Bitten By The Bug 2 Monday Challenge!

Good Morning everyone and what a lovely Monday! Monday's always bring our weekly challenges over at BBTB2 and this week the Sensational Shelly picked the Boy Fishing from the A Child's Year cartridge. Now remember if you don't have A Child's Year cart you can use any cart with a fishing theme.  

Well I did a one page layout and I actually added a picture of McCade on here! Shocker, I know, but I'm going to try and add pictures on more of my layouts, lol! Well I used DCWV papers, and inked all the edges with Distress Ink (Vintage Photo) and added some faux stitching. Did some embossing with my cuttlebug folders. I used the EK Success punch for the scallop w/circles punch and added some ribbon from Michael's. The boy fishing is cut at 7" and I added the ball cap onto him, (cut at 1 3/8", it is an extra on the cart, along with the grass tuffs which I altered a bit.) The little hanging fishes are cut at 3" and embossed and tied together for the "catch of the day".   

I also added a hidden journaling spot under the Lazy Days saying which is from the Just Because Cartridge. I took two ovals and welded them together (cut at 4 3/8")  for my journaling and popped/layered the saying, Lazy Days, a couple of times (cut at 7"). And then I HAD to add a tiny bit of "Bling", LOL! 

Hope you like it and make sure you enter the challenge over at BBTB2, you just might win our winners blinkie to add to your blog, along with bragging rights, of course! Thanks for your wonderful comments, you know I love all the nice things you all say and I really do appreciate all your kind words, Thanks to all of you. I hope you have a wonderful week!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa   

BBTB2 Weekly Challenge-Tags, Bags, Boxes & More!

Hello Everyone and Welcome to another Monday challenge from Bitten By The Bug 2! As everyone knows September and School just go together and this week's challenge is from the Amazing and Very Talented Regina who chose the Crayola Box from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More. I kinda went traditional with the crayon box and crayons, (don't tell anybody but I LOVE a new box of crayons! lol, and I'm sure there are alot of you out there that do to!) I love back to school time and all the good ole school supplies. I like going to the office supply store (and the hardware store) almost as much as going to the craft stores! When we get McCade his school supplies I always have to pick up a few things also (giggle)! He actually started school August 11th (my birthday!) this year, so he's been in for a month so far. We actually have parent teacher conference's this Monday so he is home today. (Okay, I'm off track again so back to the challenge.............................................)

The Crayola box from TBBM!

 I haven't played with this cart is along time so it was almost like getting a new cart, lol. I went traditional school cards and made these for McCades teacher. I made the box into a holder for six cards. I added the A+ Teacher (McCade REALLY likes his teacher's this year and so far loving it!) and then the cards I added Thank You on the front's and she can use them as Thank You notes. Kind of a dual meaning. McCade and I think she is an A+, so Thank You form Us, and then she can actually use the notes as Thank You notes! Here's a close up of the actual Crayola Box with the cards inside.

I made the card in Design Studio and welded the blackout tritop tag pg. 87 together after I shrunk it to the size I thought was a good looking crayon. Then I welded a square from George and Basic Shapes. The lettering and Apple is from Plantin Schoolbook. The crayons on the cards are each separate crayons attached to the card base and then a space for a note was added. On the fronts of the cards the various saying are a cuttlebug die and emboss folder and the scallops and circles were cut using my Nestabilites then embossed. The Edger Punch is an EK Success punch (I think it's called binding edge) And last but not least the Paper is a DCWV stack, Grade School Premium stack, love it, it's perfect for all the school pics and for some of the teacher's gift's for the year. I used it for the Teacher gift's for McCade's 3rd grade teacher's little mini books HERE, you can take a look if you haven't seen them or forgot what they looked like. Well here's one more look at the Note Cards: 

So don't forget to stop by BBTB2 and take the challenge and see what all the other amazingly talented Design Team did with their Crayola Boxes. I love to see all the different ways the gals minds think and what they come up with. That is one reason I just LOVE Monday's! Hope you all play along with us this week, you could possibly win our lovely weekly challenge winner button/blinkie also! Wouldn't that just be an honor to display that on your blog! Well I'm going to try and post some pics of my new craft space. It's not completely finished but I have it organized and it was so nice to actually use it for the first time this weekend, I have a couple of things I have to add before it will be totally done but I can surely say, It beats the heck out of the kitchen table, LOL!!!

So Take Care and Froggie ((Hugs)) Theresa