Back To Scrappin'

Happy Thursday all! Well, I've been doing swaps and other various things here lately and have really been missing just scrapping for me. I also miss doin the various challenges I like to participate in, so I decided to get back to that today. I love the swaps, but it's nice to get back to scrappin' layouts and stuff. I just finished up this layout for a challenge on Just Scrappin'. This challenge was to make the paper work for you. You were supposed to take a sheet of paper and use things on it as embellishment on a layout. So I chose 2 sheets of paper. The first 2 pix are sample of the paper that I cut to make my embellishment for my layout. This layout is called "Give Thanks." Of course, it's of my cute little nephew, Carter. I cut out the pumpkin/corn embellishment and decorative strip of marquee looking stuff for the embellishment. I mounted the photo on a piece of paper that I tore out of an old dictionary and then distressed the edges. I really love that look. It almost looks like the paper has been burnt or something. I also distressed around my paper embellishents and around the outside of the layout. I used my edge distressor on the outside of the layout to distress it up really good. I love that old, torn look. I also added a some flowers. Inside the flower, I added a metal pumpkin charm. I cut out the journaling block with my cuttlebug. I also recycled my title to from a sheet of paper too. So here she is. Thanks for looking! God bless!