Monday, July 1, 2013

4th of July layout (for BBTB2)

We have a patriotic theme for our BBTB2 challenge this week!  The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays of the year-besides celebrating our wonderful country, it is just more laid back and casual than many of the other holidays.  We always go to see the fireworks show in our city park, which is lots of fun.  Our little suburb of the KC metro usually puts on a great show, complete with band music and hotdog vendors.  We take a cooler, lawn chairs, and a frisbee and have a blast.  It's just a really fun community event.

I've made a layout for my pictures of the event, using A Child's Year for the boy on the rocket and the Phrases cartridge for the title.  I found this fabulous paper from Authentique- the kind of retro looking postcards are from the back side of one of the papers.  I added the Reach for the Stars stamp on my journal box as a little extra fun touch!




Cricut:
A Child's Year-boy on firecracker
Phrases-title
Paper-Authentique prints, CM solids
Stamp-K Andrews
brown chalk ink

Have fun joining us at BBTB2 with a patriotic/4th of July project-I so enjoy browsing blogs to see what you make!  And I hope you have a wonderful 4th, however you may be celebrating it!

I'm also going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge and the Cut It Up challenge this week, since they are both also doing patriotic themed challenges.

17 comments:

  1. This is a fabulous layout Michelle! The papers you have used are just awesome, love the vintage postcard journaling blocks and of course the die cuts you used are just perfect for this holiday! Hugs!

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  2. I just love your layout. Great papers and I LOVE the red silhouette cuts.

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  3. Fabulous layout!! Bummer you have to work on Thursday, but glad you are getting off early enough to have some fun. We can see Corporate Woods and sometimes MidAmerica Nazarene from our deck. We usually have people over for a BBQ. So nice to be able to watch from home. We were at Red X yesterday at their tent. Wow, there was an assortment to choose from. My youngest can't wait to go out further south and light those tomorrow night! Have a safe 4th:)

    Annette
    My Mind's Dust Bunnies

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  4. I am AMAZED on how beautiful and FUN this LO is!!!Just love it!!
    Would love if you joined us at Cut It Up Challenges.
    Have a wonderful day,
    Migdalia
    ♥ Crafting With Creative M ♥
    ♥ 2 Creative Chicks ♥
    ♥ Silhouette Challenges ♥
    ♥ Cut It Up Challenges ♥

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  5. Your layout is just awesome! I so love the papers and the cutouts. The postcards are just perfect!! :)

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  6. Super cute layout.Thanks so much for playing along with FCCB.

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  7. This is such a great 4th of July LO-great paper choices and I love the silhouette-thanks for joining us at FCCB!

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  8. Fantastic layout! Your photos will look great there!
    Thanks for joining us at Cut it Up Challenges!
    Evelyn
    http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

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  9. AWESOME LO!!!! Super Cute images!!! Beautiful paper!

    Thank you for joining us at Cut It Up Challenges.
    Have a wonderful day,
    Migdalia
    ♥ Crafting With Creative M ♥
    ♥ 2 Creative Chicks ♥
    ♥ Silhouette Challenges ♥

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  10. Oh Michelle, you are my hero scrapbooker! I seem to love all of your layouts, and this one is no exception. This is fabulous! The papers you chose work so well with the Cricut cuts and the other details. Love the 4th of July cut and the papers you used truly made it fabulous. I have always loved the image from A Child's year - - and that cute "reach for the stars" stamp is perfect. This is amazing!!! :D
    Hugs,
    Susan

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  11. I really love the paper you used on your layout. Fabulous layout. Love the phrase and the boy on the rocket!

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  12. This is a great layout. I can never seem to photograph layouts well, you did great. I love the deep blue you used. A Child's Year is one of my favorite cartridges!

    Rebecca, Fantabulous Cricut DT
    I would love to have you visit my blog!

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  13. What a gorgeous LO. I love the mats. Thanks for joining us at CIU for our New Nations Challenge.

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  14. This is a terrific layout, I like the papers and the boy zooming across in his rocket!! Thanks for joining FCCB's Red, White & Blue challenge this week!

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  15. Great papers for your wonderful layout. Sounds like lots of fun and the pictures you add will only make it more wonderful. Thanks for entering the Cricut Crawl challenge at FCCB. Kim Ogden

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  16. Great LO! I really like the papers you used and the image and title are great!! Thanks for joining the Red White and Blue challenge at FCCB!

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