Enjoy The Little Things

Good morning!

I hope you are all having a great day.  If it's not blistering hot in your area I encourage you

to get outside and enjoy some fresh air.

Soul Scrappers is having a Quote Challenge (QC13) and I knew I wanted to play along.

http://soul-scrappers.ning.com/
The deadline for submissions is August 13.

One requirement, that's all.  Use these words somewhere on your layout:
"Enjoy the Little Things"

 I chose a sketch from Let's Scrap ((5-13-09) and rotated it clockwise.  This worked

much better with the photo I had.

Here's the direct link to this sketch:

http://letsscrap.ning.com/photo/ls107-1?context=album&albumId=2186252%3AAlbum%3A630432

 For this layout, my title is in a different spot than what the sketch showed, and 

I think this looks much better.

The gold bar is something I pulled out of my stash and placed it just below my

journaling block.  The embroidered butterfly is actually an iron-on and since I knew I 

wasn't going to iron it to anything, I only adhered the body of the butterfly, 

leaving the wings to "fly freely."

In the lower left, the punch is actually from the border punch.  I cut out the section

I wanted to use and squared it so it fit in the corner.

Two different ribbons were used along the bottom of my layout.  I tried using the border

punch in this section (as shown in the top portion of the layout), but it just didn't look right.

Even though it took me longer than anticipated to finish this layout, I'm pleased

with how it turned out for this challenge.

Supplies used:

Paper: Ki Memories, DCWV, White Textured Cardstock: Colorbok

Misc. Flowers

Iron-On Embroidered Butterfly

Gold Bar

Fiskars Border Punch

Ribbons

Cricut

Font: Cricut Stamped

Sharpie Marker (for journaling)

Rhinestone Gems: Forever in Time

Ink: Vivid! Raspberry

The infamous "gold bar" that I keep mentioning.  We all know it isn't real (what a bummer)!!  :)

Now you can also get a closer look at a piece of the border punch that I cut to

place in the left corner and the ribbons used along the bottom.

These butterflies are the cutest!  I purchased several colors ($1 each package of 4).  What a

bargain!

A close up of a portion of my title.  I played around with where to place this word

all over my layout and finally decided it looked best here.   

A couple flowers were layered but the tiny flowers were left as is

with gems added for the centers. 

This photo shows another portion of my flower grouping as well as

the border punch used along the top of the layout.

Have a wonderful day!

Polly  :)

Father & Daughter Layout

Hi there,

I sure hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday!

Beautiful weather, so I've been in my garden most of the day weeding.... at least until my 

back said, "Enough!"

I am so anxious to to eat my peas and beans!!

The rhubarb has been picked, ready to cut and freeze.

The spinach has been cut.  Now I have to rinse it out and cook it!  Yum!

And I've picked just a portion of my lettuce.  I obviously planted a little too much lettuce!

Here's my layout for today.  Hope you like it!

Scrapping some of my old photos.  This photo is from 2006.  Better late than

never, right?

It was Scott's birthday and Lynn wanted a picture with her dad.  This had to be

a "quick" photo because Scott hates to have his picture taken!  That's the reason why he isn't smiling.... 

and, the reason why Andrew is in the background being silly.  

It doesn't matter to me, I love this photo!

Supplies used:

Paper: Ki Memories, White Cardstock

Flowers

Brads

Flower Brad

Ribbons

Twine

Leaves: Hand Cut

Prima Flowers

Wooden Flower

Paint

Stencil holes on a roll 

Paper Tearing

Font: Cricut Stamped

Sharpie Marker (for the journaling)

 The leaves were hand cut from cardstock.  I layered the Prima flower, a bow made with twine,

lei flowers (from local Dollar Store), and a square brad.  I strung a piece of ribbon through the

holes in the flower brad and knotted it.  The top right flower is wooden and I layered

a flower on top of that and finished it off with a brad.

The stencil is from a random piece of paper that was in a roll in which a layer was sticky 

and peeled off to use on a layout or card.  The brand is unknown.  

I had kept the back piece, after peeling off the top part (in the event I might want

to use it for something), and decided it would add something really cool to this layout.  I like

how it turned out.  I also used it randomly on the top orange flower.

A close up of the painted dots and the flower groupings.

My favorite Cricut Font and more of my painted dots.

Have a wonderful day!

Polly  :)

Did You Know?

Good morning!

It's Friday...... Yipeeee!

I found out, through research, that birds love strawberries!  Did you know that?

I couldn't believe it!  I kept seeing all sorts of birds that I've never seen before hopping around

in my strawberry patch and didn't think anything of it.  I kept hearing, "Birds don't eat strawberries."  

Well, YES they do!  The evidence is in my patch with NO strawberries!  When I

saw a few berries, which would be ready soon, I went out to pick them a day or so later and they

were all on the ground with bite marks on them!

I bought this inflatable ball, probably the size of a beach ball, from the seed

company which I buy seeds from each year.  Thing is, I bought this years ago and

never used it.  Well, after remembering I had it, I rummaged around in the garage

and finally located it.  Hubby drove the pole in the middle of my berry patch and I

attached my "Scare Eyes."

It's specifically made to keep birds out of your garden too!  It's bright yellow with huge

black "eyes."  I had to stick the silver Mylar eyes in the centers of the black spots.

Hang it up about 12 inches from the plants and reap the rewards!!  :)

Well, guess what?  After attaching my "Scare Eyes" yesterday, there are NO birds in my

strawberry patch or anywhere else in my garden for that matter!  HA!

  Yes, it sure sticks out in my garden, and I can't

wait to hear what neighbors and people driving by are thinking and going to say about that!

Don't get me wrong, I love birds.  And I loved watching the swallows flying around catching

all the bugs.  They're just getting a bit too friendly.  You see, I'm not fond of the birds deciding to "play a game" of, "Let's fly in one garage door opening and through the other," leaving their "waste" all over the garage and all over the side of my car!  Really?  So, we try to leave only one garage door open at a time.

And, I'm just not fond of birds from all over the area and beyond eating my strawberries!

OK, enough of that.

Here's my one-page layout for today.

No idea where this sketch came from.  Sorry.  There will be many "older" layouts this same way.

But, the newer layouts will have reference of where the sketches came from.  Yay!  :)

This is my grandson, Dylan and I.  One of my favorites.  Like his grampie, he

doesn't like to have his picture taken.  But, guess what, he does it anyway with me, 

because he knows how much I love to take photos and have photos taken!! 

Supplies used:

Paper: DCWV, Ki Memories

Heart: Hand drawn and cut

Ribbon, Staples

Fiskars Border Punch

Font: Cricut "Stamped"

 After attaching several strips of various papers, I attached a ribbon, folded here and

there and stapled in place.  It added a "little something" to the layout.

The heart was drawn free-style and hand cut.  I used my Cricut

for the title letters.

Looking more closely, you can see a small sample of the family photos I have along one 

wall in our living room.  There are really two rows on one side of the window, which is in the middle of the wall, and another two rows continued on the other side.  Randomly, in the middle of all the

photos I added some of my cross stitch projects.  I had to work them in there somehow!  I put

a lot of work into those and I wanted to display those too.

Have a wonderful day!

Polly  :)