Jul
16

More Basic Grey, Green At Heart

Posted by DeAnna

I love this line. Seriously ;D Not only because it has purple in it (which is my favorite color), but just the overall yummy-ness of the colour palette – light and dark green, orange, purple, hot and light pink, mixed with a beautiful creamy tan colour. You can find it here. I decided that since I was doing a layout that wasn’t just about my boys or a baseball park or a birthday, I could use something with colors that I love and is a bit more girly. While browsing at my LSS I decided to go with Green At Heart because I love the purple in it. And there are so many choices in this line, it’s lovely. I purchased some of the ribbon tape and some of the journaling tags, stamps, bits, and 6×6 paper pad. Well, I guess I bought a lot of it!

The layout is from a trip to Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota in 2007. We went to a Twins game with my two brothers and my father and step-mother, and took pictures at their place in Iowa where my father is a pastor, so we also got pictures of the church. We were there just after Kyle’s first birthday so we had a small birthday party for him too. I really need to force myself to limit the number of pictures on my layouts because I don’t have room for much else on this page! I could have probably done a few layouts for this trip but for some reason I didn’t. I might get a few other photos from the trip printed out in 4×6 sizes and use two or three on a couple of layouts highlighting family, my father’s church, etc. I am really happy with the way the layout looks all finished, but it’s definitely busy ;D

You can find the supplies here on my Flickr account. You’ll notice that it looks like the journaling on the tag on the lower left is covered up and you can’t read all the journaling. One of the cool things about these tags is that they come with an acetate overlay. I adhered the overlay only to the left side and that way you can lift the overlay and read what’s underneath it. I love the little buttons I put on the overlay too – a generic button from a “bag of buttons” at Michael’s. I used the Martha Stewart Classic Butterfly punch to punch out a few butterflies to highlight my son sleeping through the Twins game, the sign outside of my father’s church, and the Minnesota tag which I cut out (of course!) with my Silhouette (as with the Iowa tag). Love that machine!

Coming soon: a Christmas and a zoo layout; and my new favorite photo! I’ve been working hard on my new digi kit as well and that should be ready by the end of August (but hopefully before then ;D). July is our crazy month – every year it’s the busiest month of the year for us. Between camping on Canada Day, Kyle’s birthday, swimming lessons, a ball tournament in Kamloops, more swimming, another tournament, T-ball lessons, a series in Victoria with the Seals, and then a two-week camping trip at the end of the month, I don’t know how we manage to get it all DONE in one month! August is just about as crazy, but only Daddy is traveling after our trip ends, thankfully…

Be back in a couple of days!

DeAnna

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