Sweet, personable great nephew

It's soooo cool to be in a family where 

closeness extends to all members.

Our great nephew made his way into the world 

and his cuteness and bubbly self just

wormed his way into my heart.

 This is supposed to be mixed media.

Whelp.

Not too much mixed media going on - I used a Tim Holtz

stencil in grey with some gold splats.

I seem to roll back to my scrapbooking roots.

It's been happening.

A lot.

I did fussy cut him out because there was a lot of background clutter.

Isn't he adorable. 

I just wanna smoosh his cheeks.

Which I did.

I had so much fun holding and holding him.

Playing with him.

I remembered a bunch of things I did with my boys.

Precious memories.

So glad to meet Matteo.

Banners and mixed media

I am really on a mixed media roll this week, here I

used molding paste and paint for the "stars" and

ink and stencils for the dots.

Of course the packaging technique came into play using

green and orange mists because I felt the brown and grey were too dull.

These are the photos I had in mind for Monday's page

that just didn't quite work out.

 For some reason I only mixed media half the page and felt the

bottom looked really plain - even with 3 photos so.....

banners. A mix of triangle and fishtail.

 I did get inspiration by watching a ton of Missy Whidden's videos.

I've been binging on videos since I got home.

She uses different mats for each photo.

I found I like that.

I did use a quite obvious title but hey

sometimes you just gotta roll
with it.
Studio Calico, Basic Grey, Paper Issues,
Tim Holtz and Crafters Workshop stencils.

Using most every stamp I own technique

(Again with my poor neglected blog).

It's one of my favorite techniques that I lifted

from KittyScrapper.

If you haven't checked out Nancy - go see. 

She's a lot of fun and love her style.

Anyway - I used Navy ink to kind of go with

the package technique in which I used some Heidi Swapp mists.

ALL fun to do.

I actually did this page with other photos in mind

and it didn't quite work out because

of the way I did the all the stamping.

Shocking I know.

However, this photo actually fit perfectly so all is well.

I used a variety of Studio Calico stamps and a rolling stamp

that has fun sayings on it.

I also used that "stupid" arrow stamp that gives me fits

I mixed some mist with some molding paste.

I liked it so well I stamped all over it.

LOL.

I really quite like the mixed media going on here.

As you will see I seem to be on a roll with this week.

Studio Calico, Basic Grey.