Thankful - Step by Step Tutorial

Hi there!

Amanda with you today, showing you how I created my layout 'Thankful' that I created using last months Polly! Kit.  We're just about ready to reveal the kit for January so stay tuned ... we have lots of sweet papers, embellishments and doo-dots coming your way if you're a subscriber to the kit club.

Here's the layout...

When I first sat down to scrap all I had was this gorgeous title (designed by Wilna and available for free here) that I cut with my Silhouette in two colours - a grey and yellow cardstock from scraps I had in my stash... then I needed the perfect photo. I have a stash of those too! I picked this photo of my oldest son playing in the park, lost in his own world. I thought it was perfect for the title.

Next I needed to pick my paper. The red or the green? Again, using scraps from my kit ... I went with the green.

Now for some embellishments... so hard to decide... ;)

Next I created a mini-brag book that had other photo's from the day that I wanted tucked away ... Punch 2 cards together (or cardstock) with a crop-o-dile...

The title was too bright, so I toned it down with some Mr Huey's in white.

To protect my photo I laid a piece of scrap paper over it - it looks like it has a misted frame (oh, yes - completely intentional!) which I thought was cool.

More embellishments... lots of arrows ...


And that's about it!


Hope you enjoyed my step by step! 

xx Amanda