Tuesday, April 3, 2012

In My Neighborhood

Today I'm sharing another layout I used this month for my Simple Scrapper sketches.

This one came together fairly easily using strips of photos from a recent trip to Power's Salvage, a very large salvage shop located in downtown St. John's. Honestly, I had no idea it existed until we moved into the neighborhood.

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I used more of my Handmade kit-trying to use it all up. That grid paper is from Studio Calico and I love it. I stuck to neutral tones for the paper because I wanted my photos to really stand out against a plain background. The title letters are all from an older sticker sheet from Studio Calico as well- a summer travel theme from last year I believe. I didn't have enough 'o's so I used a few buttons instead. I also used my new Project Life stamps  to stamp 'real life' onto a SC arrow for the top. I drew lines and wrote my journaling across the page.


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In other news, this past week we painted, and painted and painted some more. You may remember that on Friday I posted a 'before' picture of our dining room that looked like this:

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The walls actually had a peach undertone to them-they were pretty nasty truth be told. But, after some hard labor on my part the room looks like this:

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If you are curious about the color it is Benjamin Moore Newburyport Blue. It's stunning in person. The dining room is not done by any means. I have plans for a silver mirror above the hutch at the back, a matching buffet lamp to the one on the right, a new rug and a lovely, locally made vase, along with a new chandelier. I'm going with a blue/magenta theme. I'll post pictures again when it's all finished!
 
xoxo
K

8 comments:

  1. Love the color! It makes the table pop.

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  2. WOW!!! What a difference the navy color makes! Everything pops more. LOVE how the floor now makes it's own statement! Beautiful classy page as well. Greta layout with the photos!

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  3. love your layout--- and I REALLY LOVE that color-- I am always so afraid to go dark on my walls so I LOVE to see other homes and how they've been painted-- I really really like that blue, it is beautiful! Cant wait to see more =)

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  4. Love that layout. the itty bitty photos are a really cute touch. That navy for the walls are beautiful too!

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  5. Great layout! Your colors choices were perfect for your photos!

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  6. I wish I had a salvage shop close by, they're awesome. I like the photo strips you used, they're perfect for that grid paper. Your dinning room looks beautiful, thats a great color. Are you going to paint the ceiling too?

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  7. That color looks great and so does the page!

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  8. I love the blue, it's gorgeous!

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