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Thursday, December 8, 2011

CR84FN44 - Visiting Maman & Papa

So, the colors over at the CR84FN blog this week.... not so me.


So I flipped through my papers looking for inspiration, and found this gorgeous blue sky and cherry blossoms paper from DCWV. Decided I definitely wanted to use that paper (the point is to use up your stash), so then I went in search of photos to match.

What I found were these cute photos of me when I was little, posing for Mom with all the flowers at my grandparents home.

And so... a layout was born:



Now something weird happened when I took the photo - my coral (perfectly coral) paper magically turned more orange-y.... and I could not figure out how to fix it, although Picasa did a great job with their pure neutral match function. Could just be an issue with this monitor I use, who knows!

So I stitched on my cherry blossom paper using a tight zig zag on my machine, matted the photos in coral, and added some ancient Creative Memories light pink alphas. First time I used those alphas and I am addicted!! So cute and so easy to line up nicely with a ruler (too bad I didn't think of the ruler til half way through Visiting). I also added two glittered dots to the title. These are just glue dots dusted with Martha Stewart glitter. I am loving that idea, it is scraplifted off a Card/Stamp hop I did last week...

Other fun new product I tried on this was the Elmer's Adhesive Tape Runner. I really like it, better than the dot runner as it sticks even better.

Hope you enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. A super layout - I think the pictures are really sweet. Lovely paper and nice stitching too. Thanks for playing along with CR84FN!

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  2. Darling layout! Love the photos of you when you were little and how you preserved the sweet memory! Thanks for playing along with us at CR84FN!

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  3. Oh dear Tory, what a sweet LO! Those photos are so precious! What a wonderful keepsake! Thanks for joining along with CR84FN :)

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  4. Tory, this s just the sweetest layout! Thanks so much for playing along with CR84FN!

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