Sometimes I like watching you play

 There have been a few pages involving me recently and my DH took this shot of me - and I like it (maybe it's cos I have my back to the the camera LOL).  I am sat watching my kids and their cousins having a go in a Canadian canoe at our local lake, I was in charge of supervising the kids on the bank and feeding them whilst the boys took them out in the boat.

I am still trying to perfect my misting, so this is the 2nd go at misting (I should show you the back of the page :)) - I masked a strip down the middle and then used a doily mask and spritzed some yellow and green - I wanted a subtle mist effect - still not quite perfect but I am learning.  I then dug out my prima pixie glen stamp and cut a circular hole in a sheet of paper and stamped out a circular image, I also did 2 smaller 1" circles (used a punch) and stamped those in the diagonally opposite corner with some tattered rose distress ink.  I used up some more of my Scrap Rat August papers for this - Echo Park Victoria Gardens, and cut out lots of the roses, then added some rectangular pieces and a a doily - and a journal tag giving the details behind the photo.  A few Martha Stewart butterflies (they have to be one of my most used punches), some liquid pearls and stickles - and a quote off the echo park papers and this is what I came up with.  The title is part hand written and the other part authentique stickers.  So quite a girly LO for me, and a good bit of white space I have resisted adding anything more as I'm not sure what to add....so here it is for now.

The Scraprat September kit is out now, so click here to go and see it (there are canvas shapes and crate paper chipboard lots of lovely things) and click here to see what the design team have come up with.

Charm Boy

This is another LO from my scraprat kit, and a shot of my DS on holiday.  He is a very charming boy, he met some girls in the jacuzzi....I was assuming they were 7/8 but when I met them they 14/15 and he hung out with them at the pool and the evening movie - made me smile!  I got my mists out for this LO, and started by using my circle mask on the white cardstock and the green mist.  I also misted some of the large scalloped pink paislee ribbon with a mask over the top in blue, and then added some lines of zig zag stitching.  I used a large rectangle of the green victoria gardens paper as it matched the green in my photo, and some of the vintage atlas - I inked and distressed the edges, and added a little more stitching.  I made some bunting out of the manuscript paper and added the first part of my title to this.  For the mistable chipboard letters I just rubbed over broken china distress ink.  I made the flowers (this is probably tutorial worthy - I do have a little list of things I should show you :)) by cutting out circles and then 6 petal flower shapes and inking and curling them up, then made the leaves out of some spritzed paper and an embossing tool to get the veins.  Here are some more shots.