Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge 9-30-11 Fussy Cuts

I guess everyone can tell by the layouts on my blog, that I really love to photograph and then scrapbook my son, Ezra! And much of what he wears, and what we do involves bright colors! So here we are at our local amusement park, Tweetsie Railroad, on one of my favorite rides: The Merry Go Round! I am really not sure the difference between a carousel and merry go round, but we sure do love them!

As a very thankful member of the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Design Team, I was challenged to do fussy cutting! For this layout, I cut out the 5 clouds from a piece of My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Out of The Blue "Smile" Float Paper, and the 2 carousel horses from a piece of Best Creations, Inc. Looops and Scoops paper. Boy, those carousel horses were very fussy!!! LOL!

I added Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Faded Jeans with a stiff bristle brush to the top edges of the clouds, and adhered them with foam circles! For the horses, I also adhered those with foam, and for a "Twist" of fun, I used Lime Twist baker's twine, 2 strands twisted, for the poles of the carousel! I hope you like it!

My best tip for fussy cutting -- use a pair of sharp, fine or microtip scissors! It will save you time and frustration! Keep an eye out for a new challenge each Friday at Frosted Designs!

We Can Fly

Here are more photos of my sweet boy, Ezra on his first outing to Tweetsie Railroad in the Summer of 2009! I know we will both be glad when I am finished with this series of photos! I must have taken 200! :)

My Recipe for This Layout: Cardstock: CTMH, kiwi, and Ocean (SCRAP),Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye, Lime Twist, Out of The Blue Playful Galaxy Paper, Fly A Kite Fly Paper die Cut, Fly A Kite Spring Stars Paper (SCRAP), American Crafts Junior Defense Embossed Orange Dot Paper (SCRAP), Bazzill Phoenix Swiss Dots (SCRAP), Orange linen (SCRAP)All STARS and ARROWS are cut from punches: Fiskars and Martha Stewart, and all are cut from SCRAPS! Fiskars puffy font stickers, Celebrate It ribbon in lime green, Buttons and sewing thread from my stash, Singer sewing machine, Xyron Sticker Maker. Zots clear adhesive dots, 3M sanding block for distressing

I am entering this layout in these challenges:

http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14357 Scrappion Mojo September Terri's Sketch Challenge

http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-89.html Ooh-La-La Creations Challenge #89 Punches/Dies (Star and Arrow punches)

http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/2011/09/hsi-challenge-17-use-ribbon-andor-tag.html HeartSong Inspirations HSI Challenge #17: Ribbons/tags (Lime green ribbon border and tails on top left button)

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2011/09/challenge-16-buttons.html Dream Valley Challenges #16 Buttons (orange and turquoise buttons)

http://whimsicalwednesdays.blogspot.com/2011/09/anything-goes.html Whimsical Wednesdays Anything Goes Wed. Sept. 28th

http://www.lovetocrop.com/2011/09/its-challenge-time-lets-scrap-it.html Love To Crop Friday Challenge Sept. 23rd - Scraps (Argyle print, green polka dots print, striped strip, turquoise strip, orange dotted strip, red dotted strip, star strip and all stars and arrows are SCRAPS!)

http://www.youhadmeatcraft.com/2011/09/guest-designer-lala-palooza-with.html You Had Me At Craft Made It Myself Mondays Week 16

http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-sheri-crafts-challenge-69-sew-simple.html My Sheri Crafts Challenge #69 Sew Simple (Real stitching with white thread and sewing machine, and faux stitching with white gel pen on punchedd elements.)

I hope you like my layout, and please become a follower of my blog! Thanks a bunch, Roberta

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I loved this sketch, and had a really fun time creating this layout! Doesn't it look like fun? I was thrilled to use some supplies and techniques I don't often use, and that always makes for fun in the studio! I created this layout based on Pencil Lines Sketch 250! You can visit their site here: http://www.pencillines.com/ *** Please enter my very FIRST blog challenge! Click the green tab at the top of my blog that says "Monthly Challenges!" ****

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