Today is a gift...

... that's why they call it the present.  (Love that sentiment!)

This is my layout for Lasting Memories; this week "it's all in the colours" - we'd love to see creative colouring on your embellishments:

 

What I did:  I painted raw chipboard shapes with acrylic paint. When dry, I doodled with my art pen, then painted over the top with Dimensional Magic:






My layout was inspired by the April sketch at The Scrapbook Store.  I left out some of the circle elements but the basic skeleton of the sketch is still there.

I chose some bright spring colours for the challenge over at Scrap Our Stash (turquoise and fuchsia), and also included the other required elements - a paperclip, journalling card, and 3D embellishments (chipboard buttons, pompom trim).

AND I used a little organza craft bag as my background for the April Scrap It Girl Tags & Bags Challenge.  I've had this in my stash for a while just waiting for the right project - it's got space for some hidden journalling behind the photograph.  (PS:  Here's a little secret - the bag wasn't part of my original design plan, but I had a last-minute "mishap" with a leaky doodling pen and had to pull apart my 'Plan-A' layout and toss some of the pieces.  I was at a temporay loss as to what to substitute - then I saw this challenge - serendipitous inspiration, I think.)

Materials:
Echo Park Victoria Gardens - Garden Gate patterned paper
Echo Park Life is Good - Journal Cards patterned paper
Echo Park Life is Good - Happy Borders patterned paper
Dream Street Menagerie - Foliage patterned paper
Bazzill Bling - Shimmer cardstock
Bella! Chipz chipboard shapes
DMC embroidery floss
Craft Works acrylic paint - hot pink
Hobby Craft metallic paint - aqua
Mini pompom trim - aqua
Yellow paper clip from my stash
Organza party treat bag