Laura Vegas

last week on the making memories blog, wendy bretz and i did a photo swap challenge. you can read that post HERE. i figured today was a good day to share it. since it's dark and dreary here today, and i could use something bright and fun to look at.

this is wendy's daughter hannah. isn't she cute! and she's funny too. i've actually talked to her on the phone. about mario cart, and how badly i stink at it. and she seemed truely baffled by the fact that i come in last, every time i play. lol! anyways. wendy and i have totally different styles from each other. but i know that we also appreciate and admire each other's style at the same time. i love how wendy uses minimal amounts of product on her layouts, and how she embraces the white space on a layout. but i tend to go the other direction. so i knew i wanted to see hannah's photo, on a totally girly layout. with lots of products and embellishments.

we both used the MM flutter collection and the slice for our layouts. the ladybug was cut from the big kids design card. i should tell you the disaster that this little ladybug caused me. lets just say that it started out looking just like you see here. and then i thought it needed something. so i added something, and then that smeared stuff onto another part, and then i tried to clean it up and made something else worse. it got really ugly, really fast. so i managed to salvage the ladybug, and just re-did my cardstock circles and left it at that.

the title word "silly" was cut from the just chillin design card. i cut it once from blue cardstock, and once from white cardstock. and then i adhered them, just slightly overlapping each other.

you can see what wendy did with one of my photos over on the making memories blog post from last week, right HERE.