For the February DT I was sent some Simple Stories papers
and embellishments. I absolutely love
anything from any of the Simple Stories ranges and this month had Say Cheese
and The Daily Grind to work with.
As I do every month, I ‘pinched’ several photos from my
daughter’s Facebook page to use at my crop and really liked this one of her
with two of her medic friends.
Unfortunately, the title is not quite right as one of the gang is
missing, Marta had gone back to Portugal, earlier than planned, as she was unwell. I loved that they all decided to go out for
tea and cake before they returned to their respective homes for Christmas and
that they all wore their Christmas jumpers.
Now, I always take a bucket filled with punches to my crops
and nearly always bring them home again unused, this month I was determined that
I would use them! I knew I had the large snowflake cut outs and gingerbread men
buttons to use on the page but was at a loss as to what else to do. I then thought – ‘get those punches out’ so I
did and made a swag of flowers for the bottom of the photo. I didn’t feel that the page had come together
very well as the large snowflakes seemed at odds with the flowers. I took it home, still unsure what to do and
the next morning as I was putting my punches back in their storage box realised
that I had a snowflake one. I punched
out some smaller snowflakes from white paper, dotted them in the flower swag
and was very happy with the result as the extra little ‘pops’ of white brought
everything together.
So are you up for a little challenge – use your punches this
month and post onto our Facebook group to show what you have done.