Matric Farewell layout using Primas Rossibelle papers

Hi everyone, I have a double page layout to share with you today that I created a couple of weeks ago using pictures of my daughters Matric Farewell. In South Africa the Matric Farewell is a very big deal girls plan their dresses, hair, nails etc for from grade 10 already.  In fact we had to book the hairdresser, beauticians and so on 6 months before the dance just to make sure she got a spot. My daughter is very artsy and had a specific idea of what she wanted her dress to look like she wanted something a little vintage/bohemian but elegant at the same time (tall order). We started looking in her grade 11 year for a dress but just couldn't find anything. Eventually in the July vacation of her matric year (a month and a half before the dance) we knew it was time to get serous! My mom flew up to Johannesburg from Durban and my daughter and I drove through to meet her, we booked ourselves into a hotel and began shopping. I

t was 2 VERY looooong days of trying on dress after dress until we eventually had it narrowed down to two dresses, one fit her original idea of the vintage/bohemian look and the other was completely different in fact my mom had to insist she try it on and when she did she fell in love with it! eventually she went with my moms choice of dress and I must say she looked stunning!

For my layout I decided to use the Rossibelle paper collection from Prima, as I liked the vintage/elegant feel of the paper. I tore up some of it and cut out some of the elements from the Rossibelle Nostalgic paper. I also used a bit of paint etc, to give it a mixed media feel. And of course lots of flowers.

and here are some close ups of the clusters and all my fussy cutting.

I absolutely loved how my page turned out in the end, it took a lot of time and playing around but I loved every minute of it!