Beary Special

Hello!  
Wow, it's October, the beginning of Autumn, my favorite time of year! The air is becoming so crisp and clean.  Time for all the trees to show off their inner beauty, to go pumpkin and apple picking, celebrate Halloween and to start another month of challenges! 
 Love it!!
Over at "Picture This" we are challenging you to create a LO using " Layers + fussy cutting + one photo".  
 My DTM layout  for this October 1st fun challenge is composed of  Brenshevia's  Let's Get Sketch and  Challenge YOUrself .  
This month, "Challenge YOUrself" would like to see sewing on your page.  It can be hand stitching, machine stitching, embroidery, ANY kind of sewing!!  The only other requirement is that you include a photo with YOU!

My LO started with one of my most treasured photo of my son, just a few days old, in my arms.

I was rocking him in the special chair that my husband and I had brought in town and carried many blocks home because we did not own a car at the time.   

I used one of my favorite paper collection, Kaisercraft - Teddy Bears Picnic.  I fussy cut a whole bunch of the teddy bears (they are so cute!) and layered many of the cut away journaling cards.  I added embroidery thread in the buttons, rickrack around the photo and embellished with some snaps. 

 It was a lot of fun putting together this layout and I hope you will enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Brenshevia' Sketch                                              Challenge YOUrself

                                          



                                           

You & I by Lisa

Here are some close-ups

Here are some of the threaded buttons, fussy cut teddy bear, and the snaps.

Here are some teddy bears clustered together.

                       Here are some more clustered teddybears, threaded buttons, and a snap.

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments. 

 I truly appreciate all of them!

I am  looking forward to seeing what you create with our  "Layer + Fussy cutting + One photo" challenge over @PT and the Sewing Challenge @ Challenge YOUrself!

Always Remember

Hello again!
Today's layout is in remembrance of September 11th, 2001.   Fifteen years ago the USA experienced one of the most heartbreaking day in it's history.  I will never forget that morning on 911, when it felt like the world had stopped and that nothing would be the same!   All the airports were shut down and I remember most of the TV channels and shows were not on the air.  
It seemed like the whole country had a day of silent.  
But I rather reminisce more about the following day, September 12th, when Americans came together by pulling up our boot straps and tried to take back our country!  It was amazing how many American flags were everywhere to show pride for our country!  
Flags were flying on people's homes, in front yards, out of car windows, off buildings!  It was so inspiring!  
Our country was UNITED! 
 I really wish our citizens now would try to remember that day because we need to unite again for the good of the country.
Well, back to my layout.  My first inspiration came from looking through some photos of my family's trips to New York City.  
One photo is of the skyline of NYC and the other is of myself and (one of my stars) my daughter, Ashley in front of the skyline from Brooklyn Heights. 
 I also got inspiration from two other sources.
Picture This which is having a new challenge about anything to do with Stars.  "Wish upon a Star" 
and over at Let's Get Sketchy where Brenshevia has come up with another lovely sketch.  

Brenshevia's Sketch

Always Remember by Lisa

Here are some close-ups

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments. 

 I truly appreciate all of them!

I am so looking forward to seeing what you create with our Star challenge over @PT!

Boys Rock

 
Hello everyone!  
Goodbye August Hello September!  Summer has just flown by!  
Welcome to our first fun challenge of September over at Picture This.  Which is to create a layout featuring a male in your life.  
Father, brother, son, husband, friend, etc…..   
My layout was inspired by a photo of my son, Sky, rock climbing on one of  his Boy Scout adventures! 

He really gained so much experience belonging to the Boy Scouts.

Boys Rock by Lisa

Here are some close-ups

Since my layout is all about boys and rocks I decided to incorporate real rocks!

So I went into my backyard and collected some pebbles to frame Sky's photo.

I also included some twine to make a connection to the climbing rope in the photo.

I used rub-ons here.  They are so much fun to add!

I also entered my layout over at  Let's Get sketchy's Week 5 August Challenge.

I was inspired by the colors and the super star.

Thank you for dropping by and for all the lovely comments everyone has been leaving. 

 I truly appreciate all of them!

I am so looking forward to seeing what you come up with for our fun challenge over @PT!