Like Butterflies, Girls Need No Excuse

The last layout I posted featured my daughter as a little girl. While I do still sometimes think of her as a little girl, sometimes I am smacked into reality that she is really beginning to become a beautiful young woman. She's only 12 (for another 2 months!) so when I snuck upstairs with my camera in hand to get some shots of my daughter and her friend getting "ready" for the Spring dance, I was sort of taken back when I saw her. She's not a big fan of eye makeup but this night she did her makeup and O-M-G she looked sooooo old to me! I smiled but a part of me was dying inside. I love how the girls were doing each other's hair. I thought the mirror shot was pretty clever of me as well!!

I used a sketch from one of my new favorite sketch challenge blogs, Once Upon A Sketch. There is always a journaling requirement to go along with the sketch and this one was to journal about why you took the photos. (PS - if you go to their blog you will see that I made the top 5 last week!  Too cool!!)  Anyway, I journaled about what I said above, that I was in awe of how pretty the girls were and had to take their pictures. I used Kaiser Craft Bubblegum Hills paper. I fussy cut the butterflies and inked them to give them more dimension and each one is popped up on foam dots.  In my opinion, that makes for a handmade embellishment so I will also post this at Frosted Designs for the Fabulous Friday Challenge to use a handmade embellishment on your project.  The letters are by Glitz amnd Thickers, as usual! I also added bling "trails" behind the butterflies with Creative Charms gems.