Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Adorable

Believe it or not with the weather being sooo hot, I'm finding it more pleasant to be inside crafting rather than outside doing other stuff.  Oh dear how sad . . . not.  That's given me the chance to make a start with the monthly challenges starting with this gorgeous page I've made for Scrapping Everyday Miracles.  The monthly theme is "Friends Forever", so I've incorporated this theme with their monthly LO sketch as well (2 entries here I think, hehe).

 
Son Troy adores his pets, and they adore each other.  Sadly Troy & his partner have moved to live in Australia, so has left his pets to live here with us.  Luckily the animals have settled into our lives well.  When Troy does come home to visit they all spend a lot of time together as if he never went away. 
 
 
I found the embellishments fitted better by using the sketch turned once clockwise.  I started with an Authentique paper which I  spritzed with a bit of glimmer mist firstly (crème de chocolate & coffee shop), inked a few random patches with a honeycomb stencil, then stuck on a bit of dry wall tape.  Background completed it was easy to place these gorgeous photos, then compliment with these flowers and painted Dusty Attic chipboard, which I softened by placing on top of mini doily's and muslim.  DA pieces used were DA0941 Adorable & DA0868 Birds on a Barb Wire.
 
It is much easier making a page when you have such lovely photos to work with I find.  Thank you for visiting my page, thank you in advance for all your comments. 
 
***WINNER***
 

13 comments:

  1. This is so beautiful! I love everything, from the beautiful background to the perfect layout of the photos and the gorgeous elements, especially the birds on the barbed wire. Thank you for joining us at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.

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  2. this is truly a gorgeous page! love the details and elements! thanks for joining us over at Scrapping Everyday Miracles!

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  3. What a lovely lay out thanks for sharing with SEM this week Rachel DT

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  4. how fun. Great way to make the sketch work for you.
    Thanks for sharing with us at SEM

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  5. This is a gorgeous layout. I love the fun pictures of your son. I know he has to miss you all and his fur babies. You did a great job capturing friendship and using the sketch. Thanks for joining us this month at SEM DT An'Jenic.

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  6. The background of your LO is stunning! Love the details with the use of the stamp and dry wall tape. The pictures are quite adorable! Fabulous work! Thanks for joining us at SEM!

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  7. Beautiful LO! Love all the details of the background with the stamps and the dry wall tape! The pics are adorable! Thanks for joining us at SEM this month!

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  8. Fabulous layout Brenda and really pleased to hear the weather is good over there as we're heading that direction next week for a touring holiday.

    Thank you for joining in with our challenge at Let's Craft and Create it's always wonderful to see your creations.

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  9. oh wow, this is fabulous! Great take on the sketch layout. Thank you for joining us at SEM

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  10. Beautiful page! I love your embellishments! Thanks for joining us at Scrapping Everyday Miracles!!

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  11. Gorgeous layout Brenda---love everything about it (especially the birds and branches!) So glad you decided to link up with us at SEM this month!!

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  12. Gorgeous layout! I love the layering and flower cluster. Thanks for playing along with us at SEM!

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  13. beautiful job with the sketch and love all that embellishing! Send some heat this way. Here in Delaware USA we have had single digits nearly all week. Thanks for playing with us at SEM.

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