It's A Family Affair! **DT**

My latest DT kit from Hobbysew is made up with My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found collection of papers and embellishments which had lots of sparkle and glitter on. *Ü* This first layout has photos that were taken of my family recently and I changed the colour to 'selenium' to better co-ordinate with the papers. I love to see my 6 grandchildren together. *Ü* They all get on so well and have fun together despite their age differences.

I used my Martha Stewart 'daisy fan' punch to cut the edge of the dark paper and I added red gems from my stash. The lace ribbon ( I think by Prima), was from my previous DT kit and matches well with the dark patterned paper. I cut the 'Happy' portion from one of the papers and used the alphas. As they were pink, I wrote over them with a glue pen and glittered them with red to match. Then I added one of the buttons in the kit to the Penny Farthing bicycle before writing the journalling strips with the red sparkly pen, also in my kit.

I love spots and striped papers and the following card was fun to make. I used a scalloped punch for the circles and here's the tricky bit - to get the greeting onto the circle! I used 2 fonts here. First I printed the 'happy birthday' circular greeting onto paper. Then I placed the circle over the greeting and attached it with sticky tape and re ran it through the printer. The next bit was tricky. I typed 'Happy Birthday' onto the same paper as previously done, then attached the same circle (with sticky tape) over the exact type and again, ran the paper through the printer. I cut a strip of paper and attached it across the card, placed the scalloped circles on pop dots, stitched on a button from the kit and made a bow from black netting.

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Toots for now,