The many faces of Mia

This is a 2 page 8 1/2 X 11 LO that I did of my 16 y/o daughter, she always makes the most amazing faces, when she was young my little sisters would get her to make all sorts of expressions just for fun, I think by now it is habit, but we think she is fabulous.

I am entering this LO into 2 challenges today

Cooking With Cricut, the challenge was Anything BUT a card with Yellow & Polka Dots

Paper Take Weekly's challenge was to highlight something on your project

 

I used the Nifty Fifties Cartridge for the font, and the paper came from the Lemon Stack by DCWV.  All of the letters are covered in silver glitter glue, I am not sure why it didn't show up very well in the pics, but it looks pretty cool in person. 

Home Sweet Home

I am attempting to make a book in memory of my late Grandmother, using scrapbooking to give it life, as well as dates and occasions.  This particular page is being entered into the On The Edge  challenge going on at Whimsical Designs.  There are sadly very few pictures of my Grandmother, this is about 1955 in Seattle, Washington in front of her house.  I used my Nifty Fifties Cartridge for the house, done at 3"(that is width, not height). The sentiment came form sentimentalities, and the paper is a combination of Basic Grey, Stella Ruby Stack, and DCWV Old World Stack.

A Love Story part 5 and 6

Page 5 The borders around the Photos were done with the Mini Monograms cartridge and the rose is from Walk in my Garden.  The Sentiment was a set of stickers that I found in my "stuff", so who knows where they originally came from :) I inked everything in dark brown, and the journaling was printed in outline form on my computer and I colored it with gel pens. 

Page 6, The cloud image, and the sentiment were both cut from Nifty Fifties, and the border for the photo was from Mini Monograms, I cut it twice at the same size, once in ivory and once in Navy, then I offset the border so that the back color showed through.  I inked everything, and stitched both the border on the picture and the clouds.  The journaling was done on my computer, printed the outline of the font and colored in with gel pens.  And of course the house was from the Handy Man cartridge cut at 10 1/4".

A Love Story part 4

Page 4 of my husbands mini-book.  The house is from the Handy Man cartridge, the sentiment was cut at 2" from Nifty Fifties, the border for the picture is from Mini Monograms, and the hearts are cut from my scraps using my Fiskars heart punch.  I stitched the hearts and border to the picture in white, except the white hearts which were stitched in red.  The sentiment has blue gel pen stitching and red glitter glue for the hair tie on the sillouette, I used the same glitter glue to make the dots on the picture border.  I printed the outline of the words for the journaling on my computer and colored them in with my gel pens.  This was my first scrapbooking experience, and the biggest project I have ever tried and I have had more fun than I would have imagined!

A Love Story part 3

This is page 3 of my husbands Father's Day gift, the house was cut at 10 1/4" from the Handy Man cartridge, I cut the sentiment from Nifty Fifties at 2", the hearts are from Stretch Your Imagination, stretched and changed on Design Studio, so not any particular size, just stretched around until I liked them.  Inside the heart is a copy of a journal entry of my husbands from the second time we were engaged (all part of the fun story behind the book I made for him) The words aren't anything private so I didn't blur them, but I am not sure if they are very readable anyway.  I printed the outline for the journaling from my computer then colored in the words with my gel pens.  I inked everything in a dark rusty color (I don't remember which ink, sorry) and added a few buttons for a little extra personality.

A Love Story part 2

I am entering this into the challenge at Getting Cricky and the challenge over at Cooking With Cricut the challenge was a Father's Day project that included a "cricut cut", the Getting Cricky challenge was the Simply Sunday Face It!  This is the second page of the present that I made for my husband for Father's Day, I don't scrapbook so I decided to make him a sort of mini scrapbook/story of us.  The Drive In is cut at 4 1/2" from my Nifty Fifties cartridge, the house is cut at 10 1/4" from the Handy Man cartridge and for the journaling I printed the outline and colored it in with my gel pens. The people are from the Playtime cartridge cut at 4" thier faces were done with Peachy Keen stamps that I colored with gel pens.  I am posting each page of my mini-book as a separate post since keeping track of all of the cartridges and sizes in one post would run too long.