Monday, June 23, 2014

Almost 5!

If you have followed my blog for a long time, you may remember that every year around Charlotte's Birthday I do an "Almost _" layout, lifting the design of the page every year.  So here is this year's installment of an "Almost _" layout: Almost 5!



I was inspired by a color combo at Color Me Scrappy.  The green of my daughters shirt was perfect for this combo.  I don't usually use such a bold color for background, but I loved this ombre paper from Glitz "Finnley" and the shade of green was a great match!



I was browsing through some cut files in the Silhouette store and loved this one (cut out of white cardstock). I backed some of the open spaces with patterned paper (Crate Paper Styleboard) and gold vellum (MME Necessities).  Then I stitched around the circle with pink thread.




I fussy cut a LOT of flowers from some MME "Now & Then Mildred" paper, and used some other die cut and vellum flowers (Crate Paper MH Styleboard).



A few other stickers and vellum bits here and there on the page.



Just for fun, here are the other 4 layouts from the past years!






Thanks for stopping by!  Stay Scrappy My Friends!


8 comments:

Chocoscrapaholic said...

What a great idea lifting your same design each year! Super layout!

Bonjourscrap said...

Love this idea of lifting the same page every year ! This one is a perfect match for the CMS combo. Thank you for playing with us !

JoanneK said...

This is so pretty! Love that you lift the same layout! Such a great idea! That SIL cut is amazing with the different papers beneath the cut outs! Fabulous!

JoanneK said...

This is so pretty! Love that you lift the same layout! Such a great idea! That SIL cut is amazing with the different papers beneath the cut outs! Fabulous!

Amanda Baldwin said...

WOW!!! Love ALL your 'almost' layouts! Such a fantastic idea (might be lifting that idea! ;) )and I love your take on the colour challenge too!Congratulations on such an inspiring entry! Thanks for joining us at CMS!

Unknown said...

what a great idea!!I love all of the layouts, and the colors and cut file in this years layout are soo lush!Happy "almost" birthday to your little one!

Brandi Matos said...

Absolutely fabulous work!!!

Thanks for joining us at CMS :-)

Jinny Newlin said...

Such sweet pages, Audrey! Really love the leafy, paper-pieced cut file and dimensional blooms on the first, and your circular design on the bunch is uber fun! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Color Me Scrappy!