Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Welcome to another Nancy Drew challenge, I love posting these every week : )  Let's take a look at #8, Nancy's Mysterious Letter:

There's the original text (OT) on the left and revised text (RT) on the right.  The RT version was one of the earlier members of my collection and for some reason I got some purple glitter on the back of it, don't remember how anymore.  

Case file:  Nancy invites her elderly mail carrier inside for some cocoa and his mailbag gets stolen.  Nancy investigates and uncovers that the mail carrier's much younger half-brother is running a Lonely Hearts Club scam and is also trying to con a young lady who has the same name as Nancy.  My favorite part of this version is that the mailman's post-retirement plan is to raise guinea pigs.

So here's my card for the OT version of Nancy's Mysterious Letter:

I love the bright colors on the cover, and I decided to go with Nancy's coat and hair as my two main colors and the Lonely Hearts scam plot point dictated the image and greeting I used.

I added the pearls because I thought a 1940s book deserved pearls : )  Nancy is wearing a powder-blue coat on the cover, but in the text she wears a raccoon fur coat and there's detailed descriptions of her going shopping for outfits for a weekend at Emerson College to watch her man play football.  The university colors are purple and orange and somehow she manages to make that stylish in the book, ha!  I actually like the descriptions of Nancy's outfits in these books, I know other readers don't but I think they're fun.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stamped with Love
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Balmy Blue, Cherry Cobbler, Stampin' Blends in Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Thick Basic White, Attic Boutique DSP, Cherry Cobbler DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, pearls, Dimensionals

Now let's take a look at the RT version:

The plot for this one is similar to the OT, but the bad guy has more henchmen and the other Nancy Drew has a habit of quoting Shakespeare all over the place.

Here's my card for the RT version:

Once again, I went with a postal theme but a little more abstract with the postage stamp image.  I found a pack of very old DSP in Bravo Burgundy, Pink Pirouette, and So Saffron which I thought was a good match for the cover colors.  I stamped the postage stamp in a brighter pink to match Nancy's outfit.

Nancy apparently did not get the memo from Anne Shirley that redheads shouldn't wear pink, but that's a pretty smart skirt suit, I like it.  Hope you enjoyed a little glimpse at both versions Nancy's Mysterious Letter, and if you are so inclined play along and drop me a comment.  

Next up is one of my favorites, The Sign of the Twisted Candles!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fresh Vintage
Ink:  Merry Merlot, Rococo Rose
Paper:  Merry Merlot, Thick Very Vanilla, Parisian Summer DSP
Accessories:  Postage Stamp punch, Dimensionals, Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

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Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Did you have a good holiday?  Our Christmas was very quiet and relaxed, just the way I like it.  The only reason I got out of pajama pants was to take our doglets for a walk :)  And we Skyped our families back in Texas or else talked to them on the phone, and we made a turkey breast for dinner last night.  So all in all, pretty awesome.

On to the scrapbook pages!  Today's layout isn't Christmasy, but it is a lot of red and green.

Once again these pictures are from our 2010 trip to China; you can see them up close if you scroll down a bit on this blog post.  So let's talk about colors.  Obviously there's a lot of warm colors in the pictures I used on this layout; when I choose cardstock colors, I try to go for colors that complement the photos more than trying to go with something that is totally matchy-matchy.  If I had used a red color for the page base, I think it would have been overwhelming, so instead I broke out the Pear Pizzazz.  Red and green are opposites on the color wheel, so this is still a higher-energy color combination, but not quite as high energy as if I'd used a really intense green like Emerald Envy.  Also, I didn't use a true red for the page title, it's Poppy Parade:

I thought it would be fun to try cutting the letters out of patterned paper instead of just plain cardstock, but I still had to do a thin mat of cardstock around them so they would look finished.  My third (accent) color is Brocade Blue, which I picked up from the backdrops in several of the photos, and I used black to write my journaling so it would be easily legible (and there's some black in the pictures as well).  So there you go, there's my color thought process if you ever wondered how my brain works.

Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, Brocade Blue, and Basic Black for today's palette.  Now I'm going to go grab a couple of cranberry cardamom spice muffins and my cuppa tea...y'all enjoy your day.  Cheers!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Fresh Vintage, Rough Type
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Brocade Blue, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, Brocade Blue, Poppy Parade DSP, Greenhouse Gala DSP
Accessories:  Lettering template