This is a double page shabby chic style layout featuring my sweet, Biscuit as a 1 year old (jumping picture with ears flying) and now at 16. Two weeks ago, we had a terrible health scare, and we agonized as we thought we would lose our sweet girl.\u00a0Miraculously she pulled through.\u00a0I wanted to create this special double page LO to memorialize our lives together as I pondered how amazing our lives have been with her and how blessed we are to have her still.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Journaling<\/span>: The journaling spot on the left LO has a quote from Peter Pan that reads: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” The right LO includes a lot of journaling that memorializes snippets of our lives together–through 3 moves, 5 career changes, terrible health scares for me and her, how we met Mr. CraftyPaws,\u00a0the addition of our 2nd fur baby, Bandito (who stole our hearts with his Havanese hurricanes spreading magical pixie dust like Tinkerbell), and how we got through everything together. I used the free Distress Typewriter Font <\/a><\/span>in brown text for all the journaling, punched the top edge of the first journaling square on each LO with a Stampin’ Up Spiral Border Punch Notebook Trim Border, and inked all the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Spun Sugar and Antique Linen.<\/p>\n

Stamped Images<\/span>: I used the Wendy girl (representing me), Peter Pan boy (representing Mr. CraftyPaws) and “forever young” sentiment from The Greeting Farm’s Never Ever (retired) stamp set as well as the pup from The Greeting Farm “Mini Remix Happy” stamp set (representing Bandito as a doggy Tinkerbell). They were all stamped out with Momento Desert Sand ink and colored in the no line style with the following Copic colors:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Skin: E51, E53, R21, E11, and R30
\nGirl’s hair: C00, C4, C6, C7
\nBoy’s hair: E55 and E57
\nDog’s fur: C00, C2, E11, E13, E15 and white gelly roll gel pen
\nGirl’s Dress and book: RV000, RV00, RV11, E81, E43, E84
\nBoy’s Outfit: YG21, YG25, YG95, YG97, and G99 plus some detailing with Distress Markers in Peeled Paint and Crushed Olive<\/p>\n

For extra details on the images, I added white gelly roll pen details on the girl’s glasses and coated them with Glossy Accents for shine. I also used the top parts of a punched\u00a0Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch<\/a><\/span> topped with glitter glue for sparkle as wings for Bandito as Tinkerbell. I hand fussy cut each image out and popped them up on fun foam or double sided foam adhesive for added dimension.<\/p>\n

Backgrounds<\/span>: I used 2 patterned papers from an old DCWV paper stack from my hoard vault called, “The Lace & Linen Stack.” I used a Tim Holtz Alterations Weathered Clock die and Prima Vintage Clock die to create the white\/pink\/vintage tonal background layer just beneath the pictures. \u00a0I wanted a lot of texture and detail for this layer, without distracting from the pictures of Biscuit or the stamped and colored images so I layered all these dies and stamped the “forever young” sentiment simply with more Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Spun Sugar and Antique Linen.<\/p>\n

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Embellishments\/Bling<\/span>: I used old crocheted lace trim, vintage buttons threaded with metallic gold thread (this isn’t as simple as it sounds – check out the video if you’re interested in the painstaking details), pale pink blingy pearl trim (which I also cut apart to add as clock hand centers), and hand fussy cut paper flower images that look like fabric flowers for embellishments. I also printed out in a free Magnolia Sky Script Font<\/a><\/span> in pink onto vellum another quote from Peter Pan that reads, “All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust!”<\/p>\n

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The following is a video share of these layouts:<\/p>\n