This layout is based on a sketch from Pencillines. These photos are from Halloween 2009. Taten is wearing his football uniform, Alex is Darth Vader, Matthew is Buzz Lightyear and Madison is Sleeping Beauty (she was actually Sleeping Beauty 3 years in a row! She loved this costume and didn’t want to be anything else!)
Materials:
My Mind’s Eye The Spider’s Web papers American Crafts black cardstock
Adhesives:
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro PermaTac Scotch Quick Dry Liquid American Crafts This to That foam dots
Tools:
Fiskars border/edge punch Martha Stewart border/edge punch
The DT challenge sketch is open until 2/28/2011. If you’d like to take a look at the sketch or create your own entry, CLICK HERE.
This is Alex from Christmas 2006. He was so excited that he was finally old enough for a Bionicles figure. I was surprised that he was able to put it together by himself without any help from me! I created this layout based on a sketch for a challenge on Sketchy Thursdays. All the embellishments except the ribbon trim were fussy cut from printed cardstock and I used faux stitching on the outer border.
Materials:
Kraft paper (I do not remember the brand) American Crafts white cardstock Teresa Collins Noel cardstock May Arts black pleated trim Inkssentials white opaque pen
Adhesives:
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro Perma Tac American Crafts This to That foam dots
If you’d like to take a look at the sketch I used for this layout or if you’d like to enter a Sketchy Thursdays challenge too, CLICK HERE.
Well before Matthew was born, a friend of mine had given Taten, Alex and Madison each a fleece blanket. Once Matthew got too big for his baby blanket, he really wanted a blanket like theirs. Alex (a real softy for Matthew) immediately gave him his blanket. When another friend of mine heard about this, she sent him a homemade, handtied fleece blanket for Christmas. It’s backed in red, which is Alex’s favorite color, and has a space theme…one of Alex’s many obsessions. 😀
Materials: Bazzill cardstock background (it was supposed to be black, but I accidentally started adhering the cutout pieces to the wrong paper, so I just went with it. :-P), Webster’s Pages Waiting for Santa Papers, tinsel trim, holiday trim, and diecut stickers, stickles, American Crafts plastic snowflake.
Created using this week’s sketch on the Sketchy Thursdays site. If you’d like to view the sketch or participate in one of their challenges, CLICK HERE.
Inspired by the song Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting.
This one is for Alex’s album, but has one of the same photos as “Fall Attitude” in Madison’s album.
The morning started w/me trying to get Alex to change his shirt before school, but he really wanted to wear this shirt. It was Madison’s first day of Kindergarten at the “big kid” school and she was soooo excited…until we got there. Then she was just terrified. I had Alex, Madison, Matthew and Christian who was just 2 months old with me and I was trying to figure out how to escort her in w/all of them when Alex asked me if he could please take her. I was so relieved! He was our hero that day. Later I was thinking how appropriate that shirt was after all. 🙂
That same day, he had show and tell at school and he took his stuffed animal (Yoshi) to school, so I got a couple of pics of him at the bus stop.
This layout is for a challenge at Back Porch Memories to use a song title. The song Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting immediately came to mind not just because of his shirt, but also because the lyrics say “it’s not easy to be me” and that he’s only a man, etc. Alex is a fantastic older brother so it’s easy to forget that he’s only 9 and still vulnerable himself. It’s also based on a sketch provided by sketchabilities for a challenge on Sketches in Thyme.
I used Webster’s Page Wonderfall on this lo, along with some of their trim and sparklers. Prima pearls, Tattered Angels Shimmer mist, Maya Road chipboard butterfly.
To check out the sketch or to enter the challenge, CLICK HERE.
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