Banner Blitz

I made this banner for my grandson Elvis.  He loves the beach so used that as the theme.  The banner pieces and alphabet are from Cricut Country Life cartridge.  The outside/inside banners are approx 8.5x11 and 6.5x9.  I had to unlock the ratio to make them wide enough.  The letters are approx 5.75".

Hope you enjoy!

Vintage Baby

Well, I'm on a vintage kick...I've been eye-balling the Ranger Ink and Tim Holtz products and finally bought some.  I got Tim Holtz's new book "A Compendium of Curiosities" and it has a bunch of great techniques in it that I used as inspiration.  This layout uses already distressed paper from K&G Company, and cocoa background cardstock.  I cut a Sizzix flourish in liliac mist, edged it in spring iris, and smeared some diamond stickles around.  The CTMH white daisy flowers are sprayed with Tsukinek walnut ink in eucalyptus and terra cotta then embellished with diamond stickles, chocolate brads and miscellaneous doo-dads.  The lace is from Walmart and inked up with spring iris. The colonial white edge anchor is distressed with expresso acrylic paint dauber from Ranger Ink.

The photo was edited in Photoshot Elements.  The picture is in black & white with just the pink ribbon in color.  I've always wanted to try this and finally found a photo it worked with.

And the most important feature of this layout is my 3 month old granddaughter!

Hope you enjoy!

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Happy Holidays!  I had a lot of fun making this card.  A pre-printed card base from CTMH was used that I bought a million years ago.  The birds were cut from the Winter Frolic cricut cartridge using Garden Green and a generic blue very similar to Heavenly Blue.  I used gold stickles for the eyes and feathers.  Inside the card is stamped "Merry Christmas" in Twilight ink and is from CTMH's No Peeking stamp set.

Hope you enjoy!

Thankful, Part 3

This layout goes with the Thankful layout from 11/14/10.  It follows a template challenge from Frosted Designs. I was unable to submit it in time for the deadline but I've finally found the time to get it scanned and posted (I had to take a day of work to do it!).  The layout uses CTMH's Olivia paper pack and stickers.  Oh, and it's not your eyes, the pictures are blurry...

Hope you enjoy!