Trooper of the Year CSI #160

Wow...I really liked the new challenge over at CSI and thought the colors were lovely. I thought about my son and how I really wanted to scrap the pictures from his award of being Florida State Trooper of the Year. Well I had all these thoughts and ideas rolling around in my head but it was harder to put them to paper within the challenge parameters. Here is the challenge and what I came up with:

The Scheme: I used all the colors required which were Pale Sage Green, Minty Green with a Touch of Blue, Dark Teal Green, Bright White, and Dark, Dark Seaweed Green.
Evidence: I used map print, textured paper, frame/something transparent, metal and a decorative border. The dark seaweed green was my cardstock from my stash which is textured. All the other papers except the map paper was from Heidi Swapp September Nights and I believe the map paper was from Crate Paper. The stars, wood veneer, flair, and the silver puffy heart on the photo by my son are all from Heidi Swapp. The enamel stars and hearts around the top photo are Teresa Collins as well as the overlay on the bottom photo. The map paper hearts were cut from a Sizzix die. The metal piece at the top of the page says courageous and it is by Tim Holtz. The chicken wire was cut from a Die-namics die. The letter stickers were from Recollections, the teal enamel dots were from The Paper Studio, and the 2013 sticker was from MME.  Here are some close ups:

Testimony (Journaling): I used the inspiration word 'purpose'. The journaling is quite long and is tucked in an envelope behind the page where you see the tag at the top. Journaling: Robert, you had a higher purpose that day. You heard it deep within you. The call came in and someone else was responding. Although you were finishing up a stop, it just kept tugging at you and you knew you had to go. I always told you that you had to follow your gut instincts because that is God telling you something. You followed them that day and because you did someone else is alive today to go home to his family. I don't want to imagine what would have happened had you not listened and fulfilled your purpose that day. You are an inspiration to others and I am so very proud of you and love you very much. -Mom
On the other side I tell the story of what happened.
Robert works the Turnpike and there is usually only a few troopers working for a span of highway. He was on a routine stop with another trooper. They were just about to finish up when a call came over the radio that there was a single car rollover. Another trooper was responding to the call. Robert kept having a nagging gut feeling he had to go to that call. So he told the other trooper since he was finished he was going to go on down to the other call since it was only a mile or two from where they were. When he arrived on scene there was an SUV rolled over with the passenger side on the ground and was on fire. The other responding trooper had not made it there yet. The flames where coming from the engine and where very high. He checked in the vehicle and there was one man inside and could not get out because he could not get the seat belt off. Robert was on top of the driver's door trying to get the seat belt of but couldn't. He got down inside the vehicle and tried to cut it off and was not able to. About that time his partner made it to the scene and Robert instructed him to get the larger knife from the back of his Tahoe and with that he was able to cut the seat belt. By then the fire was coming through into the cab and the man's pants were starting catch on fire. Robert was lifting the man up while his partner pulled him from the cab. Then Robert got out and they dragged the man to a safe distance. He said it was a scene from the movies because it was only moments after getting out of the cab that the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames. The original responding trooper still had not made it to the scene. Him and his partner received the Trooper of the Year award.

Hope you enjoyed it and Happy Scrapping!

CSI #159 - Remember Family

Happy April Fools Day! I'm not going play a joke on you today but I am going to share my latest layout. This was for another case over at Color, Stories, and Inspiration (CSI). I really like how this came out and I really like that the last two layouts I've done were of older photos. These are not he original pictures but instead I scanned them in and printed them. They are a little bit grainy so I am going to see if I can get a sharper image but if I can't they will do just fine. So in this challenge (case) the colors that must be present are Light Ecru, Black, Light Mauve, Plum, and a Grayish Teal Blue.  Here is the inspiration (The Scene) the challenge was drawn from:

The plum is a bit out of my comfort zone because I do not use a lot of it anywhere in my life much less my crafts/scrapbooking but this was a lot of fun. I played more off of the grayish teal blue and used the plum and light mauve as accents. And I think it turned out really good.

The background papers are from g.c.d studios Sophisticated Frost collection. I had never heard of this company before but I found the pad at Big Lots and the papers were gorgeous. They are double sided and are on a nice weight of cardstock. The papers I used for the matting behind the photo were from my stash and both have a very pretty texture to them. All of the flowers were Prima and the leaves were from some of my old stash and came from Jolee's.  The key, doily, acetate clock face, tag, ribbon, acetate hearts, a metal sign were from my stash and I don't know what brands they are except for the metal sign was from Making Memories Signage collection and the acetate hearts were from Heidi Swapp (used up more of my older stuff...YEAH!). The jewel swirls were Prima "Say It In Crystals" collection. The "Remember and Family" were stamps by Heidi Swapp. The jewel cluster in the bottom right-hand corner was from a set that I got from the Micheal's dollar bins. I inked the edge of the layout with Tim Holtz "Gather Twig" Distress Ink and sprayed and splattered the Tattered Angels "Moonlight" spray ink and also splattered Tattered Angels "Purple Pansy" ink. The butterflies were punched out with the Martha Steward butterfly punches out of my scrap paper. Here are some close-ups:

In the corner I folded the paper back twice in a accordion style but not creased sharply for visual interest and used a paper that was a little bit brighter blue than the main background paper and aging that was for visual interest. I think it turned out really good. I'm really happy with this layout.  Hope you enjoyed it and until next time...Happy Scrapping!