Patterned Paper Princess

Something From Almost Nothing has got me bursting with ideas :-) I've had this photo on my 'to-scrap' pile for ages, I knew what I wanted to entitle the layout, and that was about it! Then when Clair made me all these little lovelies from ribbon and beads, I figured I'd use a couple of them on the layout - and still didn't even make a start. Ahem.

Until the second class prompt arrived on Friday and got us pulling out all those patterned paper scraps and I realised just how much pink I had!! What with my The Girl actually being The Tomboy I don't get much chance to use pink... (This photo isn't of The Girl, but I'm not going to tell you anything about who it actually is, in the interests of anonymity and such like.)

One of Clair's pretty beadlings decorated the princess's hair, and I wrapped a length of ribbon with the ribbon rose at the end around the photo. (Clair's posted a tutorial on how to make those ribbon roses by the way!) I used lots of strips of patterned paper, edged with my Threading Water punch, to make the photo mat, and I scuffed up the overlap on the right hand side for a bit of extra dimension.

I made flowers from scraps of the same papers using a large circle punch and a medium scalloped circle, attacking the edges of the large circles with my scissors. Some I fastened together with medium brads but I didn't have quite enough, so I layered the other two with a Prima flower and used a small brad to join them. They were particularly useful to cover up the bright blue and red spotty case the princess was holding - it didn't go with anything else at all!! The lettering was all die-cut; I used more pink scraps for the word 'Princess' and the rest is white cardstock.

I shall just add the princess's name and the date the pic was taken in white gel pen next to the photo mat before I declare this layout officially finished!