Cutting apart cut aparts

We are back from the cold northern part of Florida

and its good to be home.

Thanks for your prayers for Shane - he is doing very well.

I'm so proud of him.

This photo was orginally being scrapped as a 6x12 and

what a disaster that turned out to be.

Somehow the gesso and watercolors I used on that

base paper looked well-stupid, and

there was no fixing that

which bums me out because I really love the paper -both sides

and that is why it was to be 6x12.

Anyway - I "scrapped" it (literally) and

began again after I returned home.

I found some Shimelle papers that I started for a page 

that somehow was tossed aside.

I seem to do a lot of "scrapping" yunk yunk.

The Shimelle papers really seemed to rock with the Studio Calico mats 

that I had glued to the photo - I then

added a few more touches and wa-la, mojo has somewhat returned.

I really liked the you and me from the cut apart sheet

but alas, it was too big to use on the page

So I fussy cut the & and whacked down the you & me

and wa-la, a lovely title that fits perfectly.

 That red hatch marked papers behind the photo looks

in real life more orange then red, until you

use orange.

And I wanted that title - so I just added more orange

stuff to pull it together and make the orange title less lonely

- and  then noticed the inking behind on the base page

is the same sort orange-red as the mat paper

so it really all works together.

And whacking it down - perfect fit.

 However, AT this point if it didn't work together

I was rolling with it anyway - because

seriously, is this gonna matter 100 years from now

if it lasts that long.

My new intention is to not sweat that kind of stuff.