Rockstar

I had to use some rockstar paper. I used a gel pen that stays glossy to go over the doodles I really liked. Added concert tickets and it's a done deal. Love the pictures of Mellencamp. They ROCK!!

Untitled - Man I Must Have Been Tired

I have had this page unfinished in the backroom for months. I added some buttons today and some diamond glaze yesterday; the leather curly thing last week and the rest of the page was done in the summer. Now, after uploading it, I see that I have forgotten a title. Oh boy! This week's time off will be welcome. My mom looks so happy to have Sky leading her on her horse this past summer. Actually, we all had so much fun. My mother loves horses and Sky loved taking all of us for a ride on Niko. Niki is gone now; so it is so nice to have these photos.

Smile

A doodled page (white Gel pen) with a bit of patterned paper. Janys laughed at me because I finished this page in an hour or so. Cute, fun and therapeutic (with all of the doodling).

Marshmallow Fight

Again Basic Grey wins the paper challenge. I used some old scraps for the circles, embossed the title with white puffy powder, doodled with black marker and used up some old cardstock stickers. These are the pages that keep the memories alive. Cal found some marshmallows weeks after the war was over. What a hoot!

John Mellencamp

What can I say? Another concert, another few pages. We didn't have very good seats for this concert; but I did have to take some pictures. And boy, did we enjoy the concert. John Cougar Mellencamp and Tom Cochrane with Red Rider . . . ya baby!

Sunshine Valentine Book

I used our die cut machine to make this book. Then I used whatever I could find that was black, red, white and a bit of pink. I had fun and put a lot of meaninful words into this book using Cal's favorite colors. It took me almost three weeks to make this book mainly because all of the journalling and some of the doodling I did by hand. It was fun though. Again, as you can see, I used a lot of stuff I had in my stash. Fun, fun, fun . . .

Together

This was Jade's Valentine's Day gift to Nathan. He had been asking for some pictures of her and this seemed to be the way to do it. It is a Maya Road's chipboard album covered in Basic Grey 6" x 6" paper with cute embellishments. Jade did the journalling which mades the project all that much more special.

Mullingar

The house my mother grew up in is the white one in the foreground. It was moved from the top of a hill to their in-law's homestead after they moved on. My cousin sent this picture to my mother about a month ago. She has all of these memories about the house. I want to get them down on paper to accompany this page. It is one of those photographs which holds enormous sentimental value. I used quite a bit of old stash on this page. I like the pretty ribbon and embossing combined with the embossed binder twine on the bottom. While those times were a bit rough -- my grandmother always managed to keep her elegance present somehow.