Best Day Ever!!!

Hey, everyone!  I'm still enjoying my new craft space and if I stay on track I MIGHT (okay...definitely won't) have all the boxes of craft supplies unloaded by 2029...

But in the meantime...I decided to keep the status quo and just enjoy some scrappy fun!

Here is LO I made using the July 2023 Tres Jolie Scrapbook Kit:

This kit was marketed as a masculine kit...and since this handsome man I'm dating is new to learning about my addiction hobby to all things crafty I figured it was a good kit to use to save some of our memories!  We took this photo while we were on a dinner cruise in Baltimore (the cruise itself deserves its own blog...but that's another story) and I knew this kit was going to be perfect for the picture.

If you caught my last blog post and tutorial video, I now have 4 full drawers of flowers.  This does not include flowers that I have probably not unpacked from other boxes of craft supplies, but I have made a promise to myself (and the hottie pictured above) that I will not purchase any new flowers (except for those that arrive my kit subscriptions) until I get my flower collection "under control."

Keeping that in mind, I used a mix of flowers from my stash and a few flowers from the kit.  I had a ton of navy blue flowers (go figure...what with four drawers full and all) and the dress I wore that night was navy as well, so I figured it would be a nice touch.  Below you can see some of the navy blue flowers I used along with some pale yellow/beige flowers:

This kit came with a ton of ephemera and one of the patterned papers had some additional bingo cards.  I cut the bingo cards out of the paper and distressed and inked the edges.  Below you can see some of the "grungy" numbers on the top right.  I honestly can't remember if I used the rub-ons that came in the July kit for that, or if the matching patterned paper included all of the grunge look.  Either way, the kit was a great mix of my style when I'm making more masculine LOs. I also layered some sentiments ("smile" and "best day ever") from the ephemera included in the kit along with several of the paper hearts.

Finally, below are some more of the beige and navy flowers I used for this LO.  I do try to keep my floral use to a minimum on masculine LOs, but it's really a struggle for me...I really, really, really, really like flowers.  

And there ya have it!  This is the first LO I've made featuring just the two of us...and I have a feeling there will be plenty more LOs featuring this hottie 💓...I like him and we tend to take quite a few pictures together! 😍😍

Thanks for looking around!

xoxo,

Mel