Miracle Layout Set

This week, the challenge for the Heart2Heart blog (heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com) is layouts. Well, I'm ALL OVER that!!! I do make cards, but with 4 kids and 5 albums to keep up with, (not to mention the deadlines of having them caught up by the graduations of each kid - 1 down!) scrap-booking is my chief pasttime, so this was an EASY challenge!

I didn't make too many layouts at my retreat this past weekend, but I made a set of these for my girls' albums. The Miracle set that was the special for National Scrapbooking month was perfect for these pictures and the colors in them. I added several sheets of Sweet Leaf textured cardstock to extend the set in order to cover the 4 double layouts I needed. (The set was made for only 2 doubles.) The instruction sheet suggested adding another bright color as an accent since all the paper design colors were pretty muted so I used Moonstruck to color the Irrisistible embellishments and as the waxy flax for the buttons. I used the Love Letters Rub-ons for the titles and a few little extra accents, and I added the Glitz Glitter Glue to every dot I could find on the design paper. This gave it a great sparkly look and a textured feel to the whole layout, but it's a little hard to see in the distant pictures. It's easier to see in this close up picture.