Knock Out!

This layout is from a sketch on the Practical Scrappers blog. When I was 3, I fell in our garage and hit my mouth on the cement step going into the house. I knocked my front tooth very loose. I went to the dentist the next day and had it pulled. I had a gap in my mouth for years!!

I wanted to capture the story and originally thought I would use a large tooth shape as a background for my photo. Well, it just did not look right because the tooth needed to be white and the colors didn't look good. I also changed the photo a couple of times, finally picking this one because I liked the dress ~ more important it goes with the paper I chose (he he).




I started by putting a square on my gypsy mat the same size as my photo. It is an odd size ~ 3.75 x 3.75. Then I took a scallop square from Accent Essentials and sized it to mat my photo (4.5 x 4.5). This was the paper that I HAD to use!! Then I grabbed the letters from Ashlyn's Alphabet and the tooth from A Child's Year. Using the 12 x 12 mat as my guide, I sized the letters and tooth so the title would fit where I wanted it on my page.




Finally, I made a corner by using a heart swirl from Mother's Day, copied it and rotated it -90 degrees. I anchored the swirl with a heart from Home Decor. I positioned the three pieces together and welded them. I them moved the corner piece to the scalloped frame and sized it. I arranged the pieces on my screen in quadrants by color of paper I wanted to use. I deleted the square that represented my photo and cut my paper.

I originally thought I would use paper, but I used ribbon as a background for my photo because that is what I had on hand (in other words Practical).

Practical Scrappers Marker Challenge

This week's challenge at Practical Scrappers is to make a card or layout and use markers. Now, I usually only use markers to journal. For this challenge, I embellished Santa's face and beard with some markers. I also used some stickles to give him some sparkle!

These photos are from our 2009 daycare party. We invite Santa to come each year and hope he is not too busy to stop by.

From my cricut, I used Winer Woodland for the font and Paper Doll Dress Up for Santa.

Thanks for looking!

Practical Scrappers ~ Art & Floris

This is my take on the Pratical Scrappers sketch this week. This lovely couple was like a bonus set of grandparents to me growing up. They lived one block away and had no family in Nebraska. They never had children, so they kind of adopted my parents and us when we first moved into the neighborhood.

They would spend every Thanksgiving with us. Floris made home-made pumpkin pies ~ my favorite! I am going to write down my memories of them for the next page ~ making this into a 2-page layout.

I used my Martha Stewart heart punch to make my photo border. From my Cricut library, I used Gypsy Font for the letter R and Stretch Your Imagination for the "swirlies". I welded a small one to the larger one. The background paper was kind of too "white" for me, so I trimmed it and added black around the edges. The brown around the black is just the chipboard I used to keep the page from sagging!!

Best Friends

This layout is for the Practical Scrappers challenge: Die Cuts. This is my son Tyler and his best friend Ariel. I wanted to make a page for his book that highlighted their friendship. I used the A Child's Year cricut cartridge.

Cowgirl

I completed this sketch from Practical Scrappers. This is my niece at her Horse birthday party. We all go to ride her new horse Dakota! I used paper from DCWV, ribbon, rhinestones and A Child's Year Cricut cartridge for the title.

I had fun creating this LO! I really like the pink and brown.