Birthday card - one year old

Grandbaby first birthday needed a fun card.

I love this QK monkey so easy to put together.

Using some fun embellies I premade with 

watercolor color papers and leftover inks and/or paints.

and Martha Steward alpha punch (wish I got the numbers punch)

but alas.....

Love the monkey shines font!!!

The alphas in blue are QK calvin.

 

Layers and tissue paper

Used quite a bit of layers behind the photos.

Love that and adhered it to some tissue paper - as sort of a base.

 And here's that cute, adorable bunny again

peeking out. He is sooo stinkin' cute.

 Those itty bitty pearls were a pain to put on.

They kept rolling around and my fat fingers had a hard time
and using the tweezer bees LOL - Good thing there
were a lot in the pack. I ended up wearing quite a few too.

 Of course I agonized about the title.

I really couldn't find the color I wanted, nor the size
nor the actual words. I tried princess - but arrrghh.
Then I decided her name was royal enough.

I found some paper that sort of matched everything

and broke out my QK - anyone remember

the Emily font???

I only have the lower case but I think

they worked out - its a beautiful font and back in the day,
 I used to be quite the font junkie.
Didn't matter dies or stamps.

Studio Calico, QK, Spare Parts flowers, Tim Holtz

phrases. Unknown butterfly.

Using sequence photos on a page

I got carried away the other day and purged my supplies.

Again.

They were getting extremely overwhelming 

especially after learning to use limited supplies while

on the road.

So my "box" of precut diecuts - gone.

The ginourmous basket of scraps - sortof gone.

Annoying basket of "stuff" - sorted through.

 I started this page with a piece of cardstock that was

an odd shape that worked when I cut it down to 8.5x11

as I love working with that size.

I did some misting and splatting and paints to start it off.

 I also had some basic grey papers that I used to cutout circles

in order to make my own embellishments and then

used a creative cafe circle stamp.

This was a fun silly page to make.

The photograph came all attached and I built this page

out of scraps AND did it prior to having a photo.

For some reason I had whacked the mat up (instead of leaving it 4x6)

or thereabouts and then came upon this picture.

So I whacked up the photo after printing it and adhered

it to the mats - total win.

And since I'm annoyed at thickers I broke out my QK again

using the CK typewriter and newsclip fonts.