Papercrafter's Corner Challenge #170

There is a long story to go with this picture but I want to make a long story short so I'll just give you the Cliff Notes version.

This little guy was an emergency C-section which was followed by some very serious complications for me and more surgery. He actually went home from the hospital before I did and I wasn't able to hold him while he was in there with me.

So...this is really the first time I was able to hold him (I still has a LOT of stitches right behind where he sits on my lap), I still wasn't able to pick him up but I could hold him. He was already 2 weeks old by the time I got home.

 

When I saw this inspiration photo it reminded me of the day I got home from the hospital, the first thing I did was to go into his room and look at him sleeping. If I had been able to pick him up I would have but I still had a lot of healing ahead of me and an additional surgery in the near future.

 

I cut the letters with my Cricut and the Cricut Alphabet cartridge, the hearts are from another Cricut cartridge.

 

 

Papercrafter's Corner Week #169

I really enjoyed playing along with Papercrafter's Corner Week #169 this week.

Here is this week's inspiration photo:

 

I was inspired by the colors, heart, chevron lines and devilish look .

 

 

The paper has been in my stash for a long time, I printed it with my Imagine when you could still get ink for them.

 

The heart is from Cricut's Love Struck 2010, I added the chevrons with a stencil and my eBrush which I couldn't find at first because I had cleaned the carpet in my craft room and I had stuck it in the container that holds my punches in order to get it out of my way for cleaning. That teaches me for cleaning in here. The picture is from my son's US wedding, the look on their faces is the same look David would get when he was up to no good as a youngster.

 

I am entering this layout in this challenge:

 

Papercrafter's Corner Week #169.  



 

Paper Crafting - Challenge - Week - 168

I found another challenge to play along with :papercrafting-challenge-week-168. When I checked out their new challenge at the beginning of the week I wanted to take part but it took me all week to come up with the prefect idea.

My son and wonderful daughter in law live in Tokyo, Japan. They had these postcards made up to ring in the New Year which is actually the Year of the Rooster but the kids have dubbed it, "the year of the fried chicken". They had this caricature made and it looks SO much like the two of them.

Here is a picture taken at their Japanese wedding so that you can see the real them. They are entertaining their guests with a song and dance routine.

 

This is the inspiration photo. I just love the beautiful colors and I wanted to use some of the Japanese crafting papers the kids have brought or sent me over the years.

 



 



 

The background paper is very thin so I adhered it to a piece of chipboard to give it some strength.

I scanned the postcard and printed it as a 5 x 7. I added some red ribbon to the top and bottom of the picture then attached the picture to a piece of yellow cardstock that I had embossed with a Honeycomb folder. I cut the letters with my Cricut and their Robotz cartridge.

The background paper and the little Japanese figures are all gifts from my kids.

I am entering this layout into this challenge:
Papercrafting-challenge-week-168