how do i love thee, marks & co? let me count the ways. 1. brand new just released CHA goodies from amy tangerine and dear lizzy. 2. GOLD WASHI TAPE. 3. that wood veneer alpha 4. an exclusive stitching template from amy tangerine. 5. a whole set of chipboard asterisks. Ahhhh, happy.
my marks & co gallery is a return to the square. ha. lately, most of my pages have been 8.5x11. my CHA assignments were all 12x12s, and when i started my marks & co LOs i went back to the rectangle, only to make two pages i really wasn't happy with. a little slicing and dicing later, they both became 12x12s that i liked.
photo booth | be still my heart.. we ran across a photo booth, and my boy asked if he could do it. um, YES. we shoved them all in there and let them have at it. well, i did intervene to put sam on his brothers' laps mid-shoot since he was too short to be seen otherwise. what we got? classic.
i love the ombre aqua paper from maggie's new crate release, so i started there. i randomly stamped the phrases over each section, making the stamping more dense as the color got darker. the vellum pockets in the main were screaming for confetti, but when i added it in it was hard to read the words. i fixed that by stitching around them. the title is cut with bebas from watercolor paper, and i backed it with the star paper from the kit.
100* | this page has had a crazy life... it got a full on makeover just before i photoed to upload it. ;) the original version just wasn't working for me, so i'm glad i went ahead and chopped it up. the only bits salvaged from the original are the top journaling block, the block with the strip of ombre paper, and the embellishments to the left of the photo.
i started this page with the pieces from the original, and then layered in a bunch of paper and journaling cards and washi.
hello summer | i really couldn't resist using this paper from the bronte add-on - i'm a sucker for a starburst!!
i stamped the "hello" stamp from the project life kit in gold to fill in the circle, and then made a big arrow out of washi tape. i cut away a few sections of the starburst and backed them with text paper, and then finished with some embellishment groupings.
happy monday! we're kicking off a crazy busy week - starting with sam turning six. <---- i may be having a hard time with that one.
