You Melt My Heart

I had a lot of fun with this one, adding a tea bag stained background, some molding paste, some Shimmerz Bed of Roses and gesso!! I used the non-themed side of the Authentique Sweetness papers, no ice cream cones for this one...though I used a lot of the die cuts including the Melt My Heart one that sneaks in a bit of an ice cream look, subtle one though :) I took a bunch of the frames from the die cut sheet and layered them under the photo and one over the photo too :) Everything including the very white tags got a tea dye staining!
The flowers and vine are all prima and just used some household string to accent my layout. Final touch is a bit of bling confetti sprinkled around the layout.

I'd love to enter this in the Scrap Africa sketch challenge (I started with this sketch but it took on a life of its own...I used the photo placement from the sketch, my vine is the fence, and my background is the circles instead of the chicken wire!!) and the Scrap for Help tea bag challenge!!!

I Love You So Much My Sweetie!

Yay! This was featured on 13 Arts Love Challenge!

I really love the papers in the Scraps of Elegance February Kit and those fun Pink Paislee Secret Crush Paper Goods die cuts!! I love how this turned out.

I am entering this into the Zeus and Zoe love challenge, the Get Creative love challenge and the Scrap Africa Hearts challenge, there are little die cut hearts in the cluster in many places and they are all over the paper layers too :). I love my girls so much and just love this fun photo of my eldest on her first horse ride!

Sweet Child of Mine

My gorgeous baby girl Aisling was born with hip displasia (clicky hips!). Her hip sockets were shallow and if left untreated she could have had mobility issues as she grew up, instead of being the wild little girl she is now, running around without a care. This sweet photo of her in her brace she wore for her first 4 months reminds me how grateful I am it was caught early and the problem was solved while it cause no major discomfort to her. I enjoyed doing this layout and was actually able to use a few sheets with my December Scraps of Darkness kit too...

I did this layout as part of the CSI Case 53 challenge and used this gorgeous sketch from Scrap Africa.

Here is the Case File for this week:

I used the color scheme. 

Evidence: flower, metal, pleating, texture paste, scallops and fabric

Testimony: Haiku, Scallops on my journalling spot, inspiration words soft, lovely, quiet

Little Snow Birds

This was featured on Scrap for Help, C'est Magnifique sketch challenge, 

and made the watch list on CSI!

I absolutely love the papers in the December C'est Magnifique kit, gorgeous colors, delicate beautiful designs as always from Pion Design papers... This is the layout I did using the yummy CM December sketch.

As part of the challenge for Scrap for Help (I won their November challenge, so exciting, my first time ever and amongst some gorgeous competition!) we were supposed to incorporate a paper bag into our layout! I used a paper bag to make several bitty blossoms flowers and sparkled them up with my new Donna Salazar fairy dust glitter...

I also did this layout as part of the CSI challenge for this week. I rolled up and tied my journalling with ribbon for something fun and different...

I am also entering this in the Scrap Africa challenge which you are supposed to add filmstrips.