Thursday Challenge 14th Feb

Oh Valerie! This is lovely! The stencil type work, the blending, the muted colours and the doilies - they are perfectly toned for the period... this is so perfectly balanced and that HAS to be your mum and Ken doesn't it? Wonderful keepsake.

What a beautiful layout, Valerie! Gorgeous photos and I love, love, love the clusters of the pretty flowers! Just gorgeous!

Awesome costumes! And your background looks great - I've looked and looked am still not sure I found all 5 papers. Valerie is right - great vintage color, too and the doilies are just the right embellishment.

Doesn't everyone recolor? It's one of the biggest bennies of digital. Someone in an old newsletter had a cute story about looking at a ribbon to wrap a present and thinking, this will work - I just need to tweak the color a little.

Beautiful, Valerie. You did a fabulous job adding five different papers to the background, it looks great. I usually recolor or at the least change the opacity on some of the papers so that others might show through. Love the lace doilies and the flower clusters. Your photos are wonderful. Great frame around the large photo.

I'm loving these photos, and especially now that I know the story behind them. You did such a nice job displaying them in this LO. The background and flowers are perfect.

I love these photos and the background you created looks wonderful. Very pretty page.

You sure made it all just perfect for the period of time--doilies have always caught my eye and your background is awesome! Their outfits are so wonderful!

Everyone looks so elegant and so does your layout. Just lovely! I love recoloring too and do it all the time. You are so right about always having the perfect color embellishment.

Elegant photos and love how you have made the background paper out of so many different paper templates. The clusters of photos elements and doilies so match so well together. TFS xxx

Beautifully done page. Great job using those techniques.

Your embeelies are perfectly in tune with the photos. Lovely page.

Beautiful and so interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful layout--I love the way that you've combined papers here. The recoloring is just perfect!