A laugh is a smile that bursts

Yippee! I am finally posting a scrapbook page! It seems like forever! This page is for the July 16th sketch over at www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

Title is scal, buttons from stash, tiny mosaic cuttlebug embossing folder on paper strips, tags bags boxes and more cricut cart for date label above picture; martha stewart cornice border punch and tim holtz tea dye ink on all edges.

cherish

I don't make a whole lot of 8x10 layouts but that is the size my mil and sil use. I had taken a beautiful picture of them with their dgd's & dggd's and wanted to put them in a frame to give to them. The gorgeous flower medallion looking embellishment is from a tutorial Lisa has going on over at http://www.what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/. Lisa also had a beautiful leafy vine to download. I made mine an svg and cut it out and then hand tinted it with dyes and chalks then did some doodling on it. http://www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/ has a button challenge this week so I incorporated them into this layout and love my finished result. I hope my mil and sil love them also.
I used storybook cricut cart for the photo mat and textile embossing folder; the font is jester using scal; fiskars border punch and paper is from the best of brenda walton by k&co.

Have a wonderful day!

celebrate

This layout is for the May 7th sketch at www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com . I didn't finish it in time for the link but it feels good to have had time to play along with their sketch. Hope to get more time for layouts soon. So on to the picture.... this is of my youngest daughter on her 18th birthday. We were celebrating at Chevy's restaurant and her friend decided to do the old cupcake in the face. I really loved this sketch by Liz Qualman and finally made my first Tim Holtz grunge roses.

couple of close-ups of the roses--I can see myself getting addicted to making these!

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Easter layout

Finally finished my easter layout that will be home to my dgd's 5x7 easter bunny photo. I can't believe I worked on this off and on for weeks--oh well it's finally done!
cricut :
doodlecharms for the sun and the nose on the little chick (it's the rabbits nose on dc)
tink for the butterfly
a child's year for photo mat
plantin schoolbook for animal eyes/sun eyes (ovals) and the little chick's face (circle)
walk in my garden for the flowers (from the wheelbarrow shift function)
easter for the large scallop mat, the chocolate rabbit, the lamb (cut an oval in half for eyes) and the grass
the egg with legs poking out is an svg file that I created to resemble the quickkutz die. I then tore the top of the egg off and placed the chick face behind it.
I used fruit punch stickles on the bunny bow and butterfly; chalked the sun and chick face


this is just a close up of the little lamb and chick
Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Mothers Day Card

Here is mom's mothers day card. The darling girl image is from http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/.
Photo corners are an svg file; prima flowers that I chalked and flatback pearls on top of those; down at the bottom of the card I added another prima then wrapped embroidery thread in two colors around the card front and tied a tiny key in the center.

this is the inside. I used fiskars border punch (can't remember which one)Thanks for looking!

tinkerbell card

I made this card for my grand daughters 5th birthday. Her current fave is tinkerbell and the color green so this is what I came up with. Cricut cart tinkerbell for tink and mushroom. Tinks eyes were colored in--they cut way to small at 6".
Butterflies are an svg file I created as is the border on the on the background paper. Used teeny tiny aqua flat back pearls on the right hand side of card; stickles down the center of butterflies; tim holtz tea dye ink on edges.
Submitted this to Frosted Designs for the aqua, lime green, brown challenge.

Circle flip-up book

I made this darling little circle flip-up book for my youngest daughter's 18th bday. I love love love how this turned out (it is so much cuter in real life). The cover is all items I had in my stash that I wanted to use up.
Split coast stampers has featured these and I had been wanting to try one. I made an svg file to cut out the base of mine. I made mine as large as the mat would hold (I think around 11.50" and then saw that I had saved a cut file from the cricut mb for one that had the designer paper cuts as well. The cricut file I have needed quite a few paper size adjustments so I had some hand trimming to do. Here is the website for directions on these:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/circleflipupbook/



This is the first circle. I used a child's year card feature for the hidden photo mats and the "18";
butterflys from stash; flat back pearls and sizzix closures; home decor for the tiara's and the flower/dragonfly group on the bottom left

this picture shows the hidden photo mats that are revealed when you slide the black sizzix closure.

top view looking down. the bottom half of these fold up into the top half when closed.

for the next circle I used a child's year tag feature and hid the hole in design studio to make them photo mats; graphically speaking for "she's all that" and flowers

for this page I wanted another interactive fun page so the top right is tied shut to hide another photo mat. All photo mats were cut using a file I created to resemble the ms double loop punch; all flowers and butterfly's were from stash.

here is the top right opened up to reveal photo mats.

this last circle I cut photo corners large enough to make pockets for the tags to fit in. I thought my daughter could use the tags for photos.

close up of the flowers cut from accent essentials and added heart buttons.

here is a picture of the album opened up. You can tie these open and display if you like also.

It is too bad that my pictures are not that great because this is so super cute in person!