Baby Beatrix

If the minutiae of Thurrock mapping in the last couple of posts bored you to tears, you'll be glad to see me back to scrapbooking today. The 12 Days of Summer Scraplifts challenges from Scrap Squad ended ages ago, but I am still working my way through them and made this page for Day 8, based on an almost-rainbow of stripes from Laura Rumble who blogs at Beads, Buttons and Birds.

I knew this scraplift was coming up when I placed my last order, and I deliberately added a stripy paper from Pinkfresh Studio just to use for this page. 

The paper had printed stitch lines which I hand-stitched over in matching colours of embroidery thread. I was going to add an assortment of colour-matched embellishments as per Laura's page but I struggled to find pieces that looked good together and I felt that they detracted from my stitching so I kept it plain in the end. I also departed from Laura's original design by using two photos (of my husband's cousin's new arrival) and layering them on a couple of patterned papers.

Supplies

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Happy Heart, Heidi Swapp Hello Today, HOTP Baby Girl

Letters - American Crafts, Glitz Design

Die-Cuts - Unknown

Stickers - Maggie Holmes

Thread - DMC, Anchor

Enamel Dots - Freckled Fawn, Carta Bella