" You Leave Footprints on my Heart "

                                                   Hi everyone, 
 today I want to share with you all a layout I have created as part of the Design Team at....
                                                      White With 1
This sweet little photo is of my daughter Kyra about the age of 5.  My how time flies as she is nearly 30  (sorry kiddo)  
 I loved this colour, so pretty , its a really soft yellow colour and as I like to use colours a little stronger I really loved playing with this one. 

I have punched along the top and bottom edges. I added some script with texture paste.

The title I painted with the custard but while it was wet I accidentally spilled some embossing powder on it (working on something else). So I heat dried it and loved the effect.

White With 1 August challenge " Custard "

 I hope you will come join us and 

create something beautiful with this colour

There are some wonderful prizes up for grabs, take a look here..

Imaginarium Designs

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I love 2Crafty chipboard and these hearts are some of my favs.

 I decided to paint them and not add the embossing powder.

The heart around the centre photo is from 2Crafty also and I have used this one on heaps of my layouts. The cabochons are clear so I stuck them to some yellow sequins.

Lots of D-lish and Petaloo flowers.

The little love heart is from WOW

I painted all the chippy pieces with custard colour paint 

which I then poked out of the clusters. I added the big polka 

dot ribbon bow, little girls love bows.

More of those beautiful flowers which as you now are 

my favourite embellishment.

Some of the products used..D-lish flowers, 2Crafty chipboard, WOW chipboard, Petaloo flowers,cardstock, cabochons, sequins, Jo Sonya paints, Ribbon

I hope you enjoyed

till next time

Keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Happy Birthday "

Hi every one and it seems like so long since I've posted anything.

We all get busy with life and I suppose Im no different.

Well today I would like to share with you all a layout that I created as part of  the design team at Color Stories and Inspiration CSI

This is for case file 171 at CSI.

This is a photo of myself and my youngest granddaughter " Eliza" on my recent birthday. You can see that Eliza is helping Nanny blow out the candles on my cake.

CASE FILE 171...

The Scheme; light carnation pink, bright carnation pink, tan, white and gold-brown.

The Evidence; I used- stripes, chevrons, banner, other food items, dots, artisan shapes, wood, texture paste.

The Testimony; I wrote an invitation which you can see to the left of the photo and it reads... Eliza you are invited to Nanny's birthday party on the 17th of July. Come along and help Nanny celebrate. Yummy food to eat. In the testimony I also used Inspirational words, celebrate and yummy.

 Now for some details and some closeups.....

I cut out heaps of shapes from some left over pattern papers. 

Stuck them down in the shape that I wanted. Gesso fairly heavy but remember to 

leave some of the pattern showing through.

Everything including the chipboard pieces was stuck down

before I added any colour to the background.

Flowers and some more chipboard. The huge butterfly was a die cut that I 

inked with a few 

different colours including tan until 

I got the colour I wanted.

The frames were covered in gold micro beads, I love those things. 

They are my new fav embellishment. I found the little enamel embellishment in my 

stash and it fitted into the case file elements. The fourish chippy was covered with Gesso and 

then I smudged Gelato on it.

You can see that I distressed the edges of the papers. I made the banner and tried to drape it across the page but I preferred to stand it up like a flag. Diamonties added and white paint. The little pegs on the photo I put glitter on them to make them stand out.

You can see in this pic I added some black stamping of butterflies to the background.

 Another photo frame with those delicious micro beads. I doodled around the edge with a black gel pen.

I didn't matt this photo but framed it with the wire which is a nice effect rather than matting photos all the time.  You can see all the layers of goodies on this layout.

I used so much product on this layout I will try to list as many as I can;

cardstock, scrap pattern papers, wire string, gesso. impasto, wooden pegs, 2Crafty and Scrap fx chipboard pieces, micro beads, Prima flowers, D-lish flowers, D-lish flairs, diamonds, string, Lindy Stamp Gang Inks, Archival Ink, Gelatos Kaisercraft stamp pads,

thanks for stopping by

and till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Time Goes By"

Morning and welcome everyone
This is a layout that I created for a challenge at The Scrap Suite on Facebook for D-lish Scraps.
Each second month each of the Design Team has to create a challenge and a layout showcasing that challenge.
This is mine and its a number 3 challenge.

The idea is to use as many of your items on the layout in three's.  For this layout I have used
3 x papers, 3 x colours, 3 x photos, 3 x words on Title, 3 x butterflies, 3 x laces, 3 x  each of the flowers, 3 x stamps on the background, 3 x fussy cut flourishes and 3 x doilies..

This photo is part of an album I am making for a friend, very cute little girl.

I love all the flowers and try to cluster them together. 

I die cut out some white flourishes to poke out of the clusters.

You can see I punched around the inside layer too.

I little zip to hang down from the cluster.

Lace around the edges then I inked them. I randomly punched around the edges.

Adding frayed gauze to the clusters softens them

The chipboard branches were embossed and then I used a script stamp on them. 

A pearl for the centre.

Loving all the lace on this layout, its adds to the real pretty girly feel of the layout.

I have embossed the butterflies white also.

Three doilies are behind the photo.

Some of the products used;

Papers

Kaisercraft "Blue Bay collection"

plain cardstock

D-lish scraps items

Chipboard

flowers

butterflies

leaves

doily

gelatos

Jo Sonja paint

laces

pearls

Big Brushes

thanks for stopping by

have a great day and till next time

Keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Thank Heaven for little Girls "

Hi and I hope your all having a 

wonderful day so far.

Today is day two of  my three  D-lish Scraps Design Team posts. 

Pop back tomorrow to see the last one of my three.

Well this is one very special layout.

The family of the little girl in this photo were devastated by the recent floods in the Hunter Valley. 

Sadly her family lost absolutely everything including all their cherished photos except for a couple of this little one.

I was asked if I would be interested in donating a completed layout to the family of course I jumped at the chance to do it.

So this is it..

I decided that the layout needed to be all things girly but as I was on a retreat I was limited in what I had with me. So it would have to be ribbons and bows with flowers and butterflies oh and I forgot the lace and ladybugs.

I stenciled some butterflies onto the background and added colour with my Gelatos. Fussy cut out some fans and flowers from some papers that I had with me. All the chipboard was painted white and then added glitter. Used my Big Brushes to add stamping to the background.

I used the polka dot ribbon to put a big bow under the photo and I love the interlocking hearts what I added to the flower cluster at the bottom of the photo. Die cit out some green leaves to poke around the flowers

Distressed edges and then smudged Gelatos for colour. The butterflies I covered in Perle-pen and a couple of the flowers I had to colour with Gelatos to match the colour of the layout.

I splattered Gelato colour all over the page too.

Lace flowers behind the photos and those pretty fans.

I tried to match the colour of her dress to the overall

colour of the layout.

I so love using those sweet little ladybugs on my pages especially when I create

 beautiful flowers clusters.

Some of the products that I used;

plain cardstock

Gelatos

lace

D-lish, chipboard, title, flowers, butterflies

Prima and Enthaily flowers

Kaisercraft cutouts

Ribbon 

glitter

Stencil

Thanks for stopping by

till next time

Keep on scrapping

Carol xx