blog candy #2 - day 7 on layout challenge

First of all, I am having a cricut cartridge give away! The winner will have their choice of one of the following: Once Upon a Princess, Nursery Rhymes, Summer in Paris, Summer Vacation, Independence Day, Pumpkin Carving, October 31st, H20, Thanksgiving, Christmas Village, or Christmas Cards.

To qualify for a chance to win this give away you must do all of the following:
1. follow my blog
2. post a comment below telling me which cart you want and how you would use it in a layout using my layout below as a guide and inspiration.
3. Post something on your own blog linking back to my blog about this give away.
4. US continental addresses only (sorry! no International, APO's, Territories, Hawaii or Alaska)

And that's all there is too it! I will pull a winner from the Random.org drawing and announce the winner Saturday 9 PM CST. Good luck! :-)

Below is the layout. I did it a while ago. If I had to do it again I would definitely do it a little different; such as adhere the sentiments neatly on the side of the photos instead of scattered all over the page.Thank goodness for Un-du...right?

The printed paper used was from BoBunny. I chose it because I was looking for something with a white core. I cut several strips of paper to 3/8 of an inch and curled it like ribbon, placing it under the flowers. On the double dot paper I ran it through a label maker and punched out the various sentiments. Then I lightly sanded the top of the embossed letters so the white core came out.


This layout also involved tearing and distressing as you can see. I also sprayed white paper with Glimmer Mist, crumpled up, unfolded, and dried with a heat tool. Adhere behind the cardstock in the torn out windows. Be sure to distress the edges!

Next, I cut out the images on all photos so they would really pop against my Glimmer Mist background!


Enjoy!:

Again, good luck to all in this give away challenge.

Freda