Happy Lovely Beautiful

Hello friends! It's Wednesday and I have another layout to share with you today.

This past June, my sister-in-law got married again.  To explain things further, my brother passed away 9 years ago at the age of 38 leaving behind his wife Pam and his two children Laine that was 4 years old and Dylan that was 2 years old.  It was a very hard time for Pam and my family but life goes on and this past summer Pam got married again to a wonderful guy that we have welcomed into our family.  We are so happy that Pam found love and happiness again and we know that my brother would have approved of her choice in a new mate.

I thought I would document this special time for Pam so I created a layout of her on her wedding day.

For this layout I used a Fiskars Hexagon Paper Punch, a 6X6 paper pad of the new Crate Paper's Wonder Collection, the We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board to make the paper bows, some mist splatters from Heidi Swapp Colorshine Mists in Seafoam, Blush and Black Velvet, a 12X12 piece of white card stock, a doily, some old Basic Grey chipboard alphas and some old Fancy Pants buttons and sequins in my stash.

 I love using 6X6 paper pads for layouts.  The prints are a little smaller than the 12X12 papers and I love to use my paper punches on these.  Patterned paper has to be my favorite scrapbooking item.

The paper bows are a great way to embellish the layout give it a feminine touch.  They are so fun and easy to make using a We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board.  

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having a good week.

Scrap Our Stash November 1 Challenge

Hello scrappy peeps.

Today is my turn over at Scrap Our Stash and the challenge was to use 6 X 6 papers on a layout.  I loved this challenge as I love paper pads but when I buy them I have intentions of using them for diecutting or cards but don't think to use them on layouts.  The only 12 X 12 sheet of paper that is allowed for this challenge is the background paper.  The other challenge is to use at least 6 premade embellishments such as 6 chipboard pieces or 6 buttons.  They don't have to be the exact same size or colour.  I chose to use red sequins and on my layout I count eleven of them.  I love this trend and how inexpensive sequins are and how they give the layout that little extra sparkle.

The layout is of my youngest nephew all dressed up for halloween as Avatar.

Boys Will Be Boys

Cardstock - American Crafts
Cork Arrows - Fancy Pants DesignsDiecuts - Silhouette America
Distress Inks - Tim Holtz (Faded Jeans, Festive Berries)
Kraft Doily - Maya Road
Liquid Glass - Close To My Heart
Metal Paper Clip - Maya Road
Patterned Papers - Teresa Collins
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Rotating Stamp - American Crafts
Sequins - Unknown
Stencil - The Crafter's Workshop
Twine - Unknown

I chose some very different papers to create this layout and didn't use typical halloween colours at all.  Sometimes it's fun to try something different so I took the blue from Dylan's outfit and used that as my inspiration for the color palette of blue, grey, red and white.

I hope you enjoyed your visit and I would love to see what you create so be sure and upload your creation to the Scrap Our Stash Blog for November for a great prize.  Thanks for stopping by.