April Blog Challenge- Use Black!

Hi everyone! 

Spring has sprung here in Dallas and I am super happy about it!

I love spring time, new flowers, new babies in the yard, 

new everything!

Today we have a new challenge for you

 use BLACK on your layout/project.

You can use black in any way EXCEPT for black ink- that doesn't count!

Here is a look at my project

I have used new MME papers - love them! I don't normally use black on a layout, so this is pretty unusual for me!

I used one of the matching chipboard frames.  I also added Prima Flowers, May Arts ribbon, and Maya Road Pins.

My chippie here is from Blue Fern Studios.

The hexagon background piece I cut using my Cameo. 

I added more Prima flowers and some buttons from my stash in the upper corner.

You have until April 30th to link up your project below.
One randomly drawn winner will receive the following prize

 We have an amazing stash of American Crafts goodies- so be sure to link up before the end of the month!

NOTE: we had a lot a prizes going out and the original prize for this month was mistakenly mailed to last months challenge winner. We have substituted this prize and will add a Bazzill Basics collection to it as well. 

Thanks so much for playing along

and 

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Best Friends Layout - Crate Paper Love Notes

Good afternoon blogging friends!

 It's Anita here today and I want to share a layout I made using 

a fabulous new line from Crate Paper- Love Notes.

 This line is Valentine themed, but the colors are great for other events

as well, so I used mine for a layout about my DD2 and some friends she 

made during her years at summer camp.

 I think that this aqua color is going to be the color of the year- which makes

me SUPER happy! I used my Silhouette to cut the circles background and title.

I sprayed by base paper with Rangers Perfect Pearls - Turquoise.

My die cut paper was heat embossed with a thick shiny powder.

The tag, and die cut chipboards are from Crate Paper. Seam binding is 

from The Crafty Scrapper. The super shiny little charm in the corner of the pics

is from Maya Road- of course!

The transparency is American Crafts, all the other embellies are from Crate Paper.

To make my plain paper title stand out, I inked the edges, then smeared

the ink around quite a bit. Then I added some faux stitching around 

the edges to define the letters.

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