Titus and Isaac

I painted the white paper with green and blue paint...each color in a different direction. This page changed lots of time.

Coloring

I took a paint brush and then fanned it with my finger to get the little paint markings on the blue paper. It was fun, but not all of the paint went on the paper. Ha!

Today

This page was hard. I didn't know what to put on it or what to really say. I didn't have any more of the turquoise paper. So I drew some letters (MEN), cut them out, and then painted them. I was able to mix paint and almost come out with a perfect match! I was proud of myself for that. Ha!

I really like how this page turned out. I tried a few different things, as always. The circles were actually from a paper with those all over it. Rather than use the whole sheet as the background, I cut out lots of the circles to make them go where *I* wanted. I really like the color combo - mixing the two patterns. I'm into green right now for some reason. It just feels so fresh and clean. Call me crazy!

Christina Tagged Me!

Christina tagged me and here are the rules that I must (at least *try*) to follow:

• Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
• Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 Facts about Myself:

#1: I wear socks so my feet won't sweat.
#2: I like to dip corn chips in miracle whip.
#3: I long to live in a home that's in the country but not too far from the city...maybe also near mountains and water (Hey, it can be done!).
#4: I've been to India three times.
#5: Our son has my husband's middle name and our daughter has my middle name.
#6: I fell out of a second story window before I was two.
#7: I'm the 30th great-grandchild of my great-grandma Angeline DuRussel. My son is the 18th great-great and my daughter is the 27th great-great.

As far as tagging goes, I have only been on one person's blog outside of people I know...Elsie. I'm just now starting to look at other people's blogs for ideas.

New Pages

This page was started weeks ago but I realized I didn't print the top right picture - one I *had* to put on this page. So I waited until I got all of my new pictures. They came yesterday and I got right to work - after the kids took their nap, that is. I changed this layout so many different times and ended up with this one. At the very bottom, I included 3 things that happened that month...#1: Leah laughed when tickled on Oct 3, #2: She turned 4 months old, and #3: She rolled over from her back to her belly on Oct 18. In my son's first year book (ahem, I'm on Leah's second book for her first year!), I put a page in the back of the things he accomplished and when. Now I'm trying to include them as they happen, near pictures of them at the age they were.

I'm not too keen on this page...we all know what happens when I feel that way...it'll probably get redone! Ha!

Something New

I was looking through a scrap magazine and came across stitching (by hand) on scrap paper. So I thought I would give it a try. I took a piece of paper that I didn't really like the color of...but now that I've put the work into it, I think I'm going to try to use this paper! It was fun!

I drew an outline with pen, so you can see that some. This was my first, experimental flower.

My Paper

It's been a while since I've posted anything on this blog. I just ordered a bunch of pictures (since I ran out) and just today I bought all this paper. I think differently now when I buy paper. I'm trying to change things and have been enjoying it. I no longer look at a page and think that's the only paper for a page layout. It makes me more aware of what's out there and paper I would have otherwise passed by. It's fun trying new things and thinking out of the box!

Oatmeal

I painted the brown paper with light blue. The letters were something I traced and cut out. I didn't have a lower case "t", so I drew it while trying to stick to the style of the other letters. I really like painting the background of plain paper. It adds a lot to a page.

Bath

The background page is not painted, however I did paint around the pictures and quote card. All of the circle paper was some kind of polka dot paper. I've really been liking that lately.

Cherries and Tomatoes

I cut out the cherries and painted the stem.

For the font used for both pages, here is the link
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/2Peas_Arizona.htm .

3 Pages

Papa & Leah

SCC and Garden Buds

First Paint Page

As you can see, I used white paint for the base border and then thin stripes of pink and black. For the journal card, I painted on the paper and then printed over it. It worked pretty good. It was fun playing around with the paint. There is a lot you could do! Oh the possibilities!

$3.69 AMAZING Deal!

I've seen people use paint in different scrapping magazines and have been wanting to try it. I saw that JoAnn's had some on sale for $1.39 a bottle so I set out to go there and stop at Michael's. Well...I couldn't find JoAnn's (still finding my way around GR) and ended up going to Micheal's before it would close. To my amazement, the had paints on sale 3 / $1.00!! I called Christina to make sure this was ok to buy, and with her approval (HAHA!), I bought these! I could buy 4 at Micheal's for the price of 1 at JoAnn's. They are normally only 50 cents, so that's good to know for the future. The little foam "brushes" were only 6 cents. Ha! They are normally 39 cents. The regular brush was 39 cents. So for 9 paints and 3 brushes, I only spent $3.69!! AMAZING!

Titus and Leah

I love this quote!

This was fun to do with cutting out the flowers and mixing the two different polka dots.

More Pages

Before

After

Pages of Leah

Sorry, this picture was taken a little on an angle.

Tuesday...so far

Uhhh...this page may get changed...