Candy Bouquet for the Ballerina

Being a "novice ballet Nana" I didn't know about the flowers for the ballerinas following the recital.  I had already started making a "candy bouquet" to give to Avery following the recital when Jennifer gave me the heads up on the tradition.  It worked great, however it was so hot that even though I kept the bouquet in a cooler with ice packs, it started melting by the time we got these pictures made!  If you look close, you can see a big candy ladybug on a large candy leaf and 2 small ladybugs on the sunflowers.  I didn't think to ask what Avery costume looked like, so my candy ballerina with a black tutu and red tights didn't match her perfectly, but it was close.  Seeing all these pictures again for the first time since June, I think there's no doubt, Avery had a very special first ballet recital!  You can see I used more ladybugs from Helen's freebie for this kit.  You can see previews of Nouveau Summer and this freebie HERE!

OK...could see real quick when I joined these two I will be making some changes should I ever print these together.  Will have to decide if I would enlarge the family group photo on the left or reduce the photos on the right. I made the pic with bouquet large so it would be seen better.  I can cut some off the top of that photo and adjust every thing on both page to balance them out better. Also will have to make a choice between the backgrounds.  I used a blending technique to bring the gold out on the right side page.  Rather redo now, I think I will just study them and make changes later.  Besides, Luke and Avery will be here for a few days, so I won't be scrapping for a while!  Still have some excess ballerina candy on hand and Luke has started football...can see us making football candy mints while they are here!