Flaunt it Fridays #8 Give a Hoot Challenge!

Yesterday for Stephanie at Always Crafting I completed a challenge about an elephant... Today Stephanie is sponsoring the prize for Flaunt it Fridays which is the bear in a bin cut from Give a Hoot...eek! The elephant was tough enough... but a bear in a bin!!! Oh NO!!! But as always: the idea came to me and I love the page I created. 

 My car really is always a mess. The boys don't like car trips and food is a great distraction, as a result, there is juice boxes, food packaging, apple cores and lots of other rubbish to clean out when home. (When I can get to it!) Not to mention the tonnes of toys and other distractions in there!

It has been nicknamed the 'Wheelie Bin' by my parents and some of my girlfriends. So funny. The bears represent me and my two boys. I used stamp masking and Peachy Keen Stamps 5/8" to just stamp the eyes from the everyday faces collection. If you are interested in learning about stamp masking click here for my mini tutorial. I must get more Peachy Keens. They really make a character come alive.

 

I don't have Give a Hoot cartridge so I cut my own bin with Sure Cuts a Lot. I was having trouble layering the bears as I tried to cut them out in Bazzills. But then Jacob, my scrapping assistant, had an idea:

 Watercolours and my aqua pen, so I ended using the water coloured pencils on a lot of the page, including title, dumped rubbish and for the definition on the dump truck.

The dump truck comes from Everyday Paper Dolls and so does the road. The Wheelie bin font is from Hannah Montana, the Daddy Girl font. 

Thanks again for a great challenge Flaunt it Fridays. I love your challenges! 

See you tomorrow for Cheap Chirpin' Tuesday!

Flaunt it Friday! #7 Mini Monsters Skull

Hi Everyone! I'm back for my third Flaunt it Friday challenge! It's my goal to enter these all year. The challenges are fun and this week's is no exception: The skull from Mini Monsters.

I was so happy when I saw this. Years ago (pre-cricut) I made a lame scrapbook page using these photos and wanted to chuck it out and start again... so I did! 

 

My layout is about all the cool clothes my son used to wear. Rather than keep a tonne of cute clothes for memories, I scrapped them. 

I even used my scanner to scan in and print out pics of his actual Kiss shirt and Beanie.  

I loved using my Making Memories coloured staples to enhance the reds on the page.

The font is Tear Drop... which I always thought would be too girly, but works excellently in this layout.

The bold font is Jubilee (runt function)

My little peek-a-boo skull and the large one were cut from Indie Art

  

The splat skull is from Indie Art too. 

My boys always wore funny t-shirts so I wrote out afew to remind us. 

  

A bit of distressing, tearing and then inking with Barn Door Distress inks, a few funky brads... and I'm done. Another awesome page for Drew's album.

Thanks for another great challenge Flaunt it Fridays... 

I'm looking forward to Friday already!

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

Flaunt it Friday #5 Challenge

The challenge this week over at Flaunt It Fridays is to use the "martini" cut from the "From My Kitchen" Cricut cart. 

 Easy one for me... This has been a saying of mine for years.  You can shake me, but you'll never stir me!

I loved making this layout. I often scrap the boys and forget about my thin album.  I used From My Kitchen Cricut Cartridge for the Martini glass and designed my own shape insert to make it look like liquid inside. 

The title frame comes from the cartridge Storybook. Love it! I used Webster and Artise fonts on Sure Cuts a Lot for the titles and the little circle shape is cut from Storybook using the Clover function (but I cut the clover off).


I use Distress inks on nearly every layout. This layout uses  Peeled Paint and Spun Sugar. Added Kindy Glitz to the liquid and also my new Pentel outline pens to give movement to the word Shaken and depth on the glass. 

Thanks to the ladies at Flaunt it Fridays for a great opportunity to make a girly page for myself!

While you are here you should check out Carlene's blog, she has completed this challenge using Sex and the City Premiere photos! Perfect martini setting! Plantin Schoolbook has so many hidden talents!