Smile It's Spring

Hello friends! It's the weekend and today I wanted to share a layout that I created for A Flair For Buttons.

In April, I went to a scrapbooking retreat and decided to hand stitch a layout of daffodils because I wanted to hang it in my home to celebrate spring which happens to be my favorite season. With the long, harsh winters where I live, it is always great when the birds are chirping, the trees are blooming, the grass is green and the flowers are sprouting up in the gardens.

Daffodils are such a happy flower and when I saw a Daffodils Flowers Cut File designed by Paige Evans, I knew that I wanted to use my sketch pens in my Silhouette Cameo and sketch the daffodils design so I could hand stitch it. Yes, it was a labor of love, but I really enjoy the process and personally, I find it very relaxing and therapeutic.

After the design was stitched, I wanted to add some more color so I decided to take my Distress Oxides and a water brush and water color inside of the stitched design.

Adding a photo to this layout just didn't seem right because I wanted the hand stitched and watercolored daffodils to be the star of the show.

The embellishments to complete the layout were kept to a minimum so I added the yellow watercolor circle flair button to dot the "i" in the word "smile". It was from the Watercolor Circles Flair Set from A Flair For Buttons. I also added some coordinating sequins and enamel hearts. The title completed the layout and I went with yellow, green and black alphabet letters to give it more interest.

For photography purposes, I took photos of the layout before I framed it in a 12X12 scrapbook frame so there wouldn't be any glare from the glass frame.

I hope you are inspired to try something a little different by adding flair buttons to dot the "i" in a word and also some hand stitching and water coloring. Just have fun with it!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all the wonderful flair in the A Flair For Buttons shop.

Flair Used On Layout

Watercolor Circles Flair Set

Daffodils

Hello friends! Sharing another spring layout today with the May Creative Kit at My Creative Scrapbook. Spring is my favorite season of the year. The trees are blooming this week where I live and it's going to be a hot day today. I especially love spring flowers and wearing sundresses and flip flops. I digress. Daffodils are so pretty. I found these miniature daffodils and had to scrapbook them.

The May Creative Kit has such gorgeous papers. I really love the floral paper in the kit and wanted to use it on this layout so I used the pretty blue paper in the kit as my background and added the the floral paper on top. 

I fussy cut three tags and added ribbon and the circle sticker and built my title over them with phrase stickers, alpha stickers and puffy stickers from the kit.

There are some fussy cut butterflies and flowers placed around the layout as well as some triangle stickers. The journaling was created on scraps of pink paper and my typewriter. I love sewing on my layouts because I think it gives it more texture and a homemade feel to the page.  

Here is the completed layout.

Thanks for stopping by my blog once again. Check out all the kits at My Creative Scrapbook here. I hope you have a great day!