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Bliss L O V E

I have been collecting photos of all the flowers Shawn brings me,

mostly "just because" and some Mother's day or "the kids are driving

you crazy" day...

I wanted to do a layout documenting some of these and our

11th anniversary seemed like a good opportunity.

I also used the colors inspired by the www.color-me-scrappy.blogspot.com

Challenge #4 which was based on a beautiful bowl of cherries. 

I remember being a kid and thinking that the two colors that

clashed together the most were red & pink...It literally made

me cringe to see them side by side.   No longer...

Red, pink, orange...I love them all!

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big & fluffy!

Last Spring break we had a little outdoor cookout on the firepit

and made s'mores for the kids...ok, and us too...yum.

The Publix brand large marshmallows are called "Big & Fluffy" 

and I thought it was the perfect name for this page...

My daughter had suggested that I use the bag for the title,

which I thought was pretty clever. 

Naturally, my finicky son had to eat his s'more deconstructed...

 

thru your eyes...SHINE

My daughter was outside swinging before school one morning,

which shows you how much she loves swinging to be up and out so early.

I loved this photo because of the lighting and because it was like

seeing things from her perspective, thru your eyes...

I was also trying to come up with something for the MME May challenge

which was to switch up color schemes...so I used a couple papers from

an older Lost & Found Boy collection and some of the more masculine woodgrains

and patterns from the Miss Caroline & Indie Chic collections. 

I have had this viewfinder shape in my Silhouette file and thought this was

a perfect opportunity to use it to go with my theme and title.

I had loved a layout by Marcy Penner where she machine stitched

around a cluster of photos centered in the page.  Mine is a lot

busier than hers, { sometimes I have a hard time telling myself

that less is more...in design I totally agree, in scrapbooking,

well, there are just too many cool embellishments!! } but

that is the general idea...My son said it looked like Jupiter rings,

he is obsessed with space at the moment, so I thought I should

include the wood veneer stars from Studio Calico that are awesome!



SNAPSHOTS...

I love this stamp from Lawn Fawn that I have used on

multiple layouts but I have always used it to make it look

like an authentic Polaroid print...

I wanted to scrapbook this series of photos of my daughter in

the first dress I made her.  The dress has a very small pattern on

it and the pictures are pretty monochromatic so I thought it would be

 the perfect opportunity to use lots of pattern and vibrant color. 

I used a mix of the current May Scrapbook

circle kit & bits and pieces of previous kits. 

I am loving this yellow chevron washi tape!

I also thought it was a little ironic that the text under the photo of

my daughter laying down said "celebrate"...she looks anything but.

I wanted to have some subtitles without taking away from any other

patterns so I heat embossed some stamping from one of Ali Edwards sets.

believe in YOUrSelf

Two Peas had a really cool challenge for NSD to come up with your own

color challenge from items in your home.  I had so much fun picking out

basically my favorite colors and things around me! 

I also combined this color challenge with a sketch challenge

from www.sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com  to use 4 or more photos. 

I took their sketch (#74) and flipped it on its side to better fit my photos. 

Here is the direct link to their blog post:

http://sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com/p/4-photo-pages.html

I have been really digging into my old photos of the kids because they

seem to be growing and changing so much in last few months. 

Obviously, kids change as they grow but with Mother's Day I have been

really getting nostalgic and a little sad that there are no more little ones around. 

Just big kids with big personalities! {i.e. attitudes!!}