Cherry Dog

My son came home from school with his first assignment, to create a dog.  He could make it look like whatever he wanted and he decided that he wanted to make a cherry dog.  So I pulled out my scrap supplies and he went to work.

The Week 4 TV Challenge over at the Ella blog was to use a commercial as your scrapping inspiration.  I  wasn't sure what commercial I wanted to use.  So I went onto youtube and did a search for popular commercials.  I found a few but nothing sparked any inspiration for me.  Then I saw something about a credit card and that made me think of the "priceless" commercial.  Then a lightbulb clicked on and I thought of these pictures.  I knew it was a perfect fit.

I did a search online for the prices of my items.  Recently I've seen a lot of journaling in paper strips and this seemed like the perfect layout for that style.

I wanted to highlight the amazing smile on my son's face so I decided to create a special mat for the main photo.  I thought I would create some cut out paper with cherries.  I did a google search for cherry wall paper to find a print that I liked.  Then I used the trace feature in my wonderful, amazing SCAL program!  :)  I backed the cut out piece with a bright red to really make the cherries shine.

I then took some of the cherry cut outs from the paper and used them as further embellishments on the page.  Added a bit of glossy accents, and I had some adorable shiny cherries.

I went through several variations of the title color.  I finally decided to keep it simple and use the same colors I already had on the page.  Keeps it very monochromatic, but I like it.

I then cut one final cherry to use as the dot of the i.  A little ink on the edges for dimension...priceless.  :)