Autumn

Hello everyone. The last week has been a busy one for me.

I have been cleaning out the scrap room and also doing some

scrapping of a night. I have a couple of posts to put up over the 

next couple of hours. Between taking my son Riley to swim training.

This is my first one and I have used card stock and Kaiser doily's.

Everything else is from my scraps box. Bits and pieces off left overs.
I have done this one for the challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.

And also the challenge at http://redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.ca/

 

I had so much fun with my boys the day this photo was taken. We 

went to the botanical gardens and the boys rolled in the leaves and

were throwing them at each other as well as me. The laughter and 

and happiness was so contagious. Everyone who went passed either

smiled or made comment.

  

When taking the photos I had already decided that I wanted to

use some of the leaves on my layout. I collected a few and took 

them home with me. I then had too decide how I was going to use 

them on a layout and stop them from crumbling. 

The leaves I have added to this LO were from that day. About a
week after I had decided. I would laminate them. They would then
hold the color they were when I picked them up. Also they would
stay intact. I did them and put them away. I found them while cleaning
the scrap room and this is what I have come up with.

 

As you can see by the close up I have cut around the edge

of the leaves, just out a little. I didn't want to brake the air 

tight seal. There is no chance for any deterioration of the 

leaf then.

 

The challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles was to create a LO

about your favorite season. I never know which is my favorite, there 

is something I love about each one. I chose this though because I was

lucky and found the leaves and it was a special day of love for both the 

boys and I. The twist too this challenge was I had too add 3 or more 

leaves. I knew when I read this I had the right thing for the challenge.

I have done some journaling on the back of the layout. Just a little short

story for my boys later, about how the day made me feel and a reminder

to them of how much fun it was.