THANKFUL

Good morning everyone!! It is nice and cool here in Massachusetts, welcome relief from the 95 and high humidity from the past few days.

I whipped up this card from my Dad who will be staying at our house next week while we are on vacation. We are headed down to Florida for the week.

We have two dogs, so I had to put two dogs on the card. My younger guy wouldn't have it any other way. He is always very fair when it comes to the dogs. They both have to get the same thing all the time. Cookies, treats, balls, whatever it is.

Here is a picture of our handsome guys, Lightning is the Golden Retriever and Jake is the German Shepherd. Jake is one and Lightning it 10! I swear Lightning rolls his eyes ALL the time at Jake because he is always getting into something or doing something wrong, lol!!

I used Paper Pups for the little dogs and bone on the card. I have a pet paper stack from DCWV ( I have used the entire stack, time to replenish). I used a Tim Holtz on the blue paper. The thankful stamp is from my stash.

I am also entering this, thanks to Jean, over at http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com.

SEEING DOUBLE WEEK - Day 1

Good morning Lady Friends!! It's Monday yet again, wasn't it just Friday 5 minutes ago? This weekend flew by! I have to admit Monday's are not my favorite!! Ok enough about me, lets move on. Kel came up with great idea of seeing double on a page/card/alteration. It could be a two page layout, two of the same embellishments, two pictures, to altered projects, you get it two of anything.

I did this layout for my youngest guy's upcoming birthday. He is going to be 11.

I used the following, the circle paper is Basic Gray Granola Paper pack. Let me tell you this paper doesn't not play well with the cricut. I tried to cut a few things with and it every piece ripped. It was aggravating. The blue cardstock is StampinUP



The circles are cut (two circles) from Paper Pups (Happy Birthday) @ 2 1/4" on page 92 and the full circle from Graphically Speaking @ 3" on page 66. I ran this thru the Cuttlebug as well.

Close up of of the 11's, I inked and put some of faux stitching around them to make them pop. They are cut from Graphically Speaking, pg 68, cut at 2".

I also doubled up by photo mat as well. I am thinking I will use a 4x6 photo, so the mats are cut at 4.5 x 7 and 5 x 7.5. I love the layered look and never think to do it on a page, so this week's theme helped me remember that.

Have a GREAT Monday!!