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August Online Art Journal Class with Natalie May 2023 Can not begin to tell you how much I LOVED this class?? It was so relaxing and exactly what I needed. Here is the double-page spread that I painted - love it just like this!! Then I spent a significant amount of time doodling and adding the details. I REALLY love this and how it turned out. The downtime was the best too!    Check out the classes at  nataliemay.com.au Happy creating, Mel xo

"CUT TO YOU | BOTANICAL WREATH | MEL FIELD" Hey there friends! Today I feature on the  CUT to YOU blog  sharing a special project that brought me so much joy… As creative people, we are very good at bringing joy to others through our creative projects. It doesn’t matter what we do…scrapbook, art journal, knit, crochet, sew, photograph…we are always good at putting a smile on other people’s faces with our little gifts. Today I share a project that I hope did just that. A beautiful young lady, very special to us, invited us to her Debutante Ball earlier in the year. We were so honoured to have been invited and had a wonderful night celebrating with her. Just recently she celebrated her birthday so I decided (with the support of my hubby and son) to make her a special gift. Now I couldn’t look past a cut file to add that special touch to the page. The  CUT to YOU shop  is filled with these little gems. Every time I head there I find something new (even if it is an OG cut file) a

  Hey there CUT to YOU friends! Today I am very excited to share with you my first project for the month of August and the first to document my son’s exciting Switzerland trip! I just love how it came together in the end but it did take a bit of paper shuffling and embellishment auditioning to get to the end result. Does this happen to you? There are soooo many travel cut file options in the   CUT to YOU store …I truly didn’t know where to start. Have you checked them out? Trust me, if you are a traveller…you need to check them out. They are the best and make putting a different spin on your travel photos so easy. The cut file I finally decided to use for this layout is the   Airport Background  cut file. Once I decided, I knew that I wanted it to be one of the main features of my layout. It took me quite a while to decide what I was going to do with the cut file after cutting it on my Silhouette. I loved the simplicity of just cutting it in white and I contemplated backing some of the