Murder most Foul - DT layout for CSI case file 141

Hello and welcome to my blog again.  It's lovely to see you here.

I have a fun layout to share with you if you love purple and even if you don't,

 you may find this is just the challenge to get you thinking outside the box.

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To see further details and some inspirational examples from the DT

I'd love to see you join in and be in with a chance to win a prize.

Sorry, the photos are blurry, I'm limping along with out my usual computer

and photo editing programmes.

Here's how I solved the case

I started with some gorgeous background paper from Blue Fern

The Ombre range, "Charlottes Dream"
The chipboard circle frames are from Blue Fern as well.

The textured background was made with a Tim Holtz stencil

and some mists and gelatos.

A bit of Kaisercraft stamping here and there.

Some yummy Prima crystals and lace tucked in 

and the something unexpected; a wishbone

to remind me not to wish my life away, just BE in the moment.

EVIDENCE

Clouds - on the background paper

Musical elements

Bird

Leaves

Lots of layers

Add something unexpected - the title and the wishbone  The wishbone is to remind me not to wish my life away, just BE in the moment.

Use glossy accents - that was a whoopsie, I was trying to apply some to the crackle on the chippie when half a bottle full spewed out of the page.  Luckily just on the top background.  Phewww!

TESTIMONY

I chose to document something strange.   The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads:-

We were invited to a dinner party for eight. The theme was “How to host a Murder.” Each of us were assigned a character to play throughout the night.  It was such fun designing and making a flapper style costume for myself, in my role as a reporter and finding a suit for the other half of the firm in his role of gangster.

The best part was pretending to be someone else entirely and just for an evening to live vicariously in New York during the Al Capone era.

The home was set up in grand style with lace cloths, crystal and silver to serve the beautiful Italian style food.  1920’s dance music played and we got into character as we entered the door.

We performed a play with a script to read from and clues to share, some of which which false and the idea was us to discover who the murderer was before the end of the night. Everyone stayed in character for the entire time and only one of us guessed who the murderer was.  (Not me!) A hilarious night with the most outrageous lies being told, fabulous food and wine and a chance to be really silly.