Tuesday, April 16, 2013

WMS April Sneak Peek Day 2 - Nordic Baby

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Welcome to Day 2 of the Waltzingmouse April Release Sneak Peeks.  Today we're showing you a sweet mini  set called Nordic Baby featuring 3 sentiments (Sweet, Baby and Welcome), 2 design elements and a cute little pair of Mary Jane shoes!   
 
Since I have a sweet little 7 month old grandniece, Mila (pronounced Mee-la) - it was very easy for me to create with this set.  I decided to try my hand at a little mixed media project and I created an 8"x8" scrapbook page.

First I mixed some white and blush acrylic paints and brushed it across my white card stock panel to soften the glare of the white. I placed my photo on the panel and added the patterned paper strips and felt buttons - moving them around until I was happy with the placement.  I marked where I put everything and then I stamped the grid and circles from an older release, Off Beat Backgrounds, several times on the panel, not inking the entire stamp so there were gaps in the stamping.
Mila's Mary Janes are actually stitched into her little white tights - but I knew this was the perfect picture of her to use with the sweet Mary Janes stamp!  I stamped "Mila" with letters from December's release, the Woodenheart Alphabet.
I think my niece Katie will love this page of her sweet little daughter!

Now let's see what cute projects the rest of the Design Team has to share with us today!

Advance Notice!!! 

1) The Friends of WMS Blog party is April 17th the theme is Spring flowers. We hope you'll join in - All the details can be found HERE!


2)  On Friday 4/19 there will be a Waltzingmouse Stamps Flower Show Hop featuring 12 talented guest designers - there will be a grand prize of 5 stamp sets awarded to a lucky crafter who participates in a CASE competition.  All the details will be on Claire's WMS blog on the 19th.


I hope you'll stop by again tomorrow for the 3rd and final day of the Sneak Peeks!

Sweet Baby Mila Page:
Stamps:  Nordic Baby - Waltzingmouse (available 4/18/13), Off Beat Backgrounds, Woodenheart Alphabet
Paper:  White, Enchanted Evening, EP Textstyle Bitty Dot Basics - PTI
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Chipped Sapphire and Barn Door.
Accessories:  Heart rhinestones - Michaels, glue dots, foam brush, acrylic paints - white and blush, felt buttons - Taylored Expressions, satin ribbon -May Arts, photo, lace from my stash, circle Nestabilities..

15 comments:

Kelly Griglione said...

Those letters are just perfect for scrapbook page titles! Your niece will be so thrilled to get this beautiful page as a gift. What a cutie as the star too : )

The Hardy Stamper said...

What a lovely scrapbook page! Mila is so sweet too!

Sarah said...

Mila is adorable and so is the page.

Annette Allen said...

aww how totally sweet... adorable picture..

Lynn Mercurio said...

This is fantastic, Julia. I just got photos developed of Evie, and can't wait to use this set on a similar layout. You sure have a sweet subject to scrap..Mila is adorable.

Renee said...

Adorable, Julia!!
I LOVE the colors you worked with...
and what a precious babe!
I think mom will treasure this sweet beauty forever!

Riet said...

This is so wonderful Julia.

Hugs Riet.xx

Vickie Z said...

Love the LO!! Those background stamps look perfect and Mila is adorable!!

Jeanne J. said...

Beautiful layout Julia - Mila is gorgeous and I love that shoe stamp!

Deborah Frings said...

I absolutely love your page - the photo is beautiful and the little booties are just right! Great colours too!

Fay Marie said...

Darling baby page. This is the perfect set to that page!

Tosha Leyendekker said...

What an absolutely precious page Julia!! I love all the bg textures with your precious photo of Mila!! So sweet!

Sue D said...

Sweet photo and layout!

Jen Cuthbertson said...

Oh what a perfect page, Julia! I just adore the personalization!! Super job and Mila is adorable!!

Jean Bullock said...

Your grandniece is darling. I love how you matched the colors in your cute scrapbook page to her outfit.