Black & White monochromatic look

Keeping it real simple on this one.

A photo I took, and developed myself, back in the day

 of my favorite eldest son 

snoozing.

For some reason, the black laser cut paper was

whacked down to 6x12 so another piece in my

stash forever is now on a page.

I used it to cover those dumb doilies on the paper

that I had no idea what to do with.

Win-win.

How adorable is that.

 Used some of Tim Holtz words because

they covered it all, broke out

my Quikutz Spicy Chicken alphas for the title.

I really need to use them more....

I did use that blue bow mostly because I liked it

but it was the only one that color remaining so.......

The flourish under "dream" is also a Quiktuz die - woohoo!

That baby boy just turned 36 😐😮💗.

I started the page by stamping feathers

And then fussy cut them out.

Love the way they lay curled on the page.

(they really are curled)

I then broke out when of my background stamps

of dots along with some paints -

Studio Calico - yellow 05 Color theory and

Heidi Swapp screen paint - pink and blue and put

all three on the stamp and went to town.

 Love how it turned out and it broke up the

black and white.

 Except for the stamped background this page

turned out quite monochromatic.

It totally works too.

Changed the photo to b&W

because the colors were wild and the b&w just

worked. Really well.

We were celebrating Memorial Day with a cookout

And we had bathing suits on sooooo the

less seen the better LOL.

Doodle-y border. Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp

A bit monochromatic

Which I love every now and then and it is

perfect for this photo of Owen.

Love the hat, the pose, the smile.

Love this paper from Pebbles and paired it up

with some old Basic Grey and

just a bit of embellishment that went sort of

'old' school. 

It totally focuses on the photo.

Sort of a monochromatic page

I love sort of monochromatic pages. 

Especially with little pops of color.

Red happens to be my favorite but you would
never know it from my wardrobe.

The monochromatic can also rock the 

black and white photos.
And these naturally are precious.

Love the smiles on their faces and in their eyes.
Looks like everyone is looking forward to a road trip.

All Studio Calico, except for the circle-Authentique.
I need to practice my stamping a bit more.
And for added texture - I added some burlap and mesh.

I love kraft paper

It just works with everything.

It can be rustic.

It can be elegant.

It can be an accent.

So I don't remember who made that butterfly paper.

I know you're surprised.

However, it works great with the kraft.

 I kept this page kind of monochromatic.

Love the touches of beige.

I changed the butterflies 3 times.

I wanted to have a pop color so I chose blue/green

like Amelia's sassy.

However it had white in it and was glaring.

So I changed it to blue/green with beige. 

That was jarring.

So I went with black.

 Like the little black dress you can't go wrong.

Especially around kraft.

I also used transparency newspaper from K&co. as

a mat in order to show the second mat 

and to also keep the butterflies flying.

Can we say pop :) with the black butterflies.

I did a bit of layering in the 2 corners.

I kept the title simple - also black

 - I love the labeler look and it does bring it all together.

Those photos are a total hoot and was supposed to be

for another page I made, however, the photo

was way too big for the mat I created on the other page

so it gave me more mojo to create this page.

A total win.

However, I'm still hunting a photo for the other page

that I got my Wilna on.