Look Closely

After a long hiatus on blogger, I'm back with LOTS of projects and photos! I've been "catching up" -- ha ha, like that's possible -- and I'm currently scrapping 2011 photos. However, after cleaning up my photo folders on my computer, I discovered hundreds of missing photos from the second half of 2010, so I guess I'm not as far along as I thought!Here's my most recent page. It's a single page, with one photo, which I usually try to avoid. I'm a double page kind of scrapper, and I love photos, but in this case I think the story was told best with just the one pic.Here's Teagan at 3, with a bee caught in the house. If you "look closely", you can actually see the bee in flight. Pretty cool!





Supplies:Paper: K&Company BW CelesteDie
cuts:
Title and file folders: Cricut, Graphically Speaking
Bee: Cricut, Art Nouveau
Embossing Folder: Tim Holtz, Honeycomb
Ink: Ingvild Bolme Chalk Fluid Edger, Old RoadThanks for visiting!

Flowers as Accents

My girls love spring babies, and this petting zoo is always at our community Summerfest. I love this paper, but can only take small doses of such a busy pattern. This LO is based on a PageMap, and works really well to incorporate that pattern but with balance.











Supplies:
Paper: DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies stack, solid cardstock
Dry embossing: Cuttlebug Swiss dots
Prima flowers
cut: Elegant Edges by Cricut
Rhinestones
ink for all edges

Hannah's Apples

Love this week's challenge, Organic, but usually when I'm eating it! A LO was a bit of a trick, so I made a page of my DD's tree:





Love the dimensionality of the embellishments!

Supplies:

Paper: DCWV Eco Stack
Martha Stewart stamps
Versamark and red embossing powder
Black Dew Drops
Letter stickers

My Sheri Crafts -- Bears!

My Sheri Crafts challenge this week is Teddy Bear themed. I found this old photo of me, and decided I'd make a cute little Teddy LO for my "All About Me" book:



November 1st I was able to download six free cricut cartridges for my Gypsy, and fortunately I only had one already. I was thrilled to gain the Christmas solutions cartridge, as I'd already wanted it but couldn't justify buying it since I already had Christmas Cheer and Winter Woodland. Here's my first cut from it, the teddy bear:



He's embossed with the A2 embossing folder, Textile Texture. I cut first, then used a cricut marker, then ran through my cuttlebug and chalked with Pebbles Chalk. Love that stuff, love the effect.



I'm forever a sucker for some of the MS punches, so this one got me last week. It's a new one, called Cherish. It's a PATP set, and it's beautiful! I'm sure it'll make it on to many of my LOs!



Supplies:
DVWC WB Gypsy Baby Stack
Martha Stewart Cherish Punch
Ribbon
Martha Stewart Antique Gold Glitter
Cuttlebug A2 embossing folder, Textile Texture
Pebbles Chalk