Mia loves Toy Story 3!

And 1, and 2, (and 4 and 5 if they were ever made). Toy story has beaten every record in our house, and the Toy Story craze came right in the middle of our moving process. Not surprisingly, during our stop in London we bought every Toy Story toy the Disney store had to offer. This is the story behind this LO, based on Pencillines' sketch 230. Not very happy with it, I really can't make character stickers work the way I want them too, and at the same time I felt I couldn't leave them out. Still, it's a colourful LO and I love those pics, so it's going into the album (so many pictures to scrap I can't waste time re-doing LOs!!!)

More Echo Park

More Echo Park For The Record today, as I worked on the page that will go next to yesterday's in the album. I was looking for a sketch to work on this, and Pencillines had the perfect one! They were really similar and matched perfectly. The pics are from a trip to Stockholm we took two years ago, in the middle of summer. DD was so excited to see some green plants (everything dies in the Libyan summer) that she started kissing the trees! I'm so happy I captured that moment, as it tells what we always felt when we saw green. Now we're on this green island, we may forget what it feels like, though we haven't lost the feeling of wonder yet. 

I also made this for the Scrap our Stash challenge #1 at Let's Scrap. As required, it has two different colour ribbons, three metal elements, and I used 3 punches. I love the antennae on this butterfly:

If I continue using three or four metal elements per LO, Brenda Sue will have  a new order quite soon! The next pic is a close-up of the title:

I love how that metal bow looks on the flower! I still have enough For The Record paper for some cards and maybe even another LO, so you may see more of it in the near future!

Playing with acrylic

After so much "hard work" for the blog hop, I felt like relaxing and playing a little bit last night. It has been a very bad week, we had a bad car crash last Saturday, and although we are OK, it was a very scary experience. So, when DD and DH were both asleep in the living room couches at 7 p.m. yesterday, I decided it was time to play. I chose sketch 225 from pencillines, which had a banner in it, and decided to make an acrylic banner. But I didn't want something completely clear, so I painted it with acrylic on one side, and heat embossed it on the other. So great to have my heat gun again (the other one lasted only 5 minutes after I plugged it into a 220 outlet!!!). This is the final result, and I must say I LOVE it:

Ok, you can see I love the banner more than the LO, as I showed it first, but I think the LO looks good, too. 

This Pink Paislee Sweetness collection was just perfect for this photo. I've cut holes in most of the papers I got in my kit for this layout, so I will be using the rest for cards, otherwise, if I leave them with other scraps I might forget to use them, and they are too yummy to waste!!! Now, here comes a warning, lots of more close-up pics coming now! First the banner:

Then the other details:

Now, off to work on the Pink Paislee scrap cards!!!!!!!!!!!!