Lately I have been going through my boxes of pictures tyring to get organized and I am realizing that there are a lot of pictures that I haven't yet scrapped. So as I reminisced, looking at pictures of my kids when they were young, I found this picture and decided that it would look great with some soft and pretty Petaloo flowers. The day that I took this picture was a beautiful 1995 spring day in Florida and my daughter was having fun playing dress up in her new ballet skirt that my mom made for her. She thought she was a princess. I am so happy that I took pictures to capture that special moment.
For this layout, I took inspiration from a blog post that I read on the Jillibean blog where the designers were challenged to create a layout from 6x6 papers. The patterns on these papers are much smaller than the 12x12 version and are really perfect for cards and mini albums. But as I found, they also work great on large layouts as well. So once I got all of my pattern papers placed I went digging through my Petaloo stash and pulled flowers of all kinds in soft pretty pink, blue, yellow, and white colors.
On my layout I used a few Color Me Crazy flowers and some soft silk paper flowers from the Devon Collection. The feel of the Bristol and Brighton flowers are so lovely. Each is handcrafted and hand dyed on silk paper and have a soft texture that I love.
Then I used the large Bluebell Color Me Crazy Core-dinations flowers as the focal point in my flower clusters. I used foam dots under them to lift them off the page a bit.
I like to get creative when thinking of how to decorate the centers of the Color Me Crazy flowers. For these flower centers I used some Bo Bunny cardstock which I punched holes in and then back stitched with DMC floss. I love the homespun feel that the hand stitching gives to their look.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a great time with all of the sneak peeks from the new CHA Winter releases.
Christine
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