Pretty in Pink

Simple and lots of "white space"

This is a simple layout using a photo of mum as a young girl that was tinted with colour. The paper and embellishments came from a DCWV set called all about the girls. I used a ribbon to make flower and provide a bow detail and numerous small brads. I used a Martha Stewart lace punch to make the dotty edging and cut out text strips for the other edges. I stamped the title on patterned paper and then cut it out and stuck it on.

I cut ribbon into strips sewed in a cross and then looped over and sewed together with a button

Liberal use of brads and ribbons

Paper layouts from weekend

Left my camera at school so took some snaps with iphone but they are not ideal. The first layout is of Lens Guy, youngest daughter and sister in law. I used pink which is a bit of a first for me. The frame around the photo came free with a magazine but was too pink so I layered on some tissue paper I had. The decorative strip was cut out of a smaller piece of paper and I used a thickers glitter alphabet. The journaling was done in the right hand corner using a sakura gel pen.
The other layout is for the Birds cj. I was struggling with this one as had no pictures of birds. I drew a freehand bird and covered it in skeleton leads for feathers and then used images from the Graphic Fairy on the other page. The flowers were punched out from an old dictionary and inked and layered and then I glued small glass seed beads into the centres.

Think pink for summer

I love summer fruit such as watermelon, strawberries and raspberries - lush.
I love this piece of jewellery designed and created by youngest DD and this hydrangea is perfect.