I love this Man!

Happy Monday!  I hope this week flies by.  My sweet hubby and I will be in Tennessee for the 4th of July week.  I can't wait.  We have nothing on the schedule just to sit back and relax.  We love going to my mothers because we can take our dog Skip and she relaxes and does not get in a hurry for anyone.  ha ha...

This past week end I got the itch to scrapbook.  I have been wanting to scrap for a while now.  Just not enough time in the day.  So this past saturday night, very late I might add.  (It was almost midnight) was the day (or night) for me to scratch that itch.   

After perusing my pictures I decided on this one.  It is a snapshot of my husband from Christmas 2009.  I didn't want to use Holiday supplies as I wanted to focus on him and him alone. 

The supplies I used are Stella Rose by My Minds Eye and Prima flowers and bling.  The Heart is hand drawn by folding the paper in 1/2 and drawing the 1/2 heart.  (you know,  the way you learned in grade school.lol) I used the We r Memory Keepers Sew Easy to go around the heart.  I then did a back stitch with white DMC thread and embroidery needle.  I distressed all the edges with Heidi Swapp Edge distresser.  The letters are from American Crafts Thickers.  I hand punched the little red heart out with a Stampin Up punch.  I used my printer to print up the quote at the bottom of the page and I cut out each word and ink distressed the white cardstock with Scattered Straw distress ink to give it a more softer look.  The border punch that I used on one of the stripes is from Fiskars.

  
Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!  and I hope to be back soon with more creations.  :) 

 

Timeless Memories

Happy Friday!  This week went by so slow.  I sort of took the week off from "creating".  Until tonight.  I have some stuff on my to do list for Scrap-A-Doodle Doo.  Not finished but I did make a dent in 1 project.  :)  But that's not why I am posting today. 

Today I want to share with you a layout I did.  The idea from this layout was "borrowed" from Irene Tan.  Let me just say.  Another awesome lady. I'ma just'a sayin.  I did change it up a bit but ended up using the same papers as she had.  Holy Macro.  I love it.  I really enjoyed the hours I spent in making this layout at the Crop this past Saturday with some dear friends.  Who I really hope invite me again to join in their sacred group.  :)  The reason it took me hours is because I kept Talking, shopping, shopping some more, eating, and eating some more.  But any way, you get the gist of why it took me so long.  :)  he he he..  

Oh I got side tracked.  Here is the layout.

 
 I used a Creative Memories large circle cutter to cut the page in a circle.  I may have to do more circle layouts as I like the way they look.  The Base of the page began as a 12 x 12 sheet of coordination's paper that you sand and the core shows through on the embossed parts of the page.  In this page it was the clocks.  The pattern paper is by TCP.  And the word ante the clock happened to be on the same sheet.  I just cut them out.  The Pattern behind my picture is from October Afternoon in their Thrift Shop collection.  I happened to have a Skeleton Key I got from the Michael's Dollar spot a while back and decided to use it on this page.  It is a little chunky for a scrapbook page, but hey, I like chunky pages.  :)  All the stitching is done by hand.  The flowers are from Prima.  I had some ink still on my sponge when I inked up the edges of the October Afternoon paper so I just added a little color to the flowers to help them blend a little better.  On top of the "clock" cut out I attached a Tim Holtz clock face to it to add a little more weight to the page as well as to blend in with the key. 

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Thanks so much for looking at my blog today!  

Anna