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SUMMER reflections

I am so pleased to be a Guest Designer for Show Us Your Stuff this month - very exciting! I was sent this mood board: And this is the layout I came up with: I've mainly used January's like for ever kit and add ons, with a little added ribbon and lace from Crafty Ribbons and some extra enamel dots from my stash. I took the colours from the mood board - red and white from the umbrella, yellow from the centre of the flowers and aquas from the water. I altered the mistable alphas from the 'twenty sixteen' kit... a little more on that later on. I adore these star paper clips!  The photo is awful BUT it captures the moment well.  I was too hot to do anything other than sit and drink water.  I was listening to pod casts and was obviously a little bored as I took a reflected selfie in the laptop screen.  (I'm not good with selfies at the best of times!) I coloured a few hearts in with my Derwent Inktense pencils and tucked a layer...

the tiny destroyer

I've been gone a while.  I keep seeing things that I find super inspiring but I've had either no energy or other things needing to be done.  One of the many tabs left open on my web browser is 'show us your stuff' and their December sketch.  I managed to have a go this yesterday afternoon... Pretty much the entire layout is made with like for ever kit contents.  I added some tiny stars (ebay), ribbon off cuts ( Crafty Ribbons ), a doily ( SpiegelMomScraps ). The title is long for me - and I had no trouble getting it all out of the mini alpha tiles from Cocoa Vanilla, with loads of left overs.  Why aren't all alpha sets like this?!  And the journalling to explain the title.  He was eleven months then... I wonder how he'll react this year... I have real trouble using flair - not buying it though!  I was pleased to get this one on the page. The top cluster with it's wonderful chubby star! The doily was white.  I...