lasting Memories GDT: XOXO

It's sunday again! Time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories! You know, I'm a guest desinger there this month, again. This month Lori is providing these funny challenges: 
All About Animals" - include an animal somewhere on your layout - it can be in the photos, a sticker/embellishment, patterned paper, etc.

And this week is the turn on these animals: In The House (dogs, cats, rabbit, hamster, snake, turtle, etc)

And I have to say: this really challenges me! We have no pets and I unfortunately have no picures of my kids playing with the neighbours cat (I think, the next time, I have to take some! ;-) ) So, I decided to use a picture of my daughter and use some animal-embellishments. 
I wanted to create a girly pink layout with mixed media. So I first cut out a stencil from a cut file from just nick. How to create your own stencil - you can find here. Then I used this stencil to smudge some lilac and pink nuvo-embellishment-mousse and acrylic paint on my background. For more girly flowers, I used a very colorful paper from my stash, cut my white cardstock smaller and backed it with the patterned paper. Then I machine stitched the two papers together. For decoration I used some embellishments (cat and rabbit) and some cherry blossoms from SF-Stamps. 

Some close ups: I colored the cherry blossoms with liquid pearls (Ranger) and my waterbrush. (I love the shimmer!)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Denise