Travelers Notebook - Top Nine

So of course I jumped on the Top Nine bandwagon

along with everyone else and really

like the combo that was chosen.

It did turn out to be more selfies than anything.

Ah well...

 So switching gears - I jumped over to Bo Bunny because

it had a frame I wanted and those tabs.

And I purchased this from a for-real scrapbook shop 

in North Carolina and just now got to use it.

Of course it isn't complete without some Tim Holtz

and some Heidi Swapp colorshine and Martha Stewart

alpha punch for the title.

Frames and Mixed Media

So I had all of these frames laying about 

and they were all different sizes and colors.

 Therefore, I glued them all down on 8.5x11 cardstock

and gessoed them.

All over.

 And then using the packaging technique

I used some Heidi Swapp mists all over the page.

And then I had to hunt around for some photos and embellies.

While doing that,  I found that I wasn't crazy about the

design/layout but I persevered.

I fussy cut the love out - You've seen it before I know

and I'll probably use it again.

I put together that transparent heart, owl and flower as a premade

and was bound and determined to use it.

 Went back to the wayback box and found these photos

of me, Nick and Shane all about the same age.

I think.

Not quite what I envisioned but it was an experiment

and even though I'm not crazy about it sometimes you

gotta keep going because the end result may surprise......sort of LOL.

I'm surprised I'm not crazy about it- but

no guts no glory.

Studion Calico - more or less.

Did some layering

It just sort of evolved after layering PL cards all together

with no other plan in mind except

I did want a grid design with 3 sets.

 I even added all the embellishments and without

worrying about if it would be too weird

to have a pig on the page.

An adorable pig but a pig nonetheless.

 So after everything was on the page I realized

hmmm where was the title to go and

journaling. Tim Holtz tiny words to the rescue for journaling!

And then, the title just rolled and I found photos of

Miss Amelia when she was a tot (she's gonna be 7 soon)

sheesh, but these photos of her exploring the

beach was a good one to go with the tag
because how adorable is she.

I love these tags and there's more to come.

I know you're excited.

Studio Calico.

Now this is a collage

Got this photo over the wire and love it.

Capsulates a lot.

 This is the kind of collage I'm looking for.

If I had a better memory - this is how it's done in PSE.

But alas, I can't find the videos that were out there with

step by step instructions.

Yeah I'm still whining about that. LOL.

 Love the cute fox going on - another punch 

that my pal Holli has and she's gracious

enough to punch a bunch out for me.

It's a fun page. 

Tossed some mist about and cut down

the numbers ot fit.

Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp mist.

2017 Christmas Card Page

Every year I save my cards the Ali Edwards way

and this year is no exception.

However, every year the cards get fewer and fewer.

Sigh.

This year I decided to fussy cut.

Usually I punch or whack a piece out but some of the cards

were so pretty that I had to just use more of them

which made it a bit awkward when doing 

the page that turned into a double spread - of which

I hardly every do.

I also have a friend that recycles my homemade cards

and the one she sent me this year had my handwriting 

on it and I decided to save it and add to my s/b page.

Love that she recycles my stuff and sends it back.

It's fun!

Anyway, it turned out cute and I'm happy.

The cards with photos were not chopped and are tucked

into the pocket made just for them.

The papers are from my LSS - a company called

Photoplay -  I never heard of this company but pretty all the same.

Using up Pink Fresh

I pretty much used up all the Pink Fresh

from the mfg box I purchased a couple years ago.

Love that.

 Got some layers going on and used some

Heidishine all about

 Little layering clusters..

 And the kidlets jumping.

Such excitement going on.

Love how it turned out - 

Pink Fresh, Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp gold mist.

Pink Polka Dotted Paper

 Say that 3 times fast LOL!!

Anyhoo, managed to work in my homemade tag

with the pineapple and flamingo.

I neeeeed to make more.

 Splattered some mists about and using tiny

wooden and enamel stars, dots

and just for fun threw in some nuvo dots.

Amelia being goofy - love it!!

She's growing so fast. 

Momma captioned this photo that Amelia

wants to donate her locks.

She does have gorgeous long hair.

We'll see how that goes.

Love the transparency letters for a title.

Not as hard to see in real life.

And a doodled border.

Studio Calico, Studio G Stamps

Rearranging things & Scrapping doubles

I had no idea what to title this post.

Well actually I figured it out for this post but going forward because

 now it's an ongoing project.

I decided to change out photos I have sprinkled through

the house of our adventures.

In changing out those photos, there is not a way to 

keep them tucked into the frame when the new pix goes in

so instead of tossing them in a box or out,

I decided to scrap them.

 First up, beautiful pix from Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia

when we were there is 2013.

I was beside myself waiting to get there because

I heard so much about it and

it didn't disappoint.

 Even I, couldn't screw this up. LOL.

Put it on your bucket list.

I did scrap them prior, and they are in the Road trip album

and now they will be in one of my 

regular albums.

Tim Holtz.

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.

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.

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.

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???

Haven't used Primas in awhile

And I love Primas, however, I've had grandsons

and while I'm okay with flowers on their pages, then

there was flowers.

 Thanks to my pal Holli with whom I scrapped with yesterday

and got to shop again at her place.

She has the coolest stuff.

 I actually packed really light in going over to her house

which is very unusual for me-sort of doing a "grab 5."

And in all honestly I did use 4 of them - the stamps I grabbed

just couldn't be worked in.

So I grabbed her flowers and watercolors (that you can barely see)

and commenced to gluing.

She also has an abundance of buttons that I got

to pour through and though using

different ones on the flowers was kind of fun and funky.

I'm really pleased with the page and thinking about

maybe I neeeeeed some primas.

Studio Calico on the rest.

Those two front teeth

And why do both front teeth fall out at once?

It is adorable in the young especially knowing its temporary.

Soooo....

Because of the photo I decided to roll with whimsical

that I really don't do as often as I should

because for some reason in my little head I

felt that the embellishments had to support the story.

Why??

Because.

LOL.

 Since I had nothing to roll with missing front teeth

I found some embellishments I really didn't know what to do with.

And do they work perfectly with Amelia's cheeky grin.

I pieced together those leftover papers from Studio Calico kit

that came together nicely after whacking 12x12

down to 8x8 pages.

Dug around in My Mind's Eye package and

found these fun embellies.

8.5x11 size.

The start of back to school photos

Not going to take up the entire week

and still waiting on some photos from the last 2.

I was also distracting myself as favorite youngest son 

was taking his CDL test.

He passed!!!

woohooo!!

There'll be a page about that.

Started out with my new Studio Calico kit papers.

And man did I dither around.

While distracting myself I couldn't make up my mind

about anything and wasn't that annoying.

 Did some layering here and added the

"wise ole owl" (which you'll be seeing again).

Also used the card that came in the kit

however, these papers came from August kit.

 Love how it all works together.

Brought down the corner and star colors to

this end for the "triangle."

Brought a bit of the red over from the left side.

and that tag is creative cafe. 

I can't believe I still have some left.

The kidlets seem to be excited, but they weren't on the bus yet.

LOL.

Oh and some Heidi shine gold mist.

Happy Friday Happy Moment

Don't know who was more excited about this

mom or Amelia. Mom has been

waiting for a little girl in order to attend this bash.

This Studio Calico paper is perfect for the

Fairy Garden Party and of course Miss Amelia is

dressed for the part.

 Fun layers going on as I picked out gold and pink

to accent the page.

 Lots of fun little doodads scattered about and I'm

in a pearl and bling kind of mood this week.

It'll probably roll into next week too.

How about those gold birds?? and doesn't that bow

make you swoon too?

Love having gold paper around that I can punch

different accents out.

It was fun to do and I love Miss Amelia being a beautiful

little fairy flitting about.