This month I am participating in the October 27 Day Challenge on Mercy Tiara's Facebook Group MercyTiara's 27 Day Scrappy Challenge.  This month's challenge was to follow a recipe put together by last month's winner.

The layout must include: 

1. 1 Black and White, 5X7 photo of yourself
2. 1 or more 6X6 papers
3. 1 Floral paper
4. 1 Striped paper
5. Follow a sketch of any kind

For my sketch, I decided to use a layout from Glitter Girl Adventure 112: Just Be Brave, and scrapbook a picture of my very first time swimming in the ocean.  Since I live in Ontario, Canada, I have only ever swam in the Great Lakes, so this was a big milestone for me.  I really wanted to give this photo a bit of a special treatment, so printing it up at 5x7 and turning it black and white worked out quite well for the page.  Here's what I came up with for this recipe challenge.

• The 6x6 paper I used is the yellow and cream damask print from Recollections Fashionably Chic 6x6 paper pad.  
• My floral paper, which appears in the background, is from the Oh So Lovely Collection by Kaisercraft.  
• My stripe is from a 3x4 card from a Becky Higgins Project Life Value Pack called Southern Weddings.  I punched a heart from the card using my Martha Stewart heart paper punch, cut off the rounded corners and used the rest for a strip at the top of the photo.  I stamped the word "love" onto the heart with a Felicity Jane stamp.

The grey polka dot in the frame around the layout, the grey woodgrain strip, and the pink doily strip all come from My Mind's Eye.  Glitter Girl cut up and layered some Project Life cards in her layout, so I did the same: a green 4x6 and 3x4 from Notes and Things, and a pink 4x6 from Southern Weddings.  The journalling block is cut from a pack of Becky Higgins plain lined Project Life cards, which are lined horizontally on one side and vertically on the other, which makes them very useful for creating journalling spots on all kinds of pages.  My title is made up of gold glitter scripted letter stickers by Sticko and a tile aplhabet from My Mind's Eye Necessities in teal.  The black chipboard circles are from Me and My Big Ideas.  All of the little stickers I used come from two packages of Recollections planner stickers.  The cameras are cut from a patterned paper in a Pink Paislee's Memorandum collection, and the teal enamel dots in the centres are from Recollections.  As a finishing touch, I sprinkled the page with Heidi Swapp Colour Shine in Gold and Hot Pink.

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  Comments and questions are always welcome and appreciated.  Take care xo! - Kristen