Getting Cricky Guest Design Spot!

I am so thrilled to be Guest Designing today for Simply Sunday Challenge Day over at Getting Cricky with K Andrew.
I have followed her blog a while now. There is always fun  challenges, lots of inspiration and many other crafty bloggers to meet there!  I am so excited to be a part of presenting this weeks challenge to you! 
 

Today's challenge is: Penned!

Using pens somehow in your project (gel pens, journaling pens, pens used in your diecut machines, etc). Remember it can be anything you desire as long as you use "pens" in your creation.
 
I love hand drawing borders so I just had to make a layout of my son with his best friend with a squiggle! 

 

I have always encouraged my children to look for and acknowledge good qualities about each person they meet.  It was so gorgeous when Dean gave me this quote which became the title for my layout. 

Speaking of pens, when Dean was telling me this, I had one old pen left in my car and I scrawled it down on an old receipt so I wouldn't forget his words. He said, "Mason is four times my friend. He is like having four friends but he's only one." Then he gave me the four reasons why he loved him. Oh so cute!

I used Kaisercraft Workbench paper from the Konstruct collection for the background and hand drew the border squiggle, the title into it and faux stitching in white around the entire edge. 

The four little Mason's were made using plain bazzills then all the penning adds texture to the wooly clothes. I love the way the white gel pen works for a knitted jumper. So cute! 


I used Boy Mates face stamps from Peachy Keen and I always add white gel pen to make the eyes come alive. (Apart from the bruised one of course - Ouch!)

 When you make something cute with any stamps, I fully recommend cutting out double shapes, and making a cute stamp storage from an old music Cd case... that way you can store them easy and also see exactly what the stamps look like stamped before you choose to use it. 

Sometimes polymer stamps are hard to visualise unless I see a stamped version. 

 These warm rugged up cozy boys are so cute I could cut them and pen them a million times! 

Thanks Getting Cricky with K Andrew for this wonderful opportunity to Guest Design and such a great layout to add to my album.

A little OZ giveaway to celebrate my Guest Design spot! If you love Kristal's Getting Cricky, then you are my kind of scrapper! Leave me a comment here and follow too, at the end of the challenge I'll give away one of these gorgeous Couture Creation embossing folders. They are only available in Australia so it is something new to add to your scrap stash!  

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! 

I hope you join the Pen challenge this week! Head back over to Getting Cricky with K Andrew, see the awesome Design Team work and link up your project by July 2nd! I can't wait to see what you create.