Katherine O'Shea

This months challenge was a wonderful sketch provide by the very talented Laura Whitaker, go check out the  http://scraptheboys.blogspot.com/  for more inspiration. I really enjoyed using this sketch to create. I had just bought the Happiness collection ( https://cocoavanilla.com.au/product-category/happiness/ ) by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. I know, I know, I was late to the game, but I couldn't wait to scrap with it. The combination of these two things meant the layout come together so easily. The weekend I had to get my layout completed for Scrap the Boys, Melbourne had it's first beautiful spring day and I had snapped these photos of Seb making a wish on a dandelion while we were out walking Pepper the dog. I used the Spring Garden cut file by Cut to You ( https://createdbygwen.com.au/ ). I backed the word Spring with the Happiness Good Vibes Page and also used that paper as my main border. I cut the dandelions away from the title and backed them with velum to used th

This months STB challenge was definitely a challenge for me, as I am not use to using florals on a boy layout. However, I really enjoyed making this layout and feel like it has opened my mind to more flower love in the future. I have always enjoyed cross stitching, my mother introduced me to it when I was about 10 and I have been doing it every since. This was the first time however that I had hand stitched on a layout. I had been drooling over the beautiful hand stitching Paige Evans ( http://www.paigetaylorevans.com/ ) does on layouts and decided to give it a go. I used the Stitch heart file from Confessions of a Paper Addict ( https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/COAPACutfiles ) and a blanket stitch with DMC cotton embroidery thread. The embellishments are from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Midnight collection. I really love the way it turned out and can wait to get more flowers on my boys layouts.