Flowery, Fast, Fabulous Journal for a Frilly Teenager

Here's a flowery, fabulous, FAST, fun project.  My teenage daughter, Marli, asked for a journal she could paste all her fashion/girlie magazine clippings into - sort of a wish book, journal/doodle book. I handed her an extra composition notebook I had in the scrap room and tossed it her way.  "Aren't you going to decorate it for me?"  D'oh! What was I thinking?  OF COURSE I AM!

With this Memory Mosaics paper from Donna Salazar Designs, I really didn't have to do much to get it looking amazing pretty quick.  This is the Flowers/Nature paper.  It's really stunning, with the flowers all popping out in bright colors.  Because Marli's middle name is ROSE....I made those images really stand out by gluing an acrylic fragment over the rose panels in the paper. Using Glossy Accents instead of the acrylic would work too, but I didn't want to wait for anything to dry.  I glued down her glittery initials and voila! Oh, and I glued down ribbon before adhering the paper to the book so she could tie it all closed to hold in her treasures.

Pretty groovy, huh? And she likes it too :)

Franny's First Snow Layout - Donna Salazar Designs

I know it must be odd for my friends in cold-weather places, but my 7-year old daughter - until this past New Year's Day - had never seen snow in person.  Crazy, I know.  Well, I am tickled pink that we finally visited the local mountains and that she LOVED the snow!  It didn't hurt that it was a warm 50 degrees, and that the weather was mild and barely cold.  We had a blast, and it was fun to scrap the photos. I worked with several sheets of Donna Salazar Designs Grandma's Garden line.  The colors are soft and pretty and worked well with the wintery colors.  The pink flower in the paper added just the little feminine touch for Franny in the snow!  I added a fabric and a paper flower, bling and a "Daddy's Girl" button to bring it together.  Simple and pretty. Yeah...that's the way I like it.

Franny's asking for another snow trip......