paris...........just because!

 i am still at home sick with pneumonia.  i have now been home for a week, and i am feeling slightly better.  i am literally holed up in the house - have not left it in 3 days!!  one good thing about being sick at home, is that you have lots of time to just play a little for your own sake......no deadlines, no pressure!  i love it!  (will i ever be able to go back to work after these few days????)  LOL!!

 i am not a "girly" scrapper.  i like neutral colours and i struggle to work with pink and feminine.  that does not, however, mean that i don't want to sometimes work with it! these stuning papers by Best Creation has had me looking at them since they arrived at the shop a few months ago.... the story is that i have a friend, Stephanié Vallé who lives in France.  i met her in 1991 when we were both Rotary Exchange Students in the USA.  we spent 5 weeks together on a tour of the USA.  she tracked me down after 22 years, and when i saw how "Parisienne" she looked, i knew i wanted to do a Paris page using these stunning Best Creation papers.....just because i wanted to!  i asked her to send me some photos of Paris through her eyes, but as i could not wait any longer, i downloaded some free images of Paris from the internet, and attached them to the layout.  once i get Stephanié's photos, i will just cover these with hers.  i am going to send her this page.....all the way to France!  just because!

  i found a new font "Bohemian Typewriter" today and just had to use it!  i inked the stamp i used here with Brilliance Lightening Black ink - it has a gorgeous shimmer to it!  the seam binding was coloured with Distress Paint, Distress Stains and a Distress Inkpad!

 had to also use some washi-tape!  i realised over the weekend that i did not own ANY washi-tapes....how is that even possible??? i used texture paste and a honeycomb stencil with perfect pearls over it, after it was dry, to add some visual interest on the background....

 more stamping and washi-taping!

 i dug through my stash and got out the Twinkling H2o's to colour my bare chipboard - does anyone remember those?  it is just magical!  i then covered the painted chipboard with some Cinnamon Stickles....

 also got into my box of flowers and grabbed a few that seemed to fit together and created a nice cluster........

the finished layout!  i loved how it turned out in the end - it was just fun to make!!