Day 23: "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts

I love the lyrics to Rascal Flatt's song, "My Wish", and decided I wanted to use them on a scrapbook page for each of my kids. I had found the lyrics online and copied them into a file of scrapbook ideas, so that I could have them ready when I wanted to use them. Tonight I worked on my daughter's page. She was wearing a turquoise blouse in the photo, and I had a beautiful blue paper with flocked butterflies by Anna Griffin that matched perfectly, so I used that as my background paper. From another sheet of the paper, I cut out some of the butterflies and used turquoise pearls by Jolee's to make the bodies of the butterflies. I also cut out photo corners from the Anna Griffin paper with my Paper Shaper punch. I used Pioneer clear photo corners to adhere the picture to the right side of the background paper. I printed out the lyrics to "My Wish" onto Stampin' Up! Soft Sky paper and used my Fiskars paper trimmer to separate the lines from each other. Then I used my Herma adhesive runner (EK Success) on the back of each line of the lyrics and attached them on the left side of my 12" x 12" page. I placed a photo corner in the lower left and upper right corners of the photo, put a small butterfly in the upper left corner, and placed a large butterfly and a smaller butterfly at the bottom right of the photo. I used a couple of pop dots to lift up the larger butterfly's wings to add dimension to the page.

Day 13: Beautiful Dancer Scrapbook Page

My daughter was in a dance recital and her costume was a pale green sheer material. To match it, I chose papers from Tea Party Designer Paper Collection by Stampin' Up! I used patterns of varying sizes so the eye would not be overwhelmed by all the variety of papers. I selected a paper with a green background with a small pink and yellow flower design for the base of the page. Using a die-cut paper I had, I traced around it and cut out a die-cut shape from a pink paper with white flowers. I layered the pink die-cut on top of the green base. Then I cut a rectangle from a pale purple paper with purple, yellow, and pink flowers as the mat for my daughter's photo, and layered that atop the pink die-cut. I attached the photo with clear photo corners by Pioneer. I used two pink metal photo corners by The Paper Studio in the bottom left and upper right corners of the photo. I cut two pink flowers from another of the coordinating papers, then layered a silk green and a silk pink flower on top of each, and secured the layers with a pink glimmer brad. I liked how the silk flowers carried on the light and airy feeling of my daughter's dress. I attached one flower in the upper left corner of the photo and the other flower in the bottom right corner of the photo. And that is how I created a scrapbook page for my beautiful dancer.