Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Sunflowers - Practical Scrappers Button Challenge and Just Buggin' 18 - Shadow Cuts



At Practical Scrappers, the challenge for this week is to use buttons.....my favorite thing.  Used one of my favorite pictures of Kati, taken on her first birthday.   Using that great denim patchwork dress for inspiration, the layout kind of made itself.  I used squares of different blue/brown/yellow prints and double layered them with pop dots.  Added a sunflower frame and border as well.  The sunflower is from Walk in My Garden......cut at shadow, regular, and blackout. I put pop dots between the layers fo the bigger sunflowers.   Everything is inked with Cat's Eye Chestnut Roan. Used buttons for centers....on the big sunflowers, I used the center from the cartridge cut in brown.   Added some chipboard swirlies here and there..........and some leaves for filler.  This was my first time using my new Expression.....and how great it was to put "fill the page" for 60 leaves!

11 comments:

Saxo Stamper said...

Oh wow, you should be very proud of this and the brightest little sunflower of them all is Kati - thanks for joining us over at Just Buggin

Best wishes
Karen JB DT

Christine said...

Such a cute layout and an even cuter Kati!!! Just stunning! Thanks for joining in the JB challenge!

Blessings,
Christine

magicwanda said...

Oh Sherry I just love them sun flowers...
Wow
Great layout
Wanda

Brenda said...

ohhh how pretty!!!
huga
Brenda

Lynne said...

Very Nice! Isn't the expression great!! I love the quantity feature too! (and auto fill..LOL)
I love the LO!!
Lynne JB DT

Sandi Clarkson said...

Sherri, thislayout is awesome. Love love love those sunflowers from wimg. Great idea to do the patchwork like her dress. Kudos on this one!

Anonymous said...

This is an adorable layout! I love all of those flowers and you did an excellent job with them! Thanks for playing with us at Just Buggin!

Kandi *JB DT*

Lori (THCEO) said...

Wow...love all the flowers (looks like it took you forever!!!)...great work! Thanks for playing along at Just Buggin!

Lori C.
JB DT

Robin's Creative Cottage said...

ohhhh.... what a sweet little girl! the sunflowers are a beautiful accent as well, I love how you've layered them.

Robin R
Just Buggin' design team

Stephanie said...

Absolutely wonderful! Love all the sunflowers and the sweet little girl!! Great Job!
Stephanie H *JB DT*

Mindy (Scrappy and Piggy) said...

what a great way to use the flowers1 I love all the dimension you added to them. the little girl is just adorable!! thank you for joining us at Just Buggin this week.