Sneaky Post

I am trying to be sneaky and quickly share this page before one of the kids catches me. If they do then they'll all be up here gettin into stuff and my craft room is surprisingly clean right now. I would like to say that EVERYTHING is neat, tidy and organised but come on let's get real - some stuff was just shoved away. As I shoved it I told myself I'd sort it out later - yeah right like that's really gonna happen - but I felt better for allowing myself to think it was.

Oh - back to the page. I managed to compile this page throughout yesterday because I cheated. I fell so in love with this paper when I bought it a while back that I had to create a 'blank' page. If anyone thinks you HAVE to have photos to do a page think again. If I am inspired by paper I imagine the kind of photo or theme I'd like and do it anyway. I had already layered up the patterned paper, the scallops and scalloped corner and loosely added the flower to the page. All it needed was the right photo and some embellishing.





I ran across the larger photo while I was cleaning my room, promptly grabbed this page (from where I had just shoved it), dropped the photo into place and felt the creativity start to flow.




Next came the title with some super quick alphabet stickers that were by Chatter Box and a dollar store bargain, and then I had to leave it there. Just before blogging last night I did the text on my computer and added it.



Finally just before heading off for the night I stamped the swirls and leaves, added the brads and cut the bracket (parenthesis? is too hard to spell) using my die cut machine. It was calling to me so I had to do it or I would never have gotten to sleep!

As usual I may tweak with it - like adding small white flowers to the sprays to mimic those in the top corner of the photo - or I may leave it just as it is. Whatever happens today is going to be far too busy to get back to it.