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

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

Mommys LiL Lamb layout

I seen the little lamb on the paper doll dress up cart and I just knew I had to use it some how..so, I came up with this layout of my son Aaron.. He's 4 months old in this picture..
here is a close up of the lambs.. I flocked the coats with white flocking powder to give them more of a fuzzy look.. I think it looks cute..LOL
this is suppose to represent me...LOL yeah right! as if!!!LOL I love coming up with different types of clothing for the paper dolls on that cart.. they are adorable..
just let your imagination run wild..LOL

Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart: Paper Doll Dress up- Lambs and paper doll
• Cricut cart: Pooh Font-Title
• Cricut cart: Walk in My Garden- tulips
• Cricut cart: Home Accent- flourish
• K& Co paper stack-Brenda Walton Small Wonders (12x12)
• paper flowers- yellow and red
• buttons-green and yellow (Bag-O-Buttons)
• Stickle- yellow
• White flocking Powder
• inking and chalking
• Cricut design studio software
• Red Mini brad

Thank you all so much for looking.

Wedding Reception layout

Here is the two pager together.. I didn't want to over do with embellishments, so I thought to just put the flowers and then the ivy hanging out of the flower pot.. cause thats what was in the picture..

Here is the title page.. I wanted to layer the title, but I made it so small using the DS, that it would have been really hard to get them all lined up..
plus, my fingers aren't small enough for all the glueing and piecing..LOL

close up of the lily flower that I cut using the paper doll dress up cart.. I first cut it in green and then in pink.. I inked the edges and then stickled it.

Wedding reception will be held at an Island just off of the coast of Helsinki, Finland.. I found some pictures of the restaurant on the internet this morning and wanted to incorporate some of that into this layout.

• Cricut cart: Graphically Speaking: title frame


• cricut cart: Paper Doll Dress Up: plants and flowers


• cricut cart: Opposites Attract: Title font


• cricut cart: Walk in my Garden: flower pots


• papers: DCWV Luxury Stack


• mini Ivy Garland-from my stash


• Fiskars paper punch: don't know the name


• stickle: baby pink and lime green
• Pop dots-plants and flowers

Thank you so much for looking!

Daughter is turning 20yrs old today.

My daughter is turning 20yrs old today.. I wanted to make her a silly card, I suppose I was wishing she was turning 2 instead of 20. She loves horses, so when I seen this horse on the PDDU cart, I knew I wanted to incorportate it into the card some how..

• Old world stack-paper
• cream cardstock
• Cricut cart: Paper doll dress up-horse and grass
  
• Cricut cart: Walk in My Garden-Flowers, stems and sign.
• Cricut Cart: Home Accent Essentials-butterflies-shadow 1" and 2
• stickle-lime green, pink, cinnamon and black
• Rayher-tiny ivy garland
• chalked everything, distressed sign and grass.
• White mini eyelets
  

TFL