Cousins and Friends - New Layout

Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I have not begun to get ready, other than there is a turkey thawing in the fridge! All other shopping is still on the to do list. Oh well, it will get done so I'm not going to stress....instead, I am going to scrap! Procrastination is the way of the world, right?

This is my layout of Maddie trick-or-treating with her cousins for the first time this year. They were all too cute in their little costumes!

I played along with the Southern Girls' challenge - Round, Round, Baby Right Round (use circles). I used lots of circles on my layout: I cut the background paper in the shape of a circle, punched circle paper on the right side, used circle brads throughout, and added two paper circle flowers. 

I also played along with 1 2 3 Get Scrappy challenge #4, a tic-tac-toe challenge. I used the middle, horizontal line: pearls, circles, and paper piercing. I used pearl brads, lots of circles (background paper, punches, brads and circle flowers), and paper piercing for the cross stitching I did on both the journaling block on the left hand page and the paper pieces on the right hand page.

I am linking up with The Memory Nest - Crafty Creations Link up #6.

Finally, I played along with Frosted Designs - 11 item challenge: to use at least one of the following items

1.             Tags;

2.             Paper layering

3.             Washi tape

4.             Flags/banners

5.             Patchwork

6.             Circles

7.             Stitching

8.             Stars

9.             Flowers

10.          Buttons 

11.          Arrows

I used paper layering, banner, circles, patchwork, stitching, flowers (paper), and arrows.  7 of the 11 items isn't too shabby!

For the left side, I used the sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap, sketch #44. Here is the sketch:

For the right side, I used the sketch from My Mind's Eye - November sketch week. I used all MME products, except for the flower which is by the girls' paperie. Here is the sketch:

Here are a couple of closeup photos:

Materials used: paper - MME; punch - Creative Memories; ink - CTMH; flower - the girls' paperie; letters - Thickers, Pink Paislee, and Forever in Time; sticker border - MME; twine - MME; banner - basic grey; journaling block - unknown; brads - MME; stickers - MME.

Thanks for visiting!