TN - Christmas and Grandkids

Using some Tim Holtz and Hip Kit club stuff

I made a double spread.

Combining most all the grandkids in a 

couple of photos.

I actually jumped around in the notebook 

to find papers that would be perfect with the theme.

Looks like everyone was ready for Santa's visit.

TN - It's been completed Sortof

I have found a couple more I forgot that need to be added.

Soon.

Working on those pages now. 

The Endeavor Shakedown Cruise as titled

you will see later.

I was gonna drag these out for a week, but it 

didn't make sense.

You're welcome!

 When I got to these pages in the book you may

or may not notice the thickness because I was

carried away by dimension.

It was at this point that I felt that dimension had

to go by the wayside.

 So these pages are a bit different.

I used stamping - that didn't go well on the above page.

I'm okay with that.

 I also tried to make as many 2 pagers as well and

employed the use of all that washi tape

I have and hardly used.

 Love that Tim Holtz bird stamp.

 I wanted a variety of alpha styles for the fun of it.

and I actually did most of the journaling

with Tim Holtz words.

 Using a Tim Holtz spilt coffee stencil and

then added a sticker and fussy cut

the cup of expresso (I'm going with because I don't

have a coffee mug)..

It was good coffee and liked that I got a sticker.

 Best BBQ ever had to be documented, eating at Jack's

twice. Nashville at night is a total honky tonk happening.

More washi tape and matched it up with

some cork alphas - I kinda like it

The stamps were fun to do and I finally got

to use some of those goofy puffy stickers.

 I did a white wash with watered down white paint on

the cork stickers as well as some kraft paper

to make it matchy matchy.

Every now and then I need some matchy matchy.

 It's been fun using up stash.

 I feel I was way more creative being home because

I had way more stuff and I could

actually use my wafer die cuts.

 Love the down by sea look of it.

 And you can never go wrong with googly eyes.

 Again, with Tim Holtz using his arrow stencil.

I daubed black ink over them, traced

with a black pen and then decided to not 

fussy cut them out.

 I really like how they turned out an felt

the arrows were all that was needed.

 The next title says it all.

The wooden nickel is from Patrick Henry's estate

but it just worked here.

AND TA-DA the finished product.

I felt the flamingo was required because

we do live in Florida.

And here is the thickness and it was making

me crazy toward the end of the book when trying

to scrap.

Sideways view.

So going forward I will need to think really hard

about using so much dimension in these

books. While I do love dimension, I really had a

great time creating these last few pages because for me

I had to think out of the box.

TN page - Chat with CaraLYNN

My niece and I got connected when she

appeared on messenger for kids.

And we had a wonderful chat, in fact, so awesome

it had to be documented.

Below is a photo of said beautiful neice

she sent to me in the chat so I could make sure it was 

really her.

O and if you're wondering about the spelling out

of the name. WELL...

she does have my name 😍

 I screen shot the chat because I needed to.

Shrunk them down and printed them by 3's

on 4x6 photo paper.

(I didn't think to use regular paper)

It's on that brad - from waybackintheday.

and then popped on some foam backing for easy reading.

 And that hip kit club bunny was to adorable

not to use.

Below are the screen shots of the actual conversation

maybe not all in order but hey.

Hip Kit Club, Studio Calico, watercolors.

TN - Another 2 page spread

I may have mentioned a page would be made of our

tour of the guitar factory and ta-da

here it is.

Two pages mostly because I had the badges we wore

for the tour and a map I wanted to include with the 

photos went to the other side.

 There are A LOT of photos and I think I narrowed

it down - I took a photo of every instrument

they make so that works and

 a famous person has to be included along

with that story.

I adore that little clipboard and that tag

perfect!

HipKit, Studio Calico, Recollections c/s, Tim Holtz, Pink Fresh

TN - Hidden Journaling

Was able to meet up with Favorite Eldest Son

and had a wonderful visit.

Dined at the Red Arrow Restaurant and

hung out at our new home.

Because of the size of the photo I 

just tucked some journaling in that envelope

that works so well on the pages.

 Got some Tim Holtz words going on as well as

his bottle caps.

I love those bottle caps.

 Tom, Gail and I also stood in line - an hour

minimum wait to devour the most famous and best

lobster rolls ever.

A lot of Food Network peeps endorsed Red's.

If you ever get there it is worth the wait.

So I'm getting a bit doily crazy but they are so pretty

and do pull everything together.

And those crabs (I don't have a lobster anything) had

to be the highlight and it's an itty bitty

little punch my pal Holli gifted me.

Perfect.

Pink Fresh, Studio Calico, Hip Kit, Tim Holtz

TN - Double spread

Ha!

I'm so getting the hang of this.

I printed the photo as a 3x5 but it was still too big

for the pages so I whacked in half

and split it across the page because I wanted

all 4 peeps to show up.

 I took the 2-sided paper whacked it to 8x3.75

and used both sides -which is soooo pretty

and work together well.

Added a bit of Tim Holtz and my own

journaling - shazam.

Love how it turned out.

PinkFresh, Hip Kit, Studio Calico.

Still working on the photography part.

TN - Meeting up with the Grandkids

We've been meeting up with them one-by-one 

and of course having a great time

and taking pix.

Hung out with Amelia and the boys after football

was called off - we went and had ice cream.

It was delicious and fun.

 I'm also passing off albums that I've done of

all of them and they all took great delight in looking at them.

Although they don't seem to be delighted here LOL.

 Love her face and that ice cream cone.

I'm getting the hang of things now! woohoo!

Pink Fresh, Hip Kit, Studio Calico

more or less.