I have three small children who are fascinated with pictures and stories from when I was their age. Yes, I know this will be short-lived! But for now, I am the all-knowing, wise Momma - so let’s just go with it. LOL! My husband dug up a picture of the two of us from about 20 years ago and I realized how few pictures we have like that. I didn’t keep up with photographs … [Read more...]
MUSE: PURSE-onality
Remember this post? When I went all background attack on an innocent piece of white cardstock and created this? Well DOH! and behold, I forgot to post what I made from that glorious piece of no-longer-white cardstock goodness. So here goes! I used it to decorate my ZBecky Brown purse! First I used a Clear Paintables from Prima, which was colored in places using … [Read more...]
Color and Texture Challenges
It started simply enough - the task was to make a winter-themed swap card. I hadn't planned to make any at the crop I was attending -- but then I got in a coloring mood. So out came the Copic Markers and I attacked a sweet little Gerber baby-ish image in a Crafty Secrets holiday set. I decided that I wanted to use it on the card. So dig dig dig in the tote … [Read more...]
Layout: SnowMEN and a background attack
I think I can count on one hand the number of layouts I’ve redone. But when something is in front of your face every day and it doesn't make your heart sing ... it's time for a revamp. Extreme Makeover I have had this layout hanging on my wall unit ever since I made it, because I love the picture so much. But as years have gone by, I continued to realize how much I disliked … [Read more...]
When you just didn’t dress the part…
Pictures capture an instant in time. Real life happens and it isn't color-coordinated. I'm not going to make my children where red shirts on apple picking day. But man, when they were really little, I did find these goofy pumpkin-colored pants for the twins to wear. Enought with confession time. Let's talk REAL pictures here. What do you do when … [Read more...]
