Blog Party Week 2

Hello all you Scrappers! Happy Hump Day! For today's fun, I thought I would revisit another layout I did using May's "Adore You" kit. I also used some of the patterned paper add-on and some Sass goodness from the Sassafras kit, also available in the store. Everyone who knows me, knows how much I love me some Sassafras Lass. So, when I saw Kristen had paired my beloved Sass with the brand new, red hot Lily Bee stuff for the month of May, I was "stoked". (Yes, I'm old enough to say that word!)

I started with the backside of Lily Bee's "Handmade"(the pale green/blue/cream floral). Above that I added a piece of the Vintage Yummy "Memory Lane". This piece looks like a rainbow with all those curves. So, so far I've got my "base". But what to do with the edge between my 2 patterns? I cut 2 strips of Lily Bee's "Paris", the blue floral. I accordion folded these real random-like going back and forth and even back to back. You get the picture, real haphazard. As I went i tried to guide it over the bottom curves of the "Memory Lane" paper. When one piece ended, I just shoved the end of the second strip under the first, and kept going. Once I had this edge bordering the 2 base papers the way I wanted, I tacked it down with a tiny bit of adhesive before I ran a stitch down the whole thing to keep it down for good. Like so...

Something else I did here was cut-up the branch from the upper left hand corner of Sass's "In Love" paper from the Sass kit. I needed it on the other side of my page, so i flipped it and glued it down in the lower right hand corner of my page. When I glued it down, I just used a little adhesive. And then I curled up the edges of the butterfly and leaves, etc. to give the page some more dimension. See what I mean:

To finish up the page i added some Woodland Whimsy chipboard (and added stitching behind the birdy), a hand-cut frame from the "Remember Me" paper on pop dots (yes, I use these frames on a ton of my stuff), a couple layered Chatterbox butterfly embellies. My pix, a fun mixed-up title, and of course some journaling added up to one meaningful yummy page.

Thanks for stopping by today. Make sure you check back soon when I show you a little magazine inspiration for next month's ROCKIN June kit!

**edited to add. leave me a comment about something that makes you happy and I'll enter your name in a little rak of scrappy goodness from me to you. I'll draw a name at 5pm ET on Friday. Good luck!