Inspired by Amy Tan

So last week you'll remember I was super excited (clapping hands together with glee!) to get to meet Amy Tan, the awesome chick behind  "Amy Tangerine". Well, I've been inspired by her style for ages, and I finally used that inspiration on some pages of my own {high five!}

For this first page, I was inspired by this page of Amy's that I pinned on Pinterest. Me likey very much! I've had this Lime slice paper for 8 years. Yep, I remember I bought it on my first trip to the USA in 2004, so {chest bump} for FINALLY using it! Hooray!!
I paired it with some cool chevron paper, so it looks a bit more "up to the minute". Fun stuff on this page: the speech bubble post it note and the tiny slice of woodgrain sticky tape- both from Paper Source in Washington DC, Washi tape (LOVE!), and I love the sweet little "peanut" sticker up the top. The little birds printed on the chipboard shape remind me of a string of stuffed fabric birds Mum made once. You know the ones Mum?
So for this second page I  was still inspired to hand sew around the photo, which I think is very Amy Tangerine style. I even went to spotty and bought some bright coloured DMC threads particularly for scrapping with! Usually I just use what's in my floss box, but it was time the box got a little facelift with some bright new colours! I love this orange :) It goes so nicely with the hand dyed yellow doily I got from Yvette ages ago! {hugs!}
Fun stuff: I used a page from a big English language dictionary I got at an Op Shop, where it has translations in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Yiddish. What?! Yep, Yiddish! I was flicking through the dictionary looking for a page to use, and I found this page with "Liebe" at the top, which is German for "Love", so I knew this was the page I had to use! Then I found a little frame that would go nicely over Liebe and I was set! I love the little Owl sticker, he's so cute! And of course the "All you need is Love" banner sticker is from Amy Tangerine's line at Spotlight. {heart} it! And I've had that background paper for like, easy 10 years. I'm starting to show my age by saying that, cos I haven't had them since I was 13 {giggles!}
And then lastly, this one was inspired by Amy cos a lot of her line and her layouts include doodling. Maybe not to this extent, but her elements are usually hand drawn and I think it looks really cool! I decided I should step out of the box and try somethign new, so I found a rather bland piece of paper, painted on it a little, stamped here and there, then filled in the rest with doodling while I watched a documentary on TV one night (a WWII doco too, I'm so boring! LOL!) It was fun to step out of my usual scrapping box and into some freehand! I used to draw in my books at High School all the time, so this was a little like getting back to my roots {smiles}. And I love this pic of Will from our trip to NZ! He's so serious!
I hope you've had a chance to scrap lately!
:) C