I have just been doing a fab Big Picture Class called i-scrap, which included producing 9 layouts (more than I did in the whole of last year!).

My first layout is for the statement "I wonder . . . at Nature's Palette".  I went back to some retired Designer Series Paper to match the Riding Hood Red colour scheme I chose for this one.  Here's a pic of my supplies gathered together.

We were allowed to select only 5 embellishments, 1 piece of ribbon, one piece of patterned paper and one sheet of card, to go with our photo, and this was to be selected before we were given a brief for our page. As you can see by the finished layout, I have cheated a teensy bit, by adding a piece of linen thread for the hodge podge, and a small piece of the reverse of the dsp inside the hodge podge. Shhhhhh! please don't tell anyone! LOL

Don't you love the colours of those leaves? There were in the gorgeous Chinese Garden in Darling Harbour in Sydney, which a group of us visited at the end of the 2010 Stampin' Up! Convention, before flying home to Melbourne later in the day - stunning, stunning garden, even though it was pouring with rain most of the time.

I'll share some more of these layouts with you over the coming weeks - as I continue to work on the journalling which goes on the facing page.  Enjoy your day!

Kathryn