The "Cut it Out" Challenge

It's off to church we go but right now I am waiting on the kids to get ready. So, here's another lo with the June Swirlydoos kit. For this challenge you had to cut something out and use it on the page. I cut out the huge swirly thingy to add to the layers of distressed paper on this one.

This is my grandma and Darlene Bowers at Seyfried's house. They were wearing matching outfits and my grandma had titled this "Twins" in her scrapbook so I kept the same title here. Not much to this one: just added a doily, some Prima flowers and pearls, a little lace and some punched paper. The "friendship" paper stamp has rock candy added to it. The cb letters are Basic Grey. The vintage book page is from Glitz.

Wanna Ride Bikes?

Ok, here's my butterfly page. Punched some butterflies from the June pp. I used Mandy's sketch for this one. tfs, Mandy! Another picture of my grandmother while she stayed with family in Denver. She and Richard "Dickie" Bowers are on Uncle Frank Bowers farm here. As I was working on this lo I started laughing when I thought of the title. This is for all of us ADD Swirly sisters! You know what I mean!

I used my Fiskars "threading water" punch to add a border around the circle, another tissue flower, used Robin's water distressing technique and lifted the idea from her to use the bicycle pendant as an embellie.

My goofy Grandpa

Another lo using the latest kit. Love it! I used Robin's distress technique and one of Robin S.'s older sketches. I added some flowers from past kits as well as some MM quotes. This is a picture of my Grandpa acting goofy! From this picture I can see that he didn't change as he got older either! My great-grandmother, his mom, is trying to get him to stand up straight.

Grandpa Art loved to tease little Marilyn Driskell. His mom, Lurena Allison, is trying to get him to behave. You would think she would know better by now! Evelyn Driskell and my Grandpa Art's father, Earl, are in the back row. My Grandma is holding my mom. Isn't she a cutie?

Time for another June vintage lo

This is an old photo that was published in the local newspaper after the county fair. This picture of the Samuel Calvin Bishop family was taken at the Montgomery County Fair in 1898. His family won the prize for having the most sons-nine to be exact. Most of the sons had a middle name in honor of an outstanding person. Harry Stanley got his name from Stanley of the David Livingston story. Howell was named for a lawyer family friend. Samuel is seated with his wife, Alice Hayden Bishop.

I used the June kit for this one. I added some Prima flowers and leaves from my stash. The big rose is a grungepaper flower made following TH's tutorial. I added a Fancy Pants rub on and used SCAL and my Cricut to cut the title. This lo is also based on this month's sketch.

I used my Fiskars "apron lace" edge punch to created the edge around the circle. I have used this for several of my lo's now and love the look.

As promised...

here's another lo with the June Swirlydoo's kit. This kit is perfect for all the old photos I scanned from my grandmother's scrapbooks. So, I scrapped this cute picture of relatives, Graham Bishop (on trike) and Gary Frost (in car).

All the pp is from the current kit. Some of the flowers are from the current kit while the rest are from a past kit or my stash. The Prima leaves, small clothespins, and cb letters are also from my stash. This lo is based on a sketch by Robin S. You can check her out here.