Thank FULL 4 You

Full hearts, full house and full tummies....LOL...I am so full of thanks for my family!!!! For this layout I used a background paper by K&Co and the rest are just simple card stock. I used a Fiskars corner punch to punch brown card stock, added the gold behind and fastened my corners with these fun brads.

You know when I got my new Sweethearts cart the first thing I went for was the flower...I cut the layers in three sizes 1, 1 1/2 and 2 inches....I layered 2 of each for the large flower and then 1 of each for the smaller version and then scatted various 1 and 1 1/2 inch ones throughout the vine cut from Paper Doll Dress Up... I added some mini buttons, bling and a few xtra leaves from A Child's Year, I also used this cart for the mat, hat and turkey.

Sweethearts was also used for the marquee, flourish, and Thank You. I used Lyrical Letters for the 4 and FULL. I added some pearl paint to the title and flourish.

A few buttons and stickers.....

Thanx for dropping by...you know how much I appreciate you....have a fabulous day~

Two Posts Today....SOUS and Practical Scrappers

This layout is of my sweet son Morgan...he was in NICU at 10 days for over a week...it was a very scary time and he is a true miracle as are all children...a true gift from God. This layout is from another beautiful Aymee Gandy sketch. I did some paper tearing and distressing. The little peek a boo cuts reveal hints of my strong faith and there is an angel watching over at the top because I know there was one watching over him...and me as he fought for his little life. The clock is set at 12/17 Morgan's bday...he will soon be 17....It also has the signs of time passing with the carriage and the clock in opposing corners.

I got truly festive with this Practical Scrappers challenge....this week it was to sew on a project and I am once again blessed to be there guest designer. I stitched everywhere I could think of...all the mats all the ribbon and lace and some faux stitching on the little heart. It features a pic of Mcauley last Christmas Eve as he prepared his plate for Santa...he is such an enabler for his mom...LOL....details posted below on both layouts....please scroll down......

This lovely flourish is from Home Decor as is the title...

I'm going to call these my tear drop flowers as I used the tear drop from Indie Art stretched in DS....placed the on a pop dot and added the pearl center...I love the delicate look of them and the little MS punch to accent.

I used very few colors so added some texture with embossing......continued below......

My Christmas tree is from Paper Doll Dress Up...I cut it in two sizes to add some pop...and of course pop dotted it together...some bling and ribbon to trim it.....and the toys under to finish it off of stickers from Jolee. I'm loving the sparkly branches I found at WM in the Christmas aisle.

Santa is a vintage image from the Graphics Fairy....I sewed it to three layers of green napkin to give it a quilted look....I love the delicate cut of Hope from my Home Decor......and how funny is Mcauley in his little hat....again from Jolee as are all the sticker embellies on this page.....

Ornaments cut from A Child's Year are embossed....painted with silver acrylic and trimmed with some MS cuts and a cricut heart from Plantin.....

Lovely red ribbon sewn onto black lace an lots of bling to boot......Hope you enjoyed these layouts.....Practical Scrappers, SOUS, and the Graphics Fairy can all be linked from my blog by buttons or blog links on my blog list....please visit each and see what fun is in store for you....come play along or download a free image.....thanx for stopping by!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Just wanted to take a moment during this busy time to wish each of you a happy and safe Thanksgiving....I am truly thankful for each of you.....image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy.

Acrylic Paint.....Practical Scrappers Challenge

Overwhelmed, honored, excited and touched...these are just some of the emotions I felt when Christine at Practical Scrappers asked if I would like to be a guest designer on their wonderful blog. This week the challenge was to use acrylic paints on a project....I really had fun and used my paints every where I could on this layout.

The picture is of my older sis just a few hours after she was born....It will be framed and I will give it to her as a Christmas gift. I used Plaid paints....Apple Barrel Bubble Gum and FolkArt Metallic Sequin Black. I distressed all the paper edges with the paints. Do you like the little vintage birth certificate? I used it as a background paper and added a little miniature version to the layout....I added my sister's info in my PhotoImpact program.

I love the way this flower turned out... It was created with the leaf in A Child's Year. I stretched the leaf cut in DS and cut 12 separate petals all the same size and then just put them together with pop dots. I added both paint colors...dry brushing the edges with the black and added stickles....The Prima in the center and the others on the page were all painted to match the layout. Stop by and see Kristine at Your Memories here for these wonderful Prima flowers...she is having a sale right now, all of her Bind It All products in stock are 40% off!!!!

These precious little leaves were cut with Lyrical Letters. The butterflies were made by cutting them from Indie Art from transparencies. I added the black outlines with permanent marker and then painted over the marker with pink. On the front I added some pearl paint and stickles....I will be using these lots more I am sure. The mat is a card cut from ACY with some pearl paint accents. The punch is MS....the doily punch.

Buttons and bling...you can never have to many of those......

The miniature birth certificate with a button, charm and little prima and the lace is from WM. I also added some black fiber tied around the flower.

Hope on over to Practical Scrappers to see all the fun projects created with paints....you wont be sorry...and visit Kristine for some wonderful scrappy deals....hope you liked it.....if you would be interested in a tutorial on the flower or butterflies let me know....I'm thinking of doing one on both.....Thanx again to Practical Scrappers for the honor of being a guest designer on their site....I truly am a practical scrapper so this was such a thrill for me.

Don't forget reveal day @ SOUS....scroll down for that post as well.....Thanx for stopping by and have a fabulous day!!!!

Keep Christmas In Your Heart*****SOUS*****

Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyday we kept the meaning of Christmas in our hearts? This is a picture of my two older boys many a Christmas ago....and it makes me feel like Christmas when I look at it...so full of love for them. This week at SOUS we used a sketch by Beggahuna...I love her work and I hope you will check out her blog.....click on her name and it will take you there...she is amazing~I used a Christmas paper I had in my stash for the background paper....added a dark green behind and layered paper lace between...I added some poinsettia buttons to each corner.

I made a smaller version of the ACY flower from my PS post and some more of the butterflies in a bronze metallic....I may do a tutorial on these if anyone is interested.

I downloaded the sheet music from Grapicsfairy...her link is on my left column and she has amazing vintage clip art and images free for the taking...check her out too!

My holly is cut from Stretch Your imagination and pop dotted...I added lots of chipboard embellies and used some adhesive tags to hand write my title.

Hop on over to SOUS to see what the other DT members came up with....and come play along!!!