The cowboy girl

This layout is for the 2/19 sketch at http://www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/. The beautiful sketch is an original by Liz Qualman.
This is also being linked up to http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/ for brag monday. Karen has such beautiful images that she so generously shares with all of us--thank you Karen!
The photo's are of my youngest daughter when she was in daycare. Once a year this company would come to her school and take pictures of the children on the ponies. I think I have four years of these but this particular year I had the three different poses. When I saw the fabulous cowgirl image from graphics fairy and the fabulous sketch by Liz, I knew they would be perfect for my photo's. I also used an image of Karen's called cowboy ledger that I cut the picket fence out of and lined it up so the cowboy and dollar amount showed up (close-ups lower down) and also used the ledger image for my flourishes. Used cricut accent essentials at 2" & 3" for the flourishes, paperdoll dress up for the little horse @ 2" and the picket fence @ 1", mini monograms for the scallop circle behind the cowgirl image. Prima flowers, buttons, brads for small flower centers, paper from stash and lots of inking. I can't believe I have no doodling!!

close-up of the fence showing the expense ledger from 1904 with the cowboy and his wages entry.

Here is a close-up of the cowgirl image from graphics fairy. I cut it into a circle and attached it to the scallop.

Sugar Meltdown

I used a july 09 pagemaps sketch for this layout. My oldest daughter (with my sister) back in the 80's got into some sugary sweets on Christmas day and made quite a mess of herself and then had a little bit of a meltdown. I used paper doilies that I got at the dollar tree. The little cake squares at the bottom are from an image at http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/ that I cut into individual squares, inked and pop dotted. The little buttons in between the cakes are "dress it up christmas cookies" buttons. All the edges of the lighter brown paper have been sanded so the white core would show through; patterned paper photo mats I used fiskars corner punch and all the paper on the layout came from Debbie Mumm harvest & holiday stack. The fonts are accent cookie dough and ravie cut with scal.

The brown strip of paper will be used for my journaling

I used pom poms to stuff the foil of the ferrero candy wrappers.

closer look at the font

Trick or Treat

This layout is for the 2/12 sketch over at http://www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/. I can't believe I was going to use hot pink instead of purple and then grabbed that pumpkin paper and thought how cute--completely forgetting the sketch challenge was to use red or pink and I already posted my link!! Ugh!! Well on to the layout as it did turn out. My sister made the adorable rainbow brite outfit. The trick or treat title, little candy along the picture and candy corn corners are from a recollections 3D sticker pack that I bought for 99 cents! The little ghosts floating out of the treat bag are from a Jolee's sticker pack. Printed rainbow brite and then used mini monograms to cut the scallop circles; plantin schoolbook for circle behind the word trick and then used cuttlebug d'vine swirls embossing folder and inked. Used Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch on the edges of printed papers and used swiss dots embossing folder on the green stars and moon paper. Lots of inking and doodling.

150 lb. pumpkin

This layout is for the 2/5 sketch challenge over http://www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/.
The pictures are of my oldest daughter back in 1985. She was asked to draw a name for the halloween basket giveaway and the store manager gave her this 150 lb. pumpkin that was on display. With the help of several people, it found it's way to our home. I ended up making Thanksgiving pumpkin pies out of it--a lot of work but so worth it! I didn't actually take a picture of my pies at the time but thought it a very important part of this layout so I printed a pie off the internet.

Cricut paperdolls for the pumpkin

george and basic shapes for font and numbers on pumpkin

Remember

This layout is for the sous 1/29 sketch by Aymee. The pictures are of my son and oldest daughter over the years. I loved the clock paper representing time passed . The clock was inspired by the paper and also Beatriz Guzman. She did a layout using a compass on hers that really looked nice. I did the rest of my title around the clock-inspired by Leah's darling layout in which she put words around her circle mat. Thank you both for the inspiration! Along the clock reads: being brother and sister means being there for each other.

Carts :

graphically speaking: clock and "remember"

joys of the season: birds

plantin schoolbook: circle behind clock

cricut marker used on the word remember before it was cut with blade

cuttlebug embossing folder tiny bubbles on birds and remember

Tim Holtz tea dye ink on everything
button on clock from stash

lots of doodling

title around clock is from scrapbook titles website

Cute little exploding box

I made this cute little exploding box for my grandniece's second birthday. The box top I used lace from michaels and the martha stewart doily lace border punch.

The top of the box is hello kitty card I made and then cut the balloons off and adhered them behind her.

This is the box open. I made a three tiered cake and used swiss dots embossing folder. The cake can be removed for easier photo placement and then can be put back. Plantin schoolbook for number 2 on top of cake.

This is the first layer. Used doodlecharms border feature for the dragonflies.

For this layer I used martha stewart doily lace border punch.

Only used prima flowers and reflections accents for flower centers.

Cut little tags from plantin schoolbook and tucked them in pockets that I used textile embossing folder and a little brad in the corner.

Just used ribbon on this.

Thanks for looking!

Pink...its a girl thing

This is a layout I did for the Jan. 15th sketch challenge over at http://www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/. The picture is of my oldest daughter with a big stick of pink lipstick. She is a girly girl to this day.


close-up of flowers.

you can't really tell, but I pop dotted sections of this banner to have a wavy dimension.

supplies:

buttons

stickles: cotton candy and waterfall

colorbox fluid chalk: yellow citrus, orchid pastel, lavender and blue lagoon

Martha Stewart doily lace border punch

tons of prima flowers

cricut tinkerbell for flowers under primas on circle frame

cricut plantin schoolbook for circle frame

cricut home accents for flourishes

scal for title font

K&Co paper