Bella's Headboard

...a little about Bella. She is my beautiful daughter who loves everything PINK. She's also kind and gentle with babies(real or plastic), puppies, and her little brother(for the most part :-). She has a strong, stubborn personality that I totally admire. It's a challenge everyday right now, for example in the morning when she won't agree on anything I suggest for her to wear, TO KINDERGARDEN! But I know it will take her to the stars and above when she's grown. She has had a few rooms in her almost 5 years of life and now that we've settled in our new home I am so excited to give her a room to grow in, imagine in, inspire in, and love for a long, long time.

This was Bella's headboard. It really was beautiful. My husband and I found it at an adorable little store in Langley B.C. called http://www.thepassionatehome.com/. It was my first of many visits in the store and immediatly thought of Bella when I saw it. It's constructed out of an old fireplace mantel. How original is that I thought! The thing that bothered me about it from the start was the shades of the colours. The white was too creamy compaired to the Benjamin Moore Cloud White moldings in the room and the pink didn't match either. Also, it had little details in gold and black that we could use with out too. Three years later, two days ago, it got a new paint job and went from this...

close up of the new "SWEET DREAMS"...

to this...

Now it's painted BM Cloud White like the moldings, and the new SWEET DREAMS is a perfectly soft match to the walls Powdered Blush from Behr. Bella loves it and only requests I add some polka-dots, and flowers...we'll see :) Now all we have to do to complete Bella's new room is paint her armoire, closet, and spruce up her chandelier from her last room, my fav. project!

This is Bella(and Polo), ain't she pretty!

Final Touches

These are a few layouts that I FINALLY put the final touches on and can now be added to their albums. They were started before my CTMH days, hense the unfamiliar paper for some of you. I'd love to hear what you think of my art?

I used raw chip board for these letters for a natural, kinda sandy look...

I love buttons, even the cracked one I used here...

This was an idea that I scraplifted from an old scrapbooking mag. Great way to use up the strips leftover after some layout projects...

Cute Cards

Some cute little cards using the Creative Basics paper and idea. The Waxy Flax on the lion and giraffe are adhesed with liquid glass, so easy!

Animal Cookies Workshop

This is the idea in the guide...

I have been all about Animal Cookies the last little while! I know, I know, I should be off and running with the beautiful new Autumn papers and accessories...but I'm a little behind, LOL! This was actually my very first layout using a WOTG guide and I really enjoyed it...how easy is that!! I look forward to finding a group of ladies in my new community to do some more workshops like this one :) Here's my redition of the guides layout...