Workin' for a Livin' - Remember That Song?

Oh, the 80's...gotta love them!  Big hair, Madonna, valley girls, leg warmers, high school for me...I'm SO glad we can't go back!!  But they WERE fun.  At the time.  :-)  Do you remember the Huey Lewis and the News song?  Workin' for a Livin'.  Well, that's my take on the theme for this week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut. 

The challenge, in honor of Labor Day, is to "create a project that has something to do with work or a job, congrats on promotion, retirement, etc."  I had a tough time thinking of something to scrap....then I came across a picture of my oldest son shoveling snow last winter.  We didn't have a lot of snow, but we did have a few big storms.  He took it upon himself to shovel our front walkway while his dad was at work, so dad didn't have to do it when he came home.  That was real work.  Don't you love it when your kids do something nice without being asked???  :-) 

I used the sketch and color combo from the current challenge at the Peachy Keen Stamps blog to layout my scrapbook page...I turned it upside down actually.

Now here's my page.  I glittered the snowflakes and the word 'snow', cuttlebugged the snowman with dots and spots, cuttlebugged the fallen snow with divine swirls, and used stickles on the snowman's nose and earmuffs.  I used my Gypsy to make the earmuffs by welding an oval to each side of a jumprope, sizing them to fit my snowman's head.  I clipped the jumpropes handles off after cutting the image on my Cricut.  Woo hoo!  Didn't want his ears to get cold!!  Oh, wait...do snowmen even have ears???  :-)

Recipe

Patterned paper - atd Year Book paper pack

Cardstock - Recollections

Snowman - from Doodlecharms, Cuttlebugged with spots and dots folder

Fallen snow - welded piles of straw (from Every Day Paper Dolls) together, Cuttlebugged with divine swirls folder

'snow much work' - from Mickey Font, welded with my Gypsy

earmuffs - 2 ovals from Every Day Paper Dolls welded together with 2 ovals from George and Basic Shapes

White Gelly Roll pen for stitching

fine glitter

orange peel Stickles

googly eyes
Pop dots - popped up the title and the snowman