Happiness is a New Coat & Hat

Hello again :) I see that Let's Get Sketchy challenges are due today :) So you will see back to back posts of these challenges that I did. First is LOAD Day15: its a color prompt day and the colors come from the Australian flag which is Dark Royal Blue/White/Red. I decided that I wanted to also do the Old Man Winter challenge over at SNC yahoo group so that lead me to this picture of Emily that needed scrapped.

That coat called for a special background so I used my current counterfeit kit for this layout and some papers from my Winter/Christmas stash. The title came from an alpha/word sticker sheet in my kit and so were those fun hearts in my current kit. I used the sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy Week #1

I had a blast using this sketch :) It gives you lots of layers to work with and fun embellishments spots. For the big splatter I used a die cut snow flake that I had gotten in a RAK envelope.

 I added my personal journaling here, with a few enamel hearts surrounding it. You can see the title here too.

 Isn't she a sweetie (I may be a bit bias :) This is our Great Granddaughter Emily, she had gotten her 1st Winter coat. I think Mom had an influence on the choice since she likes animal prints. That little crochet heart I got in a Valentine's Day swap I had to add it to the layout :)

Closer look of the overall central layout of the page has the snowflake did a little of the nesting technique :) will have to try that more often. The tag with the date and more of the bakers twine.I sprinkled 3d epoxy style snowflake dots around the left side of the layout since the hearts were on the right side :) seemed to balance the layout out.
See you soon...............