So Grateful

Hello Friends! Today I would like to share this layout with you that I made using an older Kaisercraft collection called Rose Avenue. It is such a beautiful, soft and feminine collection. The two little photos are of me when I was a baby, I'm not sure how old I was, sadly none of the photos I have of my childhood are dated. I thought it would be fun to make a grid layout. So I took different elements out of the collection and cut them to the desired shape and size and made a grid. If you look closely you will see that I added some tissue paper to the backs of my photos, it adds a softness to the photo and I just plain like the way it looks! I love dimension and so I popped most of the elements up on adhesive foam. I also added stitching the to squares and rectangles to further make them pop. I love me some stitchin'!! And that is all for this layout. Short and sweet. It came together quite quickly (except for the stitching of course).

Love our Secret Garden

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing with you this layout I made using a very old picture of me and my sister. I must have been around a year old, and my sister must have been about 4. As you can see, we are picking blossoms off a bush of some sorts. So, I thought it appropriate to use the Kaisercraft collection called Secret Garden. It is one of their older collections, and I don't think its even available in the shops or on line anymore. I have it in my stash and now I got some use out of it! It is such a beautiful, soft, feminine collection. The pinks and the greens are so subtle with the blues offer an accented contrast to the rest of the colours. I just love making diagonal layouts, it is so easy to embellish and everything always seem to flow so well together. As you can see I did what I do on most layouts, I fussy cut a lot of the flowers on one of the 12x12 sheets in the collection pack. If you don't know me by now, I just LOVE fussy cutting! I can spent hours fussy cutting, basically until my hand cramps up! There is not much technical to say about this layout. I placed my photo on the bottom half of the diagonal line and I arranged the flowers in a sort of a bouquet popping out from behind the photo. I have to say that the chain stitching around the layout took quite a while, but worth it!