Life is a Balancing Act.: September 2014

Evening All :)

Popping in to share with you my latest

layout for

An awesome colour scheme

compelling evidence & the testimony....well what can I say!?

Colour Scheme- All colours
Evidence- Stripes- background paper (7 gypsies pp), Hearts- coconut button (craftqueen), random hearts, wet medium- texture paste (used with Tim Holtz stencil), string- top stitch thread..
Testimony- 'Exquisite Treasure' (Photograph taken by Sarah Parish)
This is a photo of a friends daughter......little 'Ayva' she is such a stunning little girl. I first met them when Ayva was a newborn bundle of joy and have loved watching her grow. She is in my opinion A Exquisite Treasure!
Although I don't see them anymore I do love watching her grow through Facebook.
Thank you Sarah for allowing me to scrap your beautiful daughter x

I have also used this stunning

Ornate Frames 18 from Scrapmatts

I do hope you can join in the fun this week over at

CSI

Don't forget about the DT Call to find out all you need to know go

HERE

Thanks for stopping by

Love & Scrappy Hugs

Kim

Hello there :)

So it is that time of the month all ready

MID-MONTH REVEAL

Scrap Around The World

Amy Voorthuis

has created a magical fairytale mood board for us this month....

It is just so sweet, and I'm sure you all agree!

Beautiful isn't it!

And here is my layout...

Now, I have had this Maja Design paper in my stash for some time now

and just couldn't bring myself to use it.....It is just soooo pretty...until now!!
I didn't want to cover it's prettiness in a lot of stuff, so I have just added a little subtle texture
by using gesso and a kaisercraft stamp & also some Metallic Melts.

The stunning little miss in my layout is 'Ayva', a friends daughter and she kindly gave me permission to use her gorgeous photo's .......Thank You, Sarah!

A big thank you to Miss Annette Edmonds for giving me that stunning big flower from her stash

I love how it looks...xxx

I have used leaf ribbon, kaisercraft stamp and buttons from

Craft Queen

& that fantastic frame is from

Scrapmatts

and (yes there is more!!)

Tinby Designs- Metallic Melts

in Pink Sorbet

(can you spot it?)

To see the Design Team's Reveal 1 you can go HERE

To See the mid-month Reveal go HERE

(Some seriously stunning work by the SATW DT!!!)

You only need to be inspired by ONE image but can be inspired by

more than one or even ALL the images - it really is UP TO YOU!!

We are NOT A COLOUR CHALLENGE SITE so there is no need

to follow our colours, although of course if they are your source of

inspiration you are welcome to use them all, or just some of them,

otherwise none at all! You have complete artistic freedom BUT

we do need to be able to SEE HOW YOU WERE INSPIRED!

So please remember to tell us in your post!!

To be eligible for judging you need to follow our

10 Golden Rules HERE, which include:-

1) Sharing the mood board image in your blog post.

2) Mentioning Scrap Around The World {in full - not just

SATW} & LINKING BACK to our current challenge.

3) Explaining how you were inspired by our mood board

4) Linking back to your SATW blog post NOT YOUR ENTIRE BLOG.

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If receiving comments from some of our Design Team members is important

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3RD PRIZE

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4TH PRIZE

$20 worth of NEW RELEASE 2Crafty Chipboard!

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