Its Elementary My Dear

A school layout I made today of my oldest son Aaron when he was in 2nd grade.. This is before his hair started turning brown..
In Finland school starts when you are 7 yrs old. He is 9 yrs old in this photo, he got held back one year cause his Finnish wasn't good enough for them to allow him to advance up to the 3rd grade. He had a real hard time learning how to understand the finnish language..
Here's a close up of him and of the title.. I used SCAL to cut the title.. I love font possibilities with SCAL, you are not limited to just a few fonts.. I wanted the title to look like a childs handwriting, I think I succeeded..LOL
I wanted a welcoming feeling to this school layout, so I added a teacher standing waiting for her students. I love dressing these little characters on the cartridges.. she is from My Community cartridge.
I tried taking a good photo of the school building I put together last night.. it took a while trying to figure out the layers, but I think I did a good job..LOL
I also added the trees losing their leaves to represent Autumn.. which is when schools starts..LOL
I love love love this little school bus on the My Community cartridge.. I had so much fun putting it together..
I hand doodled all over this layout, adding what looks likes like stitching.. but I really like the way it all ended up looking..

Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart: My Community (school bus, school building, fence, teacher, trees, road, stop sign)
• Cricut cart: Accent Essentials (leaves)
• Cricut cart: Locker Talk (2nd grade and A+'s)
• SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) for the title
  
• Papers: DCWV The Grade School Stack
• Cardstock: light blue, black, red, green, orange, yellow, brown,white
• zig black pen- acid and linguin free
  
• pop dots
• zig two way glue
• chrome mini brad
• white gel pen-doodling
• yellow ribbon

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Cheers and warmest hugs

School Of Rock

Here is my oldest son Aaron a few years ago, he was 13 yrs old in this photo.. that year in school, they had a young male teachers aid that got the whole class interested in music and tought them all how to play different instruments. My son learned how to play the guitar.. He loved it..
Here's a close up of the title.. coming up with the title idea took me two whole days.. I actually had to go and research the internet on how a piano keyboard looked like...LOL
The keyboard is actually pieced together using two different carts. Locker talk for the base and George for the key cutouts.
My son... the little tags on the side of the photo read "ROCK ON LITTLE DUDE!".. I remember that quote from Keanu Reeve's in the movie "Bill and Ted's Greatest Adventures!"..(god! how old am I?)..LOL
I wanted to put my new Indie cart to good use and so I seen the little cassette cut and I knew I had to use it some how.. although, my son doesn't even know what that is...he's CD generation..LOL
I actually added a few more embellishments after I had already made this post, so thats why the photo of the whole layout is a bit different. It just seemed to be missing something..LOL as if thats possible with all the stuff I always clutter a layout with..LOL :O)

This layout was featured on the Cricut Chirp Newsletter Aug 2009

supplies used:

• Cricut cart: (IA)Indie Art (guitar and cassette)
• Cricut cart: (SB)Storybook (Title)
• Cricut cart: (FF)Fabulous finds (tabs)
• Cricut cart: (ACY)A child Year (hands)
• Cricut cart: (LT) Locker talk (piano keyboard minus black cut outs)-its not actually a keyboard, but a shadow cut to a sign.
• Cricut cart: (GBS)George and basic shapes: black cut outs on piano keyboard
• papers used: Fancy Pants Designs: "Papa"
• card stock: Olive green, yellow, cream, black and white
• Sheet music image printed off of internet
• Tim Holtz distressing ink: Walnut Stain and black
• Pop dots
• Gold heat imbossing powder
• a lot of hand doodling and journaling.
• brad: screw head

Thank you all so much for looking and please don't forget to share some love by leaving a comment..
cheers