TH Album - Inadvertently did a double spread

That actually go together. 

Who knew.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun with watercolors

and all things (or mostly) Tim Holtz

and it worked soooo well.

 As I was putting this album together I was rolling

along just fine not including photos

until I found this tag in one of TH's packages.

And it went sooooo good with favorite eldest son's photo.

 Because not in this lifetime would I ever do that.

At least not without wetting my pants LOL.

Yet my adreneline junkie FYS goes out of his way

to make me not want to look.

So this double started with the one of the left actually.

Birds.

Birds fly.

My son flies.

And thus began photos in my TH album.

A fun cluster with tags. You're shocked I know!

You may have noticed I'm rockin' the tags

and the clusters with this bunch 

of pages lately. 

It's been a lot of fun!

These tags are soooo cool and I used

the stamp set more than once.

 Love this photo of my favorite eldest son - stole

it off of the internet somewhere.

I'm getting really good at it too 😉

A scrapper's gotta do what a scrapper's gotta do.
Used a glassine envelope to tuck another tag in with some
journaling whining about not seeing him enough.
Just a mom thing. LOL.

Love the mug (both mugs actually LOL).

Love how the page came together and the background "noise"

on the pattern paper suits him perfectly.

Check out his FB page Nick Collins Visuals for

stunning pictures from around the world.

He gets out more than I do.

📷

Studio Calico - more stash bustin'.
Had that word "photograph" in my stash forEVER.

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.

Peek a boo ....

Loved this paper and it I think it really works well

with the photo, so I tapped this little bird 

to assist and that heart is gonna get a work out

because I really didn't think it all through.

 I scrapped this photo a long time ago and

it was basically a page about who the baby was underneath

this towel because seriously there are no hints.

Both my boys had little fat Fred Flintstone feet and

there's no hair, clothes or anything that can date the photo

which would help in figuring things out.

Well I happen to be plowing through my mom's wayback

box and low & behold there were both photos

showing which baby it was - and drum roll

it is Nick, my favorite eldest son.

So in looking at the above photo maybe I could've

added some dodads on there.....

However, I forgot to photograph the entire page before

I put it in the page protector and I didn't

want to pull it out - because I did a slice in plastic

to just slide the to top out so it can be lifted so I apologize

for that.

Love how it turned out. 

Studio Calico with some Basic Grey.

Transparencies on a page

I actually built this page without a photo in mind.

I started with the 12x12 transparency overlay

that is soooo pretty, then 

backed it on a cream colored card stock  with my

tiny attacher and that cream color 

gave it a boldly soft look.

Then I began to build some layers for a photo mat

that in the back of my mind support a

4x6 photo or smaller.

 I didn't know when I'd ever use that adorable cat

from My Mind's Eye so there it is

actually adding a bit of whimsey to the page.

I mixed up the kraft flowers with some Spare Parts

flowers - and love how they layered together.

 Then I had this 4x6 transparency rolling around for awhile

and so glad I finally got to use it to cover

the photo which is a photo of photo from back in the day

so it helped cover some things.

Attaching it with a tiny staple.

Love that transparency and it totally rocks the b&w photo

of Nick and I from waaaay back.

The title is from QK Spicy Chicken and

I'm glad to get back in using my die cuts again.

Studio Calico, My Mind's Eye, Tim Holtz tiny words, 

QK spicy chicken, Spare parts.

I sense a pattern here

In more ways than one -

getting photos out of the box

another pocket page

using up those PL cards that seem to

mutate like rabbits.

The more I use the more I find.

Favorite eldest son home on leave and mom

caught pictures of him relaxing.

I'm also using up a bunch of bits and bobs too 

which is wonderful.

Have a great weekend!

Photos from mom's wayback box

My wayback box is out of control so I decided

to plow through my mom's - it was

a mission for a photo of her and found a treasure

trove of photos of my kidlets as kidlets.

(And I didn't notice that stupid tag moved. Sigh

Says not a quitter under it).

Anyhoo, while I was plowing through the box I found a ton

of photos and these I decided to put together

as a "theme". 

Nick on all of his rides throughout the years.

I thought that was pretty cool.

Of course the pix were all different sizes so putting

them on a mat was necessary.

I put a bit of journaling about his tenacity in learning

to ride, which didn't come easy.

That boy fell off the bike so many times I had to quit

watching because I wanted to make him stop.

But I had to let him persevere and sha-zam - he stopped falling.

Yay!! Go Nick.

Sometimes simple helps with the mojo

Love the banner and glasses which I made

into sunglasses by using

watercolors - sort of like a "mirrored" sunglass color.

I thought black would be too harsh.

Check out that homemade enamel dot too.

 Love the pinwheel and replaced the pearl with *anyone*???

A homemade enamel dot LOL.

 Premade titles say it all and say it all 

really well.

 I layered in some triangles with my rolling stamp.

Then added papers I thought might work.

and wa-la.

Great photo (as always) of my favorite eldest son.

Who needs front teeth.

At the beach.

Smiling.

Crate paper, Studio Calico stuff, Lawn Fawn, American Crafts and Paper Issues Swag Bag.