Go, John! Go, John!

Another Friday... another reason to celebrate... a weekend has just started!!!!  Yeih!

Hope you are as happy as I am!

Let me share this layout about my husband.  In 2009 he started eating healthier and exercising.  He lost about 45 pounds and he's ran in several 5K and 10K events.  He's been a real inspiration to others.  I admire him for that because it requires determination to continue doing it even after he reached his weight goals or considering how sacrificed it is to run almost everyday and eat healthy most of the time.   I am very proud, and I thank God because I have him by my side.  He gives me strength.

So I made a layout about this.  I shaped one of the photos as an oval and placed it with 3D foam dots, and framed with stamped dotted circles around it.  The stamp is from Unity.

I used a paper from Scenic Route I have to admit I have since I started with this hobby around 2007.  Do you have some papers you've had for a long time and have tried to use them but still haven't?  Well, that is the case of this paper.  It has several stars printed on it... very cool paper.  I hand-wrote my journaling in the big star.

I also used a Unity tag stamp with two hand cut triangles, to create a banner.  I love the final result.  It looks very hand made...  I love making my own embellishments when possible...

I also used washi tapes to frame the multiple photos in my layout.

So this is the whole page...

I'm linking this to current SEM Challenge which was the first inspiration for choosing these photos and honor my husband's perseverance.  And I'm also linking it to today's Unity FWF and current  Unity Challenge.

Have a very nice weekend.  Thanks for your comments.

Just Sharing...

Hey everybody...

Here I am just sharing... remember we learn by sharing...

This is a banner I made for a friend's nephew bday.  I used images she provided me from the bday materials and theme she was using, combined with color-like materials I had at home from different collections.

(sorry for the photo but I did not find any other place to hang the banner to photograph it... LOL!)

And then I made some labels with same colors and images so she can use for a candy bar.

She was so nice to provide me this photo of how everything was put together for the party.  Lovely, isn't it?

Hope you liked it and got inspired for more ideas and ... learning.

Take care.

Baby Shower

Remember the carrousel I made for a baby shower? Well, here are some other things made...

I embellished little plastic treasure boxes that come ready to assemble... Just used some cardstock to cut rectangle and circle shapes... also printed baby's name and cut some animals to go with the theme...

The rectangle cardstock with the name was placed inside the box, and the circles were mixed and matched with different colors and the animals cut outs, placed with dimension (3D dots) in the outside.
Another co-worker made some cupcakes, so we combined the two party favors and placed them in this tower to look fa-bu-lous!!!

Here's another view...

I also made a card for the baby... I wanted it to be bright and colorful, and that can be used to display his name...

So, I cut circles and animals (again...), and combined with tickles (from American Crafts) to spell his name... My message was placed in 3D so when the card is opened it serves as the "stop" edge to display the card.

I made sure to embellish back of card so it didn't look unfinished...

Here's a front view...

And in an angle...

For the baby shower I also did this banner to display baby's name and we placed the animals in the wall ...

My card with the present:

We placed all presents in a table behind the chairs designated for the parents to be...

Here's how the room looked... This was an activity for a loved co-worker so we used a conference room.... Not bad for an office, right?

Hope you liked this I've just shared... Thank you for you comments...

Take care !

Happy

Hope you are happy.

I'm happy. Today's a great day. Why? Just because...

Today I want to feel happy. I decide to be happy and make everybody else notice I am happy. Being happy can be a decision... not just a feeling, not just a consequence...

Go find a reason to be happy... and if not... just be happy because you say so.

This card was made for a Happy Birthday. I combined some patterned paper with embossed cardstock, and added some banner flags cut with my Cricut Expression.

I hope you like the stars with buttons I used as embelishments. I'm sorry I don't have the original packet of these beautiful plastic stars. They came in different colors and are self adhesive... but I don't know the brand.

And here is another card I made with some scrap paper from different projects. Making a background with several strips of patterned paper can result very attractive.

This butterfly stamp is from Inkadinkado.

After these photos were taken, I stamped a sentiment in the front that says: Happy Mother's Day.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

(patterned papers and cardstock: DCWV, My Mind's Eye, unknown; stamps: Inkadinkadoo; inks: Stazon, Color Box, Portafolia; Cuttlebug; Cricut Expressions; miscellaneous: buttons, eyelets, Crop-o-dile; adhesives: Scotch, Generations)

Almost there!!! Boo!

It's almost Halloween.... Candy, costumes, witches, more costumes, and a lot of fun. I will dress up tomorrow for work. We usually do it as a team in the department I work, and we share with others during the afternoon. Very cool. Then during the weekend, we'll attend several parties including one at my neighborhood. I'll be a nerd this year... LOL!!!

Anyways... to be on the mood of Halloween, let me share with you this layout with last year's photos.

Since the flag banners started to be “in” for scrapbooking, I wanted to make my own. I also wanted to show multiple pictures in one page since I have several pictures from this day with my neighbors but didn’t want to make too many pages or even an album. I also had some 8x8 Halloween papers I’d never used for layouts since most of my layouts are 12x12. So, I trimmed one of the 8x8 papers which had sort of a black frame as part of the pattern and I decided it was for the photo I wanted to emphasize.

I made the banner for the title, cutting triangles by eye and hand, since I wanted it to be imperfect. I used a 2” strip and cut about each 1.5” for the triangles. I embellished each triangle with different papers, stamps and letters and joined them with a ribbon. I also hand cut a ghost in white cardstock, inked the edges and glued plastic moving eyes.

I arranged all the photos in a way they look organized and break the pattern with this one photo I wanted to be the focus of attention and stand out with 3-d squares. I filled the spaces with patterned paper. I also stamped a background on the sections of cardstock not filled with photos or patterned paper. I framed the photos with strips of paper with shapes, placed banner as title and completed with chipboard letters. I also used stamps of smaller letters in the title I wanted to give less importance (“not so”).

Since this page has so many elements, I placed groups of 3 dots in 3 different places forming a visual triangle for balance.

I hope you enjoyed it. And tell me... are you going to dress up tomorrow? What are you going to be?

(Cadstock: American Crafts; Cardstock strips: Bazzill; Letters: American Crafts, Scenic Route, Color Bok; Ink: Color Box; Patterned paper: TAC; Stamps: Inkadinkado, Glitz Design; Adhesives: Scotch, Generations, Scrapbook Adhesives; Pen: Sakura; Miscellaneous: scissors, paper trimmer, ribbon, plastic moving eyes)