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 208 Diamonds features “bling” and heirlooms, and from what I can see in the pictures on both Container’s and the hotel’s web sites, the room itself is done in mostly gold, white and crystal. I used this theme for a set of two pages of pictures taken during the wedding ceremony.
After stamping the background with gold leaves, the photographs (matted in gold) were laid out over strips of ribbon. (The look uneven in the photograph, but they really are straight. I had a difficult time photographing these pages because of the white and gold and had to shoot at a very slight angle.)
I coiled some of the ribbon and fixed it in place with brads and then embellished with a flower on the left page and a bow on the right.
The flower is made from multiple increasing sizes of a flower cut with the Cricut (Plaintin Schoolbook). I laid each flower and leaf piece out in a block and stamped and embossed them with seafoam white to get the flocking effect. The charms are actually sewn on by hand.
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008 GMT Views: 639
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