Tongue in cheek - Tres Chic

Love to make fun titles and this photo was perrrfect!!

Got some mixed media going on and I may

have even lifted my ban on mists - Heidi Shine pink and gold.

Only way to roll.

 Got a bit of Nuvo dots going on...

and doodled around the page.

 I really wondered when I would use a title like this.

Love how it turned out.

Studio Calico, Paper Studio (HL) die cut.

Annie girl decked out for a ballgame.

I just love this ant paper

that seriously, who loves ants really LOL!

Anyway its totally cute and

since I didn't have a picnic photo to go with

which would be totally too predictable.

So.....

 So what goes well with black and white?

RED.

I love red. 

It's my favorite color but you wouldn't know it

by looking in my closet.

Love this photo of Annie and Owen in the woods

and Owen giving Annie a brotherly smooch.

Since I couldn't find the word smooch the size of kiss

well........there ya go.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, Spellbinder die and punch.

4th of July cards

Yea Yea I know it's early but since we may be on the

road during this holiday and I love making

and sending cards to the grands,

I decided to have them ready and just dropping them in

the mail wherever we may be.

We are heading out sometime in June maybe - so I'm also

putting together my scrappy supplies for the road.

It's quite interesting.

Kraft, my sunburst punch for fireworks and Studio Calico star & heart stamps.

Love grows here-Studio Calico Stamp

Love this paper and went a bit old school here with

the gold topping the paper as a layer.

It was plain so I did some gold stamping over it

with a circle background stamp

to give it a bit of dimension.

Love the heart die cut (however annoying to punchout)

It's just cool.

 Spread some butterflies around with some

little flowers and enamel dots.

 Had fun with the stamping and used some

navy blue to tie it all together.

Sam being dapper in his cool hat and Easter outfit.

Love this page - may be a bit 'girly' 

but Sam can handle it.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz die cut.

Privileged to be in on the Studio Calico Sneak Peeks

In case you didn't see my Instagram (shameless plug).

I totally neglect instagram and I need to be more on top of it.

Just one more thing LOL.....

mostly to remember.

I put my name in to participate in the sneak peeks and was
 soooo surprised to be picked this quick.

I signed up for the scrapbook main kits and they sent

snippets of the papers and a stamp.

I couldn't help but make a page.

I loved those 2 papers right away and used the stamp....
I can see it'll be a well used stamp.

8 inch circle page

You can only do so many squares and rectangles when you

just have to break out of the box.

I did stitch around the edge to cover up my lousy

cut job with scissors.

 And doesn't that bow make you swoon.

Love the doily and kept things simple.

The title and hearts are from Pink Fresh.

And there is Amelia with her pals Tuesday and August snoozing.

Studio Calico, Pink Fresh, die cut bow.

Using one of my favorite designs for 3 pictures

And its Throw back Thursday from the wayback box.

Love the gold stars and transparencies. 

I always have trouble using small piece transparencies.

It's 3 photos in a horizontal line across the page

backed in a solid paper with colorful strips.

Old school.

 The are adorable pix of my favorite eldest son playing with

an oversized Mickey Mouse ball with his memaw
in the "yard" behind my apartment.

I really love this pattern paper and its perfect for these photos.
Nick also didn't stop till he picked that big ball up.

All Studio Calico except for the die cut arrow and stars.

Really big letters for a title

So the oversized title works really well 

with the blue bird and heart. 

 Also used a black & white and color photo of Sam

with his adorable smile and cute hair 'do.

I reused the paper from his brother's page.

Did some background stuff with a rolling stamp and some mists
which still challenges me for some reason.

Love the big title.

Love this paper with 6x12 size

This paper is very fun, I love the bright colors.

I changed up the size because of the size

of the photo which is 3.5x5 it stands out more.

 I kept the embellishments simple and

backed everything on navy blue card stock.

Adorable photo of Lou and I love the jaunty tilt of his hat.

I just love this paper

From Studio Calico and couldn't wait to use it.

It is just sooooo cool and the pencil scribbles

totally rock.

Something so simple but I wouldn't ever think of 

doing scribbles.

Mostly because I don't think my scribbles would be that cool.

 Which is silly because how can you screw up a scribble LOL.

I wanted to keep the embellishments down 

so the paper could be seen.

I also used some die cuts that I had made for a previous

page that didn't quite make it.

 Some wooden embellies and the A for Annie.

I decided that it would be cool as a "bathing, swimming, maybe

beachy" type paper and found Annie with the

perfect bathing suit.

The title is from Pink Fresh.

Last page for NSD scrapping frenzy

And this page works with frenzy so well.

In the still not overthinking it and starting to adhere and plunk

I took a time out to work in a 'stampede' with Creative Cafe

and Studio Calico stamps

because kraft paper can be so....well boring.

 However it works really well with Tim Holtz stuff, a Shimelle globe and

the story. Of which you will see I needed added

room for the story going on with this.

Here is my dad setting up another train platform.

He goes all out - the tracks will be laid, 

towns will be built and communities established.

And its fun to be the engineer.

4th page for NSD - On a roll

Love this fun happy paper and it really worked

well with some diecuts as well.

Trimmed it down to 8x8 for mom's album.

 Did a fun cluster at the top and since I started NSD

I've been trying not to overthink things so I decided 

to keep that thought rolling.

I found it gets better as I go - but I haven't reached

the level of adhere and plunk like Adele

over at Inky Quill.

Fussy cut those hearts out and happened

upon those chipboard words that are really fun

and don't the colors work out well.

Funny how that works when its all in a kit or same line.

Studio Calico and some die cuts from

the previous cut die cut box.

Looks like everyone is snacking but Tuesday.

I'm sure some sharing was going on.

When you can't find that perfect paper on NSD

These photos came across the wire just in time for NSD

and became 3rd in the line of pages.

I did print smaller photos and a 5x3 and then I searched

my entire box of papers (which is quite small by other

scrappers standards) and while I found possibilities

(that I will keep in mind for mom's album) 

they just didn't float my boat.

So...

 I blew that baby up to 8.5x11 and shazam.

What a gorgeous pix and seriously her poise.

I don't have that poise yet.

Miss Amelia all dolled up for a dance.

Not using a lot of stuff so as not overwhelm, I love 

how this turned out. The photo blown up

is okay at this size for an iphone in low light

but it still doesn't take away from the overall 

look I wanted for this beauty.

Also, I put a smaller insert photo in there

that looks pretty cool.

My Mind's Eye, Michael's butterflies and a doily.

2nd Page for NSD-Another Easter page

I did hold this paper to use for the gang in

this photo because there is a girl in there and this

is seriously girly.

The boys there are totally manly enough to deal.

Again, mixing up Jillybean soup and Doodlebug was a win.

 I really love these colors and I feel they represent 

Easter colors totally.

So the Easter bunny brought a totally different haul

to this mob. Accent on toys not candy.

Probably a really good move to keep the level of hi-jinx

to a mild roar - no sugar highs LOL.

(I'm sure some candy was involved-somewhere)

And wa-la 

Another page.

Got a slow start on NSD with the mojo

I didn't plan on NSD, it just happened.

I finished a gift album between laundry, vacuuming and

general cleaning and found I had some time

on my hands.

As I was looking through my download folder I

realized there were some pix that were NOT scrapped.

Oh the horror.

 I started out slow because I found that I didn't

have a whole lot of Easter paper leftover....so adjustments

needed to be made. 

And the paper was kind of little-kid-looking and

these guys are a bit older so...

more adjustments needed to be made.

I therefore sparingly used the kiddy papers and added

some old Jillybean Easter stuff I had stashed

and some die cuts and wa-la

A page.

Connor rounded up the eggs.

More magic from the wayback box

Love it.

So in looking for something else (I know you're surprised)

I found these photos of Shane & Nick (below)

and weren't they adorable as kidlets.

 So in some places I used the same cards because they

worked and these pages are front to back
so there ya have it.

Man time flew by sooooo fast - it seems like yesterday.

Love how this turned out.

Love that they are scrapped.

A couple of stories have been noted but for the

most part these are school photos.

Sadly, not all had dates on it however, there were a ton

in the package so I'm sure somewhere notes were made.

I have no idea on the cards except some are Studio Calico,

Paper Studio die cut words, MAMBI, Cosmo Cricket and Tim Holtz.

Everyday photo

Using Studio Calico again and those adorable buttons galore.

And of course, the Heidi shine went berserk.

Sigh.

Used up a little piece of vellum with hearts too.

 AND bonus round, the square with "home" on it

 with its thick chipboard got on the page.

And that camera is sooooo adorable.

 So here's Sam either ready to leave

doesn't want to leave

or doesn't want someone to come in. 

LOL.

He's totally adorable in his winter coat and hat.

Tried something a bit different for me design wise.

I like it.
I tend to really overthink things.

Big Sigh over the splats when I first splattered

but they look quite good now.

Take note-Play on words

Yunk Yunk. 

And......

I always wanted to learn how to play the piano but alas

'twas not to be.

However, its soooo cool to me when kidlets start young.

 So, of course being really obvious, I used music paper.

Also really obvious I finally got to use my "note" die cut and punch.

Because why not.

And kept it simple with the focus on Lou playing.

I jacked the title from a cut apart I saw that was for a planner. 

I would've loved to use the cut apart but it
just didn't work.
Also a bit different style going on.
I like it.

Studio Calico, music paper- Marah Johnson-creative cafe (Ha!

told you it was old). 

Love to stamp

 Although I'm not very good at it - I soldier on.

And I have ALOT of stamps that for some reason get

used once or twice and then maybe never.

I think its because I don't want my pages to look alike 

- well doh- they do eventually look alike anyway because

of the style one tends to fall into.

So.............more stamps, hopefully.

 So rolling with using every stamp in the pack technique

so none feel left out I clustered them around the page.

I even cut out those pins because I never really know what to do with them.

Yes you are seeing a lot of circles and doodling around the borders
 on my pages because

for some reason they're working too.

I also basically have two titles - one more for

maybe stating the obvious and I didn't want it to feel left out

with all the other stamps being used 

and then there was that Pink Fresh title that just

had to be used too.

Rolling with Studio Calico - hoping to use up this kit before

the next one comes.

And there's Sam rocking the legos.

Using diecuts for this page

I have an array of sissix and quickutz dies and

decided - why not. (also punches)

There are times - alot of times, actually, I can't find or don't

have in my possession the

premade embellishments that I want

or that go with the photo/page I'm creating so

I've been digging into my stash.

 The generic ones can be precut ahead of time and I do

have a box full of them.

Sometimes they work- sometimes they don't either. LOL.

So I do cut out white - they seem to work best and

then "jazzed" these up with some watercolors because

they appeared too "stark" for this page.

 And these buttons - are sooooo cool.

Love all the goodies you get in the jar.

These are from Buttons galore and this jar

comes with all these colors, the sequins and those

itty bitty glassy thing up on the flower.

Tossed some mist about.

 Here's Annie and Lucy taking a great photo.

They never take a bad pix.

(which is totally annoying to those of us that do LOL)

Studio Calico, Bazzil cardstock.