Flower Child

I cannot even believe I am still awake scrapbooking at this hour.  I had no idea what time is was until I heard my husbands alarm go off.  Granted he wakes up in the middle of the night, but still....YIKES!  I was in the zone, but I better get this posted and crash before my kiddos wake up!!

One of the good things about scrapping in the middle of the night is that I catch all the challenges early as they tend to post at midnight on their scheduled day.  This layout was created for the latest Color Throwdown color palette.  They were inspired by a particular paper line that I happen to own so I thought I'd sit down and knock it out before I turned in.  Then I stumbled across these leftover patterned papers from an Easter layout I did a while back.  They fit even more perfect than the ones I'd planned to use.

That paper is all by JilliBean Soup.  The title was created from two different sets of white glitter Thickers that were Glimmer Misted with Starfish and Turquoise.  Some of the flowers are Prima and some Recollections.  The glittery butterfly is a button from my stash....I have quite the button stash!!  The polka dotted flower at the bottom was made from a piece of satin ribbon.  It's so ridiculously simple that even *I* was able to not screw it up LOL!  I'll have to share the instructions if I remember, but I found them online lots of places.

Digging deep in my stash

The challenge over at Shopping Our Stash, if I choose to accept it (of course I did!!!) is to dig deep into our hoards of stash and pull out something that's been needing to find a home on a scrappy project.  Well I decided to look no farther than my ziploc of scrap patterned papers that I had stashed away never to see the light of day again.  My scraps of cardstock always find love with my cricut when I'm cutting out pieces, but the patterned paper just keeps growing out of control.  So, I pulled this out and found some leftover stickers in my pile that I was going to get rid of because I'd already used off it what I'd intended to and created this entire layout from just scraps!!!  Go me!

Happy Chef!

I won't lie.  As soon as I saw this Echo Park 'Life is Good' line I fell in love and bought the whole thing.  I liked some of the patterned papers more than others, but there wasn't a single item that I can't imagine using.  The little houses are so fun and I thought they went perfectly for my daughter playing 'house' and making me a delicious plastic cheeseburger!  The only thing not Echo Park that I used for this layout is the adhesive (including the pop dots I used to pop up the house and double pop up the heart) and the gemstones that came in a $1 package at Joanns.

I followed the sketch posted at Pencillines with a little stretching.  Instead of the banner I used a scalloped cardstock sticker and gemstones to add some interest at the top and instead of the fence I used layered cardstock stickers.  I did draw inspiration from the fence.  It led me to the 'playing house' photo!!  I also had to alter it to fit the 8½x11 that I am trying to work on at the moment so I could only get one landscape 4x6 photo instead of 3 square photos.  I promise that I looked at that sketch the whole time LOL!!!