Another layout for today...

I had some more scrapping time today so I did a layout of Madison. This was last year on Mothers Day when we were over at Mark's Nanny's house. She has some really beautiful flowers in her yard and Madison just loved them. She walked around smelling them for almost an hour, and since she was a VERY active almost 2 year old at the time, I was amazed! I snapped this shot of her and really loved it...

For this layout, I tried to keep it really simple but still add a little bit of elegance to it. The paper is absolutely gorgeous and I didn't want to take away from it, so I decided to use only cardstock with it instead of any other patterns...

To start, I traced a circle out of some green cardstock with a small dinner plate and cut it out by hand. I then distressed the edges with my scissors and inked them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Walnut Stain). Next I cut out a photo mat from a tan color cardstock and inked it all over with a plain brown ink (I didn't have the right color cardstock so I made it myself!).

I wanted to add something else to it and figured it was the perfect opportunity to use one of the oval doilies I just found last night at The Dollar Tree (24 for only $1!). I cut the end off of the doily, inked it with the same ink as the green cardstock and then glued it to the back of the photo mat. Once I decided where to put everything on the page, I was done! I really like how it all came together...

My sister again...

I made another layout for my sister...this time for her birthday (which is today!). I took this picture of her with my girls and my niece (so all 3 of my sister's nieces) on Thanksgiving. When she saw it, she really loved it and immediately asked me for a copy. I figured there was no better way for her to display it than scrapped! ;)

Pretty much all I did was cut some paper out, distress and ink the edges, and throw a picture on there. Very simple, but I'm sure she'll really like how it turned out and that's all that matters, right?? :)