Toy Story themed birthday party

My boy turned 6!  He wanted a Toy Story birthday party. We invited the whole grade 1 class and also his sister's grade 2 class. 

July ... its still July isn't it?

Wow - summer is just flying past me this year.  I can count on one hand the number of hours I have spent scrapbooking or crafting!  Aside from a couple of birthday cards I haven't done any crafting.  I did manage to squeeze out this one layout while at an all day crop at Auntie Em's in Cornwall.  I did this from the Build-A-Page sketch challenge at Prima for July.

 

 

Surprize! Look at your Cake Face ...

A photo of my son on his first birthday - hard to believe he will be turning FOUR in just a couple of weeks ... already in school full time.  Where does the time go?

CAKE FACE

Using the Surprize collection from Bo Bunny I wanted the letter to pop a little so I used my fine tip Sharpie to doodle around the word surprize.  I used red ink to distress the edges to bring out the red of the paper line, and dripped some Heidi Swapp color shine in Sweet Cherry. A toilet paper roll and gesso for the random rings.  The balloons I used Utee and Versamark on to make them more dimensional. The title is Basic Grey chipboard letters.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

 



More from the Mega Challenge - En Francais

Um yeah, I'm not writing this blog post En Francias - but it's all about the Prima paper line En Francais collection!  This is part three of my projects created with this line - and I'm still not out of paper or inspiration.  It truly is a versatile collection.

Lost A Mitten

 

 

I used some gesso to create white space then stamped over the gesso with the script stamp from this collection. Some Tim Holtz tickets in the corner, and a combination of Prima alphas and Thickers for the title.  Sepia photos are particularly perfect for this line.

 Mr. Serious

  

 

I used a Prima mask on this layout with modeling paste and Pan Pastals to give texture to the feather in the corner.  I used another mask and tinted gesso with gelatoes and then painted with gelatoes for the bricks.  You see that folk - more BOY layouts, LOL and flowers on every single one of them too *grinz*

Making Christmas Memories

I love a paper line that can be both girl and boy all at the same time!  The Winter Fun collection from Carta Bella is just that.  And as mentioned in a previous blog post; I love the paper from Carta Bella, the texture is simply fantastic and it's THICK - which is great for distressing.  I recently had some photos taken of the kids by the ever talented Sue Belanger - if you are in the Cornwall area take a look at her work.  Not only does she make the most amazing jewelry I have seen, she also does children's photography. 

For this layout I kept the paper simple by using some simple circles and again with the peek-a-boo flowers and zipper pull, I love this look!  A Prima vine from - oh gosh I have no idea how long ago I bought that at Auntie Em's - years I would say.  And a bunch more Prima trinkets and flowers, Thickers for the title, and just look at the results!  You can purchase this Carta Bella collection at Auntie Em's.  Keep an eye on this and Auntie Em's blog for more projects using this line coming up January 1st.

 

 

Keep those comments coming, I love to read what you have to say!

Thank you for looking,

Prima Sunkissed - and a BOY layout

OK, so I catch a lot of grief for not scrapping my son as much as I do my daughter ... I'll admit, I love pink, I love flowers, and I am attracted to the girly papers.  That being said, I had this amazing shot of my son hugging a sunflower... and yes, he did indeed 'hug' the sunflower!  I entered it into the local fair and it did not win a dang thing ... I guess it was just funny to me.  I have used the Sunkissed collection here - it was chalked full of sunflowers paired with blue ... perfect for this photo!  This layout is inspired by Jamie Daugherty - it's damn near scraplifted actually ... I love Jamie's work - she is a fantastic artist.  You can check out her blog HERE and you can check out the inspirational layout on this YouTube video HERE.

Well there you have it folks - a boy layout with tones of flowers and on very 'girly' paper .... wait until he is old enough to realize what Mama did LOL!!

Enjoy!

 

Berries and Berries of fun!

Another fantastic day at the Avonmore Berry Farm - Nigel was eating the strawberries by the fist full - stem and all!

 

For this layout I used the Coconut Lime Soup collection from Jillibean Soup - I loved every paper in this collection that I bought the whole thing!  That doesn't happen much anymore - I try to be selective and only take home 3 or 4 papers from any one line ... oh well, I foresee many many a layout in this - each paper is so different.  Check out my last blog post HERE for another layout using the same collection and see how different they are!

 

 

 

 

 

I did lots of fussy cutting on this one, and used Glossy Accents to highlight the strawberries.  I made my own flowers and added a little banner and bakers twine, both very trendy right now.