Butterflies and Bunting

Roll your eyes all you want, but I GOT COMMENTS ON MY SUBMISSIONS TO THE SCRAPZ.BIZ UNIVERSITY GALLERIES!!!!!! I was so excited to receive the feedback- everyone tells me they love my scrapping, but to have complete strangers complementing my work... Wow! *insert goofy, dreamy grin here* I had butterflies in my tummy the whole day yesterday.

On the subject of butterflies, here is a layout I finished yesterday...

I used Prima papers and butterflies, and cut my title from computer canvas paper- that paper that feels just like canvas that's made to go through your printer, I don't remember its exact name. I printed my journalling on masking tape. To do so, I printed my journalling on ordinary printing paper, then laid masking tape over it (after detacking it a couple of times by sticking it down, then pulling it off, the counter). I then fed it back through the printer, carefully peeled it off the computer paper and then adhered it to my layout. The journalling is the chorus from Uncle Kracker's song, "Smile":

You make me smile like the sun, Fall out of bed, Sing like a bird, Dizzy in my head, Spin like a record, Crazy on a Sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, Forget how to breathe, Shine like gold, Buzz like a bee, Just the thought of you can drive me wild, Oh you make me smile!

While I started this page over a week ago, and had finished it, for all intents and purposes, it felt like something was missing... And finally, yesterday, I figured it out: brads. It seemed like the page was "escaping", like there was too much open space above my photo's. So I bought a pack of Old Gold coloured brads, and bordered my photo's on two sides with the brads. I love the effect- just the right touch of edginess to an otherwise soft, romantic layout.

And now, for the bunting... How cute is this????

For those of you who don't know, I work in a scrapbooking store in Port Elizabeth, called The Scrapbook Nook. Today, seeing as how it is Valentine's Day on Monday, we decided to make some pink bunting. See that fluffy-looking pink thingy below the sign? I made that! And it was SO easy! You just take a piece of string, the length you want your bunting to be, and then you tie strips of fabric to it... and that's it! So easy, SO cute. I think I need to make one for my kitchen in reds, browns and creams, to go with my developing chicken theme... Wonder if my boss will agree to tear the fabric into long strips for me like she did this time... Hmmm... Hehe!