By Request of Ethan

Last night Ethan asked me if I would make him a bag for bringing some cars down to his Nanny's house. He picked out everything from the fabric down to the zip. For a four year old, he's very sure of what he likes! Another one of his criteria was it had to stand up by itself, so I tried boxed corners for the first time and it worked out fairly well.

Birch Fabrics- Cars in Cream and Kona Turquoise for the lining, both from Fluffy Sheep Quilting.

Sorry for the dark photos, but it's such a wintery day here. I miss natural light :(

 

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Simon Says Stamp Children's Challenge

 

Ethan has been busy painting the last few days, so I thought I would enter his monster picture into the Simon Says Stamp Children's Challenge.

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Echo Park This and That Charming

I got this new paper pack during the week, and finally made a few layouts with it. Here are the first two from our holiday in Kilkenny last year.

 

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So Proud of You

This card was made at super speed at about 3am. Ethan is in the middle of toilet training and I wanted to make him a card to let him know how proud we are of him. My sleep addled brain was not capable of being creative. My thought process went like this, proud ->peacock ->oh I have a peacock sticker. It's not great but he was happy! The stickers are from American Crafts and the sentiment is PTI Congrats All Ways.

Thanks for looking!

 

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Ethan is 4!!

 

My post for today is my take on a Kristina Werner card that I saw on the Simon Says Stamp blog. It just looked really fun and I thought it would be perfect for Ethan's 4th birthday card.

Here is Kristina's card.

And here is my one. Excuse the poor lighting but it's late here!

I got rid of loads of scraps on this one :)

It feels very satisfying to slowly work my way through that box!

 

Thanks for looking :)

 

 

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I'm on a roll!!!

Here's another two of the A4 layouts I did tonight. The first one has some very old photos of Ethan. The paper pack is from Nikki Sivils My Lil Monster collection.

The second one is a more recent photo of Ethan with his Great Granny on her birthday. I really love this picture. The background paper is a mystery to me, not a clue who its by. The picture mat is from a Basic Grey pad. I just trimmed part of the flower with a craft knife to slot the photo behind it. The stickers are by Bo Bunny and again are VERY old. It feel great to be using up my stash!

 

Scrapbook Pages

Just wanted to upload a few LO's I've done in the past few days. The first 2 are done using the same Scrapbook kit. The pictures are from Ethan's 2nd birthday.

I put Glossy Accents on all the candle flames on this page. It looks really nice IRL but it was hard to capture on camera.

The paper, chipboard accents and letters are from an American Crafts kit. The fence is punched with a MS border punch. The clouds are die cut from a Papertrey Ink die.

The scalloped edge is punched with a EK Success border punch. The stamped sentiment is from American Crafts.