Friday 20 January 2012

Pass The Page Blog Hop - Bonkers For Conkers

Hello & Welcome! If you've just arrived by way of From High In The Sky and have never visited before, you won't be aware that it's been well over three months since I last posted. (If you used to be a regular visitor, don't let these new folks in on my shameful secret! It was never my intention to take such an extended break and I have the lovely Julie to thank for bringing me back to the 'world of the blogging.')

If you're not familiar with the concept of Pass The Page, you might want to start the blog hop 'officially' at Letting The Days Roll By where all will be explained. And, as an added bonus there's a few prizes to be had for commenting along the way.

My part in the blog hop was to adapt Sian's rather beautiful layout (which always meant that mine would look rather dull by comparison.) Initially, I was inspired by Sian's use of layering, as well as the overall balance of her page. I liked the large rectangle created by the papers in the bottom half of the page and the embellishment cluster. However, the thing that I always love the most about Sian's pages is her emphasis on storytelling.


There were many twists and turns in the completion of my layout, so it's totally different to how I imagined it! But, I got the story down on paper - so that's good enough for me!

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***Although no cameras were hurt during the photographing of this project, I had just damaged my camera lens. I still haven't replaced and this is the only photograph I have of this layout. Forgive me the bad lighting and the lack of detail shots?***

Now, I don't know about you, but I am dying to find out how the story ends. Your first step on the way to finding out should be Craft Imperfect where Helen has taken inspiration from my layout to make her very own. But, before you go, remember to leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning...

...You never know there may be a sneaky, surprise type of prize too :)

26 comments:

  1. Aww... lens still not fixed, what a pity Clair.

    Love the page - I don't remember seeing it while we were away, so maybe you were good at hiding it.

    The choice of background paper is great - it really shows off the photo with the shiny conkers. And a great little story to go with it! (the story about the page's creation is quite interesting too...)

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  2. Just found you from Sians blog - I think I would have felt the same following Sian. I'm enjoying following this hop and seeing how everyone interprets the page and makes it their own.

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  3. I have to say that your LO is in now way dull...am enjoying seeing what everyone has made of the previous LO!
    Alison xx

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  4. I have been SO looking forward to seeing how you took my page and "Clair'd" it! It's beautiful and it has me sending out a plea to you to come back and blog a bit more often. Please!

    Now, I'm going back for another little look before I move on..

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  5. Telling a story is a great thing to pull from the Sian's layout! Love the clean simple design to this and the title is great!

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  6. I love how this is progressing! Lovely page!

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  7. Good to see your blog back in cyberspace. Love this layout. I'm really enjoying this Blog Hop

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  8. Lovely layout, I am really enjoying following the blog hop and seeing how the layout progresses! x

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  9. Hi darlin', love the simplicity of this layout

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  10. I love the way you've taken the elements of Sian's interpretation of the design and given it a clean but complex look, with that lovely patterned paper, and the blorder around the close-up of the conkers. Very stylish!

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  11. The patterned background is one of my favorite in Sian's page and you took that element in your page too! Simple but very effective! (and your title made me smile)

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  12. Love the title for this page, and how you have used Sian's layout as inspiration.

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  13. I love the simplicity of your page and that title is a corker! I hope the camera isn't going to be too expensive to get fixed. Welcome back to blogging - I've missed you!

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  14. Hello sweetie - missed you in blog land ♥

    Love your page - don't remember it from the retreat (perhaps done while you should have been sleeping!) - but the close-up is fab (specially manicured nails?) and the PP white space is a great foil for the journalling!

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  15. I think your page is beautiful and balanced - and the photo is great, as is the title! Hope to see you around a bit more :)

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  16. Happy New Year Clair! Great to see you again.

    I love what you have done with the page - it is fantastic!

    Good luck with the camera/lens repairs.

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  17. Oh I love the way you have used your papers Claire, from your inspiration of Sian's - such a neat & tidy & so well styled page. But what a change from Julie's! Loving its changing process. Been great hopping with you xx

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  18. Oh sorry - hadn't finished..hehhe

    What a great title - love your photo - is that what conkers are??

    And hope your lens gets repaired soon! Cant live without my lovely Nikon!

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  19. Wonderful!! I love your take on Sian's page! Now I can see my own layout taking shape from here!

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  20. nice to see you back :-)

    This is such a lovely page and I again love that wide white border to your photo - I've done a bit of that with photos I've printed myself! Ah, the good old days of conkers. *sigh* love it! Super page and hope to see you here more often now :-)

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  21. Clean and simple, but still lots to look at. How do you do that?! Great conker photo and title. So good to see you back again Clair :o)
    Fiona xx

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  22. I've popped across from Sians. Great page.

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  23. I do hope it won't be so long before your next post - you know I was getting a tad worried (I was contemplating getting Mel to rustle up a search party if you hadn't replied to my mail!)
    I love your page (especially given the circumstances) and I was delighted to see paint splatter returning.
    Thanks for joining in and I hope you will again if we do it again.

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  24. Happy New Year so good to see you and hoping the ruffles and you are well xxx ANyway love the LO gorgeous use of colour and patterned paper (I am not very good at either!) also beautiful nails ... I bite mine! Hope to see lots more of you soon xxx

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  25. I absolutely love your page!!! What a great photo in the layout, and I hope your camera is ok now. Thanks for the blog love!!!! xoxoxoxoxo

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