Documenting a not so great photo

My mom loved this photo as its her sitting with her favorite doll. If she told me the house - sadly I've forgotten as I had more pressing things on my mind.

The pressing matter was how to save the photo. This photo was in a glass frame and sat for years in a window or near a window. One day the glass broke and being the keeper of all things past I was on a mission to save it.

Sadly because of "said years" in a glass frame, the photo was stuck to the glass and no amount of undu, dental floss or coaxing could get it out. And if it was to come out - it wouldn't be in one piece.

Therefore, I took a picture of it as it was and tried to photoshop - all to no avail. So I decided since my mom adored the photo - just scrap it as it is. And note in the journaling.

You may also noticed that the flowers I handcrafted here - are being used on this page. Love it bunches. LOL.

Of course some of you will know what a "stoop is". Its a sort of porch or top of stairs where you can sit and while the hours away visiting neighbors.

Moving right aloing, I put a strip across the bottom and tossed and glued the flowers on - because I'm brave that way. Then I had to figure out how to use the rest of the space. And a circle worked. Stamping some Heidi Swapp clocks on the dictionary paper was fun - and Miss Connie over at Crafty Goodies does it a lot. I found a journaling page from Creative Imaginations - really old stash, and split it up (since flowers were already in the way). And a tiny American Crafts label for fun as well as some feathers and birds.

Bar Harbor, Me

I put this together late at night and isn't that a scary thought. It did come together rather well.

However, I couldn't figure out what photos to put on the page once the base was completed. I happened to drop a b&w strip of photos on it  and it looked okay. Sort of.

Therefore, back to the ole drawing board by going through the way-back box several times as well as other boxes full of photos and nothing spoke to me. Not.a.thing. I then turned to aperture and started plowing through the libraries.

For some reason my long travels and how to do those millions of photos still stymies me. Sad I know. I'm still dithering about with albums, pages, minis oh my. So therefore, I chose these photos that you just saw on the blog of course and scrapped them just to get the ole ball rolling. As we traveled northward toward Canada - I had to go to Bar Harbor. It was calling my name. It wasn't what I envisioned but I'm glad I visited just the same.

Hopefully getting a vacation destination from one of our trips will break open the damn dam :) and the rest of million photos will now flow.

Here's hoping.

The background is creative imaginations, ac thickers, simple stories, and studio calico for all remaining things, except for the metal do-dad. I have no idea.

Delight

And this photo does indeed delight.

From the backlight, to guessing what is the backlight.

To their smiles.

To their delight in each other.

Did some distressing and wanted the photo to shine.

So I kept things to a minimum through layering; papers,

lace (April's lace) and edging and even the colors. And the Kaiser craft papers
made me swoon. I whacked them up so I could use both sides.
And of course bling.

I had forgotten how delightful (couldn't help it)

the QK alpha emily is. After searching through

TONS (seriously) of thickers that really didn't work with

the vision I had going on I was like oh man, die cuts.

Seriously it was then I wondered when did I get so lazy???

And that wonderful pink flower is total stash.

Anyone remember Creative Imaginations?

I am totally delighted with this.

:)

YOUR challenge over at SNC for Maddawg's Madcap is to use lace on your page.