TN - Oddly different entries

That I'm totally liking - just like my previous albums.

Scrapping whatever moves me at the time. 

I like it.

So the page on the left - is our fun time with

the grands and ending a great day with ice cream and

a visit to a record shop.

Owen, loves all things music, and has a real 

phonograph in which he plays real records. Very cool.

The page next to it is a photo of my grandfather

when it was about 5 years old that

has been hanging in my home for years.

I have passed that gem off to my cousin for safe keeping.

 I have been using chunky bits in the notebook

and it hasn't been toooo fat.

Love that the bottlecap had Jersey Farms on it.

 On the heritage page I found those stickers.

Very cool stickers - I did think they were rubons at first

which is why they langquished for a bit in the ole stash.

Love how its coming together.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, Michael's pins.

Heritage stories and a homemade tag

I found that as time goes on the stories of my ancestors evolve.

The people "in the know" aren't with us anymore to ask 

which is now where ancestry.com comes in and not all those green

leaves wave at the same time.

As more documents come on-line, hopefully, that's when the waving begins,

but you have to be careful, because the similarities of names, birthdates, circumstances abound.

I can't tell you how many times I got it wrong.

I do have hidden journaling on this page. Not because its really personal

but because I didn't want to clutter up the page with it.

I just didn't work it into the design.

Meet my great great grandparents.

Nils and Matilda (Pearson) Anderson.

Both immigrated from Sweden and both arrived in the U.S. in 1880.

Their marriage year is conflicting 1876 or 1879 and had six children living children.

One lost as a baby.

There was also a 20 year age gap between them.

Nils worked as a day laborer in the 1900 and passed in 1915 at the age of 81.

Matilda lived with her sons until 1933 and both are buried in 

Greenmount Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Again, reusing elements on different layouts

I seem to be diggin' circles lately.

And borders - they do create a lovely feel.

And again employing their use on another page even

the same color.

It does make an album cohesive, however, there's really nothing

cohesive about my everyday albums.

And a lot of my pages go in the grandkids 8x8 albums

so that doesn't help with the cohesiveness,

and doesn't that give me the license to use whatever I want,

whenever I want. LOL!

This was basically a driveby page as I couldn't make up my mind

about a lot of things.

I know you're surprised.

It was the new Echo Park I've been working with and

I love the heart page - and all its busy-ness.

So I threw on some gesso and watercolors and then

couldn't decide if I liked it.

Therefore, its mostly covered up.

I also had a couple of leaf branches where the feathers

are now, and decided that looked too girly

and went with just feathers.

Did some stamping, the music is Studio G and the100% boy

is from Recollections and both work perfectly.

And then there's the wood veneer alphas and stars.

Well finding the letters was fun.

NOT.

For some dumb reason that, I in my infinite wisdom, dumped

every single wooden embellishment I had from Studio Calico

into one big ole bowl.

Every.single.one.

And doesn't that make for good hunting when you need to make words.

I proceeded to dump everything out of the bowl and now I have

them all segregated according to alphas, hearts, people, and arrows that

I have an amazing abundance of.

As you can see.

Mist and paints an excellent combination

I love mixing the two mostly because what I 

lack in color in say oh, the mists, I

totally have in paint and vice versa.

And I wanted more texture than mist so squirting

paint directly on the page does that.

However, it does take awhile to dry especially when the humidity is high.

 I built the page without photos basing the 

rest of the papers on the the red, yellow, smokey mists

and paints. 

And then found the photos. 

These are older ones of Amelia I may have done before.

Do they look blurry to you??

I'm really having a hard time with that lately.

And I just got new glasses.
Or maybe its the camera. I can go with that.
Now to figure out how to fix that.

The title is "she is sunshine". 

Like totally.

The rest is studio calico, authentique, martha stewart doilies.

More girly girl!

Check out my tutorial over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking!

Repurposing household goodies.

And here's my page that has nothing to do with that. LOL.

Which is a shocker I know.

I'm so diggin' the girly.

Well I have 2 adorable girly girls to be girly with.

I designed the page without a photo or in this case photo in mind.

I really need to pay attention to the size of the

mats I make. This one turned out to be 5x4 or thereabouts.

Well of course the photo was designed with

3 pix on a 4x6.

Which worked out perfectly because I could whack them up.

A really adorable series so I really couldn't 

omit any.

It was cool as I used a bunch of stuff my "don't know what 

to do with and no other place to put them" 

do-dad basket 

that is totally out of control.

So Studio Calico rocks the day with some Basic Grey and thickers

and Martha Stewart doilies. Muted a bit with some gesso

and a bit of Heidi Swapp mists.