Go Big with Red

The weekly challenges are back on Shimelle's blog this week, with the latest being to go big with red on your scrapbook page. I do often scrapbook with red so, initially, this wasn't too daunting - and then I thought about the photos I currently have ready to print - lots of scope for blues, or greens, or yellows, pinks or oranges - not so much red, so I looked through them again, and discovered that these pictures from our trip to the south coast of Ireland in September had hints of red running through them - ideal!

In one of the examples on Shimelle's blog, Heather had used the 'Keller' hearts paper from the Shimelle collection by American Crafts and, knowing that I had this paper in the 12x12 paper pad, this seemed a good place to start, especially as this trip was to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. The red/pink/off-white diagonal stripe paper from the same collection also worked well as it gave the hearts a bit of breathing space against the blue cardstock I'd chosen for the background, and a strip of the ledger type paper made a good spot for my journaling.

The embellishments are a mix of die cuts from the same Shimelle collection, and Elle's Studio, and the white ink splatters are the Dylusions White Linen mist.