My Little Man

Browsing through the family archives, I found this photo of Colten, age 4, popping his head out of a tunnel on the playground.  If my memory serves me right, I was in the tunnel - the part that branched off another direction - to get this picture.  I just had to have it printed and after all of my errands this morning were complete, I got scrappy :).  And sketchy :). 

This layout is based on the June Guest Design Team Challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays.  I love Heidi's sketches and am happy to be seeing more and more of them!

I made the flowers (which are available in my shop here - you can request the fabric I used for this layout).  I used October Afternoon papers for my background and framed the yellow damask with masking tape.  I took a piece of cardboard, painted the edge, and stamped the corner lines.

I used a scrap piece of one of my favorite K and Co. papers for the pleated strip, and some scrap pieces of two Basic Grey papers for my leaves and the bracket strip at the bottom. 
 

I recently discovered that I have way too many rub-ons for not being a rub-on user, so I've challenged myself to use them up.  The little finger pointing at my journaling is an American Crafts Mini Mark.  I loved the look of lace in the sketch, but was afraid to use lace on a layout about my boy.  Solution?  Use it anyway, but use a very subtle one.  I like the effect :).

I hope your day is sunny and bright.  Mine is, and I'm really grateful for that.  Thanks for stopping by! Tessa