Halloween pages

Instead of stretching them out I decided to

just roll with all of them...

So first up is 8.5x11 of Sam and Lou

(Simba and a witch)

So adorable.

Did you notice the color of the paper matches

Lou's witchy face?

Love that.

 Miss Amelia decided to be a cat.

She has some homemade spiders going on -

buttons, cardstock legs and goofy eyes.

Nothing says spooky like that.

Her paper maybe Echo Park (not sure) I mixed

a bunch of lines here. So my bad.

 Next up is Owen and Annie and if 

they hadn't been standing side-by-side I would've

never guessed Owen as Michael Jackson.

And Thriller is perfect.

They totally rocked that.

Got some G45 going on - Fussy cut the title which is

perfect with MJ's & the witches look.

We are headed out again in the RV - going to see my dad

in Tennessee and then slide up the Mississippi 

River again checking out the blues and food.

Also hoping for some pretty fall trees but I'm thinking

we're a bit too late for that. 

Incoherent word stamping

because well sometimes it just

works out that way.

Especially when one stamps AFTER

one puts all the stuff on the page.

One can only hope one learns from this experience.

Uhuh.

 And then there's a touch of green.

It just seemed to work out especially when I popped

a flower on it from G45 that was

in my die cut box

and didn't that quite marry the colors together

because I really wasn't sure what colors to do.

 Yup. 

I totally need to rethink the whole

stamping when the paper is blank.

 Since my white mist was really lame,

I used white enamel paint diluted with some water

to splat the about. They're hard to see here
but in real life it looks really cool.

It was fun with 3 photos and I didn't realize

one was landscape hence my design.

Its quirky and fun.

Lou having a ball!!!

The last homemade tag found a page

Whew!!

Love that I completed that goal.

 You guessed it - the orange flowers tag.

 I did add a bit more to the cluster to bring it on down some.

 The black strip was originally longer - but it looked dumb as it 

became blank when I decided I wanted to 

highlight Annie's 3-year old picture in the frame.

it does go fast doesn't it.

The butterflies and birds were punched from a big blue flower

that looks like the orange flowers - only blue.

I thought I could wrangle 3 butterflies out of it but alas

one had to be a bird.

Total mix of papers - 

from Bo Bunny to Graphic 45 to Studio Calico.

My go to it seems my Kaiser Craft collection of goodies.

Working with some really wild papers

This was actually the first try on working with the Graphic 45 papers

for my project over at OTR. I just wasn't feeling it and that's when I scrapped

this page and then created this page.

I do scrap by the seat of my pants, however, I beginning to love the 

challenge of reviving train wrecks.

Since I've been resusitating train wreck pages I figured I'd give this a go.

Especially since I had already had the mists and paints on the page by 

trying to add some texture with an onion bag and drips.

 Since there's so much drama in the background I decided 

some neutrality was called for.

I just couldn't decide how I wanted it to go.

I love rick rack and I love white. 

But...............

 I also decided that making my own die cuts was the way to go as well.

 What you don't see is that I did die cut some white

because the palette seriously needed a break in the color action.

 I also broke out some punches as well because it was fun

and fussy cut some big flowers for "filler."

I did add some liquid pearl that I'm still thinking about.

Love the pops of white and it was totally fun making my own embellishments.

Reminded me of the "old" days. LOL!

The doilies are Studio Calico and alphas - Basic Grey

the rest is Bohemian Bazaar.

And I have more where that came from.

The photo is of my gram and grandpop back in the day when 

they were dating - maybe. 

I'm just guessing its about 1927 because they were older (29) when they married.

Here they look young and in love.

And it lasted a long long time.

Color challenge page for October

This is my take on the color challenge over at Off The Rails Scrapbooking!

It was fun working the challenge out using graphic 45 

Bohemian Bazaar paper.

I have to admit I was intimidated by the wild colors

however, that's what made it fun.

I fussy cut the flowers from one of the sheets, and dug out

of my stash those big "flair" (remember that line?) colored flowers.

And turned it into a heritage page!!!

One of my favs!

Sneaky peek on the October Color challenge!

Fun challenge!!!

Awesome colors!

Unveiled at OTR!!

Pssstt another heritage page.