Laura Vegas

Hey everyone! I meant to get back over here earlier this week with a different layout, but ran out of time. I'll share that one later this week. Today, I've got a new layout up at Kerri Bradford Studio. 

When Kerri suggested we create love themed projects this month, I wasn't really sure what I would make. Then I came across this selfie that my youngest daughter, Sarah, had taken a while back, and with the colors, I thought it would make for a great love themed page. 

I decided to mix the "{heart} YOU", one of the freebies in Kerri's Hello There class, and "sweet thing", from Kerri's February Fourteen kit, for my title. I cut both the heart and the "you" three times from my patterned papers. I layered the three sets of "you" letters together, one on top of the other. It thickens the letters up and almost mimics the look of chipboard. 

For the pink hearts, I ran each one thru a polka dotted embossing folder, layered them together, and then machine stitched down the center to hold them together. The sides of the hearts aren't adhered together, so it gives some extra dimension to the heart. I also added some pink enamel dots to the top heart, right up top of the polka dots.  

My journaling is all about how much I love her, whether she's the sweet thing that I know and love, or the sassy, stubborn, challenging thing that I see more often than not in her teen years. She's not always easy, but I always want her to know how much I love her. 

All of my patterned papers are from Fancy Pants, from an older collection I believe. I actually started photographing this layout and realized it needed a little something in the top left corner. So I pulled out a few large buttons, from Fancy Pants as well, and added them along that side strip of patterned paper. Love digging into older products in my stash!