Orange, Pink and Blue with a side of cream & white

Perfect colors for this photo.

And isn't it a hoot.

Amelia being, well Amelia.

She's funny, loud, demanding, and goes for it.

And that made the title perfect.

I didn't do anything tricky here. 

Tricky has been well kinda tricky in working out for me.

So in full disclosure, once again, 

I had different papers and tried stamps

and paints with some less than stellar results.

Sigh.

I kept the paper, and have smeared gesso all over it.

Clean slate.

Sortof.

We'll see how that works out.

I believe everything on this is Studio Calico.

I broke out my quickutz 4x4 die for the snazzy arrow.

And the button at the top?

Says, Don't tell me what to do.

Perfect.

Remember the song "You Don't Own Me? by Leslie Gore....

Hook - and don't tell me what to do, 

don't tell me what to say

and please when I go out with you 

don't put me on display.

I LOVED that song when I was a kidlet.

And I know you'll thank me for having that tune in your head

all.day.long.

You're welcome :)

Working on a scrappy project

Which is taking time. I worked out yesterday and I'm really feeling it and since I also scrap standing up and *whining here* its really annoying that I have to pace myself. Therefore, I think I can stretch this puppy out for a few posts. LOL.

So get ready!

If you remember from Throwback Scrapbooking Thursday I picked some promising "lifts".

One of the them was the printer's tray.

Well right out of the gate,  their's is white and mine's not. 

And I've had it forever, well ok a couple years at least, because honestly, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them. I used a baby wipe and found it was just a smidge dirty from hanging out under my desk for a couple whiles.

I decided that I'd go with white because I'm a copycat but mostly because the recipient has white decor. One coat wasn't getting it even though I was going for the shabby chic look. I love shabby chic- it makes me swoon.

 I decided another coat was needed with maybe a couple more paint overs for fun because I felt it looked - well smeared.

I stopped here because I was tired and really wasn't feeling it. Now I'm wondering if I should've left it black. However, since I was tired and annoyed that I was tired, I decided to let it perculate and see if I'm feeling it later. Although in hindsight I'll be putting pattern papers in there so I maybe didn't need to paint the entire thing. 

Now I all I need to do is pick pattern papers, embellishments and photos.

The easy part.

LOL!