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

Tonka Toddler..

I love making layouts of my kids when they were little.. Brings back so many memories that you tend to forget along the way through out the years..
Here's my oldest son, Aaron when he was about 2 yrs old.. We were at his aunt Cathie's house.. He loved the big playschool trucks her kids had..
the story behind the layout: Aaron's daddy and Grampa are both Auto service technicians.. so, I wrote a little poem around the edge of a little boy wanting to be just like his daddy and grampa.. I thought that was cute..

• DCWV- Summer glitter stack
• Dark red and Dark blue card stock
• tool stickers by Jolees<-- hope I spelled that right
• Cricut Graphically Speaking cart for "built tough" and the nutts..
• Cricut All Mixed UP cart for the "Tonka Toddler!"..
• Cricut George cart for the stars
• Cricut Accent Essentials cart for the frame around the picture
• Cricut My community cart for the cars and road
  
• www.scrapbook.com for the poem- Little boys!
• red ribbon

Hope I didn't forget anything..
thank you so much for looking and all comments are highly appreciated..hugs!!

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