Wild Backyard Cardinals

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Love the photo for this challenge, very natural and has birds! I love watching birds, and have feeders in my yard, so I see a variety of birds out my window. Cardinals in the winter are particularly striking, so I decided to use a sketch from here: https://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/sketch/6068433.html
And document some of the Cardinals I have seen this February.

I decided to use the traditional color palette, all 5 colors are used and then used in my layout.
For my layout, the background paper is recollections, springy and floral (a newer acquisition) where as most other papers are older, from my stash. Red letters are BoBunny. Die cut the scalloped circle and banner. Punched the scalloped border. Used some wood butterflies from my stash. I stamped the hearts on the banners, and the date at the bottom. Cardinal at the top of the page is a die cut from my stash.  Also used some stickers from my stash (heart and awesome banner).

All colors used
Evidence used: birds (die cut), heart (sticker and stamp) and butterflies (wood).
Testimony: Journaled about something wild: birds. Journaling reads:
This year I set up bird feeders in my backyard.A pair of cardinals showed up and ate lots of seed. They are beautiful birds with a unique personality, striking against the winter snow.

Here is my layout:

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Walking on Sunshine

What a bright and summery color palette we have for us this month. (Which I think is awesome, since the weather here in Chicagoland has been snowy and dreary.)

For this challenge, I scrapbooked a photo taken on our 2016 family reunion, where a bunch of us are walking to a thrift store in the quaint little town of Milford PA. I did use a sketch, which I thought lent itself to my theme-which I rotated 90 degrees. (Sketch can be found here :https://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/sketch/6068437.html)

For this challenge, I used flowers, bird, something fridgy (frayed burlap) and mixed media background (added some orange mist with a stencil). And Journaled about a summer memory: our family reunion.

And here is my layout:

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