Scrappy Friends Challenge July 2019

Hi crafty friends!  I joined in on a really fun challenge this month....actually TWO fun challenges!  Rochelle Spears has an awesome sketch up on her blog, and combined with Scrap With Stacy's Photo Inspiration challenge it's the Scrappy Friends Challenge.  Here is a look at Rochelle's sketch and Stacy's Photo Inspiration:

And here's what I came up with using both:

The patterned papers and die cuts are Bella Blvd's Fireworks and Freedom from my July Flavors of the Month kit from The ScrapRoom.  I used a deep navy cardstock to cut the star wreath, which is a Paper Issues cut file.   Included in my kit were some strips of tiny clear bling.  I normally don't put bling on my "boy pages" but this time I chose to use them on my border and one in the center of the firework burst.  I also decided to add some machine stitching to the inner circles:

Pics are from 2011 when my son and I went to Missouri to visit my Mom.  This is a re-do of a double page spread I scrapped back then & honestly,  I just never liked it.  The fireworks pics were printed 4x6 and I found that by using Photosheet and printing them smaller the images looked much better.  I'm on a kick where I like to print "extra" photos where they look like photo booth strips.  You can get so many on a page but still not take away from the design.  Thanks for stopping by!