Continuing with April birthdays

April is a happening month for birthdays

in this family and continuing

on with Studio Calico on this 6x6 page 

celebrates Lou's birthday and his dad's that

happen to be on the same day.

 This paper has a fun "confetti" type celebration look but

I whacked a hunk out of it, therefore it needed whacking down to 6x12.

I love that size.

Used up some transparency stash that I had forever

and totally works with this paper.

It started with a watercolor background

It totally did.

Different shades of blue/green in

stripes in the background that I promptly

covered up.

I know you're surprised.

 Also went into a stamping frenzy with some

Studio Calico birthday stamps and

broke out the magic mesh. I like that stuff and

only have a little left.

Is it still around?

 Also used a lot of different color blues.

I would've love to have a donut here but alas, this cupcake

has been hanging in the stash too long 

so there you have it.

Quintin and Amelia have birthdays within a week of each other

so I thought I'd toss their photos together for

their mom's album and because they looked like fun

together.

Celebrating a birthday

Love this confetti paper from my Studio Calico kit its perfect

for a celebration.

Added a doily to ground everything and I'm lovin'

using them more.

 The embellishments from My Mind's Eye 

work well too and that dog is adorable.

 And I finally got to use that card.

I find those hard to work in a page a times

and used some die cuts from my box.

It's nice having some premade.

Love how it turned out and I included

one of Jill's hashtags.

She totally rocks the hashtags.

A stamped title - I have a ton of stamps I

really need to use more.

Amelia turning 6.

Where did the time go.

Seriously.

I am battling sinus issues that I'm finding really

really annoying.

Totally messes with the mojo.

Fussy cut hearts

Love the different colors of the hearts and

tried to match them with some water colors on the page

using the packaging technique.

Kept it simple with a doodlie border.

Amelia with her muttlings all bundled on the sofa.

She looks soooo older there.

Sigh.

Time marches on.

Another Doodlebug Easter page

Since I've used most of the line for the shakers

that didn't work out and I'm eking out what's left 

for the rest of the grands pix coming in.

Therefore I employed the use of strips that of course,

I laid out previously and it looks nothing like that once

I had to glue them down.

 Love the fun patterns - so bright and pretty and

I used nuvo dots on those punched flowers.

 Sam and Lou collecting eggs.

Looks like fun!

Used another old K&Co title for the page

and a little quickutz swirl for an accent.

Fun Doodlebug Easter page

This is a totally adorable line with lots of

colorful, fun papers.

I had to fussy cut that sweet bunny out as

and embellishment.

 Using the packaging technique with watercolors 

to highlight the papers and another fussy cut emblellishment

that I added bows for a fun look.

 Funny story about the hearts. 

I made a TON of them.

I originally got the papers to make Easter cards

for the grands. I wanted to make shaker cards, hence the

different cut styles.

Well....

they turned out to be an absolute disaster.

I didn't have the correct see-through stuff, using some

"transparency" instead of acetate, there was glue everywhere

and all the sequins and stuff kept falling out.

Therefore, they were scrapped and now I have a lot

of hearts that you may or may not see as photos of the

grands roll in.

Love how it turned out- the "title" is really

older K&Co. 

Doodled around the page with a yellow sharpie.

Annie and Owen lookin' good in their Easter outfits.

Our Easter on a PL Page

We had a wonderful day hanging and dining with family and friends.

The weather was delightful resulting in dining 

on the lanai and a fun egg hunt

resulting in lots of prizes for hunters.

However, they did miss an egg. LOL.

Gladys and I found it the next day.

And I already had the page made and didn't 

want to change the photos.

Tim Holtz words, Pink Fresh, Cosmo Cricket tiny words

Studio Calico PL cards.

Rolling with more stars

Because stars were perfect for yesterday's page 

and today's.

On a side note, I love that little clipboard stamp.

Layers with both the PL card that is so perfect too and

also some layers behind the photo.

 And the stars came with this months Studio Calico kit

 aptly named "written in the stars".

And I used every one of them.

Not crazy about the way the glue wrinkled it

but it may have also been humidity because the stars

curled too. It's been extremely humid lately.

So there's Annie singing her heart out  with what looks

like a real microphone and

I love the photo.

I wanted to make the page fun and kind of girly.

(Her singing reminds me that when I was a kid I'd put

records on in the bedroom and sing in front of a full length

mirror with a hairbrush as a mic. I had the moves but not the voice. LOL).

Black on White & Black

I hope everyone had a wonderful

Easter celebration!

We did and I have put together a PL page,

and hopefully I'll get it photographed tomorrow for your

viewing pleasure.

Love how these photos came together and it became

a drive-by page as Easter edged closer

I had some chores that need doing so the page

stayed on my desk and as I passed by

it sort of came alive.

 I loved the photos on black but I became bored with layering

if you know what I mean but the photos popped.

But I felt the black needed something, so I know Soaphouse Mama

and many others layer big mats on a 12x12

and this turned out perfect- and I used washi tape to 

bump it off the background page.

Favorite youngest son loves his job and his truck

and I couldn't be more proud.

After I put this together, I realized that I added

stars and some milky stars

that he does most of the driving at night.

Wish I could say that was deliberate on my part but alas,

the photos just looked good on black. LOL.

And yellow with black is always a good call.

So this is Studio Calico, with Paper studio, Quickutz and

Spellbinder die cuts.  

Fussy cut flowers and stitching

And thread that of course

goes along with stitching only different.

Love these flowers - they were on beautiful paper 

but I really wanted to use them as an accent

as they were really overwhelming on the paper.

And those wooden hearts make me swoon with the pearls.

 The flowers matched this lovely lined paper that I backed to

some polka dotted paper that I used somewhere else and cut the back out of.

So..... it needed to be a big mat.

Love this photo of my gram and I have no idea why she

has a drum stick in her hand (at least that's what it looks like to me). LOL. 

Her and grandpop came down 2 years in a row for

me and my brother's graduations.

She was my favorite.

I was her favorite.

I miss her.

She was a lot of fun and quirky and
gave good advice.

Studio Calico, doily, pearls.

Layers and Ledger paper

I started THIS page with 2 photos.

It's been awhile since I used multiple photos and didn't

I have fits with this.

I went through at least 9419471347193471098 different

papers, including transparencies AND mats.

 The photos are heritage - and originals and not 

really good photos.

I probably in hindsight could've made them B&W

but where would the fun be in that.

 So I ended up using kraft and beige because 

seriously nothing went.

(I have no clue on the ledger paper - its THAT old)

Including black - black works on everything

except these 2 pictures.

LOL.

 I made 2 big tags after tossing envelopes around

that looked stupid.

And more Tim Holtz that I just kept tossing on.

well because I couldn't stop really.

And I actually used Heidi Swapp Tea mist because seriously

what more can go wrong.

And the TITLE. 

Good grief - that was serious overthinking going on.

I had a pack of kraft alphas with white letters

and it would've been perfect had it all the letters- but nooooo

not enough E's.

I know you're surprised.

So I got a small square punch - punched out and then

used my hero arts alpha and started

doing the letters in white which looked dumb

because the white wasn't white enough.

So I changed it up to black - and well its funky enough

to go with the page.

A flipping Heritage page - that I'm ON.

That's just wrong on many levels, but here we are.

So mom and I had similar outfits

and while I was cruising through the way-back

box there they were side-by-side.

I'm 20 years old there (I think) and mom would be 40.

We totally rocked the outfits.

The way-back box is magical.

Everyone should have one.

I got a tad carried away...

That surprises you I know.

This paper is so much fun - I did another page with it

and then ordered another sheet.

Click here to check it out  as they are both completely 

different - same family though LOL!

I did totally create this page (embellishments and all) without a photo

and wait till you see how well it worked out.

This process seems to be working out way better for me

right now so I'm gonna keep rolling with it.

 The adorable embellishments are Jillybean Soup

and I love the whimsey.
I even stitched down the flappy side. Of course,
the sewing machine got contrary but it worked.

That's Miss Amelia (she's gonna be 6 in April)

sooooo....in perusing through my photos

for something to go with this page after it was done 

her outfit worked perfect.

I purchased the title just yesterday from Michael's

$1.50 bin. 

That was perfect too.

Who knew.

Another sweet 4x4 album done!

I picked this baby up for about $2.00 from Hobby Lobby.

Its Paper Studio brand - and I really love doing 4x4's. 

Seriously.

They make terrific gifts - however, I needed more 4x4

page protectors that I found at Michael's.

So I'm spreading the wealth LOL.

 So most of the stuff I used was Studio Calico and Pink Fresh.

 And bits and pieces I had rolling around

There are about 20 inserts in there - however the last 4 

have just filler stuff in them.

Figured they could toss some photos in if they'd like.

 This one is going to Tom's daughter's family and I'll

be prowling around for another 4x4 buy.

 I didn't show all the photos because there were alot.

You're welcome 😗

I picked out my favorite photos of which

the majority of them are on 12x12  pages or other sizes stashed in my albums.

Studio Calico and Tim Holtz = Heritage

 I made this page without a photo and

then picked one out and decided it needed to be 

another photo because it just didn't look right.

There seems to be going around a lot.

However, as you shall see this one is perfect.

 I seriously got carried away with the embellishments and layers.

And that's a good thing=stash busting.

 Are those buttons not cool?

They are Buttons Galore and I picked up 2 bottles

when I was in Tuesday Morning.

Great place to pick up scrapbooking items at

a real discount.

 I did change the photo from color to B&W and

since it was a photo of a photo its

really not the greatest - and B&W covers all that up.

Supposedly.

Studio Calico paper came from a kit long ago and

Tim Holtz ephemera that I've had for a really LONG time.

I'm still annoyed with mists so I haven't used any.

OH and I added masking tape because it seemed like the thing to do.

About the 2 photos I wanted to use yesterday

I went through my photos in Aperture

and decided to cut some of the clutter and exported them 

out to regular folders and as I was 

looking through those folders I happened upon two

photos that landed together and something sweet

caught my eye - because those photos were never together before.

 So of course I had to make a page and I have

done pages of these photos separately but what caught

my eye made me want to do a page with both.

 These 2 photos are of my gram and grandpop;

the top one when they first started dating or married 

circa 1930 - they were 29 when they married and that was

considered quite old back then.

The second photo is of them about the 1970's some

40 years later and in both photos grandpop has his arm around gram.

I thought it was sweet and it also kind of set a tone

of their casual closeness because they really weren't

overly affectionate in public.

It just wasn't done in their generation so just

that little move means a lot.

I had some leftover flowers that of course had to used.

I mixed up the Studio Calico with the pink fresh tag and a doily.

At first I thought I had too many word strips and

then I got over it.

Seriously can you have too many???

Gingham paper and fussy cut flowers

I really liked both sides of this paper, and had to 

make a decision, therefore I whacked it down to a 6x12,

a size I really love, and fussy cut the flowers out.

After I jumped in and started cutting I realized that maybe

I cut into the wrong half. LOL.

But they worked out.

 Love that mason jar and worked that baby in there

with pieces of a border punch that's perfect.

 I actually had different photos picked out - I came across 2

that are one of those "why didn't I see this before" but

I couldn't make two pix work out and I didn't want to 

get smaller than 2x3 so I had to go on the hunt again for another pix.

Then I found this one of my gram with my 

favorite eldest son. So glad they

got to know each other.

Not a great photo but cherished all the same.

Studio Calico, Hero Arts Stamp, Fiskars punch.

2x2 Black & White photo on a page

Love this paper - not sure what its called

I know its not hombre but the design has a name.

Help?

Anyway, I kept the embellishments relatively simple 

because of the stripes and colors.

 Love this packet of embellies from Jillybean Soup.

I think - they all came apart in the baggie I keep them in.

 Is that flamingo not adorable - or it could be My Mind's Eye.

Sigh. Hate when that happens.

So I love all the layers behind the photo and its an adorable photo.

Annie with hair gone wild.

So cute.

Splashed some mist about and called it a day.

Studio Calico paper.