Bloom

Hey there friends!  Thanks for coming by.  Another week down and new one beginning and a couple of challenge blogs that I have created a layout for.  Before I get to that I want to quickly thank all of you who wished me best of luck on G45's dt call.  Another year and another no, but it's a tough choice to make when you have so many vying for just 30 spots and then down to 12.  Each year my work gets better, so next year might just be my turn :)

Now, this layout was done for Craft Hoarders Anonymous and Scrap Around The World.  Both of these blogs are just awesome, and I really love their challenges.  Please give them a visit, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

First up, Scrap Around The World.  They had a gorgeous mood board to give inspiration, I just loved it!

Isn't it gorgeous!  Love all the pinks in it, it makes me feel happy.  Next is Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

Their prompt was Sparkle, Glitz or Glam!  Well, isn't that right up my ally :D  I love me some bling!

Here is my interpretation -

Just want to tell you about the background treatment I did here.  First I painted the area with some vanilla paint, then I used my prima stone wall stencil and sprayed it with Lindy's then edged the stones with colored pencil to define it a bit more.

This is Graphic 45's Botanical Tea collection.  It's just gorgeous.  I knew I wanted to do a background treatment since it was a patterned paper, and the roses just lent itself to a wall.  I made the big cabbage roses myself the rest are from my stash.  On the right side of the pic are Botanical Tea cut outs, a postcard and stamps.  I popped the matting and pic up a bit so I can tuck goodies in here and there.  the vine chippie is from Creative Embellishments.  The title I cut myself with my cricut.  You can see my sparkly bling flourishes tucked here and there as well as some rhinestone dots in the top and lower right hand corners.  Happy with how this came and with the background treatment I made.  The picture is of my beautiful granddaughter Gianna.  This is from Desirae's wedding.  Did you think I was kidding when I said I can scrap the rest of my life off of those pics? lol  She is quite the ham and thought she was a model with her own photographer! Also, I didn't distress my paper edges like I usually do.  I went with just a basic inking around the page. I haven't done a YouTube in a dogs age, so maybe I'll do one on the background :)

Product List 

Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Paper
Graphic 45 Secret Garden and Once Upon A Springtime for mats
Prima Stonewall Stencil
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint, Vanilla
Lindy's Starburst Sprays, Mad Hatter Mint, Rusty Lantern Lime, Steampunk Sepia, Blue Hawaiian Blue, Cheshire Cat Cherry, Pink Ladies Pink, Cotton Candy Pink
Creative Embellishments Chipboard, flourish set 10
Want To Scrap Build Your Own Bling
Recollection Roses small
Prima flower
Michael's Artificial leaves
Distress Ink Walnut, Black Soot
Ingvild Bolme Fluid Chalk Edger, olive vine
Studio G Chalks, rose
Butterfly printable

I hope you like it.  Thanks for coming by, and have a great week!