I already feel like a blog failure. LOL It's been since August 2nd since I've posted!!! In the meantime I've moved my daughter to college, created a great art room, school started and so has football and kept up with work and all the other stuff that just happens in life, oh, and can't forget the mini vacation!!
I'm going to share a photo with you of me and my son on game day of his first football game of his senior year. I can't believe he's already a senior!!
Enjoy your day... I've got many things that I've created that I want to share...... another post! Coming Soon!!!
I haven't been doing a lot of challenges due to my sons baseball...and now that is over.. so before I get involved in getting my daughter moved back to college and then moving my scraproom to her bedroom, I thought I'd get busy on a few layouts for my sons graduation book. Seems I always have a project going of some sort.. and I've really been enjoying the challenges I've entered into to keep me motivated to get this project off to a great start. Tonight was no exception to this. I made a layout to enter into two challenges: Aug. Scraplift the Person Before You and Aug. ABC Challenge.
I used some techniques on this LO that I've used before, but also tried an old technique in a new way. First off with this photo, I wanted to match as much of the screenprinting on his shirt as I could. I had the perfect dry embossing folders to do just that! But my paper was to big to go through my machine. So... I used the folder, the plastic folder and a good ol' fashioned pastry roller from Pampered chef. It worked great. I then distressed the edges and inked them and embossed to add some texture.
I then cut a piece of scrapbook paper that looked like notebook paper to place under my sons school photo. I used my binding edge paper punch to give it the look that it had been ripped out of his notebook. I then glimmer misted in two colors ~ green and blue to match the screenprint in his t-shirt.
I assembled it all.. then went by what my challenges required.
M= Metal (in all the corners)
N= Notebook paper (under the main photo)
O= Oval (Under the circle face shot photo)
P= Plum (base paper color)
I scraplifted the LO from CrazyScrapbooker and her LO was named K 2010-2011.
The little personalized tags were printed right from the computer onto plain copy paper and inked on the edges. When assembling this LO, I took a screenprinted type clear stamp and inked it in white and black and placed them around the main photo and in the corners for some added texture. The paperclips were some I had around and in the right colors and I thought they were a perfect addition for a school theme.
Thanks for stopping by for a look!
I was lying on the living room floor reading the paper and the cat ~ Timmy~ saw the motion of the paper as I turned the pages and started playing with the paper......
I was able to capture a great attack from her as she pounced the paper....
Crazy cat!
My first post.... and why am I here? I guess you could say I'm at a cross-road. Next weekend my middle child moves out and on her own for good as she attends college. They always tell me that they come back. Of all my children this one here will be the one that doesn't. Maybe she'll surprise me.... My oldest has been out of the house for nearly 2 years and my youngest is a Senior in high school. I'm feeling more and more that it's time to find a life that revolves around the things I love, rather than my childrens loves. So.. here I am. That's it.. in a nutshell.
I have a creative mind.. and would love to share my ideas... another reason I'm here. So I hope that you find a reason to come see me often as I post my creations, my thoughts or my photos as time goes on!
Thanks so much for stopping by... my little corner of the world!
P.S. I would like to wish my grandma a very happy birthday today!! I love you gramama!
