Yee-Haw!

I pride myself on being able to scrap all pictures, all styles.  While I love an artsy messy blendy grungy style, I also love a good-ole traditional page of Disneyana!

This kit is Little Cowboy from Simply Kelly Designs, so perfect for my pictures of Mr. Potato Head and the Toy Story parade from Hollywood Studios.

Additional credits - Simply Kelly Slightly Skewed Template, Little Stackers and Monkeying Around.

Additional credits - Simply Kelly 4-Photo Template, Little Stackers; Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palette Girl Craze, KellyBell Designs Mickeyhead Freebie. 

How cute is Colin in his Woody outfit!!??  The Little Cowboy kit is available at Simply Kelly's store.

Getting Ready to Party

It's just 8 more days until the Oscraps 6th Birthday Party!  We have so many fun activities planned...challenges, scavenger hunts, mystery scraps and a hop, of which I will be a part, starting next Sunday the 25th of March.

As a Cheery-O I need to have my party gear ready in advance, so here is my decorated 6.  I thought long and hard about what to do with this cool "6" template broken into 6 pieces...favorite things?  That made me think flowers...all of these pictures were taken in the last week or so.  Then it occurred to me, the 6th is my birthday, and so the concept of flowers, birthday, flower child of the 60's all came together.

I only wish I had a picture of me from the 60's to complete this.  Maybe one day I'll come across one and add it on.

I could not have pulled off this 60's flower child look without the help of Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palette Girl Crazy and Anna Aspnes Scribble Blooms. The alpha is from Vicki Stegal, part of the Oscraps collab Soiree. Font is Claudia Jean.

Meanwhile, I also needed a birthday avatar, so I added this picture of me in a mermaid cutout from Hanalei Village, rather fitting to the colors and theme of the Age of Aquarius.

Scrapping is so much fun!!

Spring Tales

Oh I could write a book of Spring Tales.  Here are just two of the pages that would be in my book.

 

This book was written with several new kits from Jen Maddocks, Spring Tales, I'm Torn 2 Amethist Lane, and Garden Party, all available at Zig Zag Scrap.

More Disney Pics, 4-Photo Template from Simply Kelly

Another of the last Disney pics to be scrapped, another of the Disney Photopass pics, this one taken on the first night we arrived, in front of the castle.  The date is wrong on this page, but I did correct it in the original...it was December 18, 2011.

And another new template  from Simply Kelly and more of that great red polka dotted paper from Simply Kelly's My Girl kit.

Additional credits: Britt-ish Designs Mouse in the House, KellyBell Designs MickeyHead Brads and Facebook Fan Freebie, No Rheimer Reason Remember the Magic, agrievingmommy Minnie, Anna Aspnes Magic FotoBlenz Album

Here is the preview for this great template, so easy to use, available exclusively at Scrapable.
 

Designer Tags Coming Soon

I am excited!  I have designed some journaling tags to be given away as part of the Oscraps Birthday hop coming on March 25th.

It's my first hop and my first Oscraps birthday as a Cheery-O.

Look what I did!  Maybe a little rough around the edges but hey, it is free, and I have to start somewhere.

It'll be live and available for download in a couple of weeks.  Now, off to use my tags!

Tahoe Blue

I bug and annoy and cajole until I get the pictures I want.  But I think it is justified, because I use them and turn them into art.  And I have great fun in the process!

One of the pictures from Ms AC's trek to the cabin at Tahoe, on a beautiful bluebird day.  I used this as the subject for an AnnaLift, attempting to convey cold yet sunshine, the hot and cold of blue, and some amount of action.  I wonder if I succeeded?

 

Credits:All from Anna Aspnes: Artsy Blenz Snow Paperie, Hipster Plume Clipping Masks No 1, Winter Frame Transfers No 1, ArtPlay Palette Encapsulate, Mini Palette Mint Winter ArtPlay Palette Photographie, Magic FotoBlenz Album 1

Week 10

All caught up! 

  

Credits: Anna Aspnes FotoInspired Template No 5, Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palettes Crazy Life, Saffron Villa

Week 9-and-a-Quarter

We accomplished a lot yesterday, helping Ms AC get off Twin Peaks.  I don't often spend 2-3 hour straight cleaning.  Then with the excitement of exploring the Haight, the long drive home, shopping, unloading the car and the thousands of steps necessary to put everything away, I was tired last night.  Probably too tired to scrap, but I really wanted to work on my weeklies.

Although I have not used a new Anna Aspnes FotoInspired Template for each week, since her Week 9 template had balloons in it, I decided I needed it to scrap Ms AC's birthday week.

And so I opened it up and started plopping the photos in place.  Then I did all sorts of things to add color to the page.  Then I added a little journaling for each day.  The final thing I wanted to do was highlight the dates, so I added the stars.  Then I said, wait, there are 9 days highlighted, oh, there are 9 photos in this template, oh good grief, I have run right into week 10.

But I love the page, so not sure I want to go to the trouble of changing it to only have 7 photos on it, especially since many of the background colors and elements were chosen specifically to support the photos.

While contemplating this dilemma, here is the week-and-a-quarter version.

 

Additional credits: Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palettes Crazy Life and Everyday, Anna Aspnes Project 366 Word Art No 1