Disney Days

For this layout I used the kit that I had put together for Jennifer Grace's 'Onwards and Upwards' blog event.  The photograph is one that my niece has given to me from her recent visit with her brothers to Disneyland.

I cut out the centre of the shaped paper and used the outer edge as a frame.  The butterflies were diecut with Cheery Lynn dies.  I have left the circle diecut blank so that my niece can write her own journaling.

Onwards and Upwards - weekend blog event

This weekend I am taking part in Jennifer Grace Creates blog event - Onwards and Upwards.  It started yesterday and one of the challenges was to build your own kit.  I have never done this before and have stuck to either using collection packs or kits that have been put together by a retailer.  I don't have any shortage of stash so I started sorting through piles of random paper and put a collection with co-ordinating cardstock together.

I added in chipboard, bling, bunting, blossoms, journalling cards, stickers and alphabets - it was good to go to my odds and sods bag and pull out some half used sticker sheets. 

I also found some stamp sets which hopefully will be useful to use with my kit.  And now looking at these photos I realise that I have forgotten to add any buttons to the kit - I am off to rectify that LOL!!

Hopefully I will be able to make a few layouts with my kit - I rarely ever mix up papers and use an assortment of manufacturers so this will be an interesting experiment for me.  I think I may have made the kit a little bit too big as well - once I started choosing papers last night I couldn't stop!!!!