Off the rails scrapbooking challenge - Up up & Away

Its a challenge that covers anything that flies.

I chose my hot ballon stamp.

And a mixed media format inspired by Soaphousemama once again.

It just seemed to fit, although when I was working on the page I didn't have any photos 

much less all the putting pix of all grandkids in mind, 

however, it was awesome the way it worked out.

 I chose the colors from a sunset perspective and once completed I decided

that B&W photos was the only way to go.

It was a fun page to do, AND in full disclosure once again,

 this was my second attempt page-the first page

ended up in the garbage.

I did rescue it and have been die cutting shapes out of it.

(We'll see what happens with them).

I used 2 pieces of kraft paper glued together because I didn't have canvas.

The colors are a mix of gesso, paint, and watercolors and alcohol

ink that has been more or less covered 

because that resulted in disaster

in my mind.

The stamp is from inkadinkado and the alphas are Tim Holtz grungeboard

that I've had forever.

Head on over to Off the rails scrappbooking and checkout the team's projects.

Watercolors, stamping, and paint, oh my

And here's Amelia - the wild child. She's sooo funny and serious. We had a great time on the playground, and being basically grounded by the boot , I thought I was pretty fast in getting some photos. Amelia can be loud and demanding. Knows what she wants and goes after. She can be sweet and also talks in a demonic voice. Her personality blows me away.

So this photo was perfect for a page of its own.

Therefore, continuing in the mode of actually pulling together the stuff I used, but NOT telling how I used it - here ya go! I used the watercolors with my watercolor pen - which I love. (Its filled with water with a brush on the end and you just squeeze the water through). I also mixed and mushed the colors around til I got colors I wanted. I KNOW. Surprised me toooo....

I used a charcol color ink to stamp with and then colored in the flowers. I drew the colors from the photo; the pink and teal/blue. The Yellow background just made the photo pop and some pink enamel puffy dots.

I used a sissix die for the branches that I jazzed up with watercolors as well. Yellow washi.

Studio Calico of course.

OH OH and you can barely seeeee but there is pencil doodling above the photo on the left.

I didn't do that.

What I did do was doodle with a pencil on the left toward the bottom and also from the branches down to the flowers in the corner on the right.

Swoon.

Scrapping an oversize photo

doesn't have to be scary. And using a 5x7 was an after thought on this page.

I decided to break out my MME 6x6 pad and circle scissors. Before I played with the circle scissors I used some gold paint and a background stamp just because I could.

Then I made some circles.

As I was playing around I also used the negative space of the circles from the 6x6 sheet which looked ok.

It looked okay until you tried to put a photo on top and then it had this dorky quality. Because of the way the papers were layered, a smaller photo made all those edges stand out. Which made me crazy.

Short trip.

So while I was digging about in the wayback box I found a 5x7 post card that when I threw it top of the paper - it worked. Like shazam worked.

Therefore a trip to my oversized pictures wayback box (say that 3x's fast) and found this gem.

My great grandparents. I think this is their 50th anniversary photo and if it is they look mighty fine for 67 and 69 years of age. Or the photographer was a photoshop genius back in the day. I did know grandmom and enjoyed her company but grandpop passed when I was 2. Therefore, if this is their 50th, he only lived 2 more years after.

Of course I was stumped for a title until my pal April - who can whip out a title in 2 seconds, said to keep it simple; Great grands. And it was totally the way to go.

MME, bazzil, TH die, primas, studio calico wood veneers, thickers, crafts art paint.