YingYang

My cousin liked my self portrait so I offered to do up a profile picture for her. The deep background floral paper came from atomic cupcake. The forward red wash on white paper came from designer digitals. The ying yang shape was from phtoshops custom shapes tool. The photograph was a self portrait my cousin Deb took of herself. I hope she likes it.

Riding a tiger

My 2 and 1/4 year old has now started to create her own stories. There is a recurring one. It revolves around a story she has but has a really wonderful twist. In her book, there is a pony named Little Black and a horse named Big Red. In her own story, Daddy is riding Big Red, she is riding Little Black, and mommy (that's me!) is riding a tiger. I love it!

Self Portrait

I created this self-portrait for my facebook account so I thought I would share it here.

Technique described in Jessica Sprague's tutorials. Background paper from Shabby Princess' sunporch collection. I positioned the paper so the flowers were right over my eyes. Did you notice?

Jag Water

We have had a run on a pretty good funny for a few days now. Christina is in love with Diego (Dora's cousin). She thinks the baby jaguar is "so sweet" (with eyes closed, head turned and shoulders raised). This week she decided to work on her ennunciation of 'jaguar'. We always knew what she was saying but I guess it wasn't perfetly clear. Well, it turns out that Christina has decided that the little animals name is 'baby Jag Water'. Clear as day. What can I say besides, "so sweet" (head turned, shoulders raised, eyes closed).

Curls

I am so in love with this picture of Christina. I keep posting it everywhere. I took just about every curly looking element I could find and started adding them all to this page. Then I gradually simplified until I was left with this slightly less complicated layout.The curly brush came from Andrea Victoria over at Designer Digitals. The curly picture frame came from Kirsty Wiseman. The frame around "curls" came from the Shabby Princess Vintage Floral collection. The background paper is AquaPaisley paper from the Sweet Serenity collection at Shabby Princess. The picture is from our abundant collection of our little princess.

Atlantic Grace

I finally got around to doing a page on our boat, Atlantic Grace. I'm glad I waited. I think it turned out pretty good. Lets see... The photo was taken by a friend, Jimmy Patterson, on our maiden voyage. The Image of the Spray in the bottom right hand corner comes from the Joshua Slocum Society International website. I applied it with a blending method I learned from Jessica Spragues tutorials. The quote is from Slocum himself. The filmstrip came from escrappers.com. The waves at the bottom of the page came from atomic cupcake templates. All the smaller images are from our own archives except the small photo of us under sail, which came from our neighbour, Stu. Everyone took a picture of us that day. I think they were surprised to finally see us out sailing after so many years of construction. I applied standard photoshop effects to the main picture and to the title. The background was just a blue page to which I applied a satin overlay in order to give a wavy effect.