Gift Wrapped!

Meet Stanley! One of my sister's new kittens (Dougie to follow). This photo was taken after about a week of her welcoming the kittens to her home.

This layout is for today's FTLOFF Cake Day (6th Anniversary) first challenge - titled Battenberg. The aim is to use a 4 square gird and / or a pair of colours. So I went for red and white and a gift parcel effect, which divides the page into 4 parts. 

For this layout I dug into my store of prescious stash, that I have been saving for something special.

The border is a paper from Magnolia Ink's Sweet Christmas Dreams collection and is called Lingonberry Christmas.

Over this I added a sheet of trimmed white Bazzill, after splattering it with red, white, balck and silver acrylic paint.

The photo was mounted onto some Basic Grey's Black Tie collection background papers (scraps). These are great because they are distressed they are no solid colour and have many other colours running through them.

I tied a bow in dark red ribbon, matching the ribbon in the photo as closely as I could. To this I added two tiny silver bells, just like on Stanley's collar.

The letters for the title (and stars) are from my stash and an old glittery red alphabet from Making Memories, and some silver glitter letters of unknown manufacturer.

The label sticker is another treasure from Basic Grey.

Back soon with a layout featureing little Dougie.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x