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my mom asked me to make a layout of her and my dad.  I thought about the pictures I had of them and what my parents liked to do--my mom enjoys making quilts and I had some cuts that I bought from the silhouette blog that were "quilts".  I took this picture on the 4th of July and really liked it and wanted to go with the red, white, and blue theme.  I looked through the papers I happened to have around my desk (which happened to be October Afternoon) and went to town mixing and matching (some of the papers are so old I couldn't find them to link up!)
This is what I came up with:

some dimensional closeups, I popped the picture up off the page a bit to give it a little life:

 I adhered these buttons with glue dots:

 my favorite square:

I ended up mounting this whole layout on a piece of orange card stock (I've mentioned this before but for some reason I have a TON of it!)  I cut each piece of cream into a 6" x 6" square and then sized my cameo cut accordingly.  I then distressed each piece with distress ink.  (If you decide this is something that you want to do make it easier on yourself and "quilt" the edges of the shape BEFORE adding it to the back--it will be easier to maneuver.)  The longest part of this whole layout was the sewing, my mom LOVED it!  I had fun with it and FINALLY got to use my quilting cuts!
Fun full day ahead of me!  Packed with kitting, laundry, house cleaning, homework and soccer practice--bring it on!
Thanks for the visit!
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