How did I miss this photo?

 Like seriously?

It's such a cool, fun picture so it's a good

thing I was out trolling for

photos after making this page.

 Keeping the matting light an airy with

just a pinch of embellies.

 And I needed to use those stamps.

I especially like the one that says #fromwhereistand.

It's so perfect and I'll be using that a lot.

Because I can.

I also wanted to use the #squad - because it's cool and

totally is the photo.

How fun is this photo especially Cavin and Amelia.

Hanging on and Cavin being cool especially

with the rabbit ears and hanging on to Amelia

 and Amelia - dramatic.

Perfect.

Studio Calico.

Artful pages

Thankfully art is alive and well in schools and

my grandkids are quite talented artists.

So it was really fun to document 

and today I have created two layouts

for your blogreading delight.

So how about that adorable pup.

He's a very old Technique Tuesday stamp.

 Again I used most of my Studio Calico

and Creative Cafe stamps around this page 

 and

because that wasn't busy enough

I threw in the Tim Holtz stencil, using yellow paint

with modeling paste.

 Added a few do-dads namely my homemade enamel dots, arrows and a heart sticker and called it a day.

 Kraft paper is the base cut down to 8x8

And honestly all 3 artists made some mighty fine art

AND I WANT THEIR ART FOR SCRAPBOOK PAGES.

How cool would that be....

 I didn't want to be a copy cat on the second page

so I lifted once again a prize ribbon from Soaphouse Mama

- she does them all the time and what better

embellie could there be but that.

And I cut the circles myself - mostly because I didn't have 

punches that nested that closely and I'm normally not that brave LOL.

 The little bird is from some no-name embellishments

I picked up at Michael's and

those stars are from Studio Calico kit and finally

used them babies all up.

Yay!!!

Because it was a wild background that I keyed off

of from the artwork I gessoed where the photo and do-dads are

and found I liked it just fine and left it there.

The heart arrow is wooden - and stuck out like a sore thumb

in its pure form so I smooshed some watercolors

around to match the stars and wa-la.

Worked out well.

Smile

You just have to laugh at this because it appears there's trouble in the back seat between brothers.

Shocking I know.

Obviously, they're in close proximity, side-by-side. So seriously what could go wrong other than the usual:

He's looking at me.

He's touching me.

I wanted to sit by the window.

Love the photo - good blackmail material when they're older. My favorite kind.

Using the Recollections stash I've had forever and the flags were created with some gelato and mist.

And in a creative frame of mind  - I painted the wood veneer astericks. RED. out.of.control. LOL!

Charmed & dangerous and Seriously Silly

 Love these two. They are so funny to be around - always up to something and just being boys.


Quintin with the sweet smile and coutenance could charm a snake right out of his skin.

You have to be on your toes at all times.

Love that I get a peek into their personalities.



Get the two of them together and well trouble and hijinks abound. That's how it goes down with brothers.

I'm thinking mama has her hands full.

Two handsome boys - she needs to break out the big stick to beat off the girls.

You can never start that too early.

Studio Calico and Authentique rules the day with a mix of older papers and tags. Nothing tricky on the pages - as I find that in scrapping for others straightforward pages are good so that no one is afraid to journal and put the story on the page. Of course if I do get tricky - sticky notes with lots of instructions guide the way.