Turtle Cheesecake and Baked Potato Soup recipe layouts

I love these layouts! Designing these layouts was fun but what was even MORE fun was helping my friends try "new to them" techniques" in the creating of these pages. The garden tools and sea turtle dies are by QuicKutz. It was the first time any of my girlfriends had ever used QuicKutz brand die cuts. The paper tearing technique was new along with chalking the edges of the paper and brushing chalk over the kraft cardstock to get that muddled effect of sand on the beach. The kraft cardstock is from Hobby Lobby and the blue cardstock is from Stampin Up. The vegetable paper has been something that's been kicking around in my nook for well over a year now. I loved it when I first saw it and knew from the start that it would one day make a great recipe or garden layout. I chose the eggplant colored cardstock as an accent piece to divide the printed paper from the kraft cardstock. Some chalking of the garden tools gave them the appearance of being 3-d. I don't know which part was more fun...making the layouts with my girlfriends or having a delicious lunch with them :-)