Can one use too much stickles and nuvo dots

Yes

Maybe???

NOOOOOO!

It started out innocently enough but the above page

looked a bit too plain, and we can't have that so

- it needed that

something-something.

Well I have an assortment of stickles and nuvo dots.

And it just sort of happened and

quickly went out of control.

I would stop and look and then..........

it just needed more.

Therefore, if it needs more - do more.

LOL.

It was fun to do.

I do love the colors of the punched flowers and leaves

and I even handwhacked up the red and

yellow flowers (I know)!!!

I do love the layering its fun and love

the buttons. In hindsight,

looking at the colors I probably should've

re-thought that combo....nah!

I have a "regular" travelers notebook

that I'm using to do goofy,

different,

out of control pages 

because why not.

A place to explore different, anything goes even

if anything doesn't go.

This one pretty much doesn't go but I really like

it because it was fun to do.

Yes, I did use this photo before and it was perfect 

to use and play around on this page.

Remember NO RULES in scrapbooking.

If there are I believe I broke them all. 

LOL.

 

Travelers notebook - Wander

The lighthouses of course called my name.

Several times.

Two lighthouses - Almost the same name - different places - same job.

Even though they are old, they are 

both beautiful, both doing their jobs by

shining a light to keep seafaring vessels safe from

rocks and currents.

I love that I can include the pamphlets that are available from all parks.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz

Traveler's Notebook - 2 pager

Love the Pink Fresh and homemade tag going on.

And that itty bitty wooden heart.

Doesn't that make you swoon.

Loved the train ride.

 I decided to go with all train pictures because they

really turned out well.

This turned into a 2 pager because of the tickets.

I glued them back to back and added them in

the rings instead of taking up space

on these small pages.

 Left lots of room for journaling.

Woo hoo.

I have decided that I totally overthink this style.

So...I'll be experimenting.

Won't that be fun!

Printed the smaller pix by mistake and didn't want to toss them

soooooo....

Of course I smooshed the nuvo drops. 

Sigh.

I have made some ahead of time so that won't happen.

Studio Calico, Jillybean soup.Pink fresh.

Foam stamps and enamel paint

I have a ton of them because at one point

foam stamps were totally 

en vogue for scrappers everywhere.

So, I broke out an old, old set that came as a 

kit of the month, named as "Not your ordinary stamp set."

It has everything in it, from month stamps, flowers and 

stuff in all shapes and sizes.

 I then took out my studio calico color theory paints

and wa-la (except for white) that I wasn't using much and

look at those vibrant colors.

I need to work on my painting skills but I do love the result. 

Nuvo drops in gold are the flower centers.

So wild, bold, and colorful on kraft paper.

I love kraft paper.

I made a mat cluster with that amazing gold doily

(doily and tag people LOL)

to highlight the small photo

of my gram with my favorite eldest son - so

that would be his great grandmother -Mammy - he

had trouble with G's. 

Mom, Nick and I were bringing Mammy back to Florida

for a visit and Nick just needed out of his

car seat for a moment - and of course she sat in the

back with him.

It was fun to have her with us.

The title doesn't stand out here but works in real life.

Tim Holtz words that say it all.

Pink Polka Dotted Paper

 Say that 3 times fast LOL!!

Anyhoo, managed to work in my homemade tag

with the pineapple and flamingo.

I neeeeed to make more.

 Splattered some mists about and using tiny

wooden and enamel stars, dots

and just for fun threw in some nuvo dots.

Amelia being goofy - love it!!

She's growing so fast. 

Momma captioned this photo that Amelia

wants to donate her locks.

She does have gorgeous long hair.

We'll see how that goes.

Love the transparency letters for a title.

Not as hard to see in real life.

And a doodled border.

Studio Calico, Studio G Stamps

Shine!

It appears to be working out okay with the melding

of ALL the kits and papers I ordered this month.

It's still kind of overwhelming but it

helps to just dive in.

So this page is a mix of old, new, really old and really new.

 I fussy cut those skyscrapers out because this young man

is NY grown and it just seemed fitting.

Kept it simple because it was such a cool photo

of Lou heading off to his first day of Kindergarten.

Instead of white mist that doesn't do well, I used

white enamel paint watered down for the splatters and

around the page.

I used black and white nuvo dots about the page too.

Love them because one can control the size!!

Studio Calico.

Really big letters for a title

So the oversized title works really well 

with the blue bird and heart. 

 Also used a black & white and color photo of Sam

with his adorable smile and cute hair 'do.

I reused the paper from his brother's page.

Did some background stuff with a rolling stamp and some mists
which still challenges me for some reason.

Love the big title.

Another Doodlebug Easter page

Since I've used most of the line for the shakers

that didn't work out and I'm eking out what's left 

for the rest of the grands pix coming in.

Therefore I employed the use of strips that of course,

I laid out previously and it looks nothing like that once

I had to glue them down.

 Love the fun patterns - so bright and pretty and

I used nuvo dots on those punched flowers.

 Sam and Lou collecting eggs.

Looks like fun!

Used another old K&Co title for the page

and a little quickutz swirl for an accent.

About the 2 photos I wanted to use yesterday

I went through my photos in Aperture

and decided to cut some of the clutter and exported them 

out to regular folders and as I was 

looking through those folders I happened upon two

photos that landed together and something sweet

caught my eye - because those photos were never together before.

 So of course I had to make a page and I have

done pages of these photos separately but what caught

my eye made me want to do a page with both.

 These 2 photos are of my gram and grandpop;

the top one when they first started dating or married 

circa 1930 - they were 29 when they married and that was

considered quite old back then.

The second photo is of them about the 1970's some

40 years later and in both photos grandpop has his arm around gram.

I thought it was sweet and it also kind of set a tone

of their casual closeness because they really weren't

overly affectionate in public.

It just wasn't done in their generation so just

that little move means a lot.

I had some leftover flowers that of course had to used.

I mixed up the Studio Calico with the pink fresh tag and a doily.

At first I thought I had too many word strips and

then I got over it.

Seriously can you have too many???

Scalloped edges and bunnies

While hanging out at Holli's house she

allowed me to  use her scalloped die to cut

out this beautiful flowered paper.

When I flipped it over it just looked soooo pretty

with the "B" side of the paper.

Therefore I decided to back them on black,

popped up the flower paper with some foam and wa-la!

Believe it or not these bunnies were prestamped

and all I had to do was fussy cut them.

The color was perfect.

Found some pink fresh tags, a Heidi Swapp frame

and built that little cluster.

I think the photo frame is from HL and I added

my journaling around it.

And Holli's adorable granddaughter posing

in a little onesie and flower headband that I gifted

because I knew her adorable self would rock them both.

Those two front teeth

And why do both front teeth fall out at once?

It is adorable in the young especially knowing its temporary.

Soooo....

Because of the photo I decided to roll with whimsical

that I really don't do as often as I should

because for some reason in my little head I

felt that the embellishments had to support the story.

Why??

Because.

LOL.

 Since I had nothing to roll with missing front teeth

I found some embellishments I really didn't know what to do with.

And do they work perfectly with Amelia's cheeky grin.

I pieced together those leftover papers from Studio Calico kit

that came together nicely after whacking 12x12

down to 8x8 pages.

Dug around in My Mind's Eye package and

found these fun embellies.

8.5x11 size.

Just adding a little bit more

I finished this page and while it looks nice

after I saw it in a picture - to me it looked well

meh.

 I tossed back on my desk and messed around with some more

embellishments and mists which added a touch more.

Just what was needed - nothing overwhelming.

Basic Grey - except for the hearts and flowers and nuvo dots.

Mist swirls that didn't quite work out

I have done them before - stealing the idea from Nancy/Kitty Scrapper

and loved them and I have to admit it did look good

on the paper when I first did it 

UNTIL

I put stuff on top and no matter how I changed things it

still looked dumb.

So therefore, after screwing with it some more behind

the scenes, adding more mist splatters and sworls (like I thought that would help)
which made it look even worse, therefore,
 I decided to chuck that background
paper and slap the rest of it on another paper that I
totally love so much better.

So there.

For some reason I don't have a berry and leaf punch

so I faked it with a Martha Stewart

leaf punch and a hole punch.

Fussy cut the "kids" out of the tag sheet and love

the title - a wood veneer from Michael's $1.50 bin I painted
with SC color theory primrose.

SO when something's not working out - undo and scissors
to the rescue. It's not like it's never been done before by yours truly. LOL.

Pebbles, Nuvo.

Sunflowers appear to be popular this year

Got some more grands in the sunflower field

and it looks like they were having fun.

I love sunflowers and out west they are abundant and

beautiful everywhere.

So I do own a sunflower stamp and used it here

because why not.

Had some issues with the ole nuvo dots (and who doesn't)

but I feel it adds to the charm because

flower and particularly their center are not perfect.

Tossed about some watercolors as well and

doesn't that envelop make you swoon. 

Love the rustic-ness it brings.

I'm very glad that the grandkidlets (all of them)

are total posers and I get a lot of photos

otherwise wouldn't have a lot of to scrap about really.

An 8x8 of PinkFresh except for the hello (studio calico)

and no clue about the stamp - probably from M's.

I'm thinking posts will be slim this week with Thanksgiving prep
even though my sweet SIL is taking over.
How about you?
Got stuff rolling???

Fussy cut flowers

I'm still loving all the splatters and enamel and nuvo dots clusters.

 And that tag on the bow will make one swoon.

 I wanted a subtitle because in the photo Ms Annie is totally cracking up.

 Yes they are in a sunflower field, and yes I finally used

a stamp I had forever and they are black eyed susies.

(In my defense, they do look similar.)

Its a declassified stamp and actually if you use the entire thing

looks like a seed package.

I stamped a bunch mostly because I had issues stamping.

I know you're surprised.

It did come in handy because I watercolored them all

and once I laid them on the page I knew I'd need them all.

 Again with the doily grounding and using watercolors

and the packaging technique and also

remembering to splatter said colors about.

 I adore the flower column (for lack of better word).

The background paper is Basic Grey and just worked out perfectly.

I made the tag and its actually tucked into a 

kraft paper bag.

The title is made with QK lemonade cookie cutter font.

Bolder Pink Fresh papers

 Love the green and yellow colors.

Used some Nuvo dots - to scatter about along

with some mists.

 Added a big doily to ground the 2 photos

and added a bow mostly because I adore bows.

Opposite color flowers at the bottom of the page

with lots more mists and dots.

 I did use different colored greens - because

I really love rick rack and wanted to use it where

the colors separated.

And I love that leaf and it made a great place

for a title.

 Those green colors also bounce off Ms. Amelia's shoelaces.

Love it.

Those alphas are Tiny Stickers and they come in real handy.

Ms. Amelia does love her goofy faces.

Sport season ends

And it ends with a sequence photo of all the

kidlet participants.

The parents should have a sequence photo toting

them all around. Just sayin.....

 Anyhoo, I don't have a cameo but I love the cutouts

so I try to fake with the QK cookie cutter diecuts.

 These are are the squares that I happen to die cut in bulk

all different colors which turned out great

in the B&W area.

Love those Nuvo enamel dots you can make them any size you want.

 Love the misted background that gave a splash of color

along with the enamel dots.

Got that big hash tag (or should I say pound sign LOL) from

Studio Calico and did some bulk cuts on that

and used two different colors offset to add a bit of dimension.

So then with all the busy-ness going on I forgot

even the minimal journaling and used my ticket punch

to handle that. 

All the kidlets completed their season.

One last Halloween page (maybe)

Still hanging with Holli when this page evolved

and did add some touches when it

came home

like enamel and Nuvo dots.

 And those itty bitty hearts.

Aren't they adorable.

Which doesn't lend much to a "scary" page.

However, Pokemon ain't that scary.

 Well we do have some sort of "Freddy" there in the background.

Again, shopping at Holli's was fun and that candy

(which is the title) makes me want to open it up and eat it.

All in all it was a fun, productive day

and the mojo seems to be sortof returning.

Haven't scrapped since but sometimes a break is a good thing.
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