wish

My friend Kelly's birthday is next month. I was kindly reminded when I was looking through some old photos and found this one amongst the mix. Kelly is always so good about remembering my birthday and sending me cards (and presents too!) so I wanted to make something special for her.

This photo was taken our freshman year of college on her birthday. We celebrated by throwing her a surprise dinner at Hooters on St. Patrick's Day. I wanted to use the color green, especially the clover ribbon, but since I used so much of it with the paper and embellishments, I used a blue piece of vellum as the background (which was then backed with white paper.)

Sometimes, it's hard for me to use just ONE photo, but I found this project fairly easy. I was reading through an old issue of Creating Keepsakes, when I found a layout that I wanted to scraplift. This article was titled "10 Fast & Fabulous Designs" by Vanessa Hoy with Jamie Waters.

I used Approach 2 which says, "Use a large photo mat to include your title and embellishments, If you use a patterned-paper background, mat on solid cardstock. If you use a solid background, mat on patterned paper."

Some fun things to know about this layout:
1. I backed the photo with an old card. it says, "Though we're far apart, I always know right where you are."
2. The green flower used near the title had a petal ripped off, so I overlapped the pattern paper on the missing petal.
3. Hidden journaling is written on the tag with green ribbon.
4. I was going to use two pieces of patterned paper until I read the Vanessa Hoy's article.

I would say that the layout turned out successful. Happy (early) Birthday, Kelly! :-)