Man Mall

My husband has been going to as many auctions he could find since I've known him. I never understood why he would want to buy the junk they sell at those things. He asked me if I would go with him last night, and since the holidays ate a lot of my time, I decided to suck it up and go with him. When we got there the floors were dirt, the merchandise dusty or rusty, and the room was smokey. As I watched the men there I began to get it. It is like the mall. Everyone was looking at what the other got, talking about the deals they got and shooting the breeze. There was even a place to get soda's and popcorn. I realized auctions are the man's mall.

I made this whole layout with white cardstock, cricut craft room and my Cricut Imagine using the Vintage papers, Paper Trimmings, Sophisticated and Ribbons and Rosettes carts.  The mats, title and journal oval were from Cricut Craft Rooms Basics. The ribbon flowers were from 3D Bows.

It's Your Day

it is hard to believe that our youngest grandson turned one already.  I wanted this layout to be about our perspetive of his birthday, without the hats and balloons.

I first painted the page with Gesso. Which, by the way, makes the paper very strong I learned.  I then cut 1 flower background patterns using the Home Accents cartridge by Cricut. I used the larger first spraying it with Key Lime Green Glimmer Mist.  Then Carribean Blue after removing the stencil.  I dried it and did the process again for the colors spread where you could not see the pattern. As a last ditch effort I took the stencil and dabbed Jenni Bowlin's green paint over the stencil and that gave me the definition I was looking for. Since I had used so much glimmer mist on the stencil, I decided to use it as an accent to back the doily and Prima flowers.  The title and tags were cut using the George cartridge by Cricut.  The was made using Teresa Collin's Baby Boutique cartridge by Cricut, then sprayed with the Key Lime Glimmer Mist to make it pop.  I painted the title in Turquoise Glimmer Chalk.  The page is shimmery in person, which does not show us so well on the camera. It really turned out nice.