Rustic Farm Layout

It's that time again folks. I had the paper and embellishments on my scrapbooking room floor for a few days for this layout. I just needed to get the photos printed (I get mine printed at Walmart), which I was having a hard time making time for! With Monday fast approaching, I knew yesterday was the day I had to get it done. (I found out collages can be made with the Kodak photo maching, and can now get smaller photos. I used to have to upload them to Picasa then change the size, then upload them to the Walmart website to print. I'm a happy girl again!)

This layout had no direction. I didn't even know what the challenge was going to be until I got everything figured out, and was working on my title. I had some Basic Grey Holy Cow alpha rub-ons that I bought awhile back, but hadn't used. I'd always imagined using them on a cow page, or at the very least on a farm layout. I thought this would be the perfect spot. Seeing them on my layout now, I realize that they could be used on any layout. They'd look super cute on a little girl page; their rusticness, can easily be translated to a soft, feminine feel, especially when paired with a pretty flower!

On your next layout: use parenthesis.

Yup, really that's it; you can't re-invent the wheel when you don't know where to start! I actually enjoy how open-ended this challenge is! I'm not going to give you different examples of how to use them, be creative and see where your ideas take you. Be sure to leave a comment, with a link to your page using the challenge.

Journalling says: how much sweeter could the first day of spring be: saw cute baby calfs that were days old! They melt my heart!

Hopefully you can read the "(farm)" in the title, it was hard taking a photo at the right angle to see it well. Again, with this layout I used my "Tickled Spring" kit. This is a completely different looking layout from the previous one; this one reads more "boy." I really enjoy how that happened.