Tea Break Layout

Taking inspiration from The Scrappiest Sketch 109 but changing the theme from 'Valentine's Day' I've made a layout this afternoon featuring a very old photograph of me working, or rather, taking a tea break at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. 

It was my first job after qualifying as a Radiographer in 1980 and this photo was taken about a year later.

The shot was taken by a colleague who was a keen photographer and he developed his own photographs in the x-ray darkroom after hours. If you look very carefully you will see my wedding ring on my right hand. He obviously reversed the photo by mistake before developing it.

I've included a tag, attached to the clock face cut-out, which can be pulled upwards to reveal the hidden journaling, highlighting his error.

For the layout I used K&Co and Tim Holtz papers and stamped clock face images over the background. 

As I am determined not to increase my scrap-booking stash this year, I delved through my many boxes and found some items I had forgotten about. My collection of punches hasn't seen the light of day for ages so it was past time that I used them again on a page. 

Can you spot the three I've used from Martha Stewart?

I think it's as much fun rediscovering old techniques as it is in using new things - or am I just trying to convince myself?! 

Scrap Weekly in 2010: Week 4

This week's challenge from Ruth at Scrap Weekly in 2010 is to use tags on a layout, preferably in a different way to normal. I've thought about the 'different' part all week and only came up with one idea which was to turn 6 or 8 tags into a flower. However, I tried that today and didn't like how it turned out, so I admitted defeat and made a standard two-page layout - with vellum tags a part thereof.
I so liked my photos of a walk around The Lanes this week, especially the one with old sewing machines, that I wanted to make a layout featuring them. I changed the photos to black and white and knew I needed a two-page layout to include as many as possible. But I changed my mind - again - and printed the ones of choccywoccydoodah in colour, creating a layout in two halves: one black and white and plain, one red and white and bling!

The Lanes, Brighton

There is journaling on a tag under one of the photos which reads:

'Amongst the deserted cafes and months-long Sales of the deepest Recession since the 1930's, can be found a quirky, colourful, extravagant shop with stunning chocolate sculptures; Choccywoccydoodah.'

It took me a very long time to put this layout together today as I haven't done a two-page layout in ages and found it challenging. But enjoyable just the same!