A letter to Kyaa

I'm so proud of my daughter. She is growing into a lovely young woman; responsible, sensible, and hard working among other things. I decided to make a layout to hold a letter to her about how much I love her and how proud of her I am. It just so happened that it also coincided with challenge  #24 over at Use it Tuesday to do a layout about love, all while using up your scraps! I've just discovered this challenge blog, and anything that encourages me to use up what I have rather than buy more is a good thing!

So here's my layout.

Everything on it has been in my stash, some things for six or seven years! The only new things I used are the cutting dies that I got for Christmas, but the paper I cut with them is from my stash. Let's see if I can tell you all the products I used:

• cardstock and purple patterned paper for large heart are both from TLC kits from my TLC selling days
• vellum from Paper Pleasing Ideas (now out of business) to cover chipboard K, top of the banner, flower stamens, and to make the letters for the title
• chipboard K by Making Memories
• cream/green patterned paper, rubons, ribbon, sticky backed pearls - unknown
• Postmarks background stamp from Kaisercraft

Cutting dies used:

• Cuttlebug Baby Face for letters (now discontinued?)
• Cheery Lynn Designs Fanciful Flourish
• Cheery Lynn Designs Heartland America Large (heart with ribbon on K, heart between the photos and doily flowers at top of K)
• Cheery Lynn Designs Exotic Butterfly small
• My Favorite Things Die-namics Banner Day
• My Favorite Things Die-namics Mini Pennants
• My Favorite Things Die-namics Prima Donna Petals (one of my favourites!)

And just in case you were wondering where the actual letter is - it's hidden behind the dark purple heart, but it's for my daughter's eyes only!

Till next time, happy days.

Francine