Monday, June 10, 2013

Traveling gnome & Center field

 And then there is Lou dressed up as the traveling gnome.

I was hoping he'd get on down to Florida.

But alas, not yet.

However, he does look adorable in his snappy duds and beard. IN the woods. A true gnome. Although I'm not sure gnomes are all happy and cute.

Lou is sitting in the grass in a ball cap and since dad is quite the Yankees fan I decided that a baseball reference would be perfect.

Practicing all my layering and paper matching. Traveling gnome is 8x8 for the parents and centerfield is MINE all MINE. bwahahahaha!!!

I love the cloud paper and thought it would be overwhelming but it worked out perfect especially with the woodsy scene in the photo.

It's nice to work in different sizes. Although I'm keeping the parents to 8x8 for ease of mailing. And I really need to commence to mailing because they are piling up for all involved families.

I also neeeeeed more photos.


Charmed & dangerous and Seriously Silly


 Love these two. They are so funny to be around - always up to something and just being boys.


Quintin with the sweet smile and coutenance could charm a snake right out of his skin.

You have to be on your toes at all times.

Love that I get a peek into their personalities.



Get the two of them together and well trouble and hijinks abound. That's how it goes down with brothers.

I'm thinking mama has her hands full.

Two handsome boys - she needs to break out the big stick to beat off the girls.

You can never start that too early.

Studio Calico and Authentique rules the day with a mix of older papers and tags. Nothing tricky on the pages - as I find that in scrapping for others straightforward pages are good so that no one is afraid to journal and put the story on the page. Of course if I do get tricky - sticky notes with lots of instructions guide the way.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Perfect form....

Never mind that daddy is showing Mz. Amelia, warrior princess nerf weapon safety, proper stance and aim.

Look at her form.

Her little body suit, adorable legs and those shoes and Amelia standing tall.  And then those Silver maryjanes. The perfect posture. Like Seriously.

OMG.

Tis enough to make you swoon.

Love the entire package. She's a hoot and her tiny little girly features and mannerisms just slay me. Amelia is growing up so fast. Somebody needs to put bricks in her body suit and slow her down.

Like now.

Most of the page, actually dare I saw all, is from a Studio Calico kit. I really need to pay attention. Or not. Well I did add some punched pieces. "love you to the moon and back" paper.

SO true.


Happy Birthday to Shane with
his new friend Liberty.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Completed 2 challenges over at SNC....

 I love 2-fers. Honestly I didn't plan it that way.
It all started out with the pattern paper challenge.
1 floral, 1 striped, 1 polka dot, 1 checked - I substituted
ledger paper for checked. And why not.
And as I laid it out with 6x6 papers - stitched
added some rubons over the washi tape and added the circle
with transparency and mats..
It did scream heritage.
Which led me to the afore photo. 
And then the journaling challenge.
 And how smooth did that work out.
You see I know who's in the photo - my grandparents.
I know nothing else.
Well except its spring or their clothes look springy.
This is in Pennsylvania- 
 And they are all decked out.
And not well off.
And they did get married in June.
(did you notice the pearls? pearls are the modern
stone for June). Clever eh?
Butterflies for spring....
And in putting all what I know together,
I'm assuming this could've been
their wedding day.
Since there is no one that can tell me. 
I can only assume. 
Sadly.
Get those stories while you can and document them.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Fashionable rain gear

Annie looks totally adorable in her Minnie Mouse raingear. Love all the color and snazzy designs.

In order to live up to all the goodness, I broke out my new background stamp that my pal Holli gave me and attempted to use my gelatos. For some reason they didn't work with the ink (it smeared and the paper was "treated"), so I broke out the watercolors to add some zing.

Love how it turned out. IT'S PPPPIIIINNNKKK!!!!!

Punched out some flowers, and the swirly things in the middle are punched from leftover paper (it was originally 8.5x11) and is now 8x8. Added a bit o'bling, twine, washi, pinwheel (ooooo) and a cool notebook paper journaling card. The transparency softens everything up a bit.

It also happened to work out for the Ad/Art challenge over at SNC. It is a poster of the "when it rains it pours" girl for iodized salt.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Maddawg's Madcap at SNC...

 GLITTER.
I know glitter can be scary because it has a mind
of its own and goes everywhere.
And because I'm challenged in ways like that I
can assure you it need not be that way.
 I have the Martha Stewart glitter and its packaged like
a little salt shaker with cute little bottles of glue
that goes where you put it.
So you shake it out over the glue and tap it off.
and wa-la a bit o' the glitter on your page.
You don't need a lot. 
Sometimes just a little to make your point.
This banner is made out of gelato when I was playing
with the product with my pal Holli. 
I also played with some embossing dies and added
the glitter with some mist splats.

So the maddawg madcap is GLITTER IT UP!
SNC is a friendly bunch just hanging out
scrappin' and chattin'
and challengin'.


Sunday, June 2, 2013

Layering on - A double dawg dare.

First off, babybeast is momma's nickname because Grammy would never think
that sweet, adorable, loveable, Amelia could possibly be 
a babybeast. LOL!
I started this page with the red mat and built the rest around.
I liked the way it popped the photo.
I also loved this paper from Studio Calico kit and
this Authentique is perfect with it.
 Love washi tape and used it at the top and side to anchor the paper layers.
I then decided that something more was required.
I dug way back in stash and its either old Basic Grey or 7 Gypsies
rubons that I found. It was a long piece that I cut up at
various intervals to fit and layered it over the washi tape.
 Well. I had some bling laying about and hadn't used it like forever.
There were diamond and black. Swoon.
So I cut that up to fit. 
And then butterflies instead of flowers.
 It's been awhile since I did really girlie. In this corner I didn't use
the washi tape, but it looked blank so I added the rubons, bling and butterflies
and it balanced out the page. I also splattered some red mist about.
Back to the red, I love the saying on that strip from Authentique
sticker sheet  and it covers
up some goofy gluing I did and the hearts have the 
same function - a goofy corner that bothered me.
Then -I layered the title on top of everything
And in red because it just balanced the rest of the red out.
I had to resort to QK katie font because I didn't have enough red letters
and none that could genetically modified, nor were the white ones
I had the correct size. It was kinda fun to break out the dies.

So after a long and windy ride -
YOUR CHALLENGE IS TO LAYER LAYER LAYER!