Ruby in Lola Land

Hi everyone, Carmen here :)

This project was inspired by the Copy+Paste birthday celebrations over on their blog. One of the challenges was to download some fabulous free printable sheets designed by Kirsty Neale & Julie Kirk and to come up with any project, using any medium and any of the images. Well, one look at the gorgeous sheets and my first thought was Charlie and Lola. I'm a huge fan of Lauren Child and luckily my youngest daughter Ruby is too. Her favorite doll, Lola, goes everywhere with her.

I browsed the internet and found the perfect image featuring Charlie and Lola around a sofa. There was even an empty seat like they were just waiting for Ruby to come and play.

I found a good photo of Ruby on my PC, it needed to be of her sitting and have no bits of head or legs chopped off. After a couple of attempts at resizing both the cartoon image and the Ruby image I found a scale I was happy with. I am no techie expert and just did this by inserting the two pictures into a Word doc and resizing them up and down till I was happy. I then printed them both onto photo paper making sure I selected the best quality option in my printer settings.

I cut out the picture of Ruby and attached her to the sofa with a couple of small dabs of Glossy Accent. The balloons, speech bubbles (which I turned into balloons), the party hat and the presents all came from the C+P download sheet. I arranged them on the scene until I was happy and attached those with small dabs of Glossy Accent too. I then went around the photo of Ruby and the other elements I had added with a sparkly black gel pen, not forgetting to add strings to the balloons and ribbons to Ruby's hair so that she fitted right into Lola's cartoon world.

Finally I covered the whole thing in a couple of layers of Glossy Accents.
I am so pleased with the end result. I'm thinking of making similar pictures as Christmas presents for my young nieces and nephews. I can see it being easily adapted to suit anyone's favorite character. In fact my two older girls have already demanded their own picture starring themselves too. This one, once spotted by Ruby was nearly squashed in a cuddle and kiss fest. Safe to say I am now looking for a frame so she can hang it in her room.

The copy+paste printable sheets are still available for download here.

Thank you so much for looking :)

Comments

[claireliz]

love this Carmen, DD will be wanting one of these :)
x

[Debbie Roberts]

Fabulous going to have a look at the website now.

Debbie x

[jayne]

Well you need to go and make more of these as it is wonderful....Keira would love this too x Carmen you need to scrapbook more often xxxx TFS xxxx