New Studio Calico Kit came

And I couldn't resist - especially with this

photo. It's so much fun and adorable.

Love the papers and couldn't 

wait to dive in.

Therefore a commercial break from the heritage.

I'll get back to it trust me.

 Love the paper and did a bit of watercolor on the black on white

to bring in the colors I wanted to use.

Gold/Orange and Blue.

 The embellishments were perfect for the photo.

 Except for the viewfinder wheel.

That has to be one of my favorite sissix dies.

I tend to use it alot.

Look closely and you'll see one of my favorite

embellies is not there.

Gasp! I know.

Twine.

How can that be.

Love this fun photo and it came in B&W and

just screamed for this paper.

Love the blues and orangey/golds, a perfect accent.

Notice my homemade enamel dots.

I need more with different colors - I'll prowl the M's aisles and see.

I have to admit there is old SC mixed with new.

The size is 8x8 and going to the parent's album.

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.