Quick Quotes Feminine Farmhouse layout

I am so excited today to show you my first project with the latest Quick Quotes paper collections!  I actually got to work with the new lines at the Quick Quotes Mini Reserve in Toledo a couple of weeks ago.  I am enamoured with all the new lines and how well they coordinate.  I primarily used the Farmhouse collection with a few papers from Anchors Aweigh.  I just knew this photo from Mother's Day would look gorgeous with the colorful but soft background paper.

I used templates to create the flowers and borders.  Although I used various sizes of flowers and a pearl in the middle, they seemed to need something else.  I punched a floral piece of paper with not a circle but a HEX to give the flowers a little more interest.  You just can't go wrong adding one more layer or one more small detail.  It will usually give your project more dimension.  I am a fan of dimension without too much bulk. For instance, I crumpled my flowers a bit and chalked again to highlight the distress.

I even distressed the resin flower I used for this flower center.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Alicia

Quick Quotes Ingredients:

Anchors Aweigh Papers 101, 103

Farmhouse Papers 102, 104, 105, 106

Farmhouse chipboard die cuts

Peach Tree PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Sunset PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Seafoam PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Blue Moon PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Other Ingredients:

Kiwi Lane: Cedar Trails 2A, 2B; Mini Cascade Trails 2B; Sunnybrook Lane 2B; Floral 2, 2T

Recollections pen

Creative Memories hex punch

Misc embellishments

Cricut cut photo mats and photo

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/2015/09/udfordring-102-brug-blomster-use-flowers.html until 9/13x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper.html until 9/30x

http://www.scrapbookblessingsclub.com/2015/09/september-challenge-anything-goes-with.html until 9/30
I love to distress with ink and wrinkles (flowers)