The Story Begins

The inspiration for this layout is the beautiful "Love Letters" papers made by Little Yellow Bicycle. Love Letters was the featured collection in the Feb kit from My Creative Scrapbook. The rich papers & richer embellies just scream to use a black & white photo!! This is a photo of my son & his new bride taken by a groomsman while waiting for some professional pics to be snapped. When I seen the papers, I knew I wanted to use this photo!

The flowers are layered with Prima sweetheart flowers & paper layers that I made from the papers used in the layout. I tinted silver heart brads to be used as flower centers, red & black with alcohol ink to match the papers. The key & heart were found at local craft store in the bridal section. If you have never checked the bridal department for scrap booking supplies you should give it a try! Tons of fun items!

The title work is BasicGrey Wilma raw chip board. I inked them with Adirondack cranberry ink & then stickled them with Burgundy Stickles. Since I wanted overall coverage with the Stickles, I applied them with a paintbrush. The beautiful background paper is made by Hambly -the screen print line-Brocade.It is a yummy two toned black paper!!

I punched papers with the Fiskars sunburst punch to make mat under photo. It was distressed with fired brick & black soot Distress ink. I used the same paper to cover a chip heart & inked the edge. I then added a rub on to the photo & placed the flower over the rub on to give it a finished look.

I used a large sticker from the Love Letters line as a base to my flower. I then made layers & placed the finished large bloom where it looks as if it is a part of the large sticker. Small flower were made with the Retro punch & tiny flower punch. Lastly I cut a large Prima crystal flourish in many pieces & placed them around the flowers in the layout! This was a fun layout to do! The papers did most of the work!

Thanks so much for taking a look! I hope you know that it is appreciated!