So here we are...almost time for Thanksgiving (my hands-down favorite holiday!!!) and I'm finally getting this last layout from the family's back to school pictures! Oops...but let's get real...I think I'm actually ahead of the game by getting the last one posted before the end of 2022! 🤣 *pat on the back*
This LO features my gorgeous sister-in-law and two of her beautiful babies on their first day of school...including Gav's first day of kindergarten! 💞 See the LO below:
This LO was made using the Tres Jolie Kit Club September 2022 kit and like some of my other back to school LOs from this year had a bit of a girly steampunk feel to it. The kit came with some great Tres Jolie chipboard that I altered and then used to create a funky pipe looking backdrop for the photo.
Below you can see where I cut some of the tags and ephemera from the papers and the kit as well as a few flowers and some gorgeous Beautiful Beads from Renea Bouquets store.
Below you can see some of the pipe chipboard. I cut it apart and then pieced it back together, but not before I used a variety of mediums to "decorate" it. I used plenty of Tim Holtz Foundry Wax to create both a bronzed and silvery finish but needed to make sure it was still girly enough to tie in with the flowers and the "girly steampunk" motif I was going for. So I used almost too much just a little bit of chunky pink and gold glitter to tone the steampunk down. The kit came with some great ephemera that could be fussy cut, including the bright yellow butterfly in the picture below.
Finally, I used more flowers (because...why not?), some more Beautiful Beads, and a Renea Bouquet butterfly to round this LO out!
There you have it! All of the back to school pictures that I had access to this year have been put into the memory books! Now it's time for some Thanksgiving and Christmas projects! 💕💕
Thanks for looking!
xoxo,
Mel
