Cocoa Daisy sketch challenge AND Bo Bunny July challenge!

Greetings everyone!  What a busy weekend.  Swim class for Olivia, gymboree for Cassia, laundry, house cleaning, groceries, church, seeing the musical Annie at the Chesapeake Arts Center, and somehow doing a DOUBLE layout! 

As luck would have it, this double layout works for two contests.  One side is for the Page Maps Cocoa Daisy sketch challenge, and the other side is for the Bo Bunny July layout challenge.  Both turned out awesome, in my humble opinion.  :)

The Page Maps contest which ends tonight, was to create a layout based on the following sketch:



I had a HARD time with those circles, and I didn't do any stitching because my skill level is just not there yet (plus I don't have a sewing machine, gasp!), but I still think my page turned out great:

I had 4th of July pics that I knew would be perfect for such a fun sketch, and I'd just gotten the Bo Bunny Anthem papers and chipboard pieces in the mail so the timing was great.  I used my cricut to cut the circles and the Red White & Blue title, and embellished with buttons, ribbon, burlap, flowers and chipboard.  Oh I also tried spritzing with re-inker, but I need a bit of practice.  :)

 

Love the flowers, and the middles are ctmh brads.  Oh and that powder blue star all the way on the right?  That was a last minute addition...blue embossing powder and a star stamp.  Very happy with the results. 

 

Next up is the other side of the layout (my personal favorite), the Bo Bunny July challenge.  No sketch with this one, we just had to incorporate banners somehow.  So I free-styled it and came up with this:

Notice the circles on the right?  That's the paper I had leftover from punching circles for the other layout, plus a couple red polka dot pieces layered in.  Fun fun!

 

Here's the main banner, I love the Bo bunny chipboard pieces.  So easy to dress up a page!  And the firework there is from my cricut. 

 

This has to be my favorite pair of pictures ever!  I just love Cassia's expression, totally What The....?? And then only Mommy was good enough! (notice my little subtitle there?  ha ha love the irony)

 

The top left needed a little something so it got a mini banner, and I embossed a tan piece of cardstock and highlighted some of the flowers in red to look like fireworks.  OH and at the last minute I remembered I had a star stamp, and I used my embossing powder to emboss it.  Love how it turned out!

 

And here is the pair together. 

That's all for now!  Stay tuned for another layout soon.  Actually there might be a few, I've got a CKC weekend coming up and multiple classes.  Can't wait!!