Counting Christmas Blessings

TGIF ladies.. I'm so happy its Friday and I have the whole weekend off..

anyway, I spent the last week working on this layout.. I have the tutorial for the making of the poinsettias on our challenge blog Stuck On U Sketches.. I hope you get a chance of checking us out.. I love pushing myself to see what I can up with next..

so here are some close ups and the details to the making of this layout..

Here is a close up of the title..

I used my SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) software for the title.. the font for the word "CHRISTMAS" is called "BoyzRgross" and the cursive font is called "Palace Script"..

and here is a close up of the poinsettias..

The tutorial can be found at SOUS by clicking HERE.

I did add some more little detail to the big poinsettia than the smaller ones.. it was just easier that way..

and a side pic of the poinsettias.. its pop dotted and put together piece by piece..  it was a lot of work, but I absolutely LOVE how it came out..

Supplies Used:

Cricut Cartridges:

Stretch My Imagination:  Leaves cut stretched shadow for both red and green

Walk In My Garden: star flower centers cut at shadow

Home Decor: Flourish cut at shadow

George: Circle (base)

Storybook:  Marquee

Fiskars border punch: lace

papers: Winter Woodland by Creative Imaginations

cardstock: red, dark green, black and white

Stickles: red, green

Liquid Pearl: White

Embossing Powder: Winter Wonderland

Pop Dots and zig two way glue pen

Tim Holtz distress ink: Brown

inks: Evergreen, black and brown

chalks: Dark Green

Embossing Tool

Thank you so much for looking..

and have a super great weekend..

Hugs to you all

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

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

Unwrapping A Miracle

A layout I made of my dd when she was just born and my mom.. Amber was born 5 weeks preemie weighing only 4lbs 12oz.. so she was a miracle baby.. I wanted to make everything over sized on this layout.. I came up with the big flower in the middle and then just embellished around it.. Sorry the photo is a bit dark at the top and the title is hard to see.. I have a close up of the title if you scroll down.
Here's a close up of the bottom left corner.. I added the garden tools just for fun.. I wrote ambers birth weight on the scoop..
Here's the bottom right corner. I wrote the month and year she was born, which is May of 1989


close up of the title..the colors are so light that they don't show up all that well in the photo of the whole layout.

Here's my mom and my dd.. she was such a precious little thing.. I journaled around the frame.. I thought it looked too blah without a little bit of something..


Upper left corner..just a close up of the bugs..
this is a close up of the left side middle.. I loved adding all of these vines, flowers, leaves and bugs to this layout..they were so much fun to make
I took a photo from the side just to show the dimensions on this layout..Nothing, I repeat nothing is glued flat to this layout.. Its just not my style..LOL

supplies used:

• Cricut cart: Walk in My Garden (ladybugs, pale, piles of dirt and garden tools)
• Cricut cart: Home Decor (butterflies, flourishes and leaves)
• Cricut cart: Graphically Speaking (Over sized Flower)
• Cricut cart: George and Basic Shapes (circle picture frame)
• SCAL Title font: Candice
• Papers Graphic 45
• cardstock: olive green, light yellow, dark yellow, cream, mint green,black and dark orange
  
• pop dots
• zig two way glue
• cricut design studio software
• Tim Holtz distress ink: green and old paper
• Chalk: yellow, orange and green
• paper flowers
  
• mini star brads
• white gel pen and brown marker hand added detail
• zig black ink marker for hand journaling

thank you all so much for looking.
Cheers