Photoplay Christmas papers

From my LSS, along with some do-dads.

I fussy cut the banners out from some banner papers

and love how they look on the page.

As well as that moose.

Thanks to my pal Holli who keeps me supplied.

 Went a bit of old school since the papers

were busy to highlight the

collage of photos.

I have been playing around with PicCollage ap

-they do have some free collages you can road test but

you it doesn't allow you to make many changes.

Anyone else use it???

Love to hear your comments.

Anyway cuteness overload on the grands on Christmas morning.

Banners and mixed media

I am really on a mixed media roll this week, here I

used molding paste and paint for the "stars" and

ink and stencils for the dots.

Of course the packaging technique came into play using

green and orange mists because I felt the brown and grey were too dull.

These are the photos I had in mind for Monday's page

that just didn't quite work out.

 For some reason I only mixed media half the page and felt the

bottom looked really plain - even with 3 photos so.....

banners. A mix of triangle and fishtail.

 I did get inspiration by watching a ton of Missy Whidden's videos.

I've been binging on videos since I got home.

She uses different mats for each photo.

I found I like that.

I did use a quite obvious title but hey

sometimes you just gotta roll
with it.
Studio Calico, Basic Grey, Paper Issues,
Tim Holtz and Crafters Workshop stencils.

Last kit - not done at the crop

And this one as well I kept to the script.

It was fun.

Pinks and greys and black.

Simple Stories - 

I'm almost done with my 6x6 pack.

The teal with arrow cut out was used on another page

and that's a fairly new punch and its sooooo adorable.

You'll be seeing it around.

 Broke out the Paper Issues swag bag and a Shimelle sticker.

It is a perfect fit and makes a great subtitle.

I don't use subtitles as much as I probably should as
they do bring a bit more insight and can also add to the journaling.

 Used my last pink and grey bow - more stash gone.

Yes there's more stash - no worries there.

One day when the mojo's low - I'll die cut and assemble some more
of those sweet bows.

Love having them pre-done.

 Love this photo and Amelia is quite the fashion diva.

And there is her sidekick keeping her company.

I made some fishtail banners, still using some layers and mats behind the photo
and I love that it gives a different edge to the page.

I didn't weave them because no one would see since it
would be behind the photo
and I'm not really good at the weaving thing.

I love how they look on the page.

Studio Calico, Simple Stories round it out.

Check out my tutorial at Off the Rails Scrapbooking!!! Its actually up now on OTR...

What does a lousy photo and a sketch or two

WITH some flags/banners

have in common???

Head on over to Off the Rails Scrapbooking and

read all about it!!!

JUST SAYIN...

It appears I need a visual aid for time zones.
My bad. :|

Ready to fly...

Love getting instagrams or iphone photos of the grands direct to my phone. And usually said pix get the mojo flowing.

For example, this baby came in yesterday (or now the day before) and that same day a page was done.

All done in scraps. 8x8 makes it easy to do that because the base was a scrap. The only malfunction was when I used permanet adhesive to adhere the papers I had the flowers upside down. No worries, I flipped it around which changed the design/layout sort of. I think it worked out better now in hindsight.

I also had a peek at Mz. Ashli's page Nice kitty where she used dots. I didn't do that. But she did use die cut circles behind  her 2x3 size photos. What I did instead so I wouldn't be an exact copy cat, I used a QK die cut of scalloped rings and stuck them behind the photos and in some areas popped them up.

I know. Pop dots know no bounds in creativity. LOL!

Saw banners somewhere that had been punched out, so I did the same with a small heart punch. Then had a couple sparkly hearts left over from the MAMBI sparkly alphas.

Mama also said that she expected to be able to fly once the wings were donned. Grunting and groaning trying to fly "like Tinkerbell" she said. Well Grammy may have gotten the wings but she didn't promote any Tinkerbell flying. Darnit.

And would you look at her pretty blonde hair that I'd pay big bucks to have.