Noni and Her Boy

My new step-mom (I say new because they just got married, but she's been in the family for over a decade and out ranks my kids and hubby...lol) and my son Nick have a special bond. She has been his Noni since the day he was born. More than a grandma, she is his best friend. I tried following a sketch on this one, but it started to find it's own way and I decided I liked it better than the sketch.

Following an 'Egg"-cellent Sketch

This is another landscape digi layout. We took my daughter to the park for the city wide egg hunt and she got to sit on a real fire truck. She was very excited about that. Meeting the Easter Bunny?? Not so much. My husband barely got the shot off before I nearly dropped her from her nails clawing into me to escape. Hahahaha.

The layout itself was one of my first digi layouts. I struggled a bit. I was following the sketch below and trying to duplicate the ribbon on the left was hard with limited supplies. I ended up just using two of the buckled ribbon and trying to place it in a way that concealed as much of the bottom buckle as possible. I really enjoyed following the sketch. It made a big difference. I had to boot the journaling from the sketch because it didn't fit in the layout size I was doing.

Vacation Photos part 2

For my dad's 50th birthday we spent the day at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The color combos on these two layouts isn't really my favorite, but I was ready to shake it up some. I did a lot of altering and layering the items here. I liked the flowers, but the centers didn't match. So...I covered them with buttons that went with the set. I also layered most of the buttons with other smaller buttons.

I loved the background used for this layout. My dad is an engineer and a tool addict so I loved the gritty, graph paper, workshop-y feel of this layout. Hard edges, torn pieces, stencil stamping, random paint swipes rather than ribbon. It all added to the effect that was exactly what I was going for.