Evenings..Twenty years back...

Hello friends!

 

I am here again today to show you a project I just completed. This is a layout I made considering a few challenges. Some of my very favourite ones!

 

  The gorgeous paper is from Blue fern studio- Ombre dreams Papers. You will fall in love with this collection the moment you see it. I wish I could mimic the look on my walls!

 

  some close ups:

 

All the gorgeous misting you see is the magic created by Lindy's sprays. Just love these little bottles!

I used these:

Cape cod coral

Kissin' Kenickie coral

 Shabby turbine teal,

Mad hatter mint

 Sea Mint Green

Blue Hawaiian Blue

How to:

This fence you see here has been handmade by me. I first printed a pic of fence on a white cardstock. cut it with my Fiskars knife. Then I applied some Versamark ink straight from the refill. I applied the heat embossing powder in cream and heat embossed . I repeated the embossing again and again till I was satisfied. This process gave it a lot of thickness exactly what I wanted. Once cooled, I applied some alcohol ink on it in ginger and latter colour and finally layers of gesso on top. this process was really tiresome but it comes in handy if you don't have what you need right at the moment. it did cause a little warping in my cut out so I adhered the fence with some cardboard on the back. since it did not show it wasn't important to be precise with the cutting ;)

 

Something about how and why this theme came to my mind..

When I sit back today and remember how life was twenty years back it makes me smile and feel a little sad at some times too. I don't know how many of you associate with me but I am sure some of you will. When I was a kid ..7 years old.. life was really different. We used to visit our grandparents in the country side. I used to be so excited then. I have always lived in the city but have been a country girl from heart ever since I remember. I am 27 today and not long back, the place where I live today wasn't so busy!

There was a sense of calm and peace all around. I used to ride my bicycle back home from school. That was real fun. life was so carefree!

My evenings were spent my balcony. The sight from there was a bliss. All I could see were trees.. greenery and so many birds returning back home !So many it was impossible to count and their chirps that were deafening! Sometimes I felt like throwing a stone to make a few fly away to lessen the noise, but never attempt that. I sat there with my milk chocolate in my hand and saw them till it was late in the evening and mom would call me back inside to study.

Today 20 years back when I sit back in the evenings in the same balcony I see a sad scene. The trees are the same. But no more the chitter chatter. no more the chirps.. There are a few birds I see but they cut a sorry face. I sit there for some time and come back in.

In the name of urbanisation man forgot that he did not start alone. I am not against this thing but we should be a little considerate of all who  possess this earth just as much as we do. To all of those creatures this is their home as its ours.

Every day the environment around us is changing. You must have come across
 Rachel Carson's -Silent Spring. The book tells about the changing earth and the gradual disappearance of sparrows. and how they are related. From the polar easterlies to the dry Sahara expanding each year...The earth is changing ..and very fast. Its high time we respect nature and guard it. Only then can we protect the generations to come.
I only hope that humans do not share the same fate as them.

 

 

I would like to submit this to the following challenges:

 

Scrap Around The World

I was inspired by the mood of the mood board by Di Garling. This mood board took me years back with all the greenery an flowers! I also took the inspiration from the flowers hanging from the fence.

 

 

 

Once Upon a Sketch

Followed the sketch and the journaling theme.. the best things in life aren't things. Hope you will associate. For me the best moments , the most treasures ones are the best things in my life :)

 

 

 

Lessology - Animals Kingdom - I used the pic of birds. I up-cycled the dry twig on the fence which is a real one. The chain on the fence and as the butterfly trail is from and old ladies wallet



 

7 dots studio- June challenge- Stamps

Inspired by natural beauty. I used Illumination collection stickers in the layout.

 

 

 

Lindys Stamp Gang- 

 I played along with the colour challenge and used these sprays

Cape cod coral

Kissin' Kenickie coral

 Shabby turbine teal,

Mad hatter mint

 Sea Mint Green

Blue Hawaiian Blue

 

 

 

Hope you will like it. let me know through your comments

Take care!