Precious Girl

This was taken at the Jacksonville Beach Summer Jazz Series. Morgan and I tend to shelter from the sun under umbrellas. The light blew out the black of her umbrella and nearly washed this picture out completely.

Photoshop can color correct with no problems but in the class I'm taking I did something new today. We created a vintage hand tinted image. First I cropped the pic and reduced the saturation. A sepia tone was added and finally I colored her cheeks, lips, eyes and shirt on separate layers.

Then I added a frame from the class and used brush stamps to put the flourish under my title.

The text effect is not part of the class... or at least not that I know of. It's a pillow emboss after a white stroke was put on the text. (These are layer styles.) It makes it look like it's enameled. Fun fun.

Morgan Goes to New York

Morgan, AKA Moon Fairy, is starting a mini album of her own. I helped her with this cover page but the rest is going to be her own work. The doll is cut on the Cricut using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I hand cut and colored the hair for her and she colored in everything but the vest. It should be a fun album when she's finished with it.

The paper and tag are some that I've had for 10 years. The font I've had since I learned to write. *wink* She's still not happy with her writing when it comes to something like this. I told her to just stop and draw the letters... she just looked at me. heh

Time Square

We have a ton of pics from our day trip to New York, but these are the only two Bob has printed for me so far. Not sure why I did the pink doodles, but what the heck right? LOL



Morgan and Joey were fascinated by the living statue guy. I have to admit that he was pretty cool and even better than the one on Monk! heh

Don't Ever Grow Up

Morgan had a Survivor themed birthday party in 2008.  We had about 15 kids and I think everyone had a good time.  Activities included painting a totum pole, obstacle course race (look out for the aligators), scavenger hunt to set up the camp, King of the hill and some other stuff.  I've blurred her friends faces in any of the pics online to protect their identities. (dont' have parental permission and all that jazz)

Scraps.  We all have 'em.  Sometimes I throw 'em out and sometimes I don't.  This layout is all scrap paper.  Embellishments chosen by the Moon Fairy herself... again.  She really likes to help when she's in the picture.  heh 

My Girl

My girl is the sweetest daughter anyone could ask for. She made me breakfast this morning!

The first picture was taken at Disney the day after Christmas. Joey was the camera man this time because Robert was in Nebraska.

The second pic was taken while we were scouting locations for her Survivor Birthday Party the following weekend. Can you just see her really thinking hard about whether or not the site would work?

The flowers are from my stash of embellishments. I don't know who make 'em or where I got them... but the Moon Fairy liked 'em.

Honor Roll

This layout is so fun. It's got a lot going on for an 8 x 8 page. Did I mention that before? I was gifted with an 8 x 8 album and I really like the size.

The picture is from a couple of years ago, but Morgan just loved the hat and wanted to use this picture. We played with it in photoshop and both agreed that with so many elements and colors on the page, the picture should be black and white. She's not competing with everything else... she stands out this way.

Then we scanned and shrunk Morgan's report card and included the ribbon given at the Honors Assembly. (I have a LOT of these ribbons in my Mementos box!) The embellishments are cute little things that I've had for ages.

Did you notice the wood grain on the left. That was made by scoring the card stock then sweeping the stamp pads over to roughly transfer color. I used More Mustard, Close to Cocoa and Really Rust Classic ink. It's a super fast technique and you can get a lot of different looks with different colored card stock for a base and different inks. Give it a try!

We were a little Batty this weekend

You ever had one of those days? You know, where things just are not going your way?

Morgan had one of those days this weekend. She couldn't have a playdate with her friend, so she made her an LTC instead. They are both into Transformers - so it's robot everything. You'll see what I mean!

Morgan carved the bat herself from my direct sketch onto the mysterious gray stuff. Isn't it just too cute???

So, since the card was a single, I helped her make a sleeve for it with some designer paper I had from Costco.

She decorated that with the new Oval All set and scalloped oval punch from Stampin Up. The faux postage stamp is her own sketch cut out with 'postage' decorative scissors. I sponged it for her with classic ink in Sunshine and Bashful Blue. Then she matted it on So Saffron and Bashful Blue card stock.

When in Rome

This is carved by MnM (8 yrs old) with only a little help by Mom. It was made for her Brownie troop's Thinking Day - but we were late and so the stamp was never used.

The background was created by the two of us as well using Photoshop... printed directly to the card stock and then cut out.


We made it for the Embossing Ring Swap