Butterfly and Blossom Layout

Hi everyone,

Been very busy crafting over the last few days, trying to finish off layouts that I had started and not got around to completing - this layout is to put in the album that I made for my daughter's 21st birthday - LOL, it's an ongoing project as her birthday was last month!

She was bridesmaid to her Aunty Tracy when she was 11 - and my goodness, not sure if you can see but her face was covered in freckles! I remember she really hated them but I always thought they looked gorgeous - they've all disappeared now much to her pleasure.

So, on to the layout - I've entered this in the Sir Stampalot May Challenge as it features butterflies and blossom. There is a fantastic array of goodies to win so get on over there and take a look - it's good enough to make you want to take up crafting even if you've never been interested before! I've used my good old trusty Silhouette to print and cut the flower background and then coloured it in with Copic markers trying to pick up the yellow and green in the bouquets. I've cut the flower several times and decoupaged it to give it depth. I bought some stickles the other day and find them very addictive - they're just so gorgeous and used yellow and green for the butterfly trails and the accents round the flowers.

I've cut out the borders in the matching colour to give the impression of being embossed - first time I've tried this and me thinks I will be doing this again as I really like the effect.

It's been very odd doing this album for my daughter - I've been looking through so many photographs since she was born and remembering all the occasions when they were taken - it's made me very nostalgic, if I shut my eyes I can remember what it felt like cuddling her as a baby. In fact, next layout for the album is when she was born :) LOL, you can see I haven't made this album in any particular order!

Thanks for looking,

Sue
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Copics Colour Challenge 20

The colours for this week's Copics Colour Challenge are:
I had orange and brown but lacked yellow - I don't think this matters too much as they say on their blog that you can use the colours that you do have.
I have used a Mikey digital download from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

The funky circle has been cut on my Silhouette along with the grunge arrow. And, I am so chuffed, I have managed to work out how to do a circle greeting in Word Art - Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!!!

Have also entered this card in a competition for some blog candy, 72 copic markers!!! I absolutely need more copics so.....fingers crossed!

Thanks for looking.

Seasons

This evening I used my Silhouette to cut out the seasons of the year for my daughter's display board for Uni. I would have shown her how to do it but then she might get ideas that it was for her too...... It was so easy.....I can see her wanting lots more use out of it! All went well until we realised we didn't have enough pink for Spring. Oh well, another trip to the craft shop tomorrow - what a chore, lol.