Seasons Greetings

Hi Scrappers :)

This layout is totally inspired and scrap lifted from Lauren with Lauren's Creative. She is such a talented scrapper. When I saw her Seasons Greetings layout I knew I had to add this simple yet beautiful layout to my dogs scrapbook. I didn't have any holiday pictures of him scraped yet because I couldn't come up with a layout I was happy with. So thank you Lauren from the bottom of my heart for creating this beautiful layout. I'll be getting the pictures for this layout developed this weekend. (HUGS)!

Materials:

(1) piece of 12x12 kraft cardstock
(1) piece of patterned paper (this was in my stash) cut to 11.5x11.5
(1) piece of red card stock cut to 8x10
Photo mates cut to: 4.5x4.5, 4.25x4.24 and 4.5x6.5 and 4.25x6.25
"Seasons Greetings" (shadow and image) sized at 1.75 from the Christmas solutions cartridge
"Santa and Sleigh" (shadow and image) sized at 5" from the Christmas solutions cartridge
Candy cane ribbon from Hobby Lobby
White jelly roll pen

Merry Christmas everyone and a Scrappy New Year

My Pumpkin

Okay, this will be my last post for tonight. Shew, getting caught up is a lot of work. For this project I created a 1 page scrapbook layout of my boy Solomon with his pumpkins. It was quite a job cutting his pumpkin to look like him. Thankfully, I found a template to use on Better Homes and Garden.

Materials:

Imaginise Apple Cider collection used.

(1) 12x12 piece of the wood grain used as the base.
(1) 12x12 piece of the green used for the scalloped square cut at 10.75 x 10.75 from Mini Monograms
The words "My Pumpkin" are also cut from Mini Monograms and I used the hide contour feature to hide the stitching lines.
(2) photo mats both fit a 4x6" picture. The mat sizes are 6.50 x 4.50 and 6.25 x 4.25.
(3) pumpkins cut from Create a Critter. (1) pumpkin and all layers cut at 2.5" and the (2) smaller pumpkins cut at 1.75"
(1) wood stump and all layers cut at 1.75" from Create a Critter
(1) squirrel and all layers cut at 2" from Create a Critter
(1) acorn and all layers cut at 1"
I used my Jelly Roll white pen do doodle on the stump, squirrel and pumpkins.

Happy Scrapin

My Little Gator

So my creative side is still flowing :) I have another scrapbook 1pg. layout. As most know it is football season. I am and will always be a Florida Gator. So with that said, my dog will always be my little gator! The jersey in the picture was passed down to Solomon from my first boxer Jakin. It was his jersey and when he passed on to the Rainbow Bridge it became Solo's. 

This is a 12x12 layout. The brown circle is the inside piece to the Solomon & his Duck layout. I then cut 1' circles to create the scalloped edge. The scalloped edge along side the picture is from Just Because Cards and it's cut at 1.56x6" on "real dial size". The bracket is cut at 1.63x5" on "real dial size". The bracket is from the Home Decor cartridge. The cute little gator and all his parts are cut at 3.23x1.23" and he is from the Create a Critter cartridge. I don't have a cartridge that cuts a football so I made my own by using an oval from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge cut at 1.85x2.50". I then cut two small strips of white paper and adhered them to the brown oval. I used my Elmer's Painters paint marker in white to draw on the stitching lines. If you have any questions just leave me a comment and I'll try and get back to you as soon as I can. 

So last weekend I found myself at Michaels. I also go straight for the dollar spot as most people tend to do. Ran across these cute containers that looked like buttons and contained buttons within them. I picked up the red, green, and white ones figuring I could make small cute either gift tags or cards for gifts this holiday season. See I need to start on my Christmas cards early this year because I have over 50 to send out! I know that's a crazy amount but I always participate in a Boxer (dog) Christmas card swap :) and the list keeps growing. Also, so enough rambling and on to the cards. 

The cards measure 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" or just cut a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in half and bingo! I then placed the buttons on the card and it just all came together. It wouldn't be complete without a little stitching along the edges.  Let me know what you think.

Solomon & Duck

Alright, so my crafting mojo has really been flowing this weekend :) Here is another layout I did for Solomon's scrapbook. I hope you enjoy. Inspiration from the Two Peas in a Bucket website gallery.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Make A Wish

Well here it goes, my first ever blog post. I'll have to back post to get caught up on all the projects I've completed since I started my journey into paper crafting. 

This layout is of my boxer, Solomon Boaz and his first birthday. Birthdays are always special in my house so we celebrated with a professional doggie cake which tasted like peanut butter. I hope you enjoy the layout as much as I do. 

I am entering this into Emma's Throwback Thursday challenge. I do not own the Celebrations Cricut cartridge so I used the only birthday cartridge I have...Sweet Treats! It was one of the first cartridges I was given with my "baby' bug. 

Solomon's 1st birthday layout

Recipe used:

Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge: Make a Wish shadow is cut at 2.42". Make a Wish is cut at 2.45"

Paper used is DCWV Pet Stack and Martha Stewart School Days Multimedia pad.

March stickers are from SEI and the 12 and 2009 are vinyl Thickers. 

The dogs are cut outs from the Pet Stack paper pad.