This Little Light of Mine

This 12 x 12 layout was created for the Soul Scrappers Challenge : Children's Song : This Little Light Of Mine.  I used the Lush Paper Line from My Minds Eye.  The main background page I altered by printing the words of the song in a child's font over the designer paper.  The stickpin was made by stamping the cross from a Verve stamp set and embossing in baby blue powder.  I then cut it out and attached it to a pin .  The scroll background is actually a Fleur de Lis die from Spellbinders wrapped around the cross.  Lastly I took two pearls and stuck them together to form the pearl drop bottom.  The bloomers ribbon is from Webster's and the chipboard circle is from Close To My Heart: On target and covered with designer paper. 

Close Up of Cross Stick Pin

Let it Roll with Graphic 45

This is a layout I did for the Soul Scrappers Challenge : Use a train song / Let it Roll and make it reflect the style of Alternative.  This is what I came up with and was picked as one of their top three winners.  All the paper is from Graphic 45...I love that stuff, along with the flowers.  The metal adornments are from Tim Holtz.  I also used Fleur De Lis Die from Spellbinders for the boarder and of course my handy dandy foam tape to bump it all up. 

This picture is so precious to me it's my youngest son and hubbie in front of the Chattanooga Choo Choo in TN.  That's a great weekend trip if you want to take the kids.  The train cars have all been turned into hotel rooms and it's so much fun to sleep...one or two tops (LOL) night on a train car.  You can also check out places like Rock City, Ruby Falls and The Lost Sea (a little ways a way) from Chattanooga...

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

This is a layout I did for the Soul Scrappers Beatles Song Challenge.   I chose " I want to hold your hand" as my song and I thought the pictures of my youngest son Cole skating or shall I say falling down was perfect for the title.  I wanted the page to have a classic rock type feel to it and to achieve this I altered the colors of my photos and cut them so they look 70ish.  I also stamped the musical sheet paper using one of Close To My Heart's new background stamp set.  I can tell this is going to be one of my favorite new stamps for a while.  The color scheme was a stretch for me, not my norm...but I loved the end result. Here are some of the supplies I used for this 12 x 12 layout:

Close To My Heart Stamp Sets : Universal Backgrounds Stamp Set #D1477, On this day #D1468, and The Works Alphabet #D1195
My Minds Eye Paper
Mulberry Paper Flowers
Tim Holtz Buttons
Close To My Heart Ribbon
Teresa Collins Transparency Sheet
Rub Ons
Photoshop Elements 9