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Thursday 25 April 2013

Seize the Moment! - Challenges at Bird is the Word, Zeus and Zoe and Scrap our Stash!

There's a new word at Bird is the Word - you have to use Moment somewhere on your page.  There's also a challenge at Zeus and Zoe looking at life as it is now for you. Scrap our Stash want spots and stripes plus birds, butterfly and for extra challenge, buttons! I interpreted these to make a page about my life now, about seizing the moment, which heads the top of my agenda.
For the background I used a TH paper which I painted with cream paint to soften the swirls then overlaid some 8x8 paper from a book I bought ages ago which has a very "in the moment" sentence on it which goes - she knew it was time to use her wings, so she did! The little bird is flying from it's cage so  I cut the birdcage and the bird from the back ground which I whole punched and tilted onto the backing paper.  I put the little cameo photo frame, a present from Val at Bastelmania,  next to the bird to represent myself flying..I used cream paint to unify the scroll at the top, the title letters and the butterfly then stamped onto them.   The owl is to show the wisdom I've learned which has brought me to this moment in my life and the clock face to show how fast my life has flown.

 I also used the very last of my flowers from Mitra, love them so much, which I put somewhere safe a few months ago and  just found them again!!  It's the big pink one with that lovely sewn button on it.  I was also inspired to use lots of different buttons on my page by another challenge while I was blog hopping  but I've lost the link. The button flower and the cameo are from two very kind bloggers who have helped me with their words of comfort, and are part of my here and now.
 As you can see I've used my own hand made flowers with button centres, plus my own handmade buttons, including the large pink and green ones by Mitra's flower. My journalling, on the back of my hearts  reads -  I have to seize the moment and live for each day doing as much as I can, in the here and now!

Really wish I could remember the buttons challenge so I can give them a link too. I've just updated to show the link to Scrap our Stash)
As always thank you everyone for all your kind words,
 I love reading them and hope you enjoy Seizing Your Moments too!

19 comments:

  1. Beautiful LO, very harmonious. Great work! I'm off to bed so I'll wish you goodnight! Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Ohhh so pretty, love your layout and the title... all the gorgeous embellishments. Thanks for joining in the Zeus and Zoe challenge with us this month....

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  3. So pretty and love the sentiment! Beautiful details...thanks so much for playing along with us at Zeus and Zoe! ;-)

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  4. Hi, love it, beautiful work,thanks for joining in at BITW

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  5. Great idea for the Bird is the Word challenge, I really am enjoying all the symbolism on this piece. I haven't seen a button challenge...not that I can recall...However ScrapforHelp has a challenge using book pages...yours actually ties in with your project even...unlike mine that just looks pretty! ;-)

    http://scrapforhelp.blogspot.com/

    Hope you win, it would be a nice bright spot for you!

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  6. HI..Thanks so much for joining in at BITW this month.. I really like all the thought you have put into this layout, everything has meaning and looks so special!!

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  7. it's lovely jean, so much work and detail has gone into it, hugs

    maria xx

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  8. Great job! Beautifully done layers! Thanks for playing along over at Scrap Our Stash!
    Michelle

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  9. Carpe dime indeed! Thanks for joining us @SOS!

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  10. This is crazy fun! It would work as a 4''x4'' up to a 12"x12"! Love that center title!

    xoxo
    Lindsey @ sos

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  11. I just love all the elements! !! Just gorgeous!!!!

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  12. Gorgeous page! Thanks for joining the Zeus and Zoe April Challenge!

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  13. Really gorgeous! Love all the patterns and textures! Thank you for joing us at Zeus and Zoe!

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  14. Wow, you managed to combine lots of challenges! I love the bold title on this page.

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  15. Such a happy layout! Love the eclectic mix of elements and bold colours!

    Thanks for joining us at Zeus and Zoe!

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  16. Fabulous layout!! love all the work put into it!!
    Thanks so much for playing along with us at BIrd Is THe Word!
    hugz
    irini

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  17. Very creative and very thoughtfully done. Love your title taking such centre stage, a great reminder for us all to do just that.

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  18. Great job! I like it!
    tks for playing with us at Bird is the Word
    xx
    Leila

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  19. i like the large letters and very creative...thanks for playing along at BITW

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