Feb 15, 2012

The Paper Variety Photo Inspiration Challenge

2012 is a leap year! So, our end of February challenge is a photo inspiration challenge based on this poster from the movie Leap Year.

Some ideas

  • green/grey/white color palette
  • engagement theme (she’s holding a ring)
  • project featuring a couple
  • include a froggy (“leap”)
  • use a popular movie title

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I decided to use the colours in the poster for my layout. I used papers from Echo Park’s For The Record line and Crate Paper’s Portrait collection, along with embellishments from My Mind’s Eye and Crate. The alphabet stickers are from Sassafras and I used a stamp by Jenny Bowlin underneath the Go Train logo. The tags are by Basic Grey and the train die cuts are from Silhouette America.

My son is a real train fanatic so I have done several train layouts of him. The Go Train (Toronto, Canada’s commuter train system) has extra significance to us because my Dad was Senior Vice President of The Canadian Car Division of Hawker Siddeley when they built the trains from the late 1960′s to the mid 1970′s. When my Dad was in charge of the division, they built the Go Transit commuter trains that you see all around the Toronto area, the TTC street cars and subway cars and a few more well-known trains, including some in some major cities in the U.S.  My son calls the Go Train, “Grandpa’s Train”.

Grandpa's Go Train

Thanks for looking! I can’t wait to see what you come up with for this challenge!

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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