a couple more vogue pieces

vintage vogue images from the fripperies and butterflies blog.  by the way you should stop by over there as Leanne has a nice giveaway going at the moment with a kit to make a mini book. these images were free downloads on her blog.  they are just beautiful and oh so classy.

most of the embellishments are from the good old stash but i wish to note that the beautiful background paper on the first (green) card was made by Linda at scrappinbears' studio.  awhile back she offered up some of her excess scrap papers and i was a lucky recipient.  in addition to just random lovely decorative papers there were some items she'd stamped and decorated herself.  this scrap is in that category.  yet another example of the talent and generosity in the blogosphere!

love to all.

pink saturday + pink and orange journal journey

i am happily celebrating PINK SATURDAY as well as Crafty Dawn's journal journeys pink and orange challenge for the month of July.  it was such a gift to be at the crafting table again after a long stressfully busy time in life when i just didn't have the energy.  i am so grateful for scissors and glue and all of our goodly tools!


i knew i wanted to do some kind of collage for the journal page.  i used my 8x8 journal book and gathered lots of pink and orange papers of a variety of textures and patterns.  i began laying out to my heart's content.  i had already stamped a wonderful stampsmith image -- a face with flowers which i'd already colored in with pinks and oranges so i wanted to include that. 

i embellished with a lot of additional goodies.  the butterflies are from a moonlight journeys collage sheet.  most of the rest are from either k & company or are random stash items. 

since the pink and orange theme was an homage to summer i found a short poem online that seemed fitting.  in photoshop i created a background in the color orange and i used the gradient tool on it.  i typed the poem on to that and then with some cutting and tearing i had my centerpiece.  i am so glad that Dawn is doing this journal challenge and i look forward to joining again in August.  meanwhile i guess i'm getting to be a full-fledged pink saturday devotee as well!

by the way special thanks to Linda at scrappinbears studio.  a lot of the lovely papers came from her.  she was giving away from her excess and i was a lucky recipient.  she sent me a huge box of gorgeous papers and many of them are a part of this journal page.  thank you Linda!

peace and love to all.