Q & A Time

For as long as I can remember, I've had a cat and an unfinished basement; the perfect scenario for Dusty Cat Syndrome. Think the basement's pretty clean? Think again!
Our current kitty, Spooky demonstrates this perfectly in these pics. Photographing all black pets is tricky. Dusty, all black cats are especially tricky as using a flash not only causes glare from the fur, it will also magically erase all of the details. Not a bad idea if you don't want anyone to know how dusty your basement is, but for me, that was the whole point of the pics! So anyways, the center pic is in focus, the outside pics are both a bit blurry, as cats do not make the most cooperative models when a slower shutter speed is called for. Oh, who am I kidding, cats are just plain uncooperative! Still, I liked the effect and the pictures were printed and used anyways.
Oh, and the q: and a: are Thickers.....puffy sticker Thickers! Another little bit of nostalgia, as I remember collecting stickers as a kid.... and puffy stickers could only be topped by scratch and sniffs!
Thanks for looking; hope you enjoy!

An Oldie, But a Goodie!

I did this layout months ago, shortly after the pictures were taken at Cole's first ball game. It's simple, but a favourite of mine with hand cut waves, some stickers and lots of fun rubons.
Right from that first game, we were all so impressed with Cole's focus and ability to absorb everything he was told about how to play the game. He played hard and with heart; you can't ask for more than that!

Long Time, No Blog!

Hey! It's been months since my last post, but now summer vacation is over, school's back in session and I'm almost caught up on all of it...scrappy-wise anyways!
This year, I've been using a Pebbles, Inc album which can use both 12x12 pages and 4x6 sleeves. I love this, as it allows me to add pics into my album that I don't want to scrap so all the year's pics are still in one place. Generally, it isn't any faster, as I've just got to add some journaling and still sometimes crop and mat the pics before sliding them in.
Another advantage of these 4x6 sleeves; I was able to display both sides of our tickets to the Titanic exhibit. Although I wasn't able to fit a pic of the back of this page, they printed a mini bio of passengers from the ill-fated ship, allowing us to pretend we were that passenger while travelling through the exhibit. At the end of the exhibit was a wall that listed all of the passengers. They were listed by class and whether they survived or perished. All of our passengers survived.

I made journaling cards to go along with these tickets that I decorated with inchies I received in a swap from the MMMB forum. Contributing artists are Sondra, Elaine, GrandmaCosmo and Faeiryrocks.

Their work really helped give a Victorian feel to the journaling cards. Inspired by their inchies, and needing some more to help embellish the remaining empty spaces, I made a couple more. Mine are the ones in purple.

It felt so good to get some more use out of my swap items. Thanks ladies for your lovely artwork and the inspiration to finish these cards in style!