'Fabulous' for Scraps of Elegance with July kit.

Are you ready for another page with the July kit from Scraps of Elegance?
 (If you scroll down two posts you can see the kit and everything in it.)

As always Melinda managed to find the perfect ingredients for making many lovely pages. 

All the supplies are so easily matched.

I am actually quite happy with this page, I am just not happy with how it photographed. 

I tried several times but the gesso will stand out too much and disturb the balance of the layout. 

Well, nothing to be done about that....

This is quite a nice shot of my eldest. 

She recently came home from spending a year at Cornell university  in the US and was actually invited to China for a few days just to sing at an event there. 

No doubt in her mind about going, although it was coinciding with exams. 

She talked to her teachers and the trip was arranged. 

She was very well received and really enjoyed being star for a day!

She was repeatedly told she was the most important person there and had three people 

constantly at her beck and call. This shot was taken around midnight when she arrived back in her room  after a long day that started already at 8 o'clock in the morning.

I just adore thes gorgeous large flowers. Both the teal and the pink one are from Petaloo.

The kit also contains some wooden embellishments from Prima Marketing and some cool word/title stickers from Heidi Swapp. The pink wing is made with one of the new dies from Sizzix/Prima.These dies are part of the Flora Grande collection. You can look up all the Flora Grande dies HERE!

I cut out the heart shape and layered it on a slightly larger heart that I cut with scalloped scissors. 

I backed it with some cheese cloth.

That's all for today! I hope you enjoyed my page and please check out the kits at Scraps of Elegance if you are on the lookout for something really special!

Scraps of Elegance July kit 'Chasing Rabbits'. First page.

Hi there ! 

I'm so happy you came over to check out the reveal of my first page made with the July kit from Scraps of Elegance. Melinda always gives us such great kits to work with and as you can see this is no exception! :-)

Here is what I made:

I startede by using some of the Marion Smith Design papers in the kit because I have admired 

their design for some time and not been able to get my hands on them. 

I must say they are really gorgeous up close and IRL!!

But lets start at the beginning and not get ahead of ourselves! Here is the main kit:

 The Mad Hatter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are"
We were certainly mad about Marion Smith Designs' Mad Tea Party collection, and just knew it would be perfect in one of our kits! We hope you will love it as much as we do...

 Included in this month's kit:

Patterned Paper

• Marion Smith Designs: Mad Tea Party Collection:  Tea Party, Rabbit Hole, Wonderland, Roses Are Red, Spot of Tea, Cut n Create Ephemera,
  
• Webster's Pages: Party Time Collection: Sweets Table, This Special Moment
  
• Kaisercraft: Telegraph Road Collection:  Memo, Parcel
  

Embellishments/Other Kit Components
Prima: Something Blue Collection - Save The Date Flowers
Kaisercraft: Storyteller Collection - 12x12 Cardstock Stickers
Heidi Swapp: Buzz Words Epoxy Stickers - Celebrate
Reneabouquets: Our signature hand-crafted butterflies
Heidi Swapp: Color Magic Cardstock Watercolor Tags  - Hearts
Marion Smith Designs: Junque & Gems - Mixed Flowers (resin)
My Mind's Eye: Now and Then Dorothy Journal Stickers
May Arts - Red with polka dots sheer Ribbon - 1 yard
Digital Sketch by Suepup, created for inspiration with our Chasing Rabbits Kit, emailed to you.

There are a large number of add ons too to expand this kit to last you the entire month!

Now for some closeups of my page:

Yup,...I still love me some banners and these were cut from the patterned paper to match exactly. I love the layered effect of the flags and the flowers.

 You will probably recognize these handmade flowers from many of my projects (all?) lately .

I make them with the Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Florals and they are just the best!!

I love this picture of DD we took at the beach a couple of weeks ago. 
A rather chilly day, but the light was gorgeous that evening!

That large velvety flower is by Prima and it's from the flower add on.

Well that was all for now at this  (for me) late hour. It's past midnight and time for bed. 

Who knows;...If I am lucky I will find a friendly comment or two here tomorrow when I wake up... Take care! :-)