thursday...Nature's Majesty layout

Hi everyone! I'm getting very exited since there is only 10 days till Christmas! Not only that, but tomorrow my hubby and I will be coming down to Miami for Christmas vacation and we will be staying there for almost 2 weeks! We are very exited!

Today I want to share with you a layout that I made based on My Creative Scrapbook's Dec. Sketch. They are holding a Fall Contest and I just found out about a few days ago so now I'm playing catch up :)
Here is the sketch:


and here is my layout:

Supplies-
cardstock: Bazzill;
patterned paper: Basic Grey Curio;
letter stickers: Basic Grey Hello Luscious;
flowers: Recollections;
rhinestones: Kaisercraft;
bling: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Burnt Red), Ranger Stickles (Diamond);
ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Vintage Photo, Wild Honey);
stamps: Heartfelt Creations Vintage Life Background Precut Set Stamp (HCPC 3367), Heartfelt Creations Leafy Swirls Precut Set Stamp (HCPC 2254);
tools: Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page-Cherish, Tim Holtz Paper Distresser;
other: sewing machine

I played around with the sketch until it fit my scrappy style and number of photos that I wanted to use and this is what I came up with! I've been dying to make an orange-y layout since I purchased the Tim Holtz distressed ink pad 'Wild Honey" and I finally got to it with this layout using the peach colored Basic Grey papers from the Curio collection (that I've been hoarding).


I made most of my flowers. For the large red/orange flower, I used my Elegant Wild Roses tutorial and colored  my flower with Burnt Red Glimmer Mist and touched it up Wild Honey distress ink to brighten it up a bit. The smaller peach flowers were done with the same dies (Spellbinders Carnation Creation). The leaves are a Heartfelt Creations stamp (which will be retiring 12/31/2011 so if you like it, go now befor ethey are retired and gone forever!). The script flowers are Recollections and I just added a few drops of diluted Vintage Photo reinker to the centers to give them some color.


I used one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches (Cherish) for the pattern paper where I placed my title. I added another smaller flower cluster here too.


I used a few layers of paper for my background and distressed/inked them. I finished the edges by adding some machine stitching. I printed  a few butterflies and added them through the layout as a finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Have a wonderful weekend!