On the Farm

Well... I am a day later than I planned posting this, but the good news is... I am finally getting it posted!! I have to tell you, the top picture of this LO is one of my all time favorites of my daughter (Lauren) with my dad. My dad grew up on a farm and even though he was not a 'farmer' when I was growing up, I was brought up like he was! We had a massive garden, did all the canning and freezing of veggies, and had a list of chores daily. The only thing that we didn't have were the cows!! A few years ago, my dad's company picnic was at a local farm so he and my mother took the grandchildren with them... you know... to show them off!! While they were there, Lauren had a chance to drive the tractor and my dad got on with her. My mother (who takes as many pictures as I do) snapped this photo and I treasure it. My dad looks so happy and he was able to share a little of himself that day with the grandchildren. Lauren, and all my children, are soooo lucky to have such incredible grandparents... I remind them daily!!

The sketch I used for this comes from Pratical Scrappers this week. As soon as I saw the sketch, I knew it would be perfect for these photos! The papers are from the kit I ordered from the Poppy Paper Kit Co. Most of the embellishments came from that kit too. I added a brad from Spare Parts and the metal heart came from Memory Makers. I also used the kit for the post below this one... Berry Pickin'. Cricut: Cuttin' Up, Wild Card, Give a Hoot

As always, thanks for stopping by and looking at my LO. I love being able to share a little bit of my life a LO at a time!! Barb  :)

Snow Silly

Happy Friday everyone!! We had another fun challenge at Frosted Designs this week which was.... use your own handwriting in a card/layout/project. The design team came up with some amazing things again this week. Make sure you stop over and see what all they have created! You can get there by clicking HERE!

So... I was going through some old pictures the other day and ran across this picture of my daughter about 3 years ago. It was January and we had some snow in the yard. Some of it had started to melt off so we were left with patches of grass poking through patches of snow. Lauren insisted that we were going to go out in the snow and build a snowman. Well, our snowman ended up being about 1 ft. tall!! And then Lauren insisited on getting the sled out! I have the cutest pictures of her dragging the sled over grass with patches of snow in the background!! How funny is that?!! I am going to have to turn this LO into a two pager one of these days so that I can add in the other photos... they are so funny!

So... on to the details of the LO! I loved the way Lauren was framing her face with her hands so I knew I wanted to "frame" that.... I picked an oversize white frame and smoothered it with Martha Stewart glitter. (You know how I am with my bling!) While that dried, I started layering several different papers that I distressed, chalked, and embossed. The snowflakes around the frame are some that I picked up on sale a while back and love!! I added in the cutest little mittens from Everyday Paper Dolls, but I cut them down a bit... they were just too chubby for me! I added some details with my Martha Stewart glitter marker and then topped with Glossy Accents!!! I love the way they turned out! So much so I did the same thing with the little bird!!

On the letters I added some little snowball dots with my snow writer...cute, huh?!

And of course... I had to show off my handwriting! (not!) The original plan was to tuck a tag with journaling next to the main picture, but when I added the smaller picture in the corner, that just didn't look right. And then I remembered visiting Joni's blog the other day and she had journaled all the way around the page... so ... I totally stole her idea and used it myself!!! Thanks Joni!! But I really loved the way it turned out and I was able to tell the story about the day! And if you look really close at the journaling pictures (but not so close you that you see that my handwriting isn't that great...) you can kind of see the glitter snowflakes that I stamped on the solid blue background paper... it adds some nice bling in person but just doesn't show up well in the photos!

Well, I think that about covers it! Supplies used:
Cricut: Ashlyn's Alphabet, Accent Essentials, Wild Card, Everyday Paper Dolls, Happily Ever After
Cuttlebug: Snowflake and Swiss Dots
Paper: Imagine That, SEI, and DCWV
Snowflakes: K & Company
Pens: Martha Stewart Glitter Pen, White Souffle Pen
Glossy Accents
Glitter: Martha Stewart Snow Pack

Cabo

Thanks to the ladies at Stuck On U Sketches for a great sketch. The heart was a little difficult for me to get a good shape on... but I did finally manage to get it a little less lopsided! Yipee for that! I loved the flowers I cut... they reminded me of some we saw on our visit to Cabo. But the flowers on their own were getting lost on the busy patterns in the background papers. So, I thought I would place some wide brown ribbon behind the flowers. It helped because it gave it some texture and lifted the flowers off the page a bit. After sanding some of the flowers to "roughen" them up, I added some stickles. (Sometime I like to add a little bling to distressed elements!) After fussing over it the past few days, I decided to leave it alone and go ahead and post it. :)

Supplies used:
DCWV Papers - Mi Casa (Perfect for a vacation in Mexico!)
Stickles - Lime Green
Story Book Cartridge
Stone Script Cartridge
Wild Card Cartridge
Design Studio
Stamps - random ones I have had so long, I no longer know the brand
Chalk - ColorBox - Dark Brown
Brads - Recollections
Embossing Powder - copper
Pop dots - EK Success
Adhesive Dots - Zots