The Great Outdoors Layout

Hello friends. Today I am sharing an outdoor layout of my daughter and son in law ATVing.

For my layout I used two different sets of flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons, some papers, chipboard embellishments and stickers from the Bella Blvd. Campout Collection and some mists from October Afternoon.  To create my background on the white card stock, I used some cellophane packaging and sprayed a little mist onto it and then "stamped" it onto the card stock.  

I added some hand stitching below the clouds to give it more texture.

I also added some machine stitching around the patterned papers 

I hope you enjoyed your visit.  The flair buttons on this layout and hundreds more can be purchased at the A Flair For Buttons Store.

Thanks for stopping by!

Flair Used On This Layout

Happy Camper Flair Set

Fox And Owl Flair Set

You Had Me At Meow Layout

Hello friends! Today I'm up on the A Flair For Buttons Blog sharing a layout I created of my cat Sheldon.

Simple Stories has these cute Cat Sn@p! 3X4 Cards and Cat Sn@p Insta Squares & Pieces that have been sitting in my stash and although I didn't buy any patterned paper to use for these, I thought I would create my own by painting with paint dabbers in four bright colors to coordinate with these.

I then began layering papers and die cuts and popping up the photos and some of the die cuts with dimensional squares.

I added three flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons Got Cat Flair to my layout.  I love using flair on my layouts and couldn't wait to play with these.

 I also added some sequins and enamel dots and hand stitched some x's randomly on the page.  I am really loving these colors lately and have been doing a lot of hand stitching on my pages these days since I have a huge bag full of DMC embroidery floss from my old cross stitching days.

I also added some label stickers and mini alpha stickers to add words to my page.

Here are the flair buttons that I used on my layout.  Aren't they cute?

Got Cat Flair by A Flair For Buttons

I was also inspired by the June Sketch over at Paper Issues.

Be sure and check out The Get Cat Flair and hundreds more amazing and fun flair buttons in the 

A Flair For Buttons Store.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a wonderful day!

Flowers Make Me Smile

Hello friends! Happy Sunday! Today I had my morning coffee out on my front porch and decided to take out my camera, you know the one besides the iPhone.  I must say I have become lazy in the past year and don't use my DSLR camera nearly enough.  I decided to practice some macro photography since I have a macro lens (Canon 100mm F2/8L IS USM) which I don't use very often.  These are beginner photos.  Macro photography is a different world altogether and I would like to improve my macro photography skills so to improve it's practice, practice and more practice.

Here are some of the photos of my front yard flowers that I captured today.

I love color and I love Spring. My favorite season of the year.

Thanks for visiting my blog and now I'm off to my studio to scrapbook some of these photos.  Have a lovely day!