A pretty boy page

This page turned into a very pretty page for a boy page

and I'm oday with that.

 Love all the do-dads, project life cards and the small touches.

 Love the owl peeking out for a 

whimsical touch.

There is Sam and Lou sitting under a tree

 enjoying a treat on a pretty day.

Love the layers and especially that doily with some

light splatters of mist.

And that wooden hashtag is perfect.

Studio Calico.

Rubber Ducky

Adorable photo with some colorful paper

can't go wrong.

The photo made me smile it was so fun

and typical brother stuff.

 Used some SC art screen ink paint on some

really really really old Tim Holtz grungeboard alphas.

Turned out different.

I have no clue about art screen.

I have sooooo much stuff now I don't use so

I try not to jump on every new thing that comes out.

Gets expensive too and plus I really don't have the room.

But...I like the look.

 Divided the page up with some neat paper and

tossed some mist around.

 And while I was looking through my new stuff.

I found that banner that says "you're the one."

Love it when a plan comes through.

LOL.

Like I have plans.

Studio Calico

One of my favorite designs

That I lifted from Shimelle for 3 photos on a page.

The photos I used are 4x4ish and

having a cluster to the right of them is a lot of fun

Using some WRMK birthday pocket card.

 Studio Calico papers that I bought 2 of this

time because there are always those A-B sides that is so cool

that makes decisions so difficult to use both.

Solved it!

 Sam's third birthday was a spiderman theme

so I used spiderman colors for 

these fun B&W photos and of course those fun stars.

Camping in Cayuga with the grands

First there was swimming...

 Then there was roasting marshmallows......

 Really HUGE marshmallows

 Connor couldn't decide between roasted and raw...

Had a great time. 

Too short.

A crisp, white look sortof

with pops of red and other colors

made me swoon.

Although,

I was really torn on this paper because I really

liked the B-side which is really

cool ledger looking.

However, when I tossed this photo on this polka dotted paper with 

the fun, colorful numbers as a mat there was no debate. 

 And I didn't want to overwhelm everything either.

So I kept the embellies light.

And believe it or not, I love mists, I adore mists,

but I was really going back and forth whether to include 

mists on the page.

 I have also been trying to use that red striped bag

forever. It does have a gold heart emblazoned on it and

I think that was my problem because I have 

issues covering up cool things like that.

 I also doodled the outline.

I know.

I'll give you a minute to recover from your shock.

So Lou's sweet smile is front and center and

that was the goal.

I also love the PL card that I cut down.

I KNOW - I'm just breaking all kinds of issues

that have been plaguing me.

Studio Calico, Spellbinder leaves (I think) from my die cut box.

Those hearts match the card better IRL.

And the mist really added that something extra.

But I do love the crispness of the entire page.

OKay - so if you follow me, you know I have been extremely annoyed

with apple no supporting aperture anymore, so I stumbled

upon Aftershot Pro3 and after viewing a couple

of videos - took the leap.

Anyone use that photoshop? If so, let me know.

Aperture does so many things behind the scenes that don't

need thinking about and keeps a lot of hoop jumping to a minimum

that is causing a great stumbling block for me to

be able to move on.

However, there is going to come a time when Aperture is

going to cease to exist and I need to be ahead of that disaster

so I can access my photos in the future.

I think Aftershot is the closest to modeling Aperture.

Fingers crossed I didn't waste my money.

A rainbow of colors

That is just too fun.

Love the stripes - it reminds me of fruit strip gum.

Is that still around???

I don't chew gum anymore. (sigh)

Anyhoo, used a bit of bazzill with punches, lots

of star punches as you will see.

 That tree die cut has been in my die cut/punch stash forever,

so glad I got to use it.

In full disclosure I did dither about with the title.

I just couldn't decide.

I did die cut a couple of titles that hopefully I'll use later.

One was one of those little alphas that you can do all the letters

in one couple of turns by Sissix.

They were too fat and chunky - but adorable all the same.

In fact the 2 is that alpha set.

The other is lemonade by QK.

Majority is Studio Calico stuff paper and PL cards and that 

yellow transparency.

Aren't those two adorable. 

As you can guess

I keyed the colors from their colorful jackets.

Birthday page without the "theme papers"

I love B&W photos.

They are so much fun to work with because everything goes

and reduces the clash of colors.

Isn't that owl adorable?? From a Halloween sheet that

I've been eking out and using sparingly.

 This adorable sticker came from Studio Calico I think

and when on some shopping spree found that cupcake.

Looks delish.

I did break out the die cut machine, punch and

fussy cut the "title".

 Love the arrows and shock upon shock

had that gray number that was 

perfect.

 The Studio Calico number page really

helped making it a celebration page.

I have so much paper and none of it "themed" really

so it was kinda of neat to do DIY.

Sprayed some SC color theory around just do

do something different.

I hardly ever spray mists anymore,

mostly because my spraying is totally out of control. 

LOL.

This is the third birthday for April - lots of grands in that month

and you got it - another one without a "theme paper"

coming up. If you check here another birthday page.

Finally got that bag on the page

I purchased some bags awhile ago with the intent

of getting them on a page because they

caught my eye and I thought they were cool.

It took forever but ta-da......

I did tone it down with some gesso and I cut the

bag apart because of some bulk.

After I did it, it was like DOH...I could've

left the bag in tact and stuck a tag in it

which could've been construed as predictable

and we can't have that.

Next time. LOL.

 It was sooooo perfect for this page with Chef Lou

and taste tester Sam.

I even finally killed those grey word strips card

(say that 3 times fast).

 And that cupcake has been around a page or three

so I'm finally glad it found a home.

Studio Calico, Paper Issues, thickers.

I had a lot of fun with this page but there was

a lot of rearranging before I was happy.

Fussy cut layers

I was really stumped for a title for the blog so work with me here.

This is a Shimelle collection (the first) and it was

fun to work with because while its about travel

it can be used for 2 little dudes walking through their 'hood.

Anyway the layers just kept rolling and I love 

one of her pages that has those clocks, scales and phones and

cups among other things so I just fussy cut them out

and layered them in along with some wooden hearts and papers.

And that ampersand was a new stamp.

 I love the ledger paper and used the preprinted designs 

to set the photo and layers in.

 The bow is not Shimelle papers but it works so well 

with Sam's coat - so another goodie

out of my die cut box used.

And that ladybug peeking out....isn't that adorable.

And man the sun was bright this morning trying to

photograph this page, but it worked.

Mist by Heidi.....

One stamp is Shimelle's the other is Studio Calico and the

title was a bounce off - whenever I am stumped

for a title my pal April always has an idea - she came up

with winter buddies which was fun......

but it led me to baby it's cold and I love it.

We have a great process - 

do you have a scrap buddy that you can bounce things off?

I miss our cyberscrapping days - 

Big tag and fussy cut

I love big tags and I really don't use them

often enough. This one was

homemade - because the ones I had just weren't

the right color.

The tag works both as a "sort of mat" and for journaling.

 I love the paper issues "I have issues cards" and

this one had a fox on it which works so well here that

I just fussy cut it out.

I'd love to use with the "I have issues" sentiment
but I'm afraid people may not take it the right way. LOL.

 That itty bitty fussy cut fox in the corner there

was tricky - but it worked out.

 I added a bit of stamping here there for background and layers.

This turned out adorable.

Sam is adorable.

Basic Grey.