Sweet Boy of Mine-SOUS

 

I'm so thrilled that today is Friday and I'm so very over thrilled to be able to share this sketch and layout with you all ..

Liz Qualman has made us at SOUS an original sketch.. Wow!!! , Let me repeat  that "Liz Qualman has made US at SOUS an ORIGINAL sketch...LOL

Thank you Liz so much..

This layout is of me and my son Aaron,  back when I was 21 years old and I have just brought my him home.. He weighed a whopping 8lbs 4oz.. Big boy!!!  I have been wanting to scrap some of his baby photos for the longest time and when I seen this sketch, it inspired me to get his photos out and make a layout..

I don't own any baby cartridges so I think I did pretty good with what I have..LOL  :O)

And here is that amazing sketch of hers..

 I hope you ladies get a chance to stop by SOUS this weeks and have a go at this sketch.. It was so much fun to work with and it highly inspired me..

Here are some close ups and all of the details to the making of this layout.

I made the title using SCAL.. I wanted to make the BOY look like baby blocks.. I think I did a pretty good job.LOL  and  I adore the soft colors I chose to use..

  

I love these little faces I made with just a simple circle cut and the peachy keen stamps..I did chalk some color onto the cheeks..  :O)  The baby blanket I made just folding a piece of blue paper and inking the edges..

  

I found this cute little quote from scrapbook.com

I thought it was so appropriate for this layout.. and they do have the cutest quotes, poems and title ideas

  

Gosh! I look so young...  :O)  Where has the time gone?

Supplies Used:

Cricut cartridge: Home Decor

 leaves,scalloped circle and flourish

Cricut cartridge: Graphically Speaking

Stroller

Cricut cartridge:  Accent Essentials

flowers, scalloped edge and frames

Cricut cartridge:  George and basic Shapes

flower centers and large circle

Cricut cartridge: Doodlecharms

teddybear

Cricut cartridge: My Community

feet

Cricut cartridge: A childs year

hands

Sure Cuts A Lot for the title..

Papers: K& Co

Cardstock: light blue, light green and light yellow

Tim Holtz distress ink:

Antique linen, shabby shutters and faded jeans

light blue ink by VersaColor

Facial stamps by "Peachy Keen Stamps!"

pop dots and zig two way glue

I think that about does it everyone.. I hope I didn't forget to list anything..  :O)

Thank you all so much for looking and I'm so looking forward to seeing your take on this sketch at SOUS..

Hugs

Happy Anniversary

My husband and I will be celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary on February 14th, Valentines Day.. I thought that getting married on Valentines day would help him remember exactly what day it is and what it represents.. He has not once forgotten, he is such a sweetheart..

I made this layout and I will be adding the photos to this layout after our anniversary dinner with the family..

I will try to post a better photo tomorrow.. its so gloomy out today and the lighting is apparently awful in my scrap room..  :O(

Here are some close ups and the details to making this layout..

my very favorite part of the layout..  I hand pieced this using the flowers from "A walk in the garden" and the wedding cake from "Sweethearts!"..

side view of the flowers on the cake..

side view of the bigger flowers on top of the picture frame.

The title..

side view of the title..its all pop dotted..

another close ups of the flowers and the little cupids.

Supplies Used:

Cricut Cartridge :

Sweethears

corners, wedding cake, hearts, ribbon, cupids, gift boxes,

title "Happy Anniversary" and background marquee

Cricut Cartridge:

 Walk in my Garden

Flowers

Cricut Cartridge:

A Childs Year

Leaves

Papers:

Basic Grey Porcelain stack

cardstock:

light pink, light green and white

pearl accents

pop dots

ziq two way glue pen

Tim Holtz distress ink:

Green, Yellow, Orange and pink

Chalks:

Green, yellow, orange and pink

Stickles:

dark pink, gold and yellow

Liquid pearl (white)

Thank you all so much for looking..

Hugs

Magical Memories

After a long debate, I gave in and bought the "Mickey and Friends" cartridge.. It took me most the day to complete this layout.. I think I actually like it.. wasn't sure at first!!..LOL
I cut the path from the cartridge, but decided to use the cut-a-ways instead.. so I glued every single little pebble down on the paper, but it does look so much better...
My DD (age 6) Amber and my best friends son Kyle (age 4).. Do they look their having a great time or what?.. This is the only photo I have of this trip we took that day.. We lived in West Palm Beach, Florida so the drive was only a few hours. Disney was cheap back then too, like $20 (FL residents) to get in...
Heres a close up of the title.. not sure I like it..but I don't have the Mickey Font cart just yet, so I had to improvise...LOL
I stickled Minnie's bow and shoes..All girls love a bit of bling!..LOL Oh! and the roses are stickled as well..
A man's best friend.. Pluto is so cute..I think he was the easiest to piece together, except for the eyes..
I added a little road sign instead of a journaling tag.. I am sure everyone has figured out by now, I don't journal...LOL

Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart: Mickey and Friends (all cuts)
  
• Cricut cart: Storybook (title: magical)
• Cricut cart: Graphically speaking (title: memories)
• Papers: K & Co Rough and tumble
• Cardstock: White, dark green, dark blue, deep red, deep yellow and orange
• Design studio software: stretching and welding.
• Stickle : Red, yellow, blue and green
• pop dots
• ink pad: black and green
• chalk: black, dark green and yellow
• spray adhesive
  

thank you all for looking and doen't forget to share some love...
cheers

Beautiful Trouble Maker

I totally fell in love with this paper when I seen it and it had my DD's name written all over it..fits her personality so perfectly.. I didn't want to over power this layout with embellishments cause of all the little detail that the paper itself has and of course, not taking the view from the photos them selves.
Here is a close up the two photos I have on the top part of the layout..she took these her self being bored at my husbands uncles house while on vacation last summer. The text running on the top of the paper is just too too perfect...LOL
I took this photo of her sun bathing..LOL in black... I love the little sticker that came with the paper stack I bought.
the title I cut using my new Tink and Friends Cartridge. I did have to shrink a little bit to fit.
Aaaaaaw..the face only a mother would love.. I love that little female skull with the pink hair.. lovely...LOL
Some of the flowers I added to go with the flourish and charms. I wanted to keep this black, white and pink...nothing else..
I apologise for the photos of the layout being poor quality, but the lighting in my scraproom is really poor today..
I have to give so much thanks to my best friend "KAT" in Florida for sending me these papers..

UPDATE: I have had a lot of people ask where I got these papers and they were ordered online from Target
Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart: Graphically Speaking: butterflies (shadow cut) and flourish
• Cricut cart: Tink and Friends: word "Beautiful!"
• Papers: Creative Imaginations: Signature collection
• Flowers: Petaloo and Dutch Moments
• Flower charms: The Paper Company
• Stickle: Silver, black and Magenta
• Pop dots
• Cricut design studio: Shrinking
• Pink and black cardstock

thank you everyone for looking.
cheers

Birthday at Happy Joe's.

My son Aaron turned 15yrs old last summer (2008) and we were lucky enough to be on vacation in Dubuque Iowa. We all got together at Happy Joe's Pizzeria to celebrate his birthday and when we were all done with our pizza the weitress came over with a big horn and yelled out really loud "We have a birthday boy over here!"..LOL
There are 15 balloons for his 15th birthday..
The expression on his face is priceless.. as the waitress was singing to him he kept saying "Oh my god!" "Oh my god!"..repeatedly.. It was the funniest thing..
I attempted to make the sunday from the "A Child Year" cartridge, I think it came out ok..Lots of stickle and added some white liquid pearl.. the more I look at it, it looks like I made it backwards.. LOL
This is just the close up of the title.. I did't want to use any more red, yellow or blue.. I thought they started over domineering the layout, so I chose Green.. Im not sure how I feel about it yet..LOL
This is the cutest little birthday hat.. cut from the child year cartridge as well..

supplies used:

• Cricut cart: A Childs Year: Balloons, Sundae, Title, "Happy Birthday", Hat
• Cricut cart: Graphically speaking: thinking bubble, pointing fingers (LOL) and circle arrow.
• Papers: K & Co Kazoo kids
• cardstock: brown, yellow, red, blue, white and green
• stickle: X-mas red, cinnamon, yellow, frosted lace, Holly and waterfall
• white gel pen
• pop dots
• design studio software: welding
• Fiskars lace border punch
• Tim Holtz distress ink: Walnut Stain
• Colorbox inks
• chalk

Thank you all for looking
cheers

Apple Of My Eye

My oldest son Aaron..Guess how old he is in this photo?..LOL I really loved making this layout and it took me one whole day. I did a LOT of inking and chalking, but I love the effect if gave the letters and cuts..
I wanted to add apple blossoms to the layout to go with the apples (I know they look like peaches).. I really didn't mind adding a little bit of pink, I think its a nice a contrast color to all the yellow and green.
Here is a close up of the title.. I weaved it through a flouris and added some leaves, which I inked and chalked.
I didn't want to do your regular number 5 on this layout, so I went through the little ACY booklet and seen the hand.. I thought how appropriate for this layout, being he's 5yrs old..
This is just a close up of the apple with the boy cut out.. I cut it using light yellow cards stock which I then inked the edges with orange and rubbed the apple with red and the leaves with green. I also added a little detail with a white gel pen.

Supplies Used:

• Cricut cart: A Childs Year: Font, apple cut boy cutout, hand and all small apples
• Cricut cart: Storybook: leaves and little blossoms
• Cricut cart: Home Accents: flourish
• Cricut cart: Hello Kitty font: flowers
• papers: K& Co Classi Margo 12x12
• cardstock: pastel green, yellow,white, pink and blue
• Markers: colored in the blossoms-pink and dotted the flowers with yellow and brown
• Tim Holtz distress ink: *Shabby shutters and Walnut stain
• Colorbox inks: orange
• Stamping: flourish behind big apple
  
• white gel pen: added detail
• green ribbon'
• pop dots
  
• Cricut design studio: welding of letters
  

Thankyou all for looking.
Cheers

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..

BestFriendsForever

This is a layout of my daughter Amber and my best friends son, Kyle. They have been best friends since forever.. My dd is now 20 and Kyle is 18, so I guess their friendship has lasted 18yrs..
Here's a close up of the two of them.. this was in 1993.. my dd was 4 and Kyle was 2..gosh! that seems like such a long time ago.. He loved that little trike..
Just some close ups of the greenery and flowers.. I only glued the bottom of the leaves underneath the flower and left the rest propped up. I did chalk all of the greenery with green and all the cuts with blue
Here's a close up of the stickle I used.. I only did the blue trim.. I forced myself not to use any other color..LOL
Oh and last but not least.. My new cartridge "A Childs Year!".. I love this cartridge and I love this cut.. when I seen this, I knew exactly where I wanted to use it..

Supplies Used:

• Cricut Cart: A Childs Year: Title font, trike, children "best friend!".
• Cricut Cart: Opposites Attract: title foundation
• Cricut Cart: Home Accent: Butterflies
• Cricut Cart: Storybook: Greenery and large frame
  
• Cricut Cart: Plantin Storybook: scallop edge square
  
• K & Co Papers: Small wonders 12x12
• cardstock: Cream and lime green
• Stickle: Waterfall-light blue
• Paper flowers by "YouDo"
• button: Bag-O-Button

Thank you everyone for looking..
cheers