This Beauty Will Make Our Hearts Take Flight

Hi everyone!  Well, I survived the snow storm.  Mother Nature was kind and only left a few inches!

I recently was given some old photos from my dad's side of the family.  As I was looking through them I came across one of my grandmother, "Nana" at the age of 8 years old, taken back in 1913.

Isn't she beautiful!!! 

For Christmas I got the Scarlett collection by Glitz Designs and thought the aged look of the papers was perfect for the picture of my Nana.   I love the bright colors in the paper against the aged photo!

Today over at Sketches In Thyme we have a new sketch reveal, and it's a fabulous sketch from Sketchabilities:

I flipped the sketch:

One of the things I have decided to accomplish this year, is to break out of my comfort zone and try some new techniques. I saw a flower tutorial the other day at Scrap A Little and decided to give it a try. You can find the flower tutorial here. 

The yellow flowers are the ones I made:

I found the wooden buttons in my stash, and the butterfly is from K and Company.  Another technique I used on my layout is stamping.  I have a lot of stamps and will admit that I rarely use them.  The clock image is by The Girls' Paperie and the scroll work behind it is by Glitz Designs.  My Creative Scrapbook has a challenge this month to use stamps on your layouts.  After looking at all of the beautiful entries, I decided to give it a try.  

The flourish corner and images on the circles are stamped using images from The Girls' Paperie.

I also added some rub ons from the Die Cuts With A View Mariposa collection to my layout:

Please make sure you head on over to Sketches In Thyme to see what our DT has created.
Now, just one more thing . . . 
I was on Echo Park's Facebook page yesterday and came across this picture of one of their new CHA releases:

OMG I'm in love!!!!!  Can't wait until it's available!

Thanks for stopping by!