These pages got hit with the ugly stick.

Ok, so Frances from the Paper Poppy Kit Co. posted the fifth in their seventeen days of giveaways leading up to the launch of their brand new kit company. Until now, they've asked for comments in order to be entered to win, but today, she asked for something different.

Today, she asked for ugly.

Now, calm down. She wasn't talking about ugly people. Not even ugly dogs (though she did post a photo of the blue-ribbon ugliest dog, and hoooooo-eeeeee is it ugly. It's so ugly it's cute!) No, she wanted neither of those. What she wanted was ugly layouts.

So of course I thought, "This one's in the bag. I will show you 10 shades of ugly, lady! Prepared to be assaulted with the ugliness I shall bestow!"

Actually, I thought, "sweet!" and carried on with my day. But...you know....it would have been cool if I thought in complete and humorous sentences like that.

After pouring over my albums, I have narrowed it down to two of the fugliest layouts ever created by someone who dares to call herself crafty. Prepare to feast your eyes on their hideous glory! I've even included close-ups so that you can truly come to appreciate their gawd-awfulness...you're welcome.

***Disclaimer and apology to the peeps in these photos: I think you're all wonderful and good-looking! But what I did to your photos is a crime. I deeply apologize for any harm I may have caused.

Ugly Layout #1:
This layout is ugly because:

a) the colour combo is bizarre. Plus, I smudged the word "Kris" on the vellum a bit, so I just smudged the whole thing to make it even.
b) I didn't know what to do with those multi-colour fibres. So I stitched them through the layout with a giant needle. Which left little humps allover my layout. {Don't let that Black Eyed Peas song fool you. There is nothing pleasant about "humps".} Plus, do you see the shadow next to the word "1st"? Ya. That's because I messed up the first layout I did with these photos, but I couldn't pry them off the paper...and I was a broke student so I couldn't afford to reprint them...so I cut the paper off of my collage (sort of) and re-adhered the whole works to this lovely shade of baby-poop green.
c) The tension was off on my sewing machine. I don't know how to fix tension on a sewing machine. I ignored it.

Didn't I tell you? Ugly. Take a deep breath, though, because this one is so ugly it's funny...

Ugly Layout #2I had a stencil. I thought it was cool. It didn't occur to me that it would take up the entire page.I also had one of those paper packs of various-sized mismatched cardstock. Those things should be outlawed.
People cut out of context! Nooooooo!
Just in case you didn't realize that I was scrapping about "fun" I made sure that word was made with photos of said fun. Creative, right?.....right? *cue crickets chirping

Whew. Well, if that's not enough to win me some prizes, I don't know what is. I can't wait to see your ugly pages, too! You have to link your pages here to enter to win.

Let the pageant of ugly begin! ;)