TH - Another play date with my pal

Holli - we have such a great time.

I'm gonna miss that so I'll have to make it up

when we winter in Florida.

Well - that butterfly is a Tim Holtz die and it's huge.

I gifted it to Holli because well I knew she'd love it.

I felt compelled to use it one last time.
 Love how this page was just an artsy expression.

 And have you found those snarky word strips from Tim?

They are wildly funny and things I would actually say.

Just a very fun, for no reason page.

A laugh is a smile that bursts

I played on this page with some gelatoes and in real life it looks very girly. I was looking for a girly photo to go with.

That's me in curlers and a homemade flannel housecoat in a behind the scenes look at getting ready for the prom back in 1972 so it doesn't get any more girly than that.

I used my water pen and smeared the gelatoes around on wax paper and then smeared them on the page. I even smooshed the remaining gelatoes from the wax paper onto the page. Love the way the gelatoes came out. I also painted the butterflies using the same gelatoes.

Using my Dear Lizzy labels as a title and some leftover papers as mats from my Studio Calico kits made the photo a perfect pick and that photo has been rolling about in the wayback box for a really, really long time. Recollections pearls and some burlap to add some texture as well as gossimer-looking ribbon.

(I sewed back then and made that housecoat. Made a lot of them actually-got my money's worth from that pattern) I also made my prom dress and there is a photo of it somewhere in the wayback box.

U~2 (a title used before I'm sure)

And that's okay because sometimes it really really goes with the photo and sometimes it's all the letters and numbers you have left over. Even if it may be in the same album. Or not.

Let's go with - leftover letters. I need to buy a lot of vowels.

Love the kit this month from Studio Calico. I can't tell you why - it just rang the ole mojo bell and I've been rocking it ever since.

I wish I could say I did something tricky on this page but alas, No. I even used the stamp that came with the kit. Twice on this page.  Love that.

In fact, I only have a pattern paper or two remaining from the kit.

Swoon.

Anyhoo, The papers are SC as well as the wood butterflies (from another kit) Love the mixing and matching. This was quite simple to toss together and I'm good with that. And the frame. Oooo la la. It makes the photo shine. The alphas are thickers of course (not from the kit either). But they kit them a lot so of course why not.

I love this photo. Daddy and Daughter - just says it all.

Nana's yard...

I found the paper I wanted to use but I had to show you the "B" side. 

Its very colorful and has some glitter going on and when I turned it over the "A" side totally blew me away. How completely different they are to be on the same page. 

So to speak.

Can we say STASH!!!

Its seriously cool paper that doesn't get any better than that really.

 Especially for a heritage page.

I couldn't make paper as neat as this. 

You can't see it in the light but there is purple going on in there. Hence, the purple accents. 

I found this photo in the wayback box of course and its meeeeee!!! 

Maybe at eighteen months old since the date indicates my brother's birth month and year. 

I had to figure out who was playing ball with me and I at first thought it was my Uncle Dave - my dad's youngest brother, but he is only 7 years older than me and this young boy looked a bit older/bigger. 

So I opened the ole family tree and found my Uncle Jack was about 10 years older than me. 

Bingo. Went with Uncle Jack. 

I'm kinda bummed the title is hard to find in the photo but it looks good in real life.
I broke out the die cut machine and made the title with QK spicy chicken.
Love that font and used the gray because it worked well with the page.
Should've used a bit darker gray for photographing. LOL.

I found a bill of lading I purchased during a "junking foray".

Love using stuff like that. Its the PA railroad and Edison Light Company.

I then broke out my new smoochies that are in the nail polish bottle and painted

some plain textured butterflies (from April) purple and used some

gray paint to outline them. 

I also happend to have some BG ledger paper, doodle bug and the washi is perfect.

Got carried away with the twine.

I'll chase a butterfly anywhere...

And this guy has been teasing me forever.

We have a flower box in the backyard and firecracker

flowers and/or flora attract Zebra longwing.

(Yeah I looked it up - bing is a wonderful thing).

 There were several pairs flitting about - but by the time 

I changed lenses (I need to learn to be faster)

to my canon 70-300

he was the only left and he was very twitchy.

 He didn't light and land for long and made it tough

to focus on. I've been having trouble with focus

but I can't decide if its the camera or I need new glasses.

Probably the latter.

My favorite eldest follows a photographer Fro Knows and

sent me 2 of his videos. I watched the first one

and it goes through the basics of the camera and getting

off auto and on manual which I have been

doing for awhile but there's alot to know and I

forget something each time. 

SO practice practice practice is the word of the day.

Couldn't resist practicing with the butterfly.

I started with basic settings for gloomy, cloudy and dark but

before I could change any of them to make it

better (because eldest son said it looked to grainy and my ISO

was too high). And that was the whole point because of the weather to 

start there and then play around. 

Butterfly is a fickle critter and I didn't get to play.

However it was a good starting point.

If they're out today I shall commence to stalking again.