School Layouts

"Classy and Fabulous" Jan. 2008
This was my daughter's first day of Pre-Kindergarten and she was so excited.  She wanted to wear her Christmas dress for the first day, so I let her!  I used cream cardstock for the background with a dusty rose for the photo mats.  I used the great CoCo Chanel title "Classy and Fabulous" ( Just Dreamy 2 Dazzling Girls Only) at an angle to show a little playfulness!  I used a large pink/red flower, and two small, from the same manufacturer but different line (Delightful So Sweet Die Cut and accessory card.)  The accessory card also had the tag, "Sweet" and journaling block!  I added a bit of pink ribbon and voila!  Complete!

"Science Achievement Certificate"  March 2008
Austin and his friend completed the science fair together.  I used two tan pieces of cardstock and matted the photos in a dusty blue.  On the left hand piece of cardstock I adhered the certificate and then covered poorly done graphics with my own photos.  :)  On the right, I featured a picture of Austin with the science project and then placed two other photos along the bottom.  The stickers all came from the Karen Foster Science sticker set.  This is the second layout I have gotten out of the same set of stickers!

"Cookies"  March 2008
The background paper is a light blue with red and blue dots.  I matted the photos in white cardstock.  (Can you tell I love to put things at an angle?)  I found these great "Brad Buddies" at the CK Scrapbook Convention last Feb. and loved them!  (Hot Off the Press!)  The apron, cookie jar and measuring spoons are all die cut metal with brad accents.  The hearts on the apron are all little brads that came with it!  I cut a circle to feature the measuring spoons so they wouldn't get lost on the patterned paper and then used white cardstock to make a journaling block.  I used the cricut to cut the title and circle!  (George cartridge!) 

Cooking Party Invitation

My daughter turns 7 yeas old in a few weeks and she really wants a cooking party!  I borrowed a friend's From My Kitchen cartridge and cut out the oven.  (Isn't it cute?)  I cut out the rounded corner square card from Celebrations.  I first cut the square card on white card stock at 8.5 inches.  I then cut the shadow of the oven and the shadow of the oven door in evergreen green cardstock.  I bought them in a package of 5 pieces of cardstock at a paper store without any manufacturer's info. I then cut the layer of the door and the extra accents in a muted red.  My favorite piece of all is the actual oven done in this really cool paisley paper.  It's actually wrapping paper! :)  (No manufacturer again!)  I cut all the oven pieces at 4 inches.  When I assembled this all together, I turned the card so that the seam is on the bottom and it opens from the top, just like an oven door!

Now, it looks cute, but I had to add some sparkles!  I used 5mm silver Nailheads (Metal Stickers from Mark Richards) for the knobs and silver Stickles for the oven door handle.  The Nailheads were a pain!  I had to trim around each of them with tiny scissors because the adhesive was laid down in a strip and then the nailheads were stuck on.  So when you pulled off a nailhead, off came extra adhesive that showed around the nailhead!  YUCK!  (This is something that should be addressed in manufacturing, IMO!)

Inside I adhered a little piece of white paper that says "Let's Cook Something Up For Maddie's 7th Birthday!"  I picked a red font color that matched the red accent in the oven.  It looks really cute.   Hope you like it!  If you have any questions, be sure to ask!