Frosted Designs - Sketch Along Tuesdays 1-25

I liked the Tuesday Sketch 1-25 from Frosted Designs. I normally like a lot of photos on a layout, but this photo was special. 

It is Julia, my Education Assistant from 1996 - 1999 in Mount Magnet, my first teaching post. (Plus an extra little cutie Josh) Julia was the most gorgeous lady who taught me a lot about being a good teacher. Sadly she passed away a few years after I left town. 

Julia's funeral was 800km away from my teaching post and my car broke down on the way to her funeral. I never felt that I have been able to say goodbye. We phoned each other every three months after I left town and I really miss her chats. So writing her a letter, and making this layout was my way of saying thanks for her time and the opportunity to have met her. 

 This font is Hello Kitty and I i-rocked the stamped flowers.

 

When I saw the rickrack element on the sketch, there was only one thing I could use, the necklace Julia gave me as a present which I wear the first and last day of every school term.  I can print this off as a 12 x 12 to showcase the necklace.

 

This was the sketch. 

I used the i-top brad maker to make the centre of the dot on the J and swirls embossing folder for the middle element underneath the photo. 

Thanks for the sketch Frosted Designs. It was nice to fuss over paper, ink and elements while reflecting on the beautiful person in the photo.

Hello Kitty! Flaunt it Friday #6 Challenge

For this week's challenge at Flaunt It Fridays they are flaunting the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge and the cut is the Hello Kitty with Airplane on Page 65 of the handbook. 

I don't own HKG, but I own HK Font, so I used the head and then used Design Studio and SCAL2 to design the rest.

 I'm so blessed in my life to have done some extraordinary things and met some amazing people so I wanted to scrap the day I flew a plane! I have 148 Life Goals and my gorgeous friend Karin read them and organised a surprise flight for me on her husband's plane, 'The Lady Karin'. I took the controls of the plane for about 20 minutes. It was amazing. 

All my clouds really do have silver linings. 

  

She is sooooo cute!

The urge to ink her up was very strong as I normally ink EVERYTHING! But I opted to keep her fresh and clean like her cartoon.

 

I inked the edges of the page and added some stickles for silver cloud linings and the airplane trail. Apart from that, it is just plain bazzills. I love how a cricut can turn plain bazzills into amazing creations.

For more inspiration head over to my girlfriend's blog Me n' Miss Pink Cricut to see how Carlene grunged up Hello Kitty! She didn't fight the urge to ink like I did! It looks fantastic.  

Thanks again to the ladies at Flaunt it Friday for giving me a great inspiration to complete another layout for my album!

 Thanks for looking! Chloe x