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Friday, June 4, 2010

Pecking Order

Hi everyone, I'm back!!!! I was whisked away for a little birthday trip last week and have missed being involved in the SOUS reveals for the past 2 weeks! It was wonderful to get back to scrapping and set aside all the other stuff life brings my way!
This week we have a wonderful sketch from pagemaps and I used the double photo design to scrap some pix of myself and my siblings from my birthday last year. My family does not love to have pix taken but I will keep taking them and scrapping them even against their will....LOL! We seldom have an opportunity to get everyone in a photo so I am happy to have these. I used K&Co papers and my new Songbird cartridge for this page.
All of the birds and birdcages along with the title are all from the circut cart Songbird.
I distressed my papers and inked the edges, a bit of lace between the pix and lots of adhesive pearl accents.
Together is cut from Graphically Speaking.....The numbers that show our sibling 'pecking order' are from a clock making kit. I used the clock mechanism for another project and had thrown the adhesive numbers into my scrap supplies...finally found a great use for them!
The birdcages on the Songbird cart were the whole motivation for adding it to my collection, I just love them!
Being the frugal scrapper that I am I knew I could create the tickets that are so popular on layouts....so I did just that~ I purchased a roll of plain white tickets @ Constructive Play Things for a song. I distressed them with some ink and added the words using the font from Storybook. I also used my Crop A Dile Big Bite to add the grommets to the flowers made with the cornflower punch from MS. The blue flowers have several layers of the same flower bound together.
My birds are cut with the Songbird cart and I added wings from Indie Art. The greenery is from Stretch Your Imagination.
I have missed all of you so much and cannot wait to pay you all a bloggy visit to see what you've been up to!!!!
So now hop on over to SOUS and check out the teams designs...they are all awesome....and we have a winner to the blog candy give away as well.....congrats Lisa.....hope you enjoy the goodies!!!!

18 comments:

  1. So good to see you back Sandy, hope you enjoyed your getaway! This is such a lovely layout, the colours are gorgeous and the birdcages are too cute. I love how you have given all of you a pecking order number, great idea.

    hugs
    Kaye x

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  2. Sandy,
    I have missed seeing your stunning creations! I certainly hope that you enjoyed your birthday, Happy Bleated!
    I simply adore this layout. Love that title, he bird cages, the tickets and flowers. All the details are just gorgeous, you have inspired me to do a layout for my siblings.
    blessings,
    kim xXx

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  3. Boy have I missed you Sandy!! The songbird cart is new to me too so I was happy to see you use it. I love the font but hadn't noticed how adorable the bird cages were. You sure showed me! Hope your birthday was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. Great to have you back Sandy, we've really missed you! Hope you had a happy birthday! What a great layout! Such detail, as always. Love the little bird cages.

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  5. Hi Sandy! I have missed you! Loving this LO - your details, of course, are stunning!!!!!!!

    Deanne :)

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  6. Welcome back Sandy. Gorgeous page!!!! Love how you use the papers, beautiful work. Happy Friday!

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  7. so fab to have you back with us this week..we definitely have missed you and your wonderful eye for detail..
    Hope you had a great get-a-way last weekend and took lots of photos.. :D
    This is a fantastic take on the sketch, love the cages and the little birdies.. you all look so much a like..LOL
    beautiful job Sandy..
    hugs
    Nanné

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  8. Sandy we have missed your BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS! I just love this and what a great idea the tickets are! Love how you added little winges to the birds. Oh Happy Belated Birthday! Great to have you back!

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  9. A whole birthday week, how fun. Love your beautiful layout...

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  10. I'm sooooooooooooo glad to have you back! Missed you girlie! I'm loving this red and turquoise color scheme big time. Fantastic layout idea and title! I just got Songbird myself and used it for the first time this week .. glad to see some more birdcage choices! Your cornflower flowers are awesome! Don't have that punch but it makes the cutest flowers .. so perfect for you Kansas siblings! Okay, gotta go blog hop .. cya!

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  11. Look at how much you've been missed!!!!
    I really think this is wonderful and it certainly was fun being able to see your family!!! Adults can be so silly about taking photos!!! LOL!!!!

    I love what you did with this and reading your explanation of everything and why you used what you did...wonderful!!!

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  12. Welcome back!! I missed you. Love this LO. I love all the bird cages on all the new carts, but didn't know what to do w/ them. Thanks for the great idea.
    Hope you had a great time being kidnapped for your birthday!

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  13. Hi Sandy!! I hope you enjoyed your break, but so glad to see you back!!! Your layout is beautiful!! Love those birdcages.. I may have to get that cart. Great family photos, and yes, you definitely have to keep taking 'em and scrapping 'em even against their will. We are all getting older and we have to hang on to every precious moment/memory while we can!!! And this is a very precious moment!! Beautiful job Sandy!! Hugs!!

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  14. Welcome back and again I wish you a happy birthday! Hope you had a great time. Such a wonderful layout. How lucky of you to have a photo with your siblings! Love the colors and all the bird cages and cute little birdies. I have that cart and have only used it once.

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  15. Welcome back and Happy belated birthday to you! I've missed you and your comments...I love the title of this one and what a great memory to capture...it is always hard to get everyone together in my family too...so great pic. TFS

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  16. Hi Sandy! This is beautiful I love the photo and all the details. I went away to celebrate my Dad's 80 th birthday. Have a wonderful day.

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  17. Welcome back Sandy!! I am so glad to hear that you had been kidnapped!! You deserve some special time to focus on just you!! But... I am glad you are back!! I love this LO!! The bird cages are so gorgeous and perfect for this LO!! I love that you were able to get the whole family together for a photo.. and then the way you scrapped it was perfect!! I love the pecking order theme!! And yes... the numbers are perfect!! This is another fabulous LO!!!
    Barb :)

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  18. Another precious page Sandy!!! love these birds cages!! beautifuls details and soft colors!! love it!!

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