Thursday, April 26, 2012

Every day I'm pickling.....

Kudos to those of you who get the title reference.

Anyways, before we had kids and when we lived in Central NY, hubby and I had a garden and we used to love to grow and can and pickle foods.  We did all kinds of peppers, pickles, and our favorite: dilly beans.  We haven't had much luck growing things here in TX, mainly because we are gone for most of the summer.  But when we went strawberry picking a few weeks ago, they had some great produce at their farm market, so we picked up a few tiny pickling cucumbers to make some pickles (which Charlotte loves).


I used goodies from a few of my recent Scrapbook Circle kits.  I am starting to finally dig into them because I am all caught up with some of my assignments.  There was a sketch challenge on the SBC blog with an awesome sketch by Diana, so I had to play along!  Here is the sketch:



I stuck to a green and tan color palette and added a few more photos than the sketch called for (and you can see that I rotated it, too).  I love that bright green Amy Tan paper that I used for the large banner and the green foam letters, too! PLUS I finally got to put some of those mason jar papers to work, too!


Because it was a food themed layout, I felt I had to use some baker's twine, so I strung some on and stitched over it in some parts.

It feels so good to dig into my kits and do some pages for me!  :)

12 comments:

Mitralee said...

Love this page so sweet! I am happily stuck in Nothern NY at the moment so perhaps you have given me inspiration to try my hand at pickles...of course here it's early spring still, will be a bit before I had things growing since we got snow just the other day

Megan Smith (aka Daisymeh) said...

Cute layout!

Diana Fisher said...

I love this page and how you used the sketch! And I totally got the reference for the title - clever!

Diana Waite said...

this is TOTALLY adorable! I LOVE it!!

Unknown said...

This is such a fun take on the sketch. Loving that big green banner and how you used the mason jar paper!

Cathy said...

love this, so fun and adore the stitching over the baker's twine...might have to lift that idea..lol!

danni reid. said...

love your interpretation of the sketch and brilliant use of this line, such a FUN page

Christa said...

I love this palette! Thanks for the inspiration Audrey. Your jars are perfect of course and the chevrons and little P. All little bits of genius.

leah said...

How fun is this?! LOL Love the journaling in the jar! ^_^

Unknown said...

Love this, Audrey!

KrissyClarkMcKee said...

LOVE this, and love the bright green piece of paper that goes with your Pickling layout - they go perfectly together!

Karenladd said...

LOVE this!! Using green accents and letters to go with the Pickle theme was genius!! So fun!