Inspired by Ashli and Giveaway Winnner #1

Hi, it’s Ruth here with two fun things for you, first up, the winner of the Neverland Studio Calico kit was drawn using random.org and I videoed it to show it was a fair selection and the winner is

congrats, Claire! Check your email please, you should have an email from me there.

Note that the other giveaway is STILL OPEN (since the post is unbelievably slow this month and I still have not received the box with the stamps in it!!), so if you missed out this time, you can still get in the running for that giveaway.

Secondly, a layout to share. This one was inspired by the wonderful Ashli Oliver from purplemailbox.com, who recently did a post about puffy paint and it inspired me to pop into a craft shop and get some puffy paint to play with

This is the fabric kind, I don’t know if that is exactly what Ashli used, but it was 5 for $10, which seemed like a good deal to me.

I used the puffy paint on an overhead transparency placed on top of a printout of a few typography images from Pinterest and then left it to dry overnight. They did NOT come off the transparency easily and after destroying one of them, I carefully cut around the next one and used it for a layout.

I also recently got a few sheets of paper from the new Amy Tangerine line, “Yes Please”, the new Maggie Holmes line and the new Dear Lizzy line, and used them on this page, along with a photo I really like from a week ago, when my daughter went supermarket shopping with my husband and asked him to let her bring me home some flowers .. what a sweetie!

And that weekend, I also discovered that she now fits those awesome pants she is wearing, yay! I love those pants! LOL Dressing her is so fun, I am not looking forward to relinquishing that delight one day.

So thanks to Ashli for the inspiration for a really fun layout, go check out her blog for lots of other ideas for artsy ideas that you might not have otherwise thought of, she is great like that.

One more quick share, this one is thanks to Rosalie, who challenged everyone to use a less than stellar photo and talk about the details that it brought to mind, prompting a great story for your layout. I was looking at older photos and came across a gem, which I made into this layout, using more Dear Lizzy papers and a sketch from Shimelle:

I did consider not sharing this, as I am letting you all in on the fact that I am a pretty big nerd, but I guess you guys might have already figured that out?

See you later in the week with my Project Life week 12.