One of a Kind **Sous**

Using the Stuck On U Sketch as inspiration. I started off with one side of the sketch. I love this picture of my little guy and decided on complimenting his red vest with the red and white paper. I also did lots of distressing, layering and inking. My snowflakes are all die cut and I embossed a few also. 

Used some nice lace ribbon across the bottom of my page.

Here are some of my die cut snow flakes, embossed snow flakes and I added some pearls. After watching The Secret Garden Layout Class by Stacy Cohen at Miss Arts, I tried hard to re-create her concepts in my layout.

In taking one of Miss Arts class on layering I did do some background stamping. 

 

More pictures of stamping, buttons, and layers. Hope you are having a great Sunday!

35 Months Casey

A few weeks ago we had family pictures taken by Barb Weir. Which I am in love with so you are going to see a lot of them in the next couple of weeks in my pages! This month at Let's Scrap their are a few challenges happening. The first is January's Load Challenge in which you make a layout a day (so for this month 31). The second challenge is 100 layouts in 2012. For this challenge only pages count. So keeping this in mind, you know me and competition with myself! I am all for it! Plus the die cutting challenge at SOUS is to use snowflakes! So along with the sketch from Let's Scrap here is what I came up with. I used the left side of the sketch and changed things around. Instead of the banner I used snowflakes my pictures just weren't fitting right so I swapped one picture for the journal section and included the hidden journaling also in the tag with the ribbon.  Using last years BoBunny Christmas paper created this page filled with snowflakes and using my cricut cut out and layered my snowflakes! I did a lot of distressing and added in some journalling. Behind the page there is also a tag with more personal journalling to my son. Now with this being said my personal scrappy resolutions this year are to journal more and use my scraps and paper! I have soooo much... I have to get over my love of paper and collecting it and start using it. BoBunny is one of my favorites and well when a new line comes out I buy two packs. One to use and the other to keep. Well no more...I cracked that pack open to play with! So products used, BoBunny paper and stickers, Tim Holtz distress inks (decided to do the purple), ribbon from my stash and a little viva pearl.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Timeless

The last couple of weeks have been crazy! And I finally have some time to post quickly today. I love! love! love! Bo Bunny Gabrielle collection. I decided to use the last of my collection to play along with the girls at Stuck On U Sketches. I love the sketch and how it gave me the chance to incorporate pieces made with my new tools! I got a new Cricut! and a new Prima distressing Tool!!!!! What a good way to end the day! I am still working on using more than one photo per layout. I don't know why I have such difficulty with this??? But here is another attempt. The first picture to the left is one of my sister and I back in 1984 before a Christmas Party and the photo on the right is that of my sister and I again in 2006 at my wedding. I did a lot of layering and distressing. I also inked the edges with a bonus ink I received from last week SGD sale! Now what I have really realized is that I definitely need a better camera! Maybe Santa will bring me one for Christmas!

Stuck on You Sketches

Growing by leaps and bounds

My sister Michelle has very few pictures of herself as a child. The reason for this?!? Apparently, everytime the camera came out she cried! So to say the least there are not many pictures of her. Who wants to make their child cry???  So I really love finding pictures of her smiling. Here are one of the few! My other great find this week was Stuck On U Sketches! , which is where I found this amazing sketch! Now for a few close ups. I worked really hard with this one and I am very proud! Hope my sister likes it! Products used: MS punches~scallop, doily and butterfly, Tim Holtz Ink, Paper (unknown from my stash) Bling (unknown from my stash), ribbon, rub ons (various kits), 3M Glue, 3M Glue Dots, 3M Corners, Prima Flowers.