That's It, Western Romance All Used Up

I have now (finally) used up all the bits and bobs left from the Western Romance kit by Emma Trout from the Scrapstars Retreat. I can't believe I managed to do the original layout plus five additional layouts with the contents of the kit. There were a few tiny, tiny, tiny bits left and I had to force myself to sweep them up and into the bin or I would have been tempted to see if I could squeeze another layout out of them, sometimes you just have to let it go!

The Love Letters layout at the top was a real challenge cos the bits of patterned papers you can see are pretty much what there was left, they were so tiny I had to stick them to the envelope and build the layout outwards. I also had to do some misting cos I didn't have enough coloured paper left to fill the design out. I've only just been converted to misting, by the lovely Emma Trout so I'm not very good at it but practise makes perfect I suppose. I have used lots of little pieces of leftovers to make the spiral cut and rolled flowers and snipped and rolled small strips to make the spiky fringed flowers and added some clear bling and pearls to the groups of flowers. I was trying to find a nice piece of cardstock to pop behind the photo of my hubby and as I was going through my scraps box my daughter popped her head around the door and asked if I wanted the tag off her new jeans, eureka!! Mounted the photo on the tag and added it to the layout to finish it off.