12x12 Layout - Treasured Garden

WOW! Let me just say it has been a very busy 4 months. Some ups and downs but I'm sooooo... ready for the new year! I think the hardest part of walking your path in life is that some times you can't see where that path is taking you and you doubt yourself. I think that is some thing that many of us struggle with. We try to plan how the path will go and we start doubting it once our plans are adjusted or caught off course. Some times that best thing to do is sit and be still. Let yourself have a chance to see where the path wants to take you instead of where you want the path to lead. It's a very hard thing to do. This is the hardest thing I struggle with. I want to see the end result before I walk down the path and I have learn you miss A LOT when you have your blinders on. Some times you get caught up on trying to figure it all out, that you miss a lot of what is going on around you.  When that happens you need to pull into a pit stop. If you can't get your head back into the game your pit stop may be the one thing that keeps you from going after your dream. 

While I was at my recent pit stop I decide to just sit down and create a page. I can't remember the last time I created a 12x12 layout. Maybe the summer?? 

I kept the layout simple until I started creating my garden of flowers.

The angle of the photo is horrible but its been really wet outside and trying to catch some sun was working against me today. Couldn't lay on the wet ground to capture this one..LOL

I love adding all kinds of trinkets into my garden of flowers. It's fun to hide and seek elements, specially when you are working with sprays of flowers. It's almost like a game of "Where's Waldo"!

Lets play for a moment shall we? 

Can you find these things?

(click on the photos)

- 7 Buttons

-Butterfly

-Feather

-5 Metal Leaves

-Decorative Rose Button

I hope to have some more time after the new year to work on some fab projects and showcase them here on my blog. I haven't been using it very often. I just need to get back into the swing of things again :)

I have been working on some thing in between all the hustle and bustle.

We have added a new and improved classroom on my website. 

http://www.morepaperthanshoes.com

We have not opened the doors for visitors just yet BUT I am holding a VIP class in Feb 2013. This will be the opening of the first classroom. We hope by March 2013 to have the creative commons where you can see the different classrooms you might want to join open and ready for registration. That is still a work in progress but the VIP class is going to be an awesome flower class. You can read more about it on my "How-To Classes" page. 

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful TGIF! 

Check back tomorrow and see what I will be giving away! 

Until then...

Hugs, 

Anna

Ooh-La-La Vintage Tresures - Design Team Project

Here is another project I created using some of the items I got from Vintage Treasure's. I was very excited to get some of the Webster's pages from them. I haven't worked with these papers yet. The Webster's pages are so pretty! Very classic vintage but with splash of colors.  

The paper I used on this layout was "Your Life. Beautiful." (US1797D)

The larger flowers are my own designed roses that I make by hand.

I used a Ivy stem I bought at Michaels a while back that had some pretty pink berries on it. I then added some more artificial leaves at the bottom to carry the spray down. I used some mulberry tiny roses to bring out some of the browns that are in the background of some of the papers that were used.

The frame around the picture was a digital cut file from the "Silhouette" cutting machine.

There are many small details tucked into this spray when you get a closer look.

The beautiful lace I used on the side of the layout is from the Vintage Treasure's store, so be sure to check out what is in stock!

I loved working with these papers and hope to do another layout from this collection soon!

I hope every one has a wonderful weekend!

Vintage Butterfly Garden

I made this over the weekend while I was playing with roses for my design team and doing housework..lol. I really love the yellow roses that are in my Etsy shop. I wanted to try them out on a layout. The first thing I found when I was searching for the paper I wanted, was these paper doilies. I used my homemade glimmer mist green and gold. I loved how it turned out. I used that when I was looking for the paper for this layout.  

The paper I used was from the "Mariposa" collection by DCWV. I love this collection and when my mom got me the stack for Christmas I couldn't wait to play around with it!

My grandmother made these for me. She made them on her embroidery machine. I love these!! They took to the glimmer mist very well. I also added some gleams paint by Decoart on some of it, along with the Dazzling Metallic paint by Decoart.

Then comes all my handmade paper flowers that I did on this layout. I tend to make my own flowers since I'm on a budget..LOL. I'm a SAHM and we have 5 kids, so I can't always get the nice designer products. So I had to figure out a way to make my own and I think I do a pretty good job on them!

I hand made all the flowers and embossed all the leaves and petals you see here on this spray. The only thing I did not make are the little dark pink berries that peek out on the side of some of the flowers.

I hope do some more layouts and this one will be available on my Etsy shop soon!