Field Day Fun

First off, thank you to everyone for the comments and the personal emails.  It has meant a lot.  :)  I don't want to skip over that.  Thank you!

Well, the end of the school year always marks Field Day for the boys.  This year was slightly different because they each had their Field Day on different days, in the past it has been on the same day.

The boys couldn't be more different.

Austin is competitive.  He wants to win.  And he wants others to follow the rules.
Hayden is a complete goofball.  He just wants to have fun.  I swear, he was falling on purpose at times just to get a laugh!

And of course, they each wanted their own layout done, with nothing about the other one on it.

Is this just a boy thing?  Sometimes I think they can't stand each other.

Anyways...here's Austin's Field Day layout:

I just love that top picture, where Austin is mid-air in front of everyone else in the potato sack race.  :)

I used the very cool Wave Searcher collection from Fancy Pants.

Here are the close up's:

I love those tiki dudes...not that they have anything to do with Field Day, but they are something DIFFERENT than the usual stuff I add to my pages.  

Those lines and swirl are a transparency from the line that I used behind my photos.  I thought it worked well like that.  

And then here is Hayden's layout:

This layout uses the fun Summer Soul collection from Fancy Pants.   Those white pieces are actually cut from this chipboard sheet:

I had two of these sheets of chipboard.  I thought about making a design using the surf boards, but I had already used some of them, so I didn't have as many as I wanted.  So instead, I took my scissors and cut around the empty spots and just used the outline.

Here are some close up's of my layout:

And speaking of Fancy Pants...did you see the sneaks of their newest releases:

I've already created some with these. I will share soon.  :)

Well thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!!!

I hope you have a fantastic day!

Fancy Some Trim?

I don't know if you've noticed...but I love texture and I love trim! I think trim can make an okay layout look spectacular! :) Last month on the Fancy Pants blog I had a layout featured on a post that was highlighting some things you can do with trim.

Here's my layout:

It uses the fabulous Beach Babe collection...notice that my layout is not beach nor babe related. :) It worked just perfectly for my fun outdoor play page.

How I used my trim/ribbon:

* I took a bunch of little pieces of trim and created a border underneath my photos.

* I used it for the tails on my ribbon that I created (that reads "2011").

Here are some close up's of my layout:

(those were just circles that I punched)

That's the ribbon I made. I popped it up with some of the AWESOME Liquid Scrap Dots from Helmar. I just hand cut and layered two circles, and then behind it is a filter flower that I just scrunched up. And of course...the two tails are ribbon.

See what I was talking about when I said I created a border? That was the look I was going for anyways.

I just LOVE adding trim to my pages, there is so much you can do with it and it always adds a bit of texture and fun to your page. To see the blog post on the FP blog which shares a few more ways of using your trim, click here.

And...I already mentioned that I used Liquid Scrap Dots from Helmar. Well, the rest was put together using my fav...450 Quick Dry Adhesive from Helmar. I use that adhesive the most!

Hope you have a wonderfully AWESOME day! :)