bubbles!love the fish! the only thing this needs is some doodled seawead in the background to pull it all together. everything elce is fun and wonderful.
SHCG: This is totally cool Sharon, Love your fish shape, all the effort you put into it was worth it :) Love the circle and wavy shaped pics also and the glitter and mesh is such a great addition :)
SHCG: please don't take this next comment the wrong way...I just LOVE this corney, old school two page scrap page. This type of layout is not everyone's cup of tea but I think they are GREAT. I just LOVE the giant fish, the floating bubbles, the seaweed. I feel like I am in the fish tank looking at people looking in. I know the view out would never be through the shape of a fish but I don't care cause it's COOL! Great collage!
shcg: This is exactly what I was looking for! Totally cool the use of the pictures for bubbles. I agree with perhaps adding some dimensional bubbles. AWESOME job! And I love that you did still include your own hidden journaling.
SHCG: Great concept - you've also given me an idea for the zoo aquarium pics I hope to get today! I love the fish-shaped photo :). I do like Janet's suggestion of adding some bubbles with dimension.
SHCG: So neat how you did the fish design! I would consider adding some more "bubbles," perhaps something three dimensional like page pebbles or raindots just for the fun of it.
This is my response to CMLeach/Chris' challenge for Scrap Happenzz Critique Group to make a photo into something that's the centerpiece of your LO & to also use journaling not written by you. I made a fish out of several photos & the journaling is text from the Underwater Adventures Mall of America Aquarium website. Note: the date doesn't appear here because it's on the LO that appears in my book before this, which talks about how my family went to the Mall of America on Black Friday during our 2006 holiday reunion in Minneapolis.
PLEASE pardon the imperfect scans/stitching, it flows together better IRL! Those fish in the middle are NOT torn apart unevenly like that but I just couldn't get the left/rights side scans to match up, nor get the top/bottom scan seams to vanish... oh well... Also the right edge (including "bubble" me & the fish photo "seaweed") was chopped off, there's more of a margin there.
I handcut a fish base from cardstock & then collaged the pics on, overlapping certain parts where I though necessary (you digi scrappers probably could've done this in a fraction of time it took me LOL). I inked the back in green & blue, stamped some (hard to see online) swirly "seaweed" at the bottom, & made photo seaweed too. Made "bubbles" from photos, cs & pp...
A couple things happened along the way... I folded the mesh into that "banner" style because I ran out of it & that seemed to be the only way to make that work! And I accidentally almost threw out part of the title (& it was too late at night for me to wanna re-print) so I just crumpled the other side of the title for a wavy watery look. Title was created in WordArt.
AND since those that know me know I love to keep travel journals, I put a paragraph of my own journaling on the back... just had to preserve my own account, LOL.
This is also my 1st use of Stickles, which I put around the journaling, title & pics... OMG now I see what all the fuss is about, I LUV them! Those were an '09 bday giftie from Jesse. Swirly stamps for seawood were from Bren. Thanks Jesse & Bren! And THANK YOU, Chris, for the groovy challenge!
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