Lessons from Grandpa

My husband's father treasured the time he had with his grandchildren. Here is a shot of him teaching Joseph to golf at the tender age of four. He went to be with the Lord in 2000, but left a legacy of love and devotion to his family.

One of the Spa Challenges at Scrap-Friendzy is to scrap a man/men in your life. The blue in our son's shirt represents blue for boys. If you are looking for some fun challenges to spark your scrapping creativity, come check out the 19 fabulous challenges that have been posted by the Scrap-Friendzy DT this month. Each completed layout puts your name in the hat for a fabulous prize each month.

I used the Bo Bunny Sketch for their challenge. For the Scrapbook Sister's Challenge # 4 ~ men, my subject is our son and my father-in-law together, and my interpretation on the ScrapFIT "School's Out" challenge was the title "Lessons" from Grandpa. 

Here is my page:

Based on this wonderful Bo Bunny Sketch:

Here is a close-up of the layered circles. I had some extra time on my hands at the UKC dog show last week, so I picked up some bamboo crochet thread to create these lace flowers that I layered on the Bo Bunny paper circles, and attached with Timepiece brads. The lace flowers were dyed with distress ink to coordinate with the paper.

Tips:

~ When cutting lace, place a dab of Glossy Accents on the line where you will be cutting and rub in. This will keep the edge from fraying. 

~ To dye my bright white lace flowers, I rubbed distress ink on my craft mat, spritzed with some water, then rubbed the flowers through the misted ink. I let them air dry and pressed lightly so they would lay nicely.

~ When layering I cut out the middle of the pages, so the nearly black paper sheet that is the base is actually only a 1 inch frame. I used the scrap to create the largest circle on my layered embellishments and for the outer circle around the title. I still have a nice piece left for my stash. The main title circle is cut from the center of the Timepiece Dot paper.

~ To create the stitching line, I pierced holes in the paper every eighth of an inch using my craft ruler as a guide. I then went back and drew a white line between each hole using a white Jelly Roll pen. You may need to go over the lines a couple times to get a nice white line.

Products used for this layout:

Bo Bunny paper:

Timepiece Dot

Gabrielle Dot

Mama-razzi Film

Mama-razzi Stripe

Beautiful Life Leaf

Double Dot Licorice

Timepiece brads

Timepiece trinkets

Distress inks ~ Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Corduroy, Pumice Stone

VersaMagic Chalk Ink ~ Midnight Black

Hand crafted (by me) lace flowers ~ crocheted from bamboo crochet thread

Lace from my stash

White Jelly Roll Pen 

Tools:

Circle Punches

Fiskar Circle Cutter

EK Success Braid Edger Punch

Piercing Tool

Tim Holtz Distress Tool

Cutterbee Scissors

Thanks for stopping by. I enjoy reading your comments.

~ Blessings ~