New Layouts from this week - "Artful Love" and "In Bloom"

This week I am featuring several layouts that I created with The Urban Fairy's "Artful Love" kit.  This is a HUGE bundle of beautiful purple, blue and pink elements. Here is the preview:

 And here are the creative team's pages that we created with the bundle:

I wanted to try a few new things on this kit including using hexagon elements and some very dramatic shading. Here are some cute pictures of Sarah and Noelle that I took at the park the other day after our music class.  I also did a cool thing where I "threaded" the charm through the thread stitching. Take a look at the close up.

Charm Close-up

For the second layout, I used some picts from a friend of her daughter's 1st birthday.  She is a real cutie and had on the most adorable colorful tutu. One neat thing I did with this layout is to use one of the butterfly cutouts as a clipping mask to show the paper underneath. Thanks to Kelly for letting me use these pictures!

And for the third layout I just had fun with a picture of the doggies that my mother-in-law took in front of our hydrangeas a few summers back.  

I also made up a cute layout for The Urban Fairy's "In Bloom" minis, which is part of a huge March Coordinated Collection with a lot of the designers at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio.  This are very colorful kits with these neat multicolored leaves and twists and branches that I love!

Each one of these minis is available for 1$ right now!

Brush Blooms

Card Stock

Leaves

Shabby Stock

Stamps

Twists

Now here is my layout. It's a cute pict that my hubby took of me and the boys last Mother's day, as well as a pict of one of the beautiful and exotic purple jacaranda trees that we have here in SoCal.  

Oh I should mention that I used one element (the frame) from Artful Love and some washi tape from the Washi Lover Volume 1, also from The Urban Fairy!