I created a total of 9 scrap book pages for SaturdayÂ’s (8/30/0 challenge, IC143, which was to use a room of the Hotel Fox in Copenhagen as the inspiration for a card. What an amazing hotel! The rooms are all unique and totally awesome.
I took my inspiration from the rooms designed by UK artists Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag (also known as Container) who designed four rooms based on the four suites of a deck of cards. They had additional pictures of the rooms on their own website which was helpful for me as I was able to get a better sense of color and style for my own creations.
Their rooms depict a fairytale wedding in an old fashioned secret garden. Since I am still in the midst of completing the challenge for Friday, August 29th), for which I made a mat book for some pictures I took of this wedding, the timing of this couldn’t have been more perfect. So thank you, Stef, for a truly inspired challenge – I was looking to breathe some new ideas into the pages of this album and you helped immensely!
Room 309 is Clubs, which is described as a “seductive and sophisticated room”, invoking the theme of a nightclub. The prominent color in the room is a deep red accented with black and gold. I thought this would be perfect for the pictures of the wedding toast.
I stamped the background in a fern pattern because it is “heavy” and I wanted a darker, more intense background. I assembled multi-layered flowers from shapes cut and punched from Bourdeaux Scroll (the red and gold patterned paper) and metallic gold. I originally tried matting the photographs in black but it was too dark. The red has a heavy gray note to it, so the gray mats worked better. I cut small pieces of scallop with my Cricut Expressions and pierced the individual scallops as well as the curved border.
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008 GMT Views: 483
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