COCOA DAISY KIT CLUB

I have not belonged to a kit club in years.  After spending a couple of months thinking about it and looking at options, I decided to join Cocoa Daisy.  I was pretty much decided, and then when I saw a sneak of January and saw that its theme was based on Jane Austen's  Pride & Prejudice, that pretty much clinched it.  I am a huge JA, and especially P&P fan, I just couldn't resist.

I received my first kit last week.  I LOVE it.  The mix of patterned papers is brilliant.  

My first project is a scrapbook page based on the Cocoa Daisy Sketch Challenge.  I am working on a large album of a trip I took to Italy 20 years ago.  We took slides back then, do you know what those are?  I finally got around to converting them to photos last year so I could do my album.

Anyway, here is the sketch:

  And here is my page:

I used the Basic Grey Serenade Peacock, Basic Grey Serenade paper/canvas flowers 8/kit, October Afternoon Farm Girl label stickers and Basic Grey Serenade Alpha stickers.  All from the kit.

Some of the pieces got a little bit beaten up when I had to remove everything from the first page.  I am not much of a planner,  I put the page together originally and then decided I wanted to add a little bit of mist.  Rather than masking everything and misting, I tried using the technique I have seen where you just put small drops of ink onto the paper.  OMG, it was one of those things where I kept adding to it, trying to make things better and it just got worse and worse.  I make mistakes on almost every project I make.  In fact, I pride myself on being able to fix the mistakes and most times improve upon the project.

Not gonna happen this time.

I was cracking up, by the time I was done my page looked like it was diseased.  

Wanna see?  OK, but you can't tell anyone;  I will deny all knowledge!

YUCK!

Luckily I had a piece of the same BG background paper in my stash. Misted it properly, before adding anything, tore everything off the original,  and put another complete page together.  I don't think I will ever learn.

Thanks for visiting.
See you soon,
Ang