JustRite Challenge #087 - Picture This - #2

I have the cutest picture of my mother's dog Danny. Danny is what I call a "puppy mill special", or what other people may call a
"designer dog". He's one of those mixes that they give a cutsy name to so people will pay a lot for them. He originally came from a
pet store, but we DIDN'T buy him. He was eight years old when I got him from his elderly owner who could no longer care for him. He
is everything I wouldn't want in a dog, but he can be so darn cute, I forget all that. My mother would never have picked him
either, but she agreed to take him, and now I think he owns her (and maybe me too !).

Anyway, I finally decided to scrap Danny's uber cute picture, and it happens that I used Spellbinders and JustRite stamps
(naturally !), so I am entering it in JustRite's Friday challenge to use a photo. I used the Marketplace Alphabet set and the words
'love' and 'cherish' are from the Botanical Medallions & Banners set. I used the Spellbinders Curved Rectangles for the photo and
its matting. I used Spellbinders Expandable Patterns Butterfly Magic and Basic Lattice. I first cut them out in scrap cardstock and
then used those as a stencil on the hearts with Golden Light Molding Paste. I first mixed the paste with white and a touch of raw
siena acrylic paint so it matched the colour of the off-white in the papers.
This has been a fun challenge because I really needed to get my scrap on, and this challenge could be a card, a mini,a layout etc.
I loved using the Spellbinders as stencils for the molding paste. It was so much fun that I know I'll be doing it a lot more in the future. You can find this challenge and all the awesome entries in it here :http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2012/12/justrite-friday-challenge-087-picture-this.html
Thanks for looking and sorry about the format, the computer is mad at me !

JustRite Friday Challenge #087 "Picture This"

The JustRite challenge this time is to use a photograph. I've had this photograph of a 'White Admiral' butterfly from the summer that I've been planning to scrap. This was quite the project, as I kept doing it backwards because I didn't have a real plan for it. I wanted a simple layout because I wanted the photo to pop. I made my background paper with a Tattered Angels butterfly stencil and Glimmer Mist, and then I used the butterfly from the JustRite Grand Sentiment stamp set and Perfect Pearls. I used the Spellbinders Curved Rectangles as a stencil to cut out the picture and the same one to cut out the mat. I took two die cut borders from the Spellbinders Vintage Lace Accents set and set them back to back, I was going to run ribbon down the centre, but I noticed some black&white twine and thought that would be fun to lace through the borders.

I sewed the Echo Park Victoria Park paper, added an accent from Spellbinders Botanical Motifs, cut the letters with a Slice and finally stamped the word "backyard" using the JustRite Market Place Alphabet set. This is a set I won from JustRite and was the first time I used it. I hadn't really noticed that it had multiples of all the letters so you can stamp your whole words all at once. I don't have any other sets like that and I LOVE it ! The font is super nice too.
The JustRite challenge is on the JustRite blog here : http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2012/12/justrite-friday-challenge-087-picture-this.html