You Are My Sunshine

For Week 23, I needed two additional layouts:  one for Rayna's graduation ceremony and a second for her graduation party.  I started with three photos of Rayna holding her various certificates and another photo of her with her teacher.  I was inspired by Sketch #105 from Sketch Savvy for this layout.  I cut apart a card from Basic Grey's Hey You Snippets pad to have a little bit of a decoration on each side of the vertical strip of photos.  Then I matted the picture with her teacher on a piece of paper from the 6x6 Hey You paper pad.  I found a piece of chipboard that was perfect for the title and then added a little washi tape here and there.  The only thing that makes me a little sad is that I had some issues with my Sakura Glaze pen when I added my journaling.  Also (true confession), I got it all a little crooked and it was driving me crazy, so I cut it down to mat the whole piece on a piece of DCWV card stock to finish it off. 

 

Here's how it looks in place in my book:

Fun with Pens

I bought the pen holder for my Silhouette Cameo.  Unfortunately, it really only holds standard pens.  But I didn't let that stop me.  I basically pulled apart the pen I wanted to use and rigged the pen holder to hold one of my Sakura gelly roll pens.  I love these pens but I rarely ever use them.  But I knew it was the perfect pen to try to with a great card I found on The Card Grotto.  I swapped out the flower pattern for a cute Echo Park butterfly design I purchased in the Silhouette store.  I used a sentiment from the Fiskars All Year Greetings set, which I stamped on vellum (I love that technique).  It was a simple and fun card and I love getting to try out something new.  I just wish it photographed as cute as it is in person (and that I didn't get a stray strand of my hair in the shot).