She Speaks Melsh

Another layout to share with you today, using a background paper from my November Counterfeit Kit and some scraps from my October Counterfeit Kit. Actually, October's Kit may never end. Seriously, I have been using scraps from that kit for the last couple of weeks and I still have a ton of them. It's fun seeing how many different projects I can make out of them though, so I'm not too worried.

Anyway, back to today's layout, which was inspired by - you guessed it - a prompt from Pretty Paper Party. The prompt was to use scraplifting as a starting point so, I was on a look out for the perfect scrapbook layout to emulate, when I spotted this beauty over on An Ounce Of Creativity and decided it was the one.

The dinky, little photograph of Mel was sat on my desk just waiting for inspiration to strike and, it did. Don't you love it when scrapbooking seems effortless? Well, not quite effortless. I did hand sew all of that embroidery thread.

Source: anounceofcreativity.blogspot.com via Clair on Pinterest

The journalling is a little twist on Mel's 'About Me'. It says - "Melsh is what she speaks. It describes what she says (nice things, mostly) and how she says it (her accent is a bit of a mixture.) The word comes from her name and from the fact that she's quarter Welsh. But there's no Welsh in her accent. That's Mel all over - lots of lovely quirks. I'll always be proud to be her first blog follower and, of course, her friend".

Not often that I love a layout, but this one's a definite keeper!