Club Scrap Bookshelves Blog Hop

I was invited by Karen to join the Club Scrap Bookshelves Blog Hop. Thank you for joining me from ShonaScraps. For this hop, we all created projects using components from the March kit from Club Scrap called Bookshelves. I am primarily a scrapper, so I chose to do a layout. As I only have the digi version of this kit, I was forced to improvise. I used digital images from the Bookshelves kit printed on cardstock from the Connections Retreat kit from 2010 along with a bit of ribbon embellishment from that same Connections kit.

I printed the globe and row of books twice onto Bristol Smooth paper using my inkjet printer. I allowed it to "cure" for a day or two so there would be no smearing when I used my water based media on it. The books colored with Derwent Inktense pencils. I cut out a few of each set of books, mounted them on dimensional squares and then coated them with Glossy Accents. For the globe, I used a stencil which was part of the Bookshelves kit and colored with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Salty Ocean (how original) and Shabby Shutters.

This layout has special meaning to me as this is a song my hubby often sings to me in his silly fashion. We decided it would be perfect to use for photos of our long-ago trip Down Under for all of the strange sounding names we heard and saw. Featured here are Timaru, Kawakawa, Ohaeawai, Katikati, Kowhai and Taroom. Such great memories.

Thanks again for joining me. Now you can hop on back to the start of this fun at Club Scrap Creates in case you've missed any hoppers along the way.