Belated Birthday Card featuring Gertrude

 Another birthday card for my granddaughter who 

loves the color purple.

Would you believe I have like a gazillion pounds of paper

in my stash and NOOOO shade of purple in it.

Soooo....TH crayons to the rescue along with the 

TH die Gertrude. 

Not too many moving parts to Gertrude.

I like that.

I also jacked the sentiment "Be flamazing" that

originated from one of TH's makers.

LOVE IT.

And since I hail from FL - the flamingo is perfect.

My friend Brooke gave me the paper and

I have no clue the mfg. but I love it.

Also fussy cut some flowers for depth.

More flowers on the inside with some stickles going on

and homemade enamel dots with some black stickles.

Oh and I used my handwriting on the sentiments.

I had a good day with the penmanship.

Woohoo!

Another page created without a photo

And since I plan on doing this for awhile

I shall not bore you with that title anymore.

Anyhoo, in stalking the u-tube - one of my favorites

is Ashli (Soaphousemama) so 

this is a sortof loose lift.

 Watercolors went on first - shocking I know.

Then whacked up some scraps again.

(I think I'll be giving Tori a run for her money over

at Scrap your Scraps LOL)

So I tossed on some do-dads and then went

on a hunt for a photo and found

one of these two cuties - Sam & Lou.
I used punches to make circles, cliche I know,
but it totally fits.

Love how it turned out.
And it turns out to be fun!

Again, Studio Calico, and some other unknown do-dads.

Background paper with preprinted title

You really can't go wrong when everything

is done for you.

I've been trying to do this page for awhile but

I was in one of those moods where I

couldn't make a decision.

I finally just went for it.

I kept everything to a minimum and

I did cut one of the photos down.

Journaling on the hidden tag and the photo/mat

has been popped up.

Found some old gears and arrows from Tim Holtz which was perfect.

And that little "check it out" brad I've had forever.

I have more.

And if I remember you'll see more.

No clue who the mfg is.

Anyway this is documenting my favorite youngest son's journey

to become a truck driver. After some things happened in

his life, he found a link hiring and training over

the road truckers and he signed up.

He's in Utah right now starting on Phase I

of his training. 

Very proud of him and his decision and bonus round-

He Loves It.

It's a blessing in life when you love what you do.