Rocking the gold - Rawr

There are times I have trouble working with gold

while others just plunk it down and go on.

Well....

When I saw this photo, the gold word title that came

in the kit was perfect.

And shazam there was the perfect paper too.

Love these three photos of the faces of Sam

who is now five.

He does love his super heroes.

Nothing special going on.

Backed the photos with tissue paper and a frame.

Studio Calico, Tim Hotz words.

Its all about the hearts

 And Miss Amelia has mine for sure.

Love the photos I get from her mama - they

tend to bring out the inner artist in me.

So I whipped out the QK nesting hearts and whacked

them in different Bella Blvd. papers.

I fixed the hearts so I could use the outline and then

also separated them to make hearts.

And found out that the majority of those die cut hearts were too big.

So I broke out the punch and some different colored

patterned paper because the Bella Blvd. all looked the same.

 It also looked a bit to white so I used some watercolors in

gold, teal and pink. Of which the pink you can hardly see.

And because I could I used a gold marker I doodled around the edge

and made some really sloppy hearts.

And those pearls - don't they make you swoon.

I also broke out the QK square nesting die cuts and

anchored them around because I just

felt more was needed.

Of course a girly page wouldn't be complete without gold

hearts and butterflies.

I love the photo and her hairdo and her pose and smile kind of 

remind me of Audrey Hepburn.

To be that poised at 5.

I was a messy little tomboy with a pixie 'do LOL.

All of which resulted in me finally getting to use the "classy" title
from Studio Calico.

I'm having a gold rush totally unintentionally

At the same time I'm having a transparency gala as well.

This is page 1.

Not only that I have some Wilna action going on behind the golden doily.

Gelatoes. She added them to some tissue type paper, matched them to her mists and then toned them down with water.

I didn't do most of that.

The white cardstock has some embossed bumps on it and I spread the gelatoes on and then found some mists that sort of matched. And then I was stumped because it looked odd - to me.  The white c/s is 7.5x7.5 and is backed with some baby paper that I've had forever. It doesn't look like baby paper there.

I found the Hambly transparency while I was looking for something else, and it worked on half of the page, introducing the gold.

WELL...

The gold doily from the Studio Calico kit became a great mat and hid most of the gelatoes. And that's ok. AND then I found I had only ONE golden butterfly. Before I got to the golden doily, having the transparency on there without covering up edge made me crazy so I whipped out some of rick rack from Creative Cafe.  (I'm really using some stash up here-go me).  I'm glad now that I used white because it sort of fades into the background now. The sticko's alphas were perfect. I have never used them before and I like them better than thickers because they don't fly off and stick everywhere but your page). These babies are polite they want until you take them off the backing - oooohh & aaahhh. However since I have A LOT of thickers to use up I won't be going crazy on the stickos.

I found some more golden Hambly paper and made a little tag for writing down the names of all the cousins on the couch. OOOOO that would've been a great title too. I'll have to remember that.