Just a little "man love"!

I snagged this photo off my son's Facebook page! If you have kids, Facebook is a great source of photos that you would have otherwise never seen!! This photo was taken at one of the school dances and is my son and his friend sharing a "man hug". The two of them are very much goofballs!! 

This page was done using the sketch released today at Creative Scrappers. I have to say that I look forward to Sunday mornings and their new sketch. The past few weeks it's been the first sketch that I work on for the week and I am always pleased with the resulting layout. 

I incorporated the Color Challenge that was just posted today along with all the other Week Three challenges at Ch{all}enge Masters. The challenge is to use a Kraft background (and I was horrified to realize that this is my LAST piece of Kraft...guess I have to make an order this week...oh darn!) and the color inspiration was a sheet of My Minds Eye Stella & Rose "Hattie" paper. It just so happened that I had ONE piece of this left in my ever-growing stash of MME papers and I combined that with the back side of a piece of "Gertie" paper. I still had some embellishments from that line too so was able to pull this layout together rather easily. 

I made matching journaling strips out of scraps of the papers and mounted them on thick chipboard to give them dimension. I made the twisted flower out of a piece of muslin fabric that I sprayed with Wheat Beer Glimmer Mist which is the PERFECT color for this line of papers. I added a couple feathers and a button to it to finish it off.   Who says you can't use flowers on a boy page!!  I am entering this at The Paper Variety where this week's challenge is to add a flower or a bunch of flowers!  That's an EASY challenge for me since I love flowers so much!! I used a button in the center of the flower for the Show Us Your Stuff challenge.

The handmade embellishments mean I can submit this one too at Frosted Designs for their Friday Challenge this week and for ScrapFit's challenge to use a handmade flower. 

Wow, this week a lot of the challenge blogs worked well to get several done in just one layout!!  AND I did a layout of my son, which are few and far between now that he's a teen and not wanting mom's camera in his face all the time!