Brandon - 1 Year

Using my wonderful swirlydoo kit, I created this layout with the Feb swirlydoo sketch.  It is my son Brandon at 1 year.  He is such a doll and full of smiles!!  If you look close you can see on the right side of the photo his hair just starting to flip up into the slightest bit of a curl.

There are so many fun techniques I used here, I learned from lots of people, so I hope I do not leave anyone out!!  I loved the look of the large flowers behind the photo, acting as a mat, so I sprayed some of them with a hint of blue, also to save from wasting the flowers, cut them in half since you are only seeing half of the flower anyway!!

I love Gabrielle P's blog and her layouts, and one thing I notice on her pages is her use of layered punches below her pictures, it gives such a wonderful riches to the layout without cluttering it, plus it adds a finished line to the bottom of your photo.

I love the little mirror stickers we got in our kit this month, so I used one to write down information about Brandon and what he is doing at 1 year.

I also have been loving Isay's layouts lately, she uses string and fibers winding all over, so I took that idea and ran with it with the twine, it just takes lots of glue dots to hold it down where you want it do flow (also a hint, do not use big twists, use little ones). 

I hope you enjoy this, it is one of my favorites!!

Frosted Designs Friday Challenge

So this Friday Frosted Designs challenged us to use metal on our project.  Ohh fun!!  This pic is of my son when he was 5 months old.  I had him sitting in his bumbo (child helper seat) on the counter and I put my older son's sunglasses on Brandon, he just looked too cute!!  With his little faux hawk (and no I did not do it, his hair just fluffed up that way) and sun glasses he looked like a little rock star!!

I used this great black paper from Heidi Swapp, then used Target dollar store paper and cut out the stars on it, I loved the look of orange and black, so rock and roll!!  I used the large stars to write info about what my son was like at 5 months (stats and such).  I used the metal for the challenge in the "shades of" part of the title, in one of the stars, and also in the staples I used on some of the stars. 

Enjoy!!

February's Prima Pick and Palette

Prima's Product Picks for February will make your heart flutter! 

Head on over to Prima's blog to see some fantastic work!!

Bathtime - Sassy Lil sketches challenge

I used the sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches, and my friend's son in a bath at his grandma's house. 

 

Enjoy!!

Helping a Friend - Scrap That!

So on Vicky's blog she wants to win some prizes, and I picked my favorite layout from her Feb Scrap That kit.  I love all three, but I think my fav is her Remember Cuba layout!!  You have to go check her out, she is a great scrapper!!

Brotherly Love

Using a sketch from Sketches4all and also the theme of Love from frosted designs, I created this layout of my boys.  They are 1 and 5 in this photo taken a month ago.  I used a kit from swirlydoo to create this layout.

Enjoy.

Shh...........Sketchs in Thyme tutorial and sketch

This is a layout I made for Sketches in Thyme using one of their sketches and also for a tutorial I created.  The tutorial is for the stitched ribbon flowers which is posted February 12, 2011.

I used some old paper I had in my stash, but also some new items from the dollar section in Michaels (the doily, yellow flowers, and green butterflies). 

The pictures are of my friend and her baby boy the day she brought him home in 1986.

Thanks for looking!!