Frosted Designs challenge "Tree"

Over at Frosted Designs which I just joined the other day they are having a challenge in honor of Earth day coming up and it is to have a "Tree" in your project somewhere, so this is what I came up with which took me about 4 hours to do, but I think it turned out great.

I used many different items on this page. Papers used were by Paper Co. brown & green cardstock,EK Success and K&C company patterned papers,Fiskars template "woodgrain" for the tree trucks,chipboard letters by Cloud9 Designs "our Home"silk flowers, brads, brown distress ink, metal hearts, owl cutouts from The Paper Studio papers, embroidery floss, vellum sayings. I used the following cartridges : SYI for the trees and layered more leaves on top and put some green stickles on them. Lyrical Letters for the address 316, brackets, birds, and the butterfly. Just Because for the rabbit, birdhouse, squirrel and birds. I had alot of fun with this page...this is the most detailed layout I have done so far.

L.I.D. Challenge Sketch 2 week of4/2- 4/9

Here is my take on sketch 2 I used JB for the car truck and wagon cuts, DC for the bus, and JAS for the title and George to cut the circles. I attached 3 ribbons with polka dots. Added a journal tag to this sketch cause I needed to do some journaling and like the area here. In place of the buttons I used JB and cut out the 2 circles with a wagon and a truck on them. I used white cardstock for the title and sprayed a red color wash by Tim Holtz, then outlined the circles in blue marker to stand out more.This page is for my son Brian in the red and blue shirt, that is him in the pic on the bottom right corner. I made 2 more pages for my other 2 kids in the picture.

This layout is for Daughter Cheryl and her picture is in the lower right corner using all same carts but arranged them on this layout a little different.

And this layout is for son Eric in the green and did smaller 1/2 circles and sprayed the palaymates in red color wash and then added red glitter to it.

L.I.D. Challenge 4/2- 4/9

Here is my sketch 1 layout Took awhile to find so many pictures. I used Jas for title Playmates and JB for the car border. Added a tag for the article that I saved from the Woman's Day magazine back in Jan 1992 explaining the play mat I made with a vinyl tablecloth that I painted a village and roads on for the kids to play with all there car and trucks and little animal figurines. They had a blast with this for years.

FCCB #3 Challenge Bling it on.

Here is my Bling it On - Challenge for FCCB #3 this week. I used 2 papers by The Angel Company and a dark greyish black paper for decorative strip cut from GW sprayed with glimmer Mist in Pearl and attached rhinestones also. I cut the title from LL and covered with black diamond stickles. The boots were from JB and outlined in a silver gelly roll pen and a small rhinestone attached to the 3 different boots.I love the colors in this layout they match the background of the photos and the golden color in my hair.These pictures were taken in a glamour studio back in 1994 with a few friends of mine when I was going thru my divorce, they (friends) talked me into doing this. It was fun then, but even funnier now looking at these pictures- I have to laugh. I am also using Sketch 2 this week from the L.I.D. challenge.