Mosaics

It's been a few weeks because someone (mom ;)) has made me go to a couple crops in the last few weeks.  I got a ton of layouts done and some cards, but have been beat when I get home.  This weekend, I worked on a mosaic and needed to finish it up when I got up, so I did that today and thought I'd share it.

This is from a trip we took in 2008 to Longwood Gardens.  The paper pieces are what I worked on today.  I cut them out using my Silhouette to fit the remaining spaces.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

Safari Smile

My desk was still littered with my Paper Smooches stamps from my last card (which made me the PS Pro Stamper!!) so I decided to use them again to play along with this weeks Paper Smooches Sparks trend watch....

So many of the little critters from the stamps have great smiles, so I cut the word 'SMILE' out of a card base and had some of the smiley creatures popping through the letters.

I LOVE the laughing hippo.  And the toucan is so cheery.  The monkey is adorable - I thought about cutting him down so that he wouldn't stick out past the edge of the card, but realized that he makes the card look like it's saying, 'Smile, I Love You.' so I left him in one piece (so happy I did!).

Once I got all of their placements figured out, I stamped the chevrons onto a piece of cardstock and popped the smile piece on top.  Then finished it off by layering it on a piece of black cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Papers Smooches Zoo Crew, Flap Happy, My Peeps, Smoocheroos, Geo-Graphic

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' Up! Island Indigo

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Island Indigo, Neenah Solar White, Copic XPress It

COPICS - hippo C3, R20, monkey E39, E53, toucan FYG2, FRV1, FYR1, FY1, FB2, 110, butterfly BV08, BV34, R22

OTHER - Silhouette, foam adhesive