August 24, 2026 Janine O'Rourke

Thankful by SUE CREASE

Hello,

Today I am sharing a layout I made for my friend who had a photo shoot for her birthday and one of the many photographs she chose was this of her two children. I have made it for The Mad Scrapper Blog as all the papers came from Janine in her store.

As always I've gathered what I think I may use and there is a list at the bottom. This layout uses quite a bit of stash busting because as I am sure you are the same as me, I can't throw out half sheets or pretty fussy cut flowers.

I am following a sketch which I spotted on Facebook and I have added it at the bottom. I started with a white sheet and covered the lefthand side with torn sheets in similar shades. I also added a couple of stitched circles and some smooches of distress ink.

I added some vintage 49 and Market rub-ons in yellow at opposite corners as well as a butterfly.

Here you can see the butterfly along with a cluster of Cocoa Vanilla flowers, some hearts and the journaling.

This next photo shows the larger cluster and the title which is from Uniquely Creative; I also raised it on foam strips. To finish off I added some navy rhinestones and pale blue pearls.