Kreatorville Krafts July Sketch and Let's Get Shabby

Another month, another Kreatorville Krafts sketch!

Lately I've loved making LO's using more than one picture, so I was really happy when I saw the KK July sketch:

Though I'm still not all that comfortable using sketches, this sketch spoke to me and the LO just seemed to make itself. Here's my take on it:

That's me when I was 17 months old (en 2 years old in the cut-out pic)... recognize the chubby cheeks LOL??? I guess my mom liked cute red raincoats in those days ... I chose the title because well, our belgian summers here are famous for their amount of rain. It seems usually we can't have more than two or three days of sun before a storm heads our way. This can't be said at this moment though, we've had almost tropical temperatures for quite a few days now. Today I only went out into the garden to go and cool off in our swimming pool ... just to go and hide back inside just as quickly! I'm not complaining though, as far as I'm concerned this weather may go on throughout the whole of the summer vacation!

Except for the red dotted pp, all the materials used came out of left-overs from previous KK kits. Make sure to head on over to the KK blog to see the other DT members' take on the sketch! And why not give it a try yourself! You have until the end of the month to post your LO based on the sketch (marked sketch #3) into our Flickr Group, I would love to see you there!

And just in case you hadn't heard yet ... Keandra is offering some of her previous kits (november through february) for 50% off. You can find all the details here... better hurry!



Let's Get Shabby

This wonderfully inspiring blog is turning 1, happy birthday to you all!!!! I can't believe it has been a year already. Ever since the blog's birth, I've been wanting to play along. However, shabby is something I'm not good at. Believe me, I've tried, desperately I might add, because I really love the shabby look, but ... it's just not for me, I just can't seem to be able to make it work. This month, their challenge is to use stamps. At first I thought I would have to give it a miss again ... those of you following my blog know by now I'm afraid of stamps. Silly, I know, but I just don't know how to incorporate them in a LO and I'm always afraid I'll screw up and will have to start all over again. Being afraid of them hasn't stopped me from bying them though, which means I have a nice collection of unused stamps here. So I thought ... why not give it a try this time??? I'd like to say I merely did this to show my courage, but in all honesty I must admit the awesome prize the ladies over at Let's Get Shabby are offering might have had something to do with it LOL. They are giving away a US$100 store credit for Purple Onions Designs ... they have the most beautiful stamps!!!!!

For their challenge, I decided to alter this little leather-like book:

into this:


I started out by painting over the black in several colours, and then added a Tim Holtz stamp. Then I figured, if I'm gonna use stamps, I might as well go all the way, and I decided to try if embossing it might work on that surface and over the paint ... and it worked. It actually turned out pretty cool. I have some close-ups to show you the effect:





It really gives a cool effect, it looks even better IRL! And it feels good as well, I can't stop rubbing over it with my fingers LOL. I'm so happy with this that I've promised myself to take out my stamps some more in the future!



Finally, I would like to thank all of you who took the time to visit my friend Vicky's blog. She was so happy to receive your comments. She's a little unsure about her scrapping (we all were in the beginning and I'm sure we still are at times...) and your words did her the world of good. Your visits made me feel glad once again to be part of this community.

Hugs
xxx Peggy

We stick together

I always have trouble coming up with a blog title. I would love to be able to make it a witty one, a catchy one, hey, I'd settle for an interesting one ... but ... it's just not in me! So, I chose to use the title of this LO:

This is hubby and me in our younger years, not even 20 years old *sigh*. It seems like yesterday ... unfortunately the mirror tells me otherwise LOL! I used my beloved Kreatorville Krafts May kit to make this LO, except for the envelope, that was part of the January kit. That goreous pink frame can be purchased at Kean's etsy shop "Aptly Titled". To me, this splash of colour was just what this LO needed. I looooove the result!

The bird gave me inspiration for the title. Originally I had planned to use the other lyrics to the song as well, you know the "I'm sticking to my guy like a stamp to a letter" ... hence the envelope with the stamps (which I rather thought was clever LOL). However, I ran out of place to put it LOL, so I decided the "like birds of a feather" would have to do... so much for being clever, right :-)))

Last weekend, we had our first few consecutive days of good weather ... finally!!! I was actually getting a bit depressed, I mean, it's the end of May already, we should have seen plenty of sunshine by now!!! And to me, life is always sweeter when the sun is shining. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long, but we did have a nice weekend. We spent most of the weekend with my best friend Vicky and her hubby Bart.

Vicky and me

Kurt and Bart

And look what we're doing here ... that's right, we're scrapping!!! Not so much of a surprise that I'm scrapping, but Vicky is now officially a scrapper as well!!!! My best friend turned to the dark side whoahaaaaa!!!! She's loving it, and she actually cancelled a few appointments for next weekend to give her some free time to scrap ... sounds familiar LOL?????? I'm so excited we'll be sharing our hobby now!!

Even the kids were scrapping ... and yes, that is my son on the left there, scrapping as well!!! His dad is soooo proud (notice the sarcasm?? LOL). He actually did a pretty good job and he was able to finish his LO (which, if you know Yannis, actually is kind of a big deal!!!). He felt so proud and made me promise to put it on my blog, so here it is:

Not bad, right??? He's never been very good at crafting, cutting, glueing and that kind of stuff, so for him this really is quite something! Feeling pretty proud here (even if his dad isn't all that impressed LOL).

Talk to you later ladies, enjoy the weekend!
xxx Peggy

She calls me Pegs

The Kreatorville Krafts May Kit has been revealed, just click on this link to see it's beauty!

My second LO with the kit is a little tribute to the kit's owner, Kean, who I've come to consider my friend. Isn't it wonderful how friendships can grow right here, online? And a friendship it is ... I find myself wishing her success in her business, worrying about her if I haven't heard from her in a few days, thinking about her family when I know one of them is feeling sick, and yes, even feeling proud - though it obviously has nothing to do with me - when I hear the boys are doing great at school. Strange ... just like in real life, sometimes you feel an immediate connection with some, and none whatsoever with others ... like I said, strange...

Anyway, here's my LO, created only with May kit products:


If you'd like to know more about the title, see the difference in this LO before and after the black outlining (one of my favorite "finishing touches techniques), and find out just how easy and quick it was to personalize the buttons, please visit my blog post over at Keatorville Krafts! Hope to see you there!

Love xxx Peggy

Kreatorville Krafts May Sketch Challenge

Starting this month, Keandra will be hosting a monthly sketch challenge over at Kreatorville Krafts, and she picked a beauty to start with:
This sketch was provided to us by Tiffany Sanders, and if you're a fan of sketches, I'd suggest you go and take a look at her blog, lots of sketches and LO's to go with them to be found there!

Those of you who know me, know I have a hard time using sketches. In the two years I've been scrapping, this was only my second attempt at using a sketch, and I suppose that's the reason I stuck so close to the sketch. I was surprised though how easy it was this time to work from this sketch, especially since there were flowers involved ... I'm so not a flower person LOL. However, my LO based on this sketch was started and finished in one day, something very rare for me!!! Here's what I made of it:

Though I did stay close to the sketch, I do feel I was able to make it my own by using my beloved paints. If you'd like to see what the other KK DT members made of it, just click here. It's striking isn't it, how we all used the same sketch and still stayed true to our own style?

For this LO I used the Kreatorville Krafts May Kit, which hasn't been revealed yet, so I guess you could say you're getting a sneak peek early this time :-)) Keandra included some lovely flowered patterned paper, perfect for cutting, but my favorite has to be the paper with the handbags, I just think they are so adorable!! And that Buzz and Bloom "catwalk lady" is just fabulous, I fell in love with her the moment I saw her.

This LO features my youngest daughter Christina. We had a little fotoshoot a few weeks ago, since I needed pictures of her in her communion clothes to put on the cards I'll be making. Most of the pics turned out fine, but I tell you, that girl truly believes she's a model LOL, she strikes one pose after the other, barely giving me time to focus. The facial expressions that go with the poses are ... hilarious at times! I'm told she got this "attitude" from me, so I won't say too much about it LOL. I guess the pics speek for themselves ... The journaling reads pretty much the same as what I said in this paragraph, so need to translate this time.

I hope me and my fellow KK DT members were able to convince you to give the sketch a try. Upload your take on the sketch to our Kreatorville / Aptly Titled Flickr Group to be in the running to win this:

You have until the end of the month ... oooh I can't wait to see your take on the sketch. I hope some of you will participate, it would be so much fun to see some of my friends joining us!

After all this spring cleaning the last few weeks, I was eager to back to scrapping, so I didn't just finish one LO yesterday, I finished two!!! Yes, pretty proud of myself here, can you tell LOL. Not bad for the world's slowest scrapper huh! The other LO I made was entirely created with Kreatorville Krafts April Kit supplies.

I guess again the pictures say it all, don't they?? The kids wanted me to paint their faces, no problem there ... until one of them, not sure who (did he/she take a beating for it haha???) decided it would be fun to paint mom and dad's faces ... Ah well, they were happy AND quiet for a few moments, so it was totally worth it LOL.

I'm into multiple pics pages lately ... I seem to go through phazes ... you know, at times I feel a LO isn't finished without stitching, then it's painting, ... and now it's multiple pics ... strange. I'm totally loving this LO. I like everything about it, the papers, the colours, the pics ... The banners were made out of flower petals (told you I'm not a flower person!!!), which goes to show that with a little imagination, you can use anything to your own liking. The Buzz and Bloom chipboard letters are one of the prettiest ones I've ever used ... when painted on, they actually look like would, not like chipboard at all... looks awesome!!!


I'll leave you with one more thing you might be interested in ... Keandra is giving her followers a chance to win this :

You know how much I love paints, so this is a prize to my liking!!!!!! All you have to do to be in the running for this prize, is follow the Kreatorville Krafts blog. Easy right!! There is a catch though ... the count has to reach 100 to be given out. If you're already a follower, you're automatically included to be eligible for the prize, if not ... head on over there and start following! Again, the count has to reach 100, so spread the word!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday ladies ... it's raining again here in Belgium, it's a dark dark dark day here, perfect for creating!!! Too bad I still have some ceilings to wash :-(((( Ah, but I'll look at it from the bright side ... at least I was caught up with my ironing for a fraction of a second hahahahaha.

Love xxx Peggy

Bad Bad Blogger!!

I'm such a bad blogger ... I really should commit myself to blogging at least once a week. I have waaaaayyyyy to much to say today, so brace yourselves!!

Before I show you what I have been doing these last few weeks, I wanted to ask you all something. Lately I have been getting Chinese/Japanese (???) comments on my blog posts. They come into my mail box showing no name, just question marks. When I click on them, a blog does open, but it's a blog with no entries ... do any of you know what that's about??


Kreatorville April Kit reveal

Okay, on to business ... The Kreatorville April Kit has been revealed, and it's absolutely gorgeous! This kit will lead you eather way ... fun, romantic, free style ... all is possible with this one. Click here to see the kit in all its glory. Click here to see the Aptly Titled embellies that go with the kit (I totally have a crush on that bunny!!!).


Kreatorville March Kit LO's

While the April Kit already has been revealed, I still have some March kit projects to show you ... told you I'm a bad blogger :-(((





All of the above LO's, as well as my first vintage LO, remember, the one showing my grandparents' wedding day, have been made exclusively with the Kreatorville March kit products. So that's a total of five LO's, and yes, believe it or not, I still have materials left!!

I should mention that my "Ice Skating Fun" LO was based on one of Leeann's designs, which you can see here. Thank you Leeann for the inspiration, though of course I wasn't able to capture your fun free style which I so admire. I'll get there someday though, I have faith LOL. Btw, Leeann is our April guest designer over at Kreatoroville Krafts ... couldn't be happier about that! Please go and take a look at all the gorgeous projects she made *sigh*...

A Year in the Life of an Art Journal

I also made my second art journal page for AYITLOAAJ (gosh that name!!!!), for which we had to use a masking technique and work around the word "hope". Here's my take on it:

I'm enjoying these art journal pages even more than I had imagined. I wish I had more time to work on them ... BUT, as soon as I saw the first sun creeping through, my yearly urge to clean house reappeared ... so, I've been cleaning like crazy, cleaning out cupboards, washing the ceilings, all in my very own desorganized way, which means I now have two rooms which are totally gorgeous up to the very last detail, and a total mess in the rooms I haven't been working in at all LOL. But, I'll get there, again, I have faith LOL. And as for my ironing, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear I'm all caught up (hear that Marit haha) ... yeah me!!! LOL. Although that doesn't mean much, as of course the washing machine and dryer are full and a next bunch of laundry is patiently waiting, but ... I'm not stressing at all ... well, maybe just a little bit hehe. Still, it's rewarding. The house will remain a mess for the weekend, because the weather is wonderful today, and I'm going to tackle the remains of my garden ... not a pretty sight at the moment ... planning to change that over the weekend though. So I guess my love for art journal pages will have to wait.

Award

It has been long time since I've received an award, and this one especially made me smile. The quote that goes with this award reads: "For bloggers who inspire others with their positivity and creativity". Now wouldn't that make you smile as well?

The first ones I would think about when seeing this quote would be my sweet friends Jenneke and Loes, but since they are the lovely ladies who gave me this award (thank you!!!!), I on my end am going to give this award to these fine ladies:

Marit
Leeann
Jeanet
Keandra
Glenda
Mandy

Of course if I could I really would make this a much longer list. There are so many wonderful ladies who are always able to put a smile on my face, or to whom I turn to when I'm in need of some inspiration, but I have to admit these have been on the top of my list for quite some time now. I'm sure most of you know them all, but if you don't, please take the time to visit their blogs (Jenneke's and Loes's as well!!) They all make such wonderful things, each in their own unique style. It will be worth your time, I promise!

I'm sure there was something else I wanted to tell you, but I can't think of it right now ... I'll save it for another post, hopefully a little sooner this time!!

Love xxx Peggy

I can't believe it has been a month since I've blogged!!! I guess I didn't have all that much to say (yeah right, those who know we a little bit by now are shaking their heads in disbelief LOL).

I do have a lot to show you though. These last weeks I have been playing with the Kreatorville Krafts February kit, and I've been loving every minute of it. Following LO's have all been made exclusively with kit products, except for the painting materials and stitching threads.


Moments like these melt my heart: Yannis helping Chloë with her homework. I'm sure every mother would appreciate quite, peaceful, heartwarming moments like this ... these are the moments to remember!


I outlined some of the circles with a black marker and painted them with Making Memories Ticled Pink glitter paint, which is also included in the kit!


Pictures of us taken during our vacation last month. I myself am not in pictures very often, and when I am, more often than not I feel I look so bad in it that I can't resist the urge to push the "delete" button LOL. I WAS pleased with these pics of me/hubby and the kids though, so it deserved a pretty and happy LO!


I finally made another page for our wedding album ... we've been married for almost 12 years now and this is my third page LOL. I'm hoping to have it finished before Kurt retires ... For those who are wondering about that strange title ... I've explained it in my journaling.

"Has anyone ever had a less romantic first wedding dance? We had originally chosen "Keep on Loving You" by Reo Speedwagon, but there was no CD-player present. So, after having waited in vain for an appropriate song, we decided there and then to have our first dance to the next song that would be played ... and this was it ... "It's Now or Never". Not exactly our first choice, let this be known! Ah, let's take some comfort from the fact that we might have started out "wrong", but we're still going strong..."

The sad part was, I actually like most of the Elvis Presley songs. My parents were huge fans (they even had a huge pic of him in their bedroom!!!!) so I grew up with his songs. But ever since I can remember, I have hated "It's Now or Never" (I also hate "Love me Tender" btw). That man has sung so many gorgeous songs, so why oh why did they play that particular song LOL???? Ah well, we did have a good laugh out of it... Oh, and if you're wondering why there wasn't a CD-player present ... we were married in Crete, and there was a life band playing mostly Greek music ...


This is the only page I didn't use paint on LOL. I'm following Marit's art journal workshop at the moment, and I'm having a hard time switching from art journaling to scrapbooking ... I seem to feel the need to put paint on every LO I make now LOL. This definitely isn't my usual style, but I do like this page. I guess this mostly has to do with the pic of my two beautiful girls ... I just love that picture. I knew it would turn out great as soon as I took it! They can fight like you wouldn't believe (oh yes, punches are thrown back and forth ...), but there also the best of friends, and I think this pic truly shows how close they are, how much they love each other.


This has to be my favorite project made with the february kit! At first I didn't have a clue what to do with all the buttons, but once this idea popped inside my head, I just knew this would turn out to be a fun page. I've tried to represent her sparkling personality ... Christina was such a fun child, always laughing, never bad tempered, and she had the cutest giggle which made everyone around her smile. Though she does have a bad temper every now and again these days, she still has this sparkling personality which makes her loved by most people.

Though, like I said before, all LO's have been made with the february kit products, I still have supplies left to make a few other projects!!!

And remember, because I'm on the Kreatorville Krafts DT and I receive a monthly kit, there's still some room left in my package to include some kits for Belgian or Dutch ladies who might be interested in purchasing the kit, which makes the shipping costs fairly cheap! Should you be interested in the kit, just send me a mail to peggy.schenkels@telenet.be or to the boss lady Keandra to keandra@kreatorvillekraft.com.

I know this has been a picture heavy post, but I also wanted to take the time to thank Mirjam again for this gorgeous RAK she sent me for commenting on her 100th post. Look at all this yumminess she sent me!


And she also included a beautiful handmade card for me, which I thought was soooooo sweet, thanks Mirjam, you're a sweetie and I appreciate it!

Isn't it pretty?????

That was a long post, I know!!! Did you read all of it, really????? I promise I will blog a little sooner next time to avoid monster posts like this!! Talk to you later ladies!
xxx Peggy

Spending my birthday scrapping away

Hi ladies, today is my birthday, and I'm doing what I love best aside from spending time with my family ... scrapping of course, or well at least I'm doing something scrapping related LOL. We did of course celebrate my birthday as well ... I was awakened this morning by gorgeous (ahum) singing by my wonderful kiddies (hubby luckily didn't join in LOL), followed by breakfast in bed! I received the most wonderful presents ... I already got a bycicle from hubby about a month ago, an electric blanket, a ring, a necklace and today I got three "Twilight" books ... isn't my hubby the absolute best?!!!!!

On Friday, my hubby's birthday by the way, we enjoyed a romantic day out over at a little town in Holland, and yesterday we took the kids to the cinema and to a chinese restaurant (which the kids looove). We went to see "Alvin and the Chipmunks 2", and I have to say I rather enjoyed it LOL. It certainly was good for a few laughs and was quite entertaining, compared to some of the kids' choices I've seen in the past!

So today I'm just enjoying the peace and quiet. We were planning on going out, but my husband is taking our son to watch a soccer match this evening, and they have to leave quite early ... did I just say my hubby is the best ????? LOL. Anyway, I don't mind, there's no punishment in staying at home and scrap the day away, is there? At least today I have an excuse not to do any kind of work around the house LOL.

The Creative Therapy / ARTastic Challenge Blog

I have been scrapping during this last week as well, so I do have some projects to share with you. For my first LO, I started out with pictures I love ... Chloë's very first pictures, taken only minutes after she was born. However, the quality of the pics isn't that great, nor are they really "pretty" pics ... so how do you scrap pics like that??... well, experiment of course!!!! I saw several of my friends had entered the challenge over at The Creative Type, and I knew instantly I had found my experiment! For this challenge, we had to use newspaper, something I had never done before. I used newspaper as a background and to make the flowers and the leaves.

In creating this LO, I was also inspired by a challenge over at the ARTastic Challenge Blog, which you can find here. The floral painting inspired me to use these bold colours, which really liven up this boring colours of the pictures, and to use flowers ... something I hardly ever do!!!

Part of the text on the background newspaper reads: "Kleur je dag", which means "Colour your day". I was so tickled when I found this text LOL, funny how little things can make you happy, right? And even the image of the camera came out of a newspaper ... how about that??? In the framed stamps I added her date and hour of birth, weight and height.

I don't know if you've noticed, but I love addding cut out pics lately. I just love that pic of Yannis holding up his hands like that, just happy because he's little sister has finally been born...

Here are some close-ups of the flowers, they turned out so pretty! I made the flowers using one of Julie's tutorials, which you can find here.



Aptly Titled

For my next project I used one of Keandra's gorgeous Aptly Titles. I find they always add that extra special touch to a project.

For this LO I mainly used images I received on christmas cards ... aren't they cute? I especially love that santa putting the star on the tree LOL. My husband thought this LO to be a little too busy (so you can image what he thought about the first one I showed you!!!), but I like it. I have a hard time adding embellies to my LO's, but I think this border works though.
The frame around the blue CS is doodled, and really added a finishing touch to the whole page.


The forgotten LO

While browsing through my LO's, I found this LO which I made with the Kreatorville Krafts November Kit, but which I, for one reason or another, never shared it with you.

This picture of Chloë was taken in June of last year, when she was 8 years old!! Look at that pose!!! Luckily it was a one time thing, I've asked her to do it again, but she hasn't been able to LOL, which is a good thing I think. She's looking way over 8 in this pic!!!! I'll have to start getting used to the idea of her growing up ...

Time to start on dinner and after that I plan on ending my birthday by visiting some of your blogs and scrap a little ... LIFE IS GOOD!!!

PS. Glenda, I went and bought my journal yesterday, so I can finally start on my art journal. I'm soooooo nervous and excited at the same time, this is going to be a fun journey!!!!

Love xxx Peggy

KREATORVILLE KRAFTS

I have some exciting news, my very good friend Keandra, aka Kiwi the kreator, has started her very own kit club, KREATORVILLE KRAFTS, and I'm proud to be one of her designers!!!

Her first kit will be revealed and available for sale on November 21st. Now this kit isn't just like any other kit ... Keandra's kits will always include her handmade painted or glittered titles and embellishments! Those of you who know Keandra, know that she ALWAYS has the best titles and embellies on her LO's ... just check out her blog to see some of her awesome creations! And keep checking my blog and the other ladies' blogs in our team as well ... we'll be posting kit creations regularly!

If you are interested in putting our November kit (pics will be available shortly) on reserve, please email Keandra or Taj (our design team coordinator) at:
keandra@kreatorvillekraft.com
tajkorekreator@kreatorvillekraft.com
The kits cost $37.50 plus shipping for a one time purchase or $32.50 plus shipping for a 6 month subscription. Trust me, with the handmade titles and embellies, you won't be disappointed!
The Kreatorville Krafts blog will go live in a few days, so keep your eyes open! We'll have great prizes for people subscribing to the blog and/or kit!

Next to the kit club, this amazing lady has also started her very own etsy shop, Aptly Titled, where you can buy her titles and embellies seperately.
If you should buy a kit AND items from the etsy store, you can save on the shipping costs ... smart right! So go check out those titles ladies, I promise you, it'll be worth your time!

So, high time to show you some LO's I made with Keandra's titles.

This is my son Yannis, standing in the corner (his "time out") for the first time. We don't put him in the corner anymore, but he does still needs his time out's every now and then ...
Journaling: "On seeing this picture I was a bit shocked at how early on we put Yannis in the corner after having been naughty ... he was soooo young! I remember how surprised we were of him actually staying in the corner after we put him there ... We had expected him to just walk out when he decided he'd had enough. Yet, up until today, he still stays put until we give him permission to come out. It has proven to be an effective punishment though... usually he feels he's been accused unjustly, and he does need that time out to cool down before he's willing to listen to what we have to say"

Like I said in the journaling, i was really surprised at how young he was when we first started doing this, in this pic he's only about 18 months old. I do remember why though, he had hit his baby sister, Chloë, who was 3 months old at the time, on the head with this toys. I guess with Yannis it was all about having to grow up a bit too quickly ... he was only 2,5 years old when his second baby sister was born ... yes yes, you can do the math, I had three children in a period of 2,5 years time ... all I can say is, we had fun LOL.

I inked the wings with Ranger distress inks and covered them with glossy accents ... ah how I love the look of glossy accents!!!!!

Here's Yannis again, showing him at all ages from 0 to 5. I looooooove this LO, and it all came together so nicely. I actually worked around Keandra's title for this LO. Because of the multiple pics, and to show of that gorgeous yellow title, I decided to print the pics in black and white. I recently found the best tutorial ever for altering pics into black and white on Kimi's blog. You can find the tutorial here. Let me tell you, those pics are gorgeous in real life, Kimi knows what she's talking about. Of course, it takes a little more time than just simply pushing the "convert to black and white" button, but it's worth the effort, trust me on this! Anyway, I chose the colour of my cardstock to go with the title, and decided to use a red thread for the leaves to add some contrast. Now the red didn't show on the green cardstock, so I used some masking tape to fix that problem. Turned out pretty neat huh? I used Coordinations cardstock, so I put some chipboard numbers underneath the CS and started sanding away, which left the outline of the numbers on the CS ... I swear, I so love that CS. I then stitched around the outline, just to give it some extra dimension. After stitching the leaves, I decided the CS could do with some more sanding, leaving a "smear" here and there, but I unintentionally hit some of my sewing thread. I was all panicky at first (if you knew me, you'd know how panicky I can get when things don't go my way LOL), but ... I decided to sand on the rest of the thread as well, which gave it this really neat worn look ... gotta love happy mistakes (right Sharon?). That's about it I guess, expect for the yellow stitched frame ... I didn't think the LO looked finished, and again in coordination with the yellow title I stitched the yellow frame ... amazing how things can come together so quickly when you focus on one feature of the LO! And what better feature than Keandra's titles????

This is the first and probably last LO I have made in half an hour! I guess it shows too, but I don't mind, I love it. I love the look of it, the way all of the colours contrast, the doodled flowers and ... haha there's nothing more ... still, I love it!!! Chloë, who is featured on this LO, didn't like it, she thinks the LO is too plain. I blame it on her youth LOL, she doesn't like anything that isn't stuffed with goodies. I on the other hand love it ... did I say that already LOL??? I guess I'm saying it so often because this is the first LO I made after having lost my mojo (remember my previous post) ... The title says "summer freckles", which reminds me ... I should also mention that Keandra can also do custom titles... just mail her and she'll let you know the cost and extra time involved. She can ship up to 20 single or double word titles or graffiti letters in one flat envelope for a flat rate ($ 0.80).

Thanks for making it all down here ladies, you're the best!
Love xxx Peggy