Paper Attic: 'love story'

Saturday, February 14, 2015

'love story'

Hello girls...

Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends...

I hope you are all spending a wonderful day today with loved ones...

I sat down last night to create a layout about my husband and I, (our 15th Wedding Anniversary is coming up) to express how much I love him...but...as I am always the one behind the camera, there just aren't that many good photos of us together! So I found this super sweet photo of my two guys, the bond they have is so amazing...and I just love them both to pieces....

'love story'

I created this with the beautiful Scraps of Elegance kit called 'Lisa's Love Letters'. for more info on how to buy our kits, please go here....and to see all the wonderful work from the design team please go here...

Here are a few close ups...

I decided to challenge myself in three ways this time...The first challenge.... use as much from the kit and the add-ons as I could in one layout, here I think I did good with that! I have used the beautiful black paper 'Romance Novel Ch. 2' by Marion Smith as my background, I used the red Silks acrylic glaze in 'Love Struck', the Crafter's Workshop stencil, the Blue Fern Studios stamp, the Blue Fern Studios heart chipboard piece, the white Prima resin frame, the black tulle, and the sweet butterflies and tiny key by 'Renea's Bouquets'.

My second challenge was to do something really different from my usual style...

as soon as I saw this gorgeous sketch on one of the blogs I love to visit I knew I had to give it a go as it had the most perfect way to use the black tulle that came in the kit...to sew it to the page!

The blog is called Scrapkopilka, and I really really loved all the beautiful work here...talk about a huge dose of inspiration! For more details on this challenge please go here...

My third challenge in this 'boy' layout was to not use flowers...well, here I failed...but I tried! I wanted to make something really arty and kind of abstract, but it was just missing something....so I added two flowers, at least they were black and gray, and not too girly :)...