Brad Challenge

There is a challenge this week over at Practical Scrappers that is just too fun to pass up. I did a card and a layout for this challenge, but you may see more. I just love what can be done with brads!

For this card, I used Basic Grey Wisteria papers. The stamp is Inkadinkado, the sparkles are CTMH, and the ribbon is from Wal-Mart (after Christmas sale and the rolls were $0.13!). The pattern is from CTMH's Wishes how-to book, and it's called Stay Left.

Now let me tell you about the Bazzill and CTMH flowers. What I've done is distressed them both with a Ranger Gold paint dabber. The silver brad was painted with a Ranger Eggplant paint dabber. Once I put the flowers together with the brad, then I added a bit of Dusty Concord distress stickles. Great way to make a flower or two vintage!

In this layout, I've used all CTMH products - Indian Corn Blue CS, Free Spirit Level 2 paper, Autumn Daisy flowers, Legendary Moments stamp set. letter dimensional elements, and autumn terracotta brads.

In order to give the letters this look, I sponged them with Autumn Terracotta ink. Then I stamped them with an image from the Legendary Moments stamp set. In all, I used 43 brads on this page! This is one of my favorite pages. First of all, I love Shane's adorable face. This picture was taken almost 3 years ago at his graduation party. The paper is perfect as well.