Snow days

I made another Echo Park layout! This time it is for The Last April Sketch hosted by Sweet Peach Crop Shop! I really liked Liz Chidester's sketch this time!  I was tickled to make my own felt/denim/button/twine embellies for this!!!  I also added liquid glass to the red/letter part of the banner. As usual, my layout looks better in person!!! But, I hope you enjoy it! I thought it turned out pretty well... :-)

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Hope you have a great weekend!!!

Memphis

I made this for Sketch Inspiration's weekly challenge #217!  The shimmery, gray background paper has been sanded and is DCWV.  The other paper came from a tablet--I believe it is Autumn Leaves.  The jeweled guitar is Prima!  

Mitch's First Job - Gerbes

I created this layout of Mitch's first job at the local grocery store--Gerbes using this fun  #116 sketch from Liz Chidester over at The Scrappiest!  I used a couple of different collections from Cosmo Cricket!  The gold coins came from a gimmick at a local car dealership to get people in to look at their cars.  I guess my photograph is a little wonky, but I think you get the idea. It is straight in real life!

Kaleidoscope?!!!!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/73119276/oil-cell-kaleidoscope-spectraply

Look what my husband is up to now??? He's also in the process of making some very cool teleidoscopes!  I love these, because anything you look at becomes a very cool image!!!!!! I hope he finishes one soon!!!! I want one myself!!!!

Ginny's 60th Birthday with Steve

I created this layout showing a table and bowl that Steve made for his mom for her 60th birthday last year!  I used the lovely #117 sketch from Liz Chidester over at The Scrappiest!  The "You are Special" tag came from a box of chipboard I had.

San Francisco - 2009

I used Crate Paper's Pink Plum to create this for Simon Says Stamp Blog's anything goes challenge using a wonderful sketch by Liz Chidester for Sweet Peach Crop Shop's Anniversary Sketch Challenge #3.  I really love how this turned out!

My Sweet Little, Silly Boy!

I was inspired by Mindy Pitcher's layout over at CK and am entering it into Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Buttons! challenge.  If you look closely at all of the Echo Park squares, you will see that I added buttons on every one!  I think you can tell that I used Echo Park's Little Boy collection! I also did a little recycling for this layout!  The blue circle under the polka-dot button on the right bottom square is from a pair of my husband's jeans!!  In fact, look at all these polka dots!  This definitely qualifies for The Paper Variety's challenge this week!   You can pull on the little red tab above the photo mat to see some hidden journaling about the photo!

By the way, this was in 1998 (which is noted in the journaling that you can't see)! My little boy is now 17...