Come join us for a new challenge at Playing in Paradise!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

We have a new challenge up at Playing in Paradise and I'm the lucky host this month!  

Since it's Valentine's Day, I just had to do a layout of the newest love in my life, my little grandson Greyson.  My heart fills with love every time I look at him, so he's a fitting subject!

The inspiration for this layout came from the Marion Smith Nirvana paper line.  When I saw all those sweet little hearts, I knew this was my starting point.  I also used a sketch from Flying Unicorn that I loved.  

After punching the edges, I used some glitter snow and a butterfly stencil up in the right corner.   I put it on quite thickly as you can see, and I love the chunky, translucent, sparkly effect I ended up with.  

The paper butterfly was cut with a Memory Box die called Vivienne Butterfly.  It is so pretty and delicate.  The thing I love most about that die is it also cuts a body with antennas - that's something I always have trouble with when I'm making butterflies.

For the title, I used a piece of Dusty Attic chipboard and painted it with Croco Crackling Color in white.  I LOVE that stuff.  It dried very quickly and has awesome deep cracks.  The alphabet letters are a product from Close to my Heart.

This little piece below the photo was die cut with another Memory Box die called Cherish Border.  So pretty.  Scrapbooker's Paradise has a lot of lovely Memory Box dies in the store right now.

Supplies used are:

Nirvana paper collection from Marion Smith

Bo Bunny doily

Prima white flowers

Kaisercraft chocolate pearl flourishes

Kaisercraft wood clock

Dusty Attic chipboard

Prima heart and angel

Prima wood flowers

Prima butterfly stencil

Tim Holtz crinkle ribbon

Cheery Lynn English Tea Party doily die

Memory Box die, Vivienne Butterfly

Memory Box die, Cherish Border

Martha Stewart Around the Page punch

Viva Decor Crackling Color

CTMH Tiny Type Epoxy Alphabet

CTMH Wooden Circles

CTMH Aqua Dots

Glistening Snow-Tex "Glittering Snow" by Deco Art

To learn what you need to do for my challenge, 

go here to 

Playing in Paradise.

Challenges at Playing in Paradise are open to everyone, using whatever supplies you choose.  You have three weeks from today to make a project and link it to our challenge 

(using the linky tool you will find there.)

My design team mates have also been busy preparing projects for this challenge, so be sure and check their blogs out (just click on their names):

Pam

Dawn

Lee-Anne

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you all create for the challenge.  

Thank you for stopping by. 

Linda