Scenes around Yankton SD

Gavins Point Dam 

is beautiful with a dramatic sky.

Fisherman out there and the fish were jumping like crazy.

Too fast for me.

A pelican skimming the water.

Of course I have more than one picture but

they are soooo cool.

Turkey

Evenidently no female around to show off for

and its mating season.

Old Schoolhouse I can find any

google stuff on it sadly.

Meridian Highway Bridge is the new bridge.

Meridian Bridge is the old bridge.

Double decker bridge.

Yankton Territorial Capital

beautiful grounds that can be rented.

Old Microwave Tower

It is kinda cool and scifi.

Mount Marty Church

That spire can be seen from everywhere.

Beautiful.

Gavins Dam (the other side)

Had some dramatic skies and the return trip.

Beautiful landmarks around the town.

And what history. 

 

Another flower page

I love how this turned out. 

I did a few things on the background, 

Small back dots.

Bigger white dots.

I was also going to fussy cut the flower like I did

on this page, however, I really

like the background in the picture sooo....

It must be kept.

Had that little gnome painted already and

it had purple in it.

A simple sentiment completed it 

AND

How about that bee.

 

With brave wings she flies....

Made this page last night. 

The tree branch is from Oliver (the owl TH die cut) 

An old sissix die bird cage and bird and the flower is from a picture I took -

printed it twice and fussy cut it out and popped up the layers. There

were printed 2 different sizes a 4x6 and 3x4 which  

makes the layers look cooler.

No clue about the pretty dots - 

but they came from Treasured Memories S/B shop. 

And the background are oxides smooshed about.

Love how it turned out.

 

4x4 Baby album Update

UPDATE - added 2 more pix below.....

I had a great time putting this little album together. 

It's all about the grandson.

I printed them in 4x4 size and that was really

neat to work with. 

I also printed 2x2's and of course created my

very own PL cards.

Naturally some of the 2x2s look like 4x4s 

because why not

they're adorable either way.

Got rid of a lot of ephemera.

Yay!

Love making my own embellies. 

I actually do not have many store bought ones

 because honestly, I buy them and then

are clueless on what to do with them because 

a. they're either not my style

b. I don't have anything to go with anything.

c. unless they're flowers............

I decided to have fun and downloaded 

Roadrunner because it cracked me up.

I didn't do a lot of journaling 

because it's not mine to journal really,

so I'm going to tuck tags

behind pictures here and there

and hopefully mama and favorite eldest son

will take care of that.

They take really great pictures and keep me quite updated.

I adore that viewmaster reel.

Remember those???

Cutting edge back in the day.

Sissix die.

Is he too stinkin' cute or what.

Used a lot of TH words and phrases.

and dated some of the photos.

I may need to pick up another 4x4 size

because this was fun to do.

Actually it's my second one as I did 4x4 wedding

album for favorite youngest son 

here

I do adore that little bear as you can see throughout.

and ta-da happy ending!!!

It's really hard to know when to stop.

Update!!!

I didn't stop LOL.

Got 2 more photos that had to be included.

Especially since mama wasn't in too many of them.

Like that's a surprise LOL.

He is just tooooo stinkin' cute.

 

Using up washi tape

I have a lot of washi tape (like who doesn't) 

and I really don't use it a lot. 

I see others that use it and it looooks sooo good.

Mine not so much.

So I have a lot of washi and blank notebook.

Well we can't have a blank, boring looking book cover

so...........................

I just slapped washi everywhere 

willy nilly.

Some had no adhesive so modge podge to the rescue.

And then.....I decided that maybe some gesso

is required to tone it down.

And then I thought maybe stamps

would work in another willy nilly kind of way.

Too much???

I kind of like it.

And why not.

 

Easter cards for the grands

It appears that over the years I have used up most

of my Easter stuff for cards.

Since I have limited space I try real hard to 

use what I have differently.

Below is actually a stamp set for a birthday card

yet there's a bunny in the basket.

So for the older kidlets - I used some QK dies,

fussy cut the stamps

and made backgrounds from distressed inks.

And the inside - A cover up was necessary since I

somehow got ink all over the green part.

So white dots from those little black daubers

and the bunny ears from TH.

I had leftover clouds sooo.....

Then the little guy needed a card his age and

fortunately for me I had leftover Easter

papers from last year.

Had some fussy cutting going on.

Violet designs (papers)

And I made the inside sort of the same w/o the background

fiasco - Love those painted dots.

Some more fussy cutting and some bunny ears.

Who doesn't love bunny ears.

 

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.