Trying out a Trend and Other Odds and Ends

Hey there! 

Happy Spring (a day late but in the window!)!

The grandkids are off from school for the next week and Clare and I are feeling like we need a Spring Break too. The weather is pretty fine and the garden looks just a bit raggedy around the edges; in need of mowing and weeding and general sprucing up. We'll see how things fall out.

Anyhow, I've gotten a little of a scrapbooking mojo of late and in fact, followed both Ashli Oliver's and Shimelle Laine's (Glitter Girl) lead in "being brave" (the latter) and "trying on a trend" (the former). Firstly, Ashli posted this trend challenge of sorts (here and here) which got me to thinking about getting out of the box and then, Shimelle aka Glitter Girl threw out this challenge. Okay, you ask, what's the big deal? Well, #1 I'm timid and #2 like Ashli I'm a tad leery of doing stuff just because it's what everyone's doing. However, I sorted that out and went for a bit of brave brushwork!

This page is a companion piece to a multi-photo layout and I was really struggling with how to title it. I had gotten some India ink from Michael's a couple weeks ago and a bamboo #8 round brush so I cowboyed up and started writing words out on a scrap paper. I wrote beautiful (not too . . .), and sweet (a little flat looking), and then lovely (one big, one smaller, one flowy and one printy). The one I chose was the smaller, flowy one which I ended up hand cutting and mounting it to the page with little pieces of foam squares. I cut out a bigger flowy lovely word and will save it for some other project or just to tack up on my inspiration board and admire!

So that's that! I rather like the looks of this but am uncertain if I will be BRAVE enough to brush script directly on my background. 

The multi-photo layout I did that will sit across from this one in my scrapbook is here:

This layout was inspired by Jill Sprott's 2011 year in review page here. Incidentally, this was a very fun day to spend with two of my granddaughters, my daughter-in-law, and her mother my friend. 

Putting together these two pages reminded me of a layout I did 13 years ago of this same granddaughter trying on a gown:

Gotta' love how scrapbooking preserves these precious memories!

Laters!