Step-by-Step: Dirty Sweaty Cute

Little boys.... they are usually dirty, sometimes sweaty and always cute! Here is a layout of my little boy when he was four years old and all of those things, especially cute! I used a Doodlebug kit from the the MegaStore at Scrapjazz.com along with a few other items to complete this layout in less than 30 minutes. You can probably recreate it in less time than that! Collect your supplies and follow these easy steps.

Supplies:

• Doodlebug Page Kit (Boys Will Be Boys)
• Bazzill cardstock (fawn and black)
• Doodlebug Silk Flowers
• brads (black)
• assorted letter stickers (black)
• ribbon (red)
• stapler
• ink (black)
• Sakura Micron pen (black)
• corner rounder

Directions:

1. Trim fawn cardstock to 8.5" x 11" and use it for the base of your layout. Trim blue cardstock to 8" x 10.5" and use a punch to round the corners. If you don't have a corner-rounding punch, you can use scissors to do this. Adhere the blue cardstock to the base. Trim red cardstock to 11" x 4" and attach it approximately 1" from the top of your layout.
   
   
   
2. Trim your patterned paper to 5" x 5" and round the top left corner. Attach it over the red cardstock approximately 1" from the left side of your layout. Mat your photo using black cardstock and add over the patterned paper.
3. Add your title using various letter stickers.
   
   
   
4. Add your embellishments (flowers, sticker, ribbon, brads, button) and you are finished!

*Note: I inked the edges of all my papers with black ink before adhering them, to pull it all together.