Every Child is Amazing....... especially mine!!

If you've been around here long enough you know that one of my driving passions this year has been to include more memoribillia, and specifically my children's artwork, into my scrap pages.

My eldest is quite crafty herself and loves to sit down and draw. I love that she might just have inherited that from me ;-) But it does mean that we have piles and piles of old drawings hanging around the place... and really.... you can only keep so many right? Usually I'm sneaking the excess ones into the recycling bin at night while she sleeps!

But of course there's still so MANY that I keep and I'm working on different ways of incorporating them into my layouts so that it's like a collaborative project. I feel like I'm even better at capturing this moment in time if I do that.

This drawing in particular was a landmark so it deserved it's own layout. Do you remember me saying last year how Munchy had been asked to draw a picture to include on some friends' wedding invitation? Well this is the end result! Can you see how the two little figures are passing a ring between them? And the woman is holding her bouquet of flowers? Quite cute I think!

On this layout you can see how I obviously used her drawing more as a background, and I took my colour inspiration for the rest of the layout straight from it. That's just one method of course, another method I've used is to blend the drawing seamlessly into the layout by painting my own extension of it.... that's the method I've demonstrated in my very first scrappy video I'm sharing at Scrap Friends right now. Eeeeeekkkkk! I'm so nervous - you can totally tell! Go and check it out and let me know what you think!

Supplies:

Fancy Pants Its The Little Things Feathered	Fancy Pants Its The LIttle Things Spring Fever	Crate Paper Random Pattern	Crate Paper Random Accent Cuts
Crate Paper Random Alphabet Stickers	October Afternoon Boarding Pass alphas	Pink Paislee Wood Shop Alphabet Woodchip	Chipboard Thickers Typo Mustard
Cosmo Cricket Social Club chipboard	Gesso	Glimmermist Chalkboard Seven Seas	Glimmermist Starfish
Glimmermist Key Lime Pie	Glimmermist Sun Sisters

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