To Immunity & Beyond: *THE* CROP thread (March 19-21)

Project love p. 11 (part 1):

 Linda "The new desk" You picked just the right colours to play off the dark, aging wood of the antique desk! The muted sky blue lifts the LO up while the brown grounds it. What a great idea you had to use the pattern paper with all those curvy elements (floral and flourishes) to emphasise the desk's curved drawers! Very classy and smart design work here. 👏

"Me & my best friend" First of all, I just want to let you know what a gorgeous name Midnight is! And clearly, what a good friend Midnight is by the looks of how Oreo treats him like his bed... 😄 I love the ballet pink & black combination you chose for this page. The black really brings the focus on the cats while the soft pink helps create a sense of softness, of cocooning associated with sleeping and resting (poor Midnight!). Your attention to the little touches such as the delicate tiny dots and the triple arrow pointing to the journaling elevates this LO to another level. 

scrappyrabbit "Pinnacles" This kind of beauty of a project makes me wish I'd bought more papers from 1Canoe2 while they were still around in the scrapbooking sphere... That marbly paper from Twilight is put to perfect use here: the colours complement the rocks and stormy blue skies while contrasting with all the greenery in your photos. The rainbows are such a great symbolic reminder of finding the good in the not-so-perfect looking moments such as hiking when the weather's not all sunshine and clear horizons. 😊 I absolutely love how you placed that marbled pattern paper at the bottom to anchor all these photos down but also give the impression of a path being walked through these mountains. And the bird embellishment by the title symbolises the feeling of freedom from being in nature. Well done! 👍

justjac "Floral cards" These bright cards bring a smile to my face! The balance between white space and colourful elements is just right... My eye travels across these without tiring or struggling to focus on the main component, perfect! I love how you've worked towards including a dynamic unit to all of these: the white leafy die-cuts versus the striped background, the stamped green leaves moving up versus the downward swashes of the hot pink 'friend' die-cut, the threaded bow on top of the stamped wreath. Great job on the framing too where you managed to show of three different ways of doing it (high contrast matting, colourful background on which you mounted the white panel, and partial cuts + high contrast shape). I love all three and would have a hard time picking just one out of the bunch... 😉

"Hummingbird cards" I actually had to go search up Alex Clare's Hummingbird song as soon as I saw these! Got it playing in my headphones right now as I comment on your gorgeous creations. I'm going to have a very hard time remaining unbiased here as you've reached for some of my very favourite colours for this batch, justjac... All three are dreamy in their own way: the ghost print effect (which I need to try now), the night scene, and the mini panel composition. 😍 I'm admirative of how you've played around with the same theme to evoke three very different impressions. These are stunning and the recipients will be oh-so lucky to discover what has arrived in the mail. 

angel97701 "Wrestling pages" Such energetic double-pagers! I love how many photos you've fit on these LOs without making it feel crowded or oversaturated. Having the title almost smack in the middle by the page hinge really helped to "disperse" the images and give a feeling of airiness in the first LO, very smart! The second LO's large white element at the bottom of right page gives extra breathing room, too. You did great with bringing in strips of black & white patterns to frame the projects and also symbolically represent the wrestling mats. Very powerful and impactful! Great job. 👍

"Go fly a kite" I'm partial to a good colour extraction and you did wonderfully here: the dark grey for the shadows and distant tree line + the blue for sky in the photos. It's such a visually simple but effective way to draw the attention right back to the pics so kudos from me. 🙌 I love all the geometric play you have happening on this double-pager: the journaling spots positioned at an angle versus the photos displayed straight, the curved nature of your main panels versus the lined paper. It all helps to underline the fun movements of the kite represented in the photos! 😉 This LO is a great ode to the fun memory you scrapbooked...