"Kraft" It Up!

It is Wednesday and I'm blogging?!  The big snow storm never quite materialized... downer... But I got to go home early from work - so bonus!  Which means time for a hump-day layout and another challenge submission.  The folks at Scrap Our Stash have a great challenge going on this month - Kraft It Up.  (Then, the folks at Scrap Our Stash hooked me up with another challenge that my layout would work for - Back Porch Memories!  Thanks Brenda.  And Hello Back Porch Memories.  Love those kits, I'm intrigued!)

What I love most about this challenge is the prize. They are giving away a Heidi Swap Sugar Chic collection pack!  Hello!  I love that collection (see previous posting), and have had issues restocking my supplies of it, hard to come by.  So I really need to win!  Hello people at Scrap Our Stash - take note!


Anyway, the challenge required that we create a layout using at least 50% Kraft paper and embellishments.  Additionally, we had to include at least three metal elements on the layout.  A few months ago, I bought a nice stack of Paper Studio's Kraft Paper from Hobby Lobby with a 50% off coupon and haven't used it yet, so this was a great opportunity to break into it.
I wanted to girlie-fy the zoo pics, so I highlighted the pink from the coat in the photos by using some pink glitter ribbon, pink bling & pink flowers.  I also inked all my edges with pink.  For the metal elements, I used some Making Memories metal charms, as well as some metal sticker letters and a metal book plate from my stash.  The plastic tickets are from Maya Road.

I usually prefer working with multi-colored collections, but what I love about the Kraft paper is that you can make any color the accent so it could work with any pictures.  I can imagine some more Kraft layouts in my future featuring turquoise, or lime green, or red!  Oooohhhh... can't wait!

A layout isn't a layout if it only as one picture on it in my book, so of course, I did my usual two-spage spread.  I think it came out pretty cute.  Nice and simple, but still awesome.  Now give me that Sugar Chic!