My Beautiful Gentle Giant.

This is my dog Uuphoo..I didn't name her!!..LOL She was such a sweetheart.. she passed away in the fall of 2004 a week after I lost my grand mother.. It was a tough month that month.. She lived to be almost 10 yrs. The vet said that she had lived a good long life..I had to make the dreadful decision to have her put down. Her stomach had flipped and she was agony.. The vet said that I had made the right choice.. I miss her dearly..
Here's close up her beautiful face..she was so soft.. and didn't drool at all, ever..
my BFF had made a bandana for her with sunflower print fabric, so thats where I got the sunflowers from, plus I thought that sunflowers are big and beautiful, just like she was..
I love this photo of her.. we were all sledding and we had to tie her up cause we were afraid she would get run over..she wasn't very happy about it.. she wanted to play along with all the kids..
The title to the page.. "Gentle giant!"..cause thats what she was.. her bark was definitely worse than her bite..
I added lady bugs, cause she was such a prima lady and snails cause she was never in a hurry..
I never hand journal cause I never know what to say.. but, this time I did want to add a little bit me into this layout. She was my beautiful girl..

supplies used:

• Cricut cart: Walk In My Garden: sunflowers (2", 2.5" and 3"), small leaves are from the stems of the sunflowers, big leaves 1.5", snail 1", ladybugs 1"
• Cricut cart: Opposites Attract: title "Gentle Giant!"
• Cricut cart: George and Basic Shapes: Heart Silhoutte
• Papers: DCWV Old world Stack-Brown and Green
  
• cardstock: Brown, cream, olive green, red, orange,yellow
• Stickles: red, yellow and black
• Chatter Box Doodle Genie: swirl dots
• Wire: green swirls
• pop dots, glue dots and zip two way glue stick
• Tim Holtz distress ink: Black
• inking: Brown and black
• chalk: black, orange, dark green

thank you all for looking..

Here Comes the Bride Layout

After thinking and thinking of a good title for the "here comes the bride" layout, I finally found one. But after posting the layouts, I noticed that some of the lettering are a little lopsided..oh well!..Hopefully no one will notice..LOL
Here's a close up of page 2..
the flowers and butterflies.. I stickled the butterflies to give them a little more glam.
a close up..
Another close up..


Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart Hello Kitty Font- Title
• Cricut cart Home Accent-Swirls and butterflies
• Cricut cart Walk in My Garden- Flowers
• HOTP Papers- Bohemian Sarahpapers 12x12
  
• Mauve Textured Cardstock by American Traditional Design
• Stickle: Light blue and cinnamon
• Cricut design studio for welding title and flipping butterflies

Thank you all so much for looking.

Family layout

Gosh.. I cant even remember them being this small... seems so long ago! My DD (Amber) and DS's (Aaron and Adam).. I actually got them to stand still long enough for me to get this picture.. I have more, but they are all running around the yard..LOL
Here is a close up of the butter fly I cut from this paper stack.. I added a little stickle and just popped the wings up. Added some liquid pearl drops(droppings..LOL)<--just the silliest things amuse me..LOL Just a close up(blurry-sorry) of my little ones.. I love the "Family" cut on the Home Accent Cart..
I also wanted to add softness to the layout. I put small white flowers (WIMG) which I just chalked with brown around the edges and then added dark brown brads (mini and mid size). I cut the leaves with WIMG also..
My second attempt at sewing the edge.. can hardly see it , but its there...LOL<-- which just could be a good thing...LOL just look for the not so straight line..LOL Supplies used for this layout:

• Cricut cart: Walk in my Garden- Flowers and leaves
• Cricut cart: Home accent- Swirls and titles (family and grow)
• cricut cart: Animal Kingdom- Birds
• Cricut Design studio software
  
• K & Co Papers: Wild Saffron 12x12
• Stickle: Yellow and Cinnamon
• Liquid pearl: white
• Brown mini brads and mid size brads
• Inking with Colorbox: Liquid Chalk inkpad
• Fiskars punch: lace
  

Thank you all very much for looking. All comments are highly appreciated.

Precious Little Thing

My best at "Shabby Chic!"...

this picture is so precious to me.. Its Ambers home coming when she was born 5 weeks premature weighing only 4lbs 4oz..she is teeny tiney..

My mom wasn't very happy when I told her at the age of 17 that I was pregnant. But looking at the expression on her face, she doesn't look too dissapointed..LOL

I really wanted to make this layout special..

• Cricut cart: Graphicall speaking for title
• Cricut cart: Walk in my Garden for the flowers(some of the flowers)
  Cricut cart: Home Accent Essentials for the swirls cut underneath the flowers, which you can hardly see and the butterflies.
• Buttons and paper leaves
• Stickle: pink, silver and lime green
• Papers: Graphic 45-sentimental baby
• cream colored card stock
• flowers by Mulberry

Thank you so much for looking and all comments are highly appreciated.

Mommys Little Man of Mischief.

Story behind this LO..

We had a huge tree in the front of you house when we lived in Florida(the tree is still there).. Aaron would love to run around that tree and hide behind it.

The title I got from one of my all time favorite movie characters: Austin Powers..LOL

so, instead of man of mystery, I thought of Little man of Mischief.

The bugs and the eaten leaves represent the mischief, cause everyone knows how mischivious bugs are in your garden..

• Cricut All Mixed up cart-title
• Cricut Paper doll dress up-Dinosaurs and grass
• Cricut Doodlecharms cart-little hearts
• Cricut Walk in my Garden cart- Bugs, leaves and foot prints(tulips)
• Cricut My community- tree trunk
• Cricut Design Studio-stretching and welding
• Paper- Basic Grey and HOTP
• Stickle-Lime Green, Blue, Silver and Black

Thank you so much looking and any comments are highly appreciated

DD Sweet Sixteen

My Clone..LOL My DD, Amber's school picture from when she was 16yrs old.. Teenagers are usually anything but sweet at that age, but she gave it her best shot.. I love her regardless of little bad behavior..LOL When she brought these pics home, my mom commented on how much she looks like me.. You should of seen the look of horror on her face..LOL
I put 16 roses around her picture to represent the sixteenth birthday..

the poem surrounding the edge of the layout reads:

This special time comes only once
Turning sweet 16.
Loving memories of yesterday,
a young lady can be seen
But in the eyes of her biggest fans
she's still a little girl
and time can't erase those wonder years
but the years have made a pearl

• K&Co- Wild Saffron
• Cricut Cart: Walking In My Garden- Roses, butterflies and roseleaves
• Cricut Cart: Home Accent- Swirls picture frame
• Cricut Cart: Opposites Attract-Title
• paper leaves -bought at store
• pearl babysbreath-stash!
• Stickle- Yellow, lime green and cinnamon
  

TFL

Oatmeal Incident of 1997

My boys wouldn't try OATMEAL for nothing when they were younger.. I finally convinced them it was good (and good for them).. Aaron(my oldest boy) is showing me the OK with is fingers and I thought that was so cute...

• DCWV summer stack for the base
• K & Co for the leaved trees
• brown craft paper for the house top, signs and bears
• white craft paper for the fence and titles
• cream craft paper for Goldilocks frame, yellow for hair and dress
• My community cart for trees and houses
• Walk in my garden cart for flowers, signs, leaves and catepillar
• My community cart for 3 bears and goldilocks
• Paper doll dress up for the clothes on the bears
• All Mixed up cart for the titles.
• Design studio for stretching and welding
• Stickle- cinnamon, lime green, icicle and yellow.
• tim holtz distress ink pad for distressing signs

TFL