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Another trio of recent layouts...

I've had my Minc out and been playing with the reactive mist. It's not a fine mist, it rather squirts out, but the effect when it is foiled is amazing.

I'm trying to make a dent in my puffy stickers. I bought several packs of hearts and stars and really haven't used them to their best. I still struggle putting lots of something on one layout, presumably because of the expense or not wanting to waste them. The thing is neither of these arguments hold up if they sit in a box and don't get used at all!

Ditto the above replacing puffy stickers with flair!

Love me some layers! Just small ones though so we don't cover up too much of the foiling!

This layout started off with the blue background but I couldn't work it...

With 5 photos too much of the foiling was covered however I shuffled the photos and laid them out.

So I switched to a white background and was much happier with how it looked.

Adding a few ribbon loops.

Another flair...

And this last one is A4 sized. I'm mixing it up a bit more this year, working all the sizes and pocket pages.

Loving the pentagons... they don't get much publicity, you know, always getting overlooked for squares or hexagons! Haha!

Keeping my colours very simple - white, blue and coral. They work well with the colours in the photos.

Adding a little mixed media under the main cluster. The journalling will be added later i.e. I don't know the details. I do know teddy had a good weekend though!

Thanks for looking!

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