Travis Turns 3 LO (almost a year late)

Hello again, today I got another page done! Yippee!! I'm trying to knock as many of these out of the way as I can before baby #2 gets here. I'm sure I'll have my hands full with two boys in the house. His arrival date is set for Sept 10th in case any of you were wondering. Hopefully he'll greet us sooner. He's a big boy already. My sweet little boy below is my first son. He'll be 4 on his birthday this October, so I figured I should probably hurry up and scrap these photos (next I need to do the bday party pics). I cut both of the flourishes with my cricut. The brown one is one that I created for a design found on an old sketch of Rowena's. You can download it at this old post. The doodle flourish (the green one) was a freebie from someplace, but I can't remember at the moment. *sorry*

The cute little word art is a digital stamp from Create with TLC.

I used this sketch from Scrap & Stamp.

Scrap & Stamp Saturday-- All About Me!

Hello everyone! It's Saturday! So it's time for another layout for the Scrap and Stamp challenge. This week's challenge is going to be "All About You". I think this challenge is a great one, because we oftentimes neglect scrapping pictures of ourselves so that we can finish layouts of others. It was a challenge to find photos of myself to scrap, because I'm always the one taking the photos. However I have plenty of pics of myself when I was pregnant. This was one time when I was asking people to take my picture because I didn't want to forget any moment of it. You see.... I was one of those pregnant chicks who was blissfully happy. No morning sickness! I can't wait to get pregnant again. It was one of the most wonderful times in my life. Even though I look like a whale in these pictures. haha.

If you haven't participated in Scrap and Stamp challenges yet, now is the time to do so! We have prizes every week and so far we've only had an average of 8 or 10 participants. So if you join in the fun, you've got a good chance of winning!

I wanna be a Rock Star

Here is a LO I did for 52 Sketches, 52 Weeks. I decided to scrap the pictures of my son at christmas last year. He recieved a drum set. Yay! Thanks Uncle Wes! (insert sarcasm here).

This layout sort of evolved slowly as I worked on it. I started by searching my stash of paper and realized that I didn't have anything appropriate for what I wanted to create. So I set out on google to find something printable and I found this awesome Rocker background. I printed it out and used it as the backdrop for the pics. Then I decided to create my own title. So I used some basic font and a few flourishes, welded them together and wha-lah! You can snag your freebie down blow. I also created the scalloped border you see at the right of the layout. You can download it here. Rock Star Title SVG

I wanted the title to look like a chandellier, so I used a bunch of gems to create this effect.

Font: Rage Italic Journal Frame $1.00

Guitar Stamp $1.00

This is a first for me. I created my own "bling flourish" by using glossy black dimensional paint. I printed out the image on white paper, then I used some clear plastic (left over from some sticker packaging) to create this. You can see the tutorial here. In this photo you can see the plastic, but when I put it in a scrapbook protective cover, you won't be able to tell! BTW, I did this one yesterday and let it dry overnight. So if you just want to play around with the idea, you could make a few and then put them aside for later. That way when you go to create a LO, they are already dry!

Ok...and don't forget to check out Lindsay's blog for her Halloween digi stamp freebie and to see what the other DT members have created! You won't be disappointed!

Freebie Thursday!
In addition to the files that I've shared above, I wanted to give you this stiletto shoe svg. Remember that cute little high heel shoe that I created a card for the other day? Well here it is...yours to download and use! If you missed the post about the shoe card, click here to see it. High Heel Shoe SVG Freebie