Trendy Leaves 2 @ STAMPlorations

{My DT work for STAMPlorations}

~BLOG HOP TIME~

Yes, you heard right. STAMPlorations welcome you to join our blog hop, leave comments and let's hope this magnificent new Trendy Leaves stamp set will be yours!

Can you spot the leaves on my layout?

I stamped some leaves using Versafine onyx black ink pad on white watercolor paper. Spent happy moment fussy cut the leaves to tuck them underneath each other as well as paper layers.

 I love that beautiful black maple leaf with musical notes on it. I think it looks perfect underneath the purple flower {my middle daughter made it for me many moons ago and finally I decided to use it}.

 Heaps of layering here {lol}. I was looking for something in the drawer at my daughter's study table and saw a strip of white netting. I wonder what on earth she was doing behind my back {sniff, sniff...very fishy, haha}. There's finished green food coloring bottle and white tissue serviette turns green; even bits of the white netting was also green!! I cleared the drawer, threw away the bottle, sticky tissue and cut off some of the white netting and tah-dah...it's given a proper place on this layout rather than sitting in the dark drawer for how long I don't know! My middle girl is still having finale primary school exam until Thursday afternoon so I haven't asked her what sort of project she was doing behind my back.

{She always have science projects; slime was one of them early this year and the whole house stinks when she did the science project for homework, lol}.   

Confession to make: This photo of my girls {left is Anis with her non-stop science projects and her eldest sister 'Alyaa at the park} was printed last year but I was not pleased with it because it was meant to be black and white. Unfortunately the ink was dying so the printer gave me this purplish photo. At the time I was unsure what to do with it so off it went to live in the box-of-things-to-do-project until I dig it out again for this layout. I did have hard time picking patterned papers to suit the photo though. I placed it on some green patterned papers, pulled out more rustic designed papers to see if it balance, even on a wood one too but in the end I figured some sort of monochrome would do the trick.

Yes, I'm happy with this page at last.

{Took one whole day to complete in different sittings, half day alone on paper selection, seriously!}. 

And more up-close shots:

As always I needed a sketch to kick start work on my layout. This fab sketch from Scrap Club inspired me to keep going {smile}:

And also the Home & Scrapped Stash Buster challenge:

I hope my layout gives you some inspirations and hopefully you have enjoyed hopping.

All the best to you and I sincerely hope this new stamp set prize will be yours!

More information on the stamp set, please click here. Until September 13, this set is available at 10% off.

Coordinating dies is available here.

That's it for today. Thank you for hopping and stay cool.

Hugs and smiles,