This is a double page shabby chic style layout featuring my sweet, Biscuit as a 1 year old (jumping picture with ears flying) and now at 16. Two weeks ago, we had a terrible health scare, and we agonized as we thought we would lose our sweet girl. Miraculously she pulled through. I wanted to create this special double page LO to memorialize our lives together as I pondered how amazing our lives have been with her and how blessed we are to have her still.
Journaling: The journaling spot on the left LO has a quote from Peter Pan that reads: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” The right LO includes a lot of journaling that memorializes snippets of our lives together–through 3 moves, 5 career changes, terrible health scares for me and her, how we met Mr. CraftyPaws, the addition of our 2nd fur baby, Bandito (who stole our hearts with his Havanese hurricanes spreading magical pixie dust like Tinkerbell), and how we got through everything together. I used the free Distress Typewriter Font in brown text for all the journaling, punched the top edge of the first journaling square on each LO with a Stampin’ Up Spiral Border Punch Notebook Trim Border, and inked all the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Spun Sugar and Antique Linen.
Stamped Images: I used the Wendy girl (representing me), Peter Pan boy (representing Mr. CraftyPaws) and “forever young” sentiment from The Greeting Farm’s Never Ever (retired) stamp set as well as the pup from The Greeting Farm “Mini Remix Happy” stamp set (representing Bandito as a doggy Tinkerbell). They were all stamped out with Momento Desert Sand ink and colored in the no line style with the following Copic colors:
Skin: E51, E53, R21, E11, and R30
Girl’s hair: C00, C4, C6, C7
Boy’s hair: E55 and E57
Dog’s fur: C00, C2, E11, E13, E15 and white gelly roll gel pen
Girl’s Dress and book: RV000, RV00, RV11, E81, E43, E84
Boy’s Outfit: YG21, YG25, YG95, YG97, and G99 plus some detailing with Distress Markers in Peeled Paint and Crushed Olive
For extra details on the images, I added white gelly roll pen details on the girl’s glasses and coated them with Glossy Accents for shine. I also used the top parts of a punched Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch topped with glitter glue for sparkle as wings for Bandito as Tinkerbell. I hand fussy cut each image out and popped them up on fun foam or double sided foam adhesive for added dimension.
Backgrounds: I used 2 patterned papers from an old DCWV paper stack from my hoard vault called, “The Lace & Linen Stack.” I used a Tim Holtz Alterations Weathered Clock die and Prima Vintage Clock die to create the white/pink/vintage tonal background layer just beneath the pictures. Â I wanted a lot of texture and detail for this layer, without distracting from the pictures of Biscuit or the stamped and colored images so I layered all these dies and stamped the “forever young” sentiment simply with more Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Spun Sugar and Antique Linen.
Embellishments/Bling: I used old crocheted lace trim, vintage buttons threaded with metallic gold thread (this isn’t as simple as it sounds – check out the video if you’re interested in the painstaking details), pale pink blingy pearl trim (which I also cut apart to add as clock hand centers), and hand fussy cut paper flower images that look like fabric flowers for embellishments. I also printed out in a free Magnolia Sky Script Font in pink onto vellum another quote from Peter Pan that reads, “All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust!”
The following is a video share of these layouts:
These layouts are being entered into the following challenges:
Work it Wednesday May Flowers Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge – WINNER
Crafty Purple Frog Fabulously Floral Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner Bling Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional for the Girls/Mother’s Day
SCT Magazine NSD Sketch Challenge
Sweet layout, glad your girl is ok. Thanks for sharing with us at Word Art Wednesday this week!!
Thank you so very much Natalie! I am so thankful she is ok too. 🙂
A lovely LO. Pretty papers and fabulous details.
Thank you for joining in with the Crafts Galore Encore May Challenge “Anything Goes”. Good luck x
Thank you so very much Andree! I really loved creating these layouts of my sweet girl. There were a lot of tears shed, but also a lot of smiles and gratefulness filled my heart.
It’s such a great idea to set this up while she’s still with you . Love it . If only they lived forever !
Thank you so much Tracy. Yes, if only….
Oh Kristina, what a gorgeous layout! Your journaling is so touching, I’m glad you still have your sweet pet and I hope you enjoy each other as long as possible.I can see you really put your whole heart into this creation, well done!xx
Thank you so very much Ann. Yes, a lot of tears were shed in the creation of this project, but lots of smiles and so much gratefulness filled my heart too. I cherish every extra day I get with her.
I love this layout. It makes my heart swell when I read about your love for Biscuit. I’m so glad she survived her health scare. Years from now you will be so glad you made this layout. I only have pictures of my sweet KC, but at least I have a lot of those.
Thank you so much Cynthia! Yes, My heart was swelling as were my eyes off and on for days creating these LOs. Thank you so much for your well wishes.
Beautiful layout’s and great coloring. Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Regards,
Ann-Marie
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Thank you so much Ann-Marie! This project was made from the heart.
Thanks bunches Ann-Marie! I really enjoyed the soft, no line coloring and designing these layouts
This layout is so sweet, I love your colors ! Thank you for joining In the Word Art Wednesday fun! Ginny M DT
Thank you so much Ginny! I really loved making these layouts.
Thanks so much, Ginny! I wanted​ to try to create soft, sweet layouts to reflect those traits of my precious girl.
What a cute layout Thanks for joining us at Crafty Gal corners DT Debs
Thanks so much Deb’s! This was a project made from the heart.
Great card – thanks for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.
Helen x
Thanks so much Helen! It was fun to create these layouts
Wow! your colouring is amazing! I love the no lines effect.
Thank you for joining us at Crafty Purple Frog and good luck.
Huge hugs
Amy xx
Thank you so much Amy! I really put all of my heart into these layouts. 🙂
What a lovely double scrapbook page you have made here which fits perfectly The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge this month of “fabulously floral”. Thank you for entering and best wishes in the draw. Kym (The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge Blog Design Team Member).
You are so kind. Thank so much for the sweet and encouraging words!
A wonderful layout!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional for the girls / Mother’s Day” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy the past couple of weeks…