Zetsu

Yay, the cannibal venus flytrap! I really like him!
My first title was “In the jungle, the mighty jungle” but “Paradise Found” was much shorter...

On this layout I got really experimental *lol* I never used so much stuff on a page!
But I wanted to bring out the jungle-thought behind it, so it´s a bit crowded. But I had fun doing it!

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Perhaps, making memories Paperie/General Travel
Ribbon: Nanu Nana
Flowers: Prima Marketing Angelique
Brads: Rayher
Stamps: Prima Marketing, Rico Design
Ink: Ancient Page, folia

Kisame

... is this blue sharky guy with a huge sword called Samehada...
I decided to stick with the obvious and chose the baech theme for him:-)

Not much else to say, I used K & Company´s Sea Glass paper that I just love and it´s perfect for vacation scraping!

Patterned paper: K & Company Sea Glass
Stamps: see~d´s
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink

Everything else: local stationery shop

Kakuzu

Painted last, scraped first!
I had really trouble finding a theme for Kakuzu. First I had no idea at all, then I thought about “Treasure Island/Pirates of the Carribbean” (Kakuzu is the treasurer of Akatsuki) but obviously had no matching pictures...
On my three-day-trip to Fehmarn this Easter I visited the U 11, a submarine that is exhibited in the haven of Burgstaaken and came up with the “Silent Hunter” theme, since Kakuzu is also described as a very talented assassin.

This is a very typical design for me – clean and simple!
Accidentally I just bought – without knowing – the perfect paper for this piece, there couldn´t have been a better match. I just added some ribbon and the eyelets to represent the numerous bolts holding together a submarine (or maybe a bull´s eye, also a very common maritime motive).

Cardstock: Prism Papers
Patterned paper: sei
Ribbon: Nanu Nana
Eyelets: Gütermann creativ
Stamps: see~d´s
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink

Akatsuki on vacation

So, if this is supposed to be a scrapblog, I should post something about my scrapbooks, right?
Now let me tell you about my recent project.
I´ve been a manga and anime fan for several years now, ocassionally doing some fanart, too. While I was working, I kinda lost track of most of my creative hobbies due to a lack of time – though I started scrapbooking a while ago.
A couple of months ago I got unemployed and one good thing that happened was, that I started to paint again.

One of my favorite mangaseries is Naruto and I did several fanarts over the last months. One day I thought about ideas how to create something new and decided to try to combine fanart and scrapbooking. And this is how the project “Akatsuki on vacation” started...
Akatsuki is the evil organisation in Naruto, consisting of ten members at the most. And they are all cool! XD And I sent them on vacation to do an unusual scrapbook album in the end.

First I started with small watercolor paintings of all members in the photosize of 10 x 15 cm. I scanned the pictures and combined the characters with a photobackground out my stock.
Some pictures were printed in the local photo shop, some on my own printer.
Well, and NOW I´m ready to scrap!
Fortunately I already have several matching papers I can use but I didn´t miss the chance to go shopping in the Hamburger Scrapbook-Center that I really like. Now I have enough cardstock, paper and other stuff – let´s start!