Fussy cut flowers and stitching

And thread that of course

goes along with stitching only different.

Love these flowers - they were on beautiful paper 

but I really wanted to use them as an accent

as they were really overwhelming on the paper.

And those wooden hearts make me swoon with the pearls.

 The flowers matched this lovely lined paper that I backed to

some polka dotted paper that I used somewhere else and cut the back out of.

So..... it needed to be a big mat.

Love this photo of my gram and I have no idea why she

has a drum stick in her hand (at least that's what it looks like to me). LOL. 

Her and grandpop came down 2 years in a row for

me and my brother's graduations.

She was my favorite.

I was her favorite.

I miss her.

She was a lot of fun and quirky and
gave good advice.

Studio Calico, doily, pearls.

Yellow and pink - so pretty together

This Studio Calico paper is so pretty and girly

and I actually had a b&w photo ready to go for it

until I looked closely at those itty bitty flowers and found

some pink in there.

 So I switched it up for this girly photo of Annie.

I did print them in "sequence" however, when they printed out

the blue line was cut off in that first photo so it looked

like she lost an eyeball so I shifted them around so that the blue

gives an edge to the photo.

 I have a really OLD stash of prima flowers that has

really been whittled down over the past years

so I had to really dig to find these.

(I'm trying to stash bust so I really didn't want to buy more)

And honestly they really worked out lovely.

Out of the $1.50 bin at M's were those beautiful pearls that

are finding their way onto more pages.

 And doilies - don't they make you swoon.

I was hunting down photos when I came across this one

which is older because Annie girl just turned 5.

I know. Time flies.

I'm pretty sure I did this before but it didn't 

ring a bell so I did it again.

No rules about that in scrapbooking.

I didn't add any mists because I really just love

this look as is. Old School.

I'm loving sequence photos at the moment

so of course they'll be used ad nauseam.
I did frame the entire page with regular stitching.

I think it came out darling.

And girly.

Its all about the hearts

 And Miss Amelia has mine for sure.

Love the photos I get from her mama - they

tend to bring out the inner artist in me.

So I whipped out the QK nesting hearts and whacked

them in different Bella Blvd. papers.

I fixed the hearts so I could use the outline and then

also separated them to make hearts.

And found out that the majority of those die cut hearts were too big.

So I broke out the punch and some different colored

patterned paper because the Bella Blvd. all looked the same.

 It also looked a bit to white so I used some watercolors in

gold, teal and pink. Of which the pink you can hardly see.

And because I could I used a gold marker I doodled around the edge

and made some really sloppy hearts.

And those pearls - don't they make you swoon.

I also broke out the QK square nesting die cuts and

anchored them around because I just

felt more was needed.

Of course a girly page wouldn't be complete without gold

hearts and butterflies.

I love the photo and her hairdo and her pose and smile kind of 

remind me of Audrey Hepburn.

To be that poised at 5.

I was a messy little tomboy with a pixie 'do LOL.

All of which resulted in me finally getting to use the "classy" title
from Studio Calico.