oldie But Goodie

Happy Birthday to ME! Yes, I'm now 33! I can't believe it! I went shopping for a few much needed gifts (for myself).....FUNKY jewlery and clothes! I'm so excited to wear them this week! Now I just have to think of somewhere to go with the boys to show off my purchases! Does McDonald's and Walmart count?

I share my birthday with Brandon's daughter, Mary Cameron! So, I decided to do an oldie but goodie that I did of Mary Cameron! Happy Birthday! She is now 8 years old and sooooo excited to be baptized!



Product I used:
Piggy Tales Gretel Collection
White cardstock for quote
Prima pink flower
(3) brown buttons, (1) pink button, (1) cream button
(2) gems
(2) pink brads
Fancy Pants rub-ons
Chatterbox flower template
Quote: Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven
photo tab die cut
Technique Tuesday circle frame stamp

Supplies Needed:
paper trimmer, adhesive, corner rounder, 1 1/2" circle punch, 1" circle punch, glue dots (for buttons and gems), brown pen, black pen

Instructions:
Cut 6" x 12" #79 Great Forest (large flower). Round corners and adhere 1/2" from top edge of #80 Candy Cottage (solid pink) 12" x 12" Background.
Cut a 1" x 4" #79 Great Forest (solid tan) and round bottom right corner.
Die cut photo tab onto #81 Chocolate Shingles (stripe) and adhere to 1" x 4" solid tan.
Adhere 1" x 4" solid tan to bottom right corner of 6"x 12" large flower piece.
Adhere button to pink flower.
Adhere flower to stripe photo tab.
Cut 5" x 7" #84 Miss Gretel (solid green) for photo mat.
Round corners of photo mat.
Adhere photo to photo mat.
Doodle around edges of photo mat with brown pen.
Adhere photo mat to Background page.
Using circle punches punch out circles from Gretel Cardstock Paper.
Position where you want the circles on the Background.
Using flower template trace flowers to the Background.
Adhere circles over the traced flowers.
Embellish the circles with buttons, brads and gems.
I stamped the circle frames to the center of the polka dot circles.
Fancy Pants rub-ons "Eternal Beauty" and flowers to photo mat.
Print quote onto white cardstock. I matched the font color to the color of the photo mat.

Inspiration Contest Winner

Ok, no winner yet :( don't think I gave everyone enough time for this contest, so I'm giving everyone 1 more week..due Friday September 3rd. I look forward to seeing what you create. See post on 8/20 for contest details.

Inspiration Art:




Here's what I came up with for this contest. I loved the way the Inspiration art reflects BIG words and a vintage look. So, I stamped the word "Child" over the photo (leaving the "C" off the page a little). I then created room for journaling by drawing lines with a ruler and .03 brown pen. I cut out the large and small circles from the pattern paper and added a staple in the center. The circles create a FUN feel to the page which go along with the photo and title.

Product Used:
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Cardstock Paper
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Rubons
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Cardstock Letter Stickers
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
Technique Tuesday Harbor Side Lower Case Letters Extra Large
Brown Ink Pad
Stayz-on Green Ink Pad

Quote

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
by Charles Dickens

After being locked out the house for an hour and 1/2 with a 1 1/2 year old and 3 1/2 year old I could have easily gone crazy and given up for the day! Fortunately I had a pile full of mail to look at so I gave my 3 1/2 year old a magazine to look through. That kept him busy until Dad got home. Let's take action of our lives and not drone in it!

:) Trina

Oldie But Goodie

Title: "Fall Fun" Layout

Product: Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Collection
#124 Wife
#125 Pumpkin Shell
#127 Pumpkin Eater
#128 Well Kept
#130 Cardstock Letter Stickers
#131 Chipboard Letters
#146 Barndoors

Other:
Making Memories: Circle tag, heart paper clip, epoxy buttons, brads
May Arts: cream lace ribbon
Prima: turquoise flower

Supplies Needed:
paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive, pop dots, glue dots (hold down ribbon), mini hole punch (for brads), large & small flower die-cut


Background: 12"x 12" #125 Pumpkin Shell (turquoise side)
(2) 2" x 12" #124 Wife. Adhere to left edge and bottom edge of background.
5"x 6" #127 Pumpkin Eater (green side) to right edge of background.
3" x 6" #127 Pumpkin Eater to left edge of 2" x 12" piece.
Mat "fall" cardstock letter stickers to #124 Wife (light blue side). Doodle around edges of mat. Adhere turquoise flower and brad to mat. Adhere to background.
Adhere "FUN" chipboard letters to background.
Adhere cream ribbon and Making Memories epoxy buttons 4" x 6" #128 Well Kept (brown side) photo mat.
Adhere photo to photo mat.
Adhere photo mat to background.
Cut 2" x 2" #124 Wife (light blue side). Cut in half diagonally and cut out notch to look like a photo corner.
Attach 6 mini brads to photo corner.
Adhere photo corner to background.
#124 Wife to flap of green patterned Barndoor.
Attach circle tag with Making Memories heart paper clip to flap of Barndoor.
Adhere Barndoor to background.
Cut flowers from any flower die-cut. (1) large and (1) small.
Mat large flower onto white cardstock.
Mat small flower onto #124 Wife.
Thread cream ribbon through holes of (2) epoxy brads by Making Memories.
Adhere epoxy brads to center of flowers.
Pop dot flowers to background.

Note: Some of the embellishments I used on this page may no longer exist, so you may have to use something similar instead.

Inspiration Contest

Create a layout or card from the inspiration I found from this Art. Win product from the Row, Row, Row your Boat Collection. Send in your project by Wed. Aug. 26th and I'll post the winner on my blog on Thursday, Aug. 27th! Send it to me: trina @piggytales.com

Quote

I took my son school/church shopping today. When we got home he wanted to try on all of his clothes. He took the shopping bag in the from the car and straight to his room. He opened up the bag and took out his church clothes (dockers, white shirt, dress socks and tie). I helped him put on everything and then he said, "Mom let's pick out a dress for you now." So, he went to my closet and picked out a dress. He then gave it to me along with shoes. He then did my makeup (with lipstick only on half my lips) and eyeshadow all over my cheeks and eyes. It was a BLAST! This quote really helps me to remember that it's the little things we do each day that make all the difference! Let's not forget to make our days special! PS and don't forget to take the photos for the memories!

Tip Tuesday

Have you used our AMAzing Build a Rubons yet? Well, if not you're missing out! When I taught at CKU I instructed the students on the steps to using our Build a Rubons. They loved how our rub-ons applied so easily to their books and stayed true to their color.

Build a Rubon Steps:
1. Using Scissors cut out the border of your choice.
2. Apply border to paper with light pressure using popsicle stick (provided in packaging) or rub-on tool.
3. Using scissors cut out phrase.
4. Apply border to inside of border rub-on.
5. Using scissors cut out additional shapes (flowers, etc. and adhere overlap onto the border of the phrase.
6. When finished staple the rub-on sheet to the backing and insert back into packaging.
7. Organize by theme, alphabetically by company name, etc.


:) trina