little curly hair in a high chair

...its that time again - the great reveal of the next design team challenge....

believe it or not, i had a hard time getting this one done.....not so much hard time, i suppose, it was just that the challenges, for whatever reason were harder for me than usual.... we had to se (2) assigned supplies - Core colored cardstock ( mine being black, with a light gray/whitish core) and a silvery smooth accent ink...

we had to choose 4 of the 10 challenges for the design, of which i chose: use of circles in your layout, making a design from threaded buttons,make a box by peeling back differnt layers of paper,exposing an inner paper, and the use of a picture as the background for the layout....

everyone that knows me, knows that i LOVEEEEE thrift stores and bargains...im like the queen of thrift...so it comes as no surprise that most of my designs include a relic from these fabulous places....in this particular layout, i used an old "my fair lady" album cover i picked up for 25 cents :) and another album cover was used on the right side...that had a song called "little curly hair in a high chair " which was just perfect for the picture i was using....

when abby was little, she had ringlets just like shirley temple....we nicknamed her that....so the title went well with the picture...

the picture is of abby and her cousin, ava. it was taken kinda spur of the moment at a local walmart....i LOVE this picture - you can see so much innocence and life in their adorable little faces.....

i backed the picture with a piece of canvas that i painted to match. i chose paper from the glitz girls line, and prima collection. i used threaded buttons that were great thrift store finds, some of which i cut from shirts on the 10 cent rack - (and the best thing about cutting buttons off of clothing, is that the butons are already threaded....so no need to take out the needle and thread.... :) to create the a heart. i added a few rhinestones and to insure the stability of the design, i chose to use a polyurethane coating to seal it. the black roses where made by riping cirlces in a swirl pattern from the core colored cardstock. i added flowers and greenery and butterflies that i cut out of patterened paper. the last little detail , was the largest of the butterflies. i had picked up an old t-shirt with lots of butterflies on, and using tacky glue, i placed it on a piece of white cardstock , and i painted it to match.

it proved to be another successful design challenge:)