Today at PRACTICAL SCRAPPERS, we are playing with banners and flags - which is one of my mostest favoritest never-want-them-to-go-out-of-style trends! I'm not kidding - just this morning there was a poll on Facebook asking what trend we never wanted to go out of style. And my answer was, of course, banners!
I have had the Lula Bug with me all weekend, and the pool was calling our names, so my free time to scrap was pretty much set to zero. But, you have to live life to be able to document it. So that is what we were doing - living life! (and maybe getting a lil' bit sunburned in the process)
Anyway, what that means is that when I found a way to combine a fun June sketch challenge over at MY MINDS EYE with Monday's Practical Scrappers assignment to create a layout with banners and flags, I jumped at the chance. In case you didn't see it, the sketch can be found HERE. And you see my take on it above - a lot "fuller" than sketch, but that's what I love about scrapbooking. Everything is open to interpretation!
I had so much fun creating all the details on this layout. Want to see a close-up or two? Why, of course you do!!! Here you go:
This is my banner that I made with my Silhouette Cameo. I love the fact that the banner file already included the word "today" as a cutout. So that the word could be seen clearly, I layered a solid pink eyelet trim behind each cutout. I also machine stitched just about every sheet of paper on this layout, and I added pop dots in several places to further accentuate my layers.
Here is an even closer close-up:
I absolutely love all the rich detail of MME's Find Your Wings and Fly Collection!!! And MME always has just the right ratio of shabby chic and trendy.
Part of the MME sketch challenge was to use arrows, so I made sure I included several of those in my layout, too.
That's it for me today. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see a new reveal and to find out who has won prizes from this past weekend's blog hop!!!
Wonderfull layout! Like details and photos - they are so sweet both =))
ReplyDeleteLove all the patterns, layers, and texture on this layout. So gorgeous. The banners are so fun... I never think to add different papers to them as you have. So cute!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love the layering!
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