Rags to Riches-SOUS

Here is the sketch I made for our weekly sketch challenge for Stuck On U Sketches

Sorry I have no close ups, but I think I accidentally deleted them all before posting on my blog.. Silly me!! Its a blond thing I swear...LOL

Supplies Used:

Cricut cartridge: Opposites Attract: Title (to riches)

Cricut cartridge: George and Basic Shapes: (RAGS foundation, font and flowers)

Basic Grey Papers: Blush

Cardstock: light Pink

cardstock: pastel Pink and blue

Crystal swirl by Prima Marketing

Thank you ladies for looking..

Just Chillin-Stuck on U sketches challenge

Here's a layout I made of my dd for the sketch challenge on Stuck on U sketches..  I had a lot of fun with this one..  I love the Bittersweet paper collection by Basic Gray and I knew I wanted to use it on something special..  I also used SCAL for the title and the tag that the title is on.. I could not decided which font to use, too many options..LOL  :O)

 

A close up of the tag that I journaled on .. 

And the title.. I cut the font with SCAL and the fonts are Blueberry and Brockscript (bold).  The base is a shape that came with SCAL.

The flower that I made, which you can find the tutorial on our challenge blog (Stuck on U sketches).

inked the edges a little bit with Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Worn lipstick.  and then finally added a big white brad.

then the two little flowers.. I did these the same way, except added a white prima flower onto the base so is stuck out a little more.. I also added a little mini button brad to the centers..

Supplies Used:

Cricut cart: Graphically Speaking (flowers)

Cricut cart: Home Accent (flourish)

Cricut cart: Tags, Bags and Boxes (tag)

Basic Gray Bittersweet papers

pink, maroon, black and brown cardstock

stickle: baby pink (dots)

brown ribbon (tag)

large white brad and two mini button brads

Tim Holtz disress ink: Worn lipstick and walnut stain

zig black pen: journaling and doodling

Prima flowers : white

fiskars border punch: Lace

pop dots

Thank you Ladies all so much for looking..

 I hope you all get the chance of joining us on the sketch challenges, they are so much fun.

Confidence is Beautiful

I must be going throught a yellow phase.. LOL
I love this photo of my dd..she took it herself on sunny morning.. I also love her eyes and I admire her for the confidence she has in herself..
Here's a close up of the photo of her eyes.. I used Paint shop pro to copy the eyes from the original photo and was able to print it on my own printer..
I am so addicted to making these big flowers now that I had posted the tutorial on our challenge blog.. its so great and really does look store bought...LOL not convinced with the button though, I could not find the right shade of blue in my button stash..
Here's the original photo of her.. and yes! half of her hair is black and other half is red.. It looks so cool..
Just a close up of the butterfly.. I did journal a poem around the top and side edge..
It reads"A field of flowers below, it's a thing of joy to see.
But Ah! to me "Tis sweeter far to feast my eyes on thee!".
Supplies Used:

• Cricut cartridge: Indie Art (butterflies)
• Cricut cartridge: Home Decor ( flourish)
• Cricut cartridge: Opposites Attract (title)
• Cricut cartridge: Storybook (corner decor and marquee)
• Cricut cartridge: Graphically Speaking (flower)
• papers: K&Co Cut & Paste
  Publish Post
• Cardstock: Yellow, light blue,black and Pink
• Stickles: blue and yellow
• button
• pop dots and zig two way glue pen
• zig black marker for hand doodling
• stamp: corders
• Tim Holtz distress ink: Worn Lipstick (pink), Mustard seed (yellow) and Old denim (blue)

Thank you all so much looking..
cheers

At 2 it's all about the Pooh..

I really wanted to make a silly layout of my youngest son Adam when he was being potty trained.. He was trying to be such a big boy at the age of 2..
I added the outhouse cause of the whole potty theme..maybe it looks a bit goofy being in the middle of the layout like it is, but I think its ok..LOL
I promised my son that I would cover him up when I uploaded the layout onto my blog.. he thought the little leaf was a cute idea.. He was was such a cutey at 2..
Pooh's hunny pot has a hidden journaling tag in it.. it says " At the age of 2 you were such a big boy! did things all by yourself!"
Here is just a close up of the top of the layout
and finally a close up of the bottom of the layout..

supplies used:

• Cricut cartridge: Pooh Font (winnie the Pooh, title font, name and hunny jar)
• Cricut cartridge: Mickey and Friends ( acorns and leaves)
• Cricut cartridge: Paper Doll Dress Up (trees and outhouse, moon cutout)
• Cricut cartridge: Fabulous Finds (hinges on door)
• Cricut cartridge: George and Basic Shapes (door to outhouse)
• cardstock: blue, light green, dark green, red, yellow, orange, brown, tan
• stickles: red, brown and orange
• pop dots
• Tim Holtz distress ink (walnut stain- outhouse)
• chalk yellow,orange,black,green and blue
• metallic mini brads
• zig ink pen- hand doodling and journaling

thank you all so very much for looking.
cheers

You've Been OverAlled..

Here's a layout I finished for our first challenge at STUCK ON U SKETCHES..
The idea popped into my head one day watching the OverHaullin show on the Discovery channel with my boys.. They love that show by the way and my son got a kick out of this layout.. Best part is that even my hubby, who doesn't really care about my layouts, liked it and was very curious and impressed to where the idea came from... :O)
Here are a few close ups of the details and cuts that I used from the sketch.
My son Aaron.. how cute he was back at the gentle age of 2.. I miss those days so much..
I'm in love with Goofy.. He is just the cutest of all the Disney characters.. He reminds me of my younger son who is too tall for his age.. I think I will start using him more often on my layouts..LOL
The car.. its also from the Mickey and Friends cartridge..
and so is the gas station..
and finally a close up of the title.. I got the logo idea from the show.. I used the George and Basic shapes cartridge for the logo and Dreams come true for the oil splats....

Supplies Used:

• Cricut Cartridge: Mickey and Friends (building, car and goofy)
• Cricut cartridge: George and Basic Shapes (logo)
• Cricut cartridge: Dreams Come True (oil splats)
• cricut cartridge: font-can't remember, will add when i remember..LOL
• cricut cartridge: storybook (marquee for hand journaling)
  
• papers: K&Co Small Wonders by Brenda Walton
• Cardstock: Light blue, dark blue, red, white, black and yello
• pop dots
• stickles: red, green, black and light blue(small detail, hard to see in the photos)
• zig pen: hand doodling on edges

Thank you all so much looking.. and hope you get the chance of checking out our challenge blog.
cheers