I fussy cut the small hexagons from a leftover strip of paper and used another strip from the same paper on my left side border.

I fussy cut the flowers from the paper I used as the page border.

I used stitched washi tape on my blocks, bird patterned paper, and a frame tucked into the cluster at the upper right of the photos.

Thank you for selecting my layout and for all the kind messages!

Here’s the book I used for inspiration:

And here’s my page:

The left half of my background is velum over white cardstock and I used large diecut flowers for the background.

I used Mrs. White (blues), Miss Scarlett (reds) and Reverend Green (greens). I hope it’s ok that I used lighter green (mint/aqua), darker blue (navy accents) and lighter reds (pink)…hopefully I interpreted the directions correctly! http://www.cookinupcreations.net/gallery/albums/userpics/83192/norma...

I used white acrylic paint and gold mist on my background plus 10 patterned papers (two for the photo mats):