What a Wonderful Day

Today I'm sharing a 1951 photo of my parents on their wedding day!  Mom looks 'giddy' with happiness. : )
She was 20 years old and Dad was 24.  What a beautiful couple!

I recently received the absolutely stunningly gorgeous Blue Fern Studios Timeless paper collection!  This paper is SO beautiful and made such a stunning background for this wonderful photo!  All I did was a little edge stamping and glittered the butterfly.

Initially I had some trouble entering this in the Lindy's Stamp Gang January 2016 Color Challenge, but it appears it may have taken and is entered.  

Their beautiful board:

All of the flowers in my layout are Wild Orchid Crafts roses and all were sprayed or touched up with Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Bodacious Blush.  This is one of my very most favorite Starburst colors because it's very vintage! 

The large roses were first sprayed with LSG Starburst Salt Water Taffy and then lightly sprayed with Bodacious Blush.  LOVE!!! I also sprayed the tassels with Bodacious Blush and then accented them with spritzes of LSG Starburst Alpine Ice Rose to get a two-tone effect.  I really love how this flower-tassel cluster came out!

The gorgeous swirled chipboard at the top of the layout is from WOW (Words or Whatever).  I embossed it with LSG color Stardust Candy Rose and then added touches of Bodacious Blush mica powder.  This vintage look made a huge difference in something pretty to something WOW!  This piece was then decorated with silver microbeads and purple toned small roses brushed with Starburst Bodacious Blush.

 

 

 

The Blue Fern Studios chippie, Deja Vu Dangle, is absolutely divine!  It was so perfect for this layout!  I simply painted it with Bodacious Blush mica powder so that the chipboard would soak in the color and be on the darker side.  Stunning!  I added a small rose and Want2Scrap Mother of Pearl rhinestones.  These are very unique and have tints of blue, pink and gold.   In the open oval at the bottom of this chippie, I placed a tiny portrait of my parents taken in 2003 (when they had been married 52 yrs).  

 

 

 

The title was cut from Blue Fern Studios Timeless collection page Calling Cards.  I printed a sentiment as well to commemorate their long marriage together. 

 

This certainly was a wonderful day on March 17, 1951! 

Because of it, I'm here today to create something that I have no doubt both of my parents would love.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day!  Lisa : )



 

Products used:

 

Blue Fern Studios:

  Timeless paper collection-

    ~Papillons

     ~Calling Cards

   chipboard - Deja Vu Dangles

   stamp - Shabby Edges

WOW (Words or Whatever) chipboard - Belle Flourish

Lindy's Stamp Gang:

  Starbursts - Bodacious Blush, Alpine Ice Rose & Salt Water Taffy

  Embossing Powder - Stardust Candy Rose

  Magical mica - Bodacious Blush (Totally 80's set)

 

Wild Orchid Crafts:

   Pink/White Mix, Large Wild Roses 40mm (QVR-071)

   White, Large Wild Rosebuds (MKX-100)

    Purple/Lilac Tone Open Roses 15mm (MKX-662) 

    Pink Mix Open Roses 10mm (MKX-661)

    White Long Stem Stamens (MKX-471)

   Green Rose Leaves 15mm (MKX-441)

 

Creative Charms - Vintage Brad (pink)

 

Jolee's Boutique - Fleur de Lis

 

Petaloo - Chantilly Velvet Leaves

 

Michael's - Bronze Glitter Number stickers, Silver Microbeads, Bling on a roll-clear diamonds

Hobby Lobby - tassels & beaded ribbon 

Want2Scrap rhinestones - Pink & Mother of Pearl

ColorBox Pigment Ink - Chestnut Roan

Distress Stickles - Vintage Photo & Antique Linen

Sybil

To start this new year, I'm sharing a memorial tribute page of our sweet Sybil. 
This is the very first time that I've scrapped her. 

A month and a half after Sophie died, I adopted Sybil in Aug. 2007 from a shelter where she had lived for 3 months because the owner couldn't take care of her anymore. We gave her lots of love and attention for a short 1-1/2 years before she passed away 6-7-2009 of heart failure.  The "Pink Garden" in our backyard was created so Sybil could have a proper resting place and also to give Sophie a memorial.

I have very few good photos of Sybil because she was not real photogenic.

This is my most favorite photo of her, taken on January 7, 2009.

 

To match Sybil's colors, I chose light blue, peach and brown as the color palette.  She had an orangey-peach colored 'kissing dot' on the top of her head. Her nose was peach colored too.  Her eyes were the lightest, prettiest baby blue.  First, the page was sprayed with light blue and peach colors to start the layout. 

The corner chippie is a gorgeous piece from Blue Fern Studios called Timeless Floral Corner.  I emboss-painted it using Fran-táge Aged Ochre & Shabby Blue, as well as Lindy's Stamp Gang Fiddlehead Fern Green Blue.  Salmon colored diamond dust, rhinestones in baby blue & peach colors, Wild Orchid Crafts mini peach colored Sweetheart Blossoms and Flower Soft in Pale Green color finished the piece.

Sizzix Tattered Florals BigZ die gave shape to the blue marbled vellum flowers I made. 

Metal bead separators were used for the flower centers.

Even a tiny antique-white resin frame got a make-over with Fran-táge Shabby Blue embossing.

I used The Dusty Attic Foliage to create flower stems for the Wild Orchid Crafts peach colored Sweetheart Blossoms.  I took pieces off the Foliage, heat embossed in Fran-táge Aged Ochre & Shabby Blue; then randomly placed them on the page...along with Rose-Gold colored rhinestones.

 

The Want2Scrap custom ordered chipboard title was left in its natural state and topped with Glossy Accents.

 

I really wanted to make a soft, dainty page with 'sparkle' for sweet Sybil.

I'm very happy how this turned out because she certainly deserves a pretty page.

 

Happy 2016 and thanks so much for visiting!  Lisa : )  >^..^<

 

Products used:

 

Bo Bunny Garden Journal collection - pages: Delight, Post Card & Notebook

Blue Fern Studios

    chipboard - Timeless Floral Corner

 

    clear stamp - Shabby Edges (stamped in Distress Ink color Broken China then punched with Pointed Flower edge punch)

The Dusty Attic chipboard - Heart Attack Panel Small #2 (DA-1204) & Foliage (DA-0506)

 

Prima Color Bloom Spray Mist - Summer Sky & Lime Wedge

 

EK Success punches - Round Binding Edge & Pointed Flower

 

Sizzix BigZ Die - Tim Holtz - Tattered Florals

 

Stampendous Fran-táge embossing - Aged Ochre & Shabby Blue

Flower Soft - Pale Green

Wild Orchid Crafts flowers - peach colored Sweetheart Blossoms (regular #MKX-640) & (mini #MKX-265)

 

Petaloo - Chantilly Velvet Leaves (only the pair at the top right of the layout)

 

Want2Scrap - custom order chipboard title

Lindy's Stamp Gang -
    Starburst spray - Cape Cod Coral
    Flat Fabio spray - Oz's Emerald City (retired color)
    Embossing powder - Sunrise Salmon Gold & Fiddlehead Fern Green Blue
Recollections (Michael's) -
    Paper leaves (colored with Prima Lime Wedge & LSG Oz's Emerald City)
    Resin frame
    Rose Gold colored rhinestones
    Baby Blue colored rhinestones
    Peach colored rhinestones (square)
    Marbled vellum
    Metal bead separators
ColorBox Pigment Ink - Coral
Ranger - Glossy Accents
Cheesecloth