100% Boy......

....even if he does choose to wear his girl cousin's shades!!!!

There is a beaut of a sketch over at Life Paper Scrapbook this month, and this little photo of DGS was calling to be used :D

There is lots of fiddle farting around on this one....playing without thinking!! So here goes:

The chipboard glasses are from a collection I bought on sale by Farmhouse Paper Co (a new one to me!) A few MME stamps with Versamark Ink...uber bright!

You will have seen me mention my mate Lizzy many times here on my blog. She is queen of mess (in more ways than one!!!) and loves to play with various mediums. She has been using Gelatos for a while now and I love what she does with them. She sent me a pack for my birthday so that I could play too....yay!! Here I have mixed the red with some yellow paint and glass bead gel and then used it with a Crafters Workshop stencil. I am hooked so will just have to get the rest of the colours...it's only right, don't you think????

Another of my sale purchases was this transparency sheet from Hambly....love it! Another couple of MME stamps :)

Now this may not look that special to you but it is significant to me. This title was in a set that I bought 5 years ago!! It was a Cosmo Cricket kit from QVC and I bought 3 to make DGD's first year albums (I know people, this was in the very early days!!!) Anyway, I can remember thinking that I would never have a use for this embellie and gave the other 2 away but kept this one....here I am 5 years later using it for my boy :)

the background is a Heidi Swapp stencil and Color Shine (my favourite mists, by a mile!)

Here is the sketch that inspired it all:

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

This Boy

There is a delicious colour challenge over at Life Paper Scrapbook...really the perfect colour palette for a small boy and his adoring Grandma :)))



The photo is not the best quality but it is the only one I have of that first moment that I got to hold my DGS when he was minutes old......a very special moment in my life :)

glorious papers from Fancy Pants...all the rest is from my hoard (and some of it is ancient!)

Studio Calico wood veneer star and word, the star has been misted with Teal Color Shine. A Martha Stewart clay flower misted with CS Mustard...I love that stuff! The rub on is 'old as the hills' HOTP.

no prizes for guessing that the title was cut on the Silhouette!! Heidi Swapp stamp.

More Studio Calico wood veneers, clay star (made by me!) MME brad, Stash Panache flair and Ali Edwards stamp. 

Back in the day I used to scrap 8 x 8 and without exception every album (including commissioned ones) has this layout design in it....so I thought I would give it a try 12 x 12 stylee......I really, really like it!! Hope you do too :)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x