Happy New Year!

This is one of my most favorite layouts I've made recently.  It's just so full of energy.

And some details:

I had originally intended the white cardstock for another project.  I was going to do some stamping around a central motif, but I changed my mind after the pencil lines were drawn and the first few stamps were down.  I reused the cardstock for this layout, but decided not to erase the pencil lines.  I like them.  (The original stamping is hidden underneath the red paint along the right side!)

These are all leftover photos.  I generally print photos as I go.  But sometimes I end up with extra prints  or photos that didn't print quite right, etc.  These all go into a bag - orphan photos.  I try to use as many as possible and this layout uses three of them!  Yay!

You can see a bit of stitching here and that cool calendar tag from Elle's Studio.  I never would have bought it myself.  It came in my Studio Calico kit and it turned out to be the perfect embellishment for this page!  One of the things that I love about getting a kit is that it forces me to use things I wouldn't normally buy.  This is a good thing that keeps my layouts from all looking the same!

I absolutely cannot stop using these stamps.  They're from Studio Calico and I love overlapping them for a cool haphazard look.  The yellow butterfly shape was made by cutting out the negative left by the punch when I punched the two butterflies on the right side of the layout. 

Here's to 2010 being an absolutely AMAZING year!

Mwah!