You're making me Dizzy

December is always such a busy time of year, but I've been wanting to play along with a few more challenge blogs this month. So I killed two birds with one stone with this layout!

Candy Shoppe Designs have a challenge to use up all your unwanted X, Y, and Z's which automatically got me thinking about using them as a photo mat (I used a few more 'unwanted' letters too, like V and Q). And then I used a few more for the title too!

And Scrap the Girls has a challenge to create a layout using one set of complimentary colours. My choice...... red and green. I know my base cardstock looks a little turquoise here, but it looked a lot more green when I chose it! It might be the Studio Calico white mist which has made it magically 'change'?!

This funny picture of my daughter was taken at a playground, but my general theme was summed up nicely in my long title. Whether it's through joy or frustration, sometimes she really does make me dizzy :-)

Sweet lollipop (flowers that is)

I thought I would try a new-to-me challenge site this month - Candy Shoppe Designs. Why? Because they're super funky! And the prize is a kit from The Magpie Club, and you know how I'm loving them (see the post below :-)

So all you had to do for this challenge is use lollipop flowers on your creation. Easy peasy right? Here's what I did:

I cracked open some ye olde Sassafras Lass and some water-colours and went to town! Cut a bizzillion circles to make into bright colourful lollipop flowers and relied on some favourites like typewritten journalling and washi tape. I just had fun :-)

I'm still experimenting with my new sewing machine, and I haven't got everything right yet, so hence, it sometimes skips a beat. But I think I've got that problem figured out now.

Ok - I better go now. The Studio Calico reveal is about to happen any moment and I'm now a subscriber. Yay! :-)