welcome home

this is the first layout of our new baby in the house. she was officially baptized Beethoven by Julina when we went to fetch her, but i just call her "babba". she has a few other names that Marius calls her - but he seems set on "oubaas" (yes, i know. i told him she was going to be confused about her gender, but as she is a puppy, i am not sure if that argument is valid!!)

i have been wanting to use this piece of paper since it arrived in the shop at the end of 2011. but i had no idea of what to scrap with it. when i finished yesterday's layout (escape) and this piece was left, i knew i was going to scrap our new baby. i layered using a very dark prism chocolate cardstock, then some Tim Holtz tissue paper that i scrunched up, swiped with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, and misted with a home made gold glimmer mist ( i misted it ALOT). i then dried it with my heatgun. this stuff is amazing! i then only had bits and pieces left of some of the lighter patterned paper, so i punched the pieces and made them fit around my green bazzill dots that i also punched with the same MS around the page punch. you can see how imperfect the patterned paper border is, as it does not line up 100% everywhere.

the rose vine is obviously one by Prima. it was light cream. i made a glimmer mist from Broken China reinker and some gold pearls. i misted the vine quite extensively. when i was done misting, there was so much mist on my craft sheet, i decided to wipe it up with a 10x15 piece of white cardstock. it looked so good, i used it as part of my layering! it is the piece just on top of the green cardstock! i also used the left over pieces of chocolate cardstock. i misted it again with my gold glimmer mist, and then i stamped a music note stamp with palette's canvas inkpad. i have to say that i don't know if they make these pads anymore. they are hybrid pads. i tried brilliance moonlight white and stazon opaque white - too white. colorbox was too light. this was perfect for the look i wanted. the bracket was a really old Making Memories one from a pack of chipboard dating back to 2007 - it had light red and yellow glossy colouring on it. i just sanded it off and then embossed it with brown embossing powder. the journal block was cut with a Tim Holtz die. i just stamped the journaling dots with Tea Dye distress ink, and did the journaling freestyle. hope you like the page! it was a fun page to make - not alot of thinking!