8th Birthday Celebration

Happy Thursday (and Holy Deep Freeze, Batman!!)!

It is C-O-L-D!!

 

I have a bit of a confession, I often make my LOs before I have my pictures printed.

I usually sketch them out when I do this, knowing which shots I will print off and what size I will print them at but this time, I completed my LO before I even TOOK the pictures. EEK!

I guess if the colors in my pics were off, I could tweek them while editing or just go for the tried and true printing in black and white method but since I usually scrap in the same bright colors I wear on my son, I just went for it and it worked.

I didn't know how many pics I would use or what size, so I just winged it and left a large (fairly open) space available for my pics and just set it up. My original concept isn't overly embellished or ornate, I knew I would add more details as I worked with my photos. 

 

 

As you can see, I added a fair amount of photos & kept most of them small (2x2, 2x3 and my focal photo is a 'grand' 4x3). by keeping the pics zoomed in and cropped, I was able to add 10 photos & journalling spots. I also cut some random sized '8's and placed them around my LO.

 

LO created with December Hip 2-B Square kit + add-ons.

 

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Stay warm!!

Love Love Love

This LO is of my beautiful Parents-in-law, married for over 40 years now.

Using the December Hip 2-B Square kit + add-ons.

 

 

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500 Posts, a Birthday & Some Cards too!

Holy MOLY!!

500 posts??!!

For a girl who hates (I mean really despises) writing & is a poor typist to boot,

I never thought I would see the day that I would hit 500 posts.

WOW!

I started this blog for a DT position that I wanted (it was mandatory to have a blog).

I never got the spot but liked being able to keep my projects contained in 1 set spot.

And here we are.

 

Before I share a few cards that I did for Hip 2-B Square, I wanted to take a small piece of your time and wish this little Prince a Happy 8th Birthday.

 

It's still so hard to believe somedays that I am a Momma to such a wonderful little guy.

We just love him to bits!!

Happy 'EPIC' Birthday, 'Dude'!

 

 

And last but not least, here a few cards that I did for Miss Kimberley using the December Hip 2=B Square kit + Add-ons.

 

 

 

 

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I'll look back on this and Smile

Happy Friday!

It is a balmy -16 C (-27 C with wind chill) here in Canada today,

so I decided to stay indoors and blog a bit.

 

This LO is of a pic I was taking of Little Man at the 'Touch A Truck' event last Fall.

Our funny friend, Tony jumped in at the last second and photo bombed Little Man. The pic makes me laugh every time I see it and I thought the bright colours in the December Hip 2-B Square kit suited it perfectly.

 

 

**using December Kit from Hip 2-B Square + add-ons.

 

 

 

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..I have an Arcade in My Basement

I did this LO at a crop a few months ago and

never got around to posting, so I am sharing it today :)

I took these pics for my hubby and then put them away to scrap.

I kept putting the LO off and then found these papers at Winners (DCWV) and

became inspired to scrap them.

The colors went well with some AC Amy Tangerine Sketchbook that I had floating around, so I used some of the smaller patterns.

**Double click image to see both sides.

 

 

 

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..Bunch of Characters

With all the parades we went to this season, I got some great pics to scrap.

These pics were taken at our first Santa Claus parade. We had some great people from a local gaming group called The Fundy Phoenix walk the parade route with is, dressed as some fabulous characters (the Bowser costume was hand made/sewn!!) Of course the boys were ALL OVER that and were more than happy to pose with Bowser, Shrek & Spiderman.

 

**Made with November Hip 2-b Square kit + Add-ons

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Rocking Pink

As part of the Anti-Bullying campaign, LM's school does a 'wear pink' day to raise awareness.

My little guy has NOTHING in the way of pink clothing so I dug out my hat and Hubby's tie and sent him off  (after taking pictures of course!!).

I really like that Hip kits can be used for non-themed LOs too (Kimberly does a great job at balancing themed & non-themed products in her kits)

This LO was done with the November Hip Kit that had a C-mas theme to it.

This LO was our first snow (all 3 mm of it - can't say the same right now, we just got more than a foot dumped on us!!) But they did call it a snow day and cancelled school that day, so I got some pics of these two little monkies before the rain started and washed it all away that day.

 

**Made with November Hip Kit + Add-ons.

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Stay warm & safe today!

Happy New Year!!