Sistahs!

September evenings can be a little chilly on Cape Cod and what could be a better solution than sharing a flamingo fleece blanket with my sister-in-law? My brother captured this moment with his phone and sent it on to me.

The mojo is still a bit lazy, so I looked through some of my past work for a bit of inspiration and came across this layout from August 2012 https://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/332343/view/3702533/-1/144/0.html and this lift is what I came up with.

As you can see, I found the perfect paper to frame and embellish my photo, a design so bright and bold that I chose to use a very muted sheet from the December Tres Jolie Kit as my background.

I was able to use one piece of the Carta Bella paper to cut two circles to use as matting with plenty left for my banners.

The title is a Cameo cut from thin cardstock that I colored with a couple of layers of Distress ink.

The Darice flowers (also from the kit) blended perfectly with the image and paper. I started filling in the gaps with small blooms from my stash.

 I cut a Creative Embellishments chippie (a gift from my good friend Maggi Harding) into four pieces, inked them with Distress ink and misted with a bit of Color Bloom and adhered them on the sides of my cluster.

I finished it all with scattering a few shells around the flowers.

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Supplies

Maja Design – Joyous Winterdays Collection – Ephemera #JOY-948

Carta Bella – Summer Splash Collection – Flamingo Fun #CBSPL83004

Darice – Sweetwater Roses – Mint #30062031

Wild Orchid Crafts – Sweetheart Blossom Flowers

Open Roses

Shells

Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Picked Raspberries #131275

Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Hickory Smoke #129691

Prima – Color Bloom Spray Mist – Cotton Candy #573737

Silhouette Cameo – Cotton Candy Font

Kreaxions – Circle Cutter

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Found It!

I’ve chosen to keep my first layout of 2019 pretty simple, taking advantage of the pattern of the background paper and the pops of red from the matting and the beautiful flower spray.

I’ve made a point of scrapping my son’s hunt for the perfect Christmas tree every year since 2010, when a tired little girl became so very upset when Daddy cut the tree down. https://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/332343/view/3035567/-1/288/0.html

That same little girl has grown into a young lady and has acquired a pair of twin brothers since then, but the annual hunt has gone on, with the kids getting bigger and somewhat more cooperative when it’s time for the photo shoot.

We’ve been having a lot of warm weather here in the Northeast, so rather than bundling up, we’ve been wearing sweaters and sweatshirts and rain boots for the mud, hence the very un-Winter-like image.

As I mentioned above, I found the paper a little too busy for a lot of adornment, so I decided to simply use a stenciled image to frame the photo. I backed each layer of matting with a bit of packaging to add some dimension before gluing it all down.

The larger flowers from Darice are actually mint, so I sprayed them with mist for a color that would blend in with the tree, using only a bit on one flower and more on the other two.

That cute shovel was broken in half to allow both ends to show on either side of the cluster.

With the exception of the mediums, the stencil and the red roses, all that you see here was created with the December 2018 Kit from Tres Jolie Kit Club.

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Supplies

Maja Design – Joyous Winterdays Collection – Evergreen #JOY-933

Maja Design – Joyous Winterdays Collection – Make Decorations #JOY-936

Prima – A Victorian Christmas Collection – Poinsettia Kiss #583507

Darice – Sweetwater Roses – Mint #30062031

Wild Orchid Crafts – Red Open Roses

Darice – Mini Snow Shovel #2424-27

13 Arts – Mixed Media Stencil – His Time

Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pad – Hickory Smoke #129691

Liquitex – Super Heavy Gesso

Prima – Color Bloom Spray Mist – Lime Wedge #573850

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As always, I want to thank you for peeking into my blog; your visits mean a lot to me.