A TIME from the past

I have been having a lot of fun with the pictures that my Mom sent to me about two weeks ago... made a few albums... they are here... just take a look for them... and making all kinds of pages now for a book for me...  This is one of those pages... 8.5 x 8.5 and then I will create a book from them all...when I get them finished... 

This page is a combination page... it is not only for my book, but also for Theme Thursday Challenge    this week the challenge is to make an ATC... which for those of you who don't know what an ATC is... (Artist Trading Card)  2.5 x 3.5 in size... and you trade them... never to be sold... I use to trade these cards by the dozens... literally too.. I had over 4000 of them... and about two years ago I decided that I would really like to have the closet they were stored in, so I gave them to a nursing home to make cards from them... you should have seen the faces of the ladies at the nursing home... you would have thought I had given them a million dollars... they are still using some of them... making all kinds of things from them...  they love them...

My Nana sitting on a 'running board' of the car

My Mom on the beach at 18 months old. 

Little driver...

Quality Time with her Mom... on the beach.

Anyway... I do drift from time to time.. have to try and stay focused...  Back to Theme Thursday...

So I made four ATC's... and used pictures of my Mom and her Mom on them... and then created a page by using them all... wow.. I love it... so great... 

I also had a couple of other new Challenges that I wanted to enter... and the theme at both of these challenges was WORDS... Well far it be it from me not to have WORDS... of some kind... LOL... 



Anyway... I wanted to do Simon Says Stamp and Show  and also Ink on My Fingers ... so the words are are many in all the ATC's individually and also the whole page, which as it says is a story....
Another word group that is so very important is QUALITY TIME... which so many of us forget to do each day... enjoy what ever it is you are doing... don't rush through something just to get to the next project.. or wish you were some other place... just enjoy it all... 



I used all kinds of fun things on here... I took apart an old watch that didnt' work... I used some of Tim Holtz's ideology.. like the pins and also the metal flowers... I made the flowers that you see on here... one of them is made from paper that I painted and stamped... the red one... and the tiny orange ones are from punched flowers... and then the purple felt one.... this one is made from cutting out a ink pad that you use on the Tim Holtz handle stamper... I cut it out... and I like it... Also the little lime arrow is from the felt too... 


I can't throw useful things out.. .I try and find a use for most items... better than being in the land fill... 

I used papers from Tim Holtz's pads too... a little of this and a little of that created my page... I also made my own seam binding ribbon... love it...

Hope that you will take a look at this site and join in on the fun... I love challenges... and this one is always pretty nice... 
Have  a fun creative day... I have to get back to  making more pickles...  have another 2 bushels to can... I feel dilled myself... 
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and come back soon...  


Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Use it Tuesday challenge

Oh My goodness.... I love making cards... and I love using things that I haven't used in a long time... gives me a GREAT feeling... so when I saw this challenge I thought how neat is this???? 

You have to use something that you have not used in a long time... well how about never having used it???  I have  few of those things... and also a lot of not used in a long long time things...  

We also had to use Red, White and Blue... so when I started to think about what I would create... I thought that making a birthday card for my Grandson, along with this challenge would be perfect... since his birthday is in July... and near enough to the 4th... and red is one of his favorite colors... so this was just perfect... 


I also love to create a card that does something... after all he is only 7 and loves action... so I decided to do a swivel card... so that when he opens the card... it will flip... flip to open...  yes.,.. 


I used the red, white and blue theme... and then added some other things too... I had never used this cute little cupcake with mouse digital... and I had never used the sheet of sticker letters... so those were my two NEVER used... and then for the my not used in a long time... they are the number embossing folder... and also the happy birthday and cupcake punches... I love them and have not used them in a very long time... 

BUT... the Happy Birthday embossing folder and the cupcakes on the inside??? Well it has been over a year since I have used either of them... maybe longer... 


So  I feel pretty good that I used some things that I haven't used in a long time.. and also used for the first time...

I also had to add some seam binding tape ribbon that I dyed... I love the look, I love making it... and I love the bin of it that I have to use... LOL... I think I love this stuff...  


Have a fun day... and enjoy this weather... I do hope you are having nice weather... we certainly are... a little warm.. .but hey it is summer in the south... what did we expect???  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and look forward to seeing you here more often... Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie 

Love

Grungy Monday 13!   A lucky day… a lucky challenge and just a lot of fun all the way around…

Okay before I get started I have to tell you that on Grungy Monday they asked that we watch a  Video on Ranger site… well I had a problem with that… I have never been on You Tube… I have never watched a Video on my computer.. and have very limited experience with a lot of blogs… as I am this FAMOUS thing called DIAL UP…. Ugh!!!!  Not a nice thing… but at least I am connected to ya’ll… we live a very remote area… rural as it is known… my neighbor calls it Podunk… I call it Paradise… except when I can’t see some things on my computer… LOL… 

Oh well the pity party is over… on with my project for today…

I looked at what the other WONDERFUL pages were on the challenge and decided that a nice couple of pages done with my alcohol inks would be a fun thing…  Of course they are Adirondack Inks… I only have them… my studio is "a la Ranger/Tim Holtz"… so I think that explains that… LOL.. I love it all..and almost have it all... yikes... I am obsessed... and it is a great feeling...

That is why I love doing all these challenges that are associated with  Tim as I can use all my supplies and have fun... which this site Grungy Monday is... so please take a look and join in on the fun... 

So I made a ‘couple’ of pages… (truth be known… I got carried away and made quite a few… )  ( I also have to tell you that while I was doing all this, I was processing another bushel basket of green beans for the dehydrator and getting other things done… as my time today was short… very short for playing in the studio… but this was important too… ) 

I do ramble on… but that is just my nature…

Here is the page… 

I chose a few of the papers I had create with my alcohol inks… and the stamped on a few… chose the two I really liked… one stamped and one ‘plain’ for the background…  I used a few colors on the background one… along with GOLD… had to have the gold on there…

This page is 8.5 x 8.5 .... nice size, small enough  to handle and large enough for me to get everything on there... 

Then I made my page… I used some of my Seam Binding tape… Love using that stuff… and today I got three more rolls in the mail… yahoo…. Fun and games when I have more time…

I added a little Ideology too…  like a hanger for the ticket of LOVE…  also the little slides are surrounded by the slide die template…( all the little pictures are also of my Mom when she was only a small child… )   and then I covered it all with a sheet of plastic from a package… so it really feels like film… love the realness of that..

I made my flowers… and then for the picture… I used another piece of my alcohol paper for the background… and then using a very heavy Vellum that Marie gave me, I cut it out with a Cuttlebug embossing folder…  Oh I used some Micro pearls on the ribbon area.. as my Nana always use to wear pearls.. so they are for her…

This picture was taken about 90 years ago… as my  Mom is now 91.5… and does look a little different now… as a matter of fact she looks  a lot like her Mom now… 

Well hope you will check out Grungy Monday and join in on the fun… Thanks for taking a look at my blog today… and hope that you will come back again soon..  Please don’t forget to take a scroll down and look at the wedding book and also the toy book I made for my Mom… with some of the other pictures that she just sent to me… I am really having fun with them… 

Have a creative and happy day…

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie

Toyz in the 1920's

 AS I have said a few times on this blog... my Mom of 92 years old sent me some pictures of her growing up... and I had to do something with them.. .so I made her a wedding book... which you can see if you scroll down... and then I made this one on the Toys that she and her brother  had while growing up... he is 5 years younger than she is..

The cover is made with canvas that I colored with inks... and then decorated with Grunge board and also the bird cage template... which I made by using AC tape... and covered cardboard and then cut... for a nice silver look...  the little bird was colored with Alcohol inks... I strung some bead to hang off the cage...

The Grunge letters I used paint and then sanded and then colored with more ink...  and then used Distress glitters to accent the letters... all edges were done with Tissue tape... all of these are supplies from Tim Holtz line from Ranger...

 I think that this little picture, even though my Mom doesnt' have a toy was playing that she was fairy... so I put some wings on her.. this was butterfly from a piece of K and Co paper... and then I used Crackle paint on it... to get the wings to crackle...  I actually followed the technique from this weeks Grungy Monday Challenge... a Tim Holtz technique ...

The tatting was done from someone in my family, but not really sure who... there were quite a few of these... I totally think that they are so very SPECIAL... and wanted them to be saved.  so I put one here  for safe keeping...
The pin and ticket are Ideaology items from Tims line of great things to have...

 I wanted to carry the butterfly though out the book... but .... I really didn't get as many in as I could have...

This is a layered butterfly... stamped, and painted the bottom one... stamped , painted and glittered the second one... and then the top one is just vellum...

The Flowers are from Pretties by Bonnie  I printed them, painted them with H20's and then cut them out... a pearl is in the center of each one...

Again tissue tape by Tim is on all the edges... love that stuff.. don't know how I did books prior to having it...

Trike page.... how cute is this little picture..???  Check out the huge bonnet...  a little trike and a favorite little doll...

I used some Just Rite stamps on these pages... and also a Martha Stewart fence...

Some of my ribbon is hanging off the tag... I love that ribbon...  can hardly wait to use more of it...

 I started to get in to using some more spellbinders on these pages.. and also went through all my OLD pictures of things to use as embellishments...  a little ribbon and a Ideology PLAY tag... held on by a dragonfly brad...

How cute are these pictures... and look at the high button shoes... not something I would want to wear... and my mom at this age was in Jacksonville Florida... not a cool temp wise place to live...

 A display of all her toys with her her Nanny... who she loved dearly... The nanny's name was Mary and when we took a trip to Florida when I was only 8 we had to look up Mary... and so I got to meet her too...

Dolls, buggy's, trikes.... teddy bears and more things that we can't even tell what they were...

These pictures were tiny... only about 2X 3 inches in size...

The BOW... my seam binding tape dyed... love the antique look it gives to the page...

 A larger picture of my Mom and her doll baby and carriage...  I blew it up so that I could see it better... also so that my Mom could see it too...

A lot of paper laces and a gold dragonfly...

A pail and a shovel seem to be very important... as I had a lot of pictures with them in it... Growing up in Florida was a winter thing... and they ( My Grandmother and Mom and her brother and their Nanny, )  all went to Maine for the summer to be with my Great Grandparents...

The embossing folder is a piece that was cut from the center... and sometimes I just can't throw things out... so I used it here...  Again... check out that bonnet on my Mom...  wow... what a puffy bonnet it was... must have been starched .... something we dont' do anymore... thank goodness for some things... not my cup of tea...   I put a little bow by the flower... had to use some on this page...

 Another pail picture... but this one was taken on the rocks in Maine... with her little umbrella... I assume that the sweater was because they were not use to the cooler weather in Maine... being from Florida...

Growing up, I spent many a summer in Maine too on the same Island, with my Great Grandparents... who were alive until I was in my late teens...  I learned a lot of things from them... as they were very self sufficient in their way of life... I wish I could have learned more from them....

 Me and My Teddy is a favorite picture of my Mom's... I had to print it for her in 8.5 x 11 so that she could really see all the details... so very cute...

The little moon face is made from air drying clay... and it reminds me of my Mom's Mother... my Nana...  she loved things with the moon on it..

The Trust ticket... (Tim Ideology) is for the trust that one gives to their teddy bear... who else can you totally open to a small child... your teddy is your best friend...

 A picture of a little doll or maybe it was another teddy bear...

I had to use another tatting piece... and put it over the paper laces...

A little bit older and on a tricycle...

My Mom said that her hair use to be set on rags... and tied in knots... that must have been very comfortable...


The ticket is from Tim's ideology and the face I made from air drying clay... a little paper laces and a gold crown for the queen like child...

 Tricycles were a lot less money back then.... I am sure.. .as for the price??? I dont' think that they were this pricey.. .but not really sure...  My Uncle had a bigger one than My Mom's... so I guess that they were lucky plus...  I had this little chalk board to use... and took my white pne to write on it... love it...

 These look like blocks of wood from someone building an addition or something... My Mom did tell me once that there was a huge addition put onto their home, so this is most likely what the blocks were from...

They most likely had a lot of fun with them...

Some of the stories that my Mom has told me over the years as to what they did with the cats were horrible... so I will spare you from the details... but they did have quite a few cats and dogs...

Check out that seam binding bow!!!   LOVE IT...

 Speaking of dogs... this is the only picture that we can find of their beloved dog Skippy...

My Mom and Uncle were a little bit older now... but Skippy was certainly a  fond member of the family...

Okay... the little slide... I took a picture of a little girl with a guitar and put a piece of packaging plastic over it... and then put my copper tape on that ... love the look and it is not heavy like real glass... but looks like it when you see it.. .even when you feel it...

The letters... oh I found them in my drawer of stuff... can't remember when or where I got them... but they are effective... 

I personally had a lot of fun making this little book... it is only 5.5 X 8.5... and hopefully my mom will have many happy hours looking at it...  I am sure she will..

Hope that you have some old pictures that you can create art with... it is so much fun... I did use white paper... but I also used Antique Linen stain by Tim Holtz on each piece... the white was way too bright and stark... I used older laces that were already antiqued looking... I wanted it to be soft and old looking...

Thanks for stopping by today.. .and taking a look at this book... Have a good day...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Theme Thursday.... BORDERS

Oh what fun it is to create a page for a new book… I am still not sure what size book.. if even a book at all.. but I am making tags, pages and all kinds of things using the pictures my Mom had sent to me..  there are so many that are so cute… I have to use them…

Well Shelly Hickox had a wonderful tag on her blog… and she had made it for Theme Thursday… so I took a look and decided to see if I could do a page with BORDERS…  that is the challenge… (let me tell you… it took my “wonderful” computer over an hour to download the blog… but I think it will be fun… so I got some laundry folded… did another load of wash and then the site was ready for me to see… LOL.. not fun with dial up…  but I get a lot of other things done too…

So here is the page I created… 

I love this picture of my Grandmother… she must have been a lot more ‘playful’ in her younger years…  posing with this stripped umbrella… and then the picture with the car… they were going on a picnic… and my mom had a jug of something in her arms…  what a car… can you image what that would be worth today… quite a car…  look at the spoke wheels… such a ‘sporty’ looking car… it even had vases on the inside for fresh flowers to be put… going for a ride was something special… not something like it is today…  

 

I had to use some GREAT  Ideology on this page.. so got out my tags, word discs, and light bulbs…  a little slide that I made with a picture that says REFLECTIONS… oh how true this is for me… reflections of what it was like then… and what kind of world we live in today…  

The Ribbon.. oh some of that fun hand dyed seam binding… I should be getting a few rolls in the mail tomorrow… so Shelly if you are ready for a party… we can resume… 

All around the BORDERS… which this challenge is all about… I put some Tissue tape.. More IDEOLOGY and also some FRAMES… cut with a die from Tim Holtz’s collection of die templates… and then inserted tiny little pictures of My Mom growing up… so cute.. love it…  I glued the frames to a sheet of plastic packaging… and then glued the pictures onto that… so when you touch the front of the ‘slides’ it feels like the real thing… all like a negative should be… smooth…  

I really love the way that this came out… my background paper is by Graphic 45… called Steampunk Debutante  a really great pad of papers… this sheet is only 8.5 x 8.5 and so I guess I will be doing a smaller book this time… it will be fun anyway… no matter what it goes into… I have also made some tags for this project… and will share those as the time goes on… 

Thanks for stopping by today… and see you soon…

If you didn’t see the Wedding Book.. you can view it here…just scroll down...  love for you to see it too… 

Tomorrow there is another book on my blog… so please take a look see… it is on TOYZ of Mom’s in the 1920’s…  oh such funny cute shots of the days long since gone… 

Love, Light and Peace…  Bonnie 

Surgeons????

No not surgeons... just ready to dye ribbons... LOL... we spent a long time during the day making pretty ribbons for all our projects...  what fun we had...

This is a picture of April and Marie starting to dye ribbons... it all started when Shelly told me where to buy this great rayon ribbon that was great for dying with the Distress inks... yeah... love them... so I bought a couple of rolls... Marie and April bought one... and Sande (my up the hill neighbor) bought the other one... we will be dying her's this week-end... yes!!!!

Here's Marie (so serious.... ) putting on just the right amount of dye onto her ribbon...  Okay... I do have all the inks... Distress, and all the other beautiful colors that Ranger offers... I love them all.. but we sort of stayed with certain colors... just because of our likes and what we thought we would use...

Okay.... by the end of the day we realized that April was using too much ink... but her ribbons were still outrageously WONDERFUL... each piece of ribbon that was made was just GREAT...  in all ways, because it was made by us... also it didn't matter if we used the same colors... each one of our ribbons still came out differently... so it was great fun in all ways..

April is just putting the ink onto the white ribbon...

Okay... now we are getting there...  pretty ribbons and lots of ribbon yet to go...  I had been making ribbon the day prior... so I had to watch how much I made... as I only had 50 yards left... maybe less...

But by the end of the day ..... I had only about a yard left... boo hoo.. have to order more... I love making these ribbons, and also using them... as you can tell by the tag... but I also added bows to my Mom's wedding book prior to mailing it... and also did another book.. which I will show you in a few days... and I used them in there too... love them... they are the perfect answer to buttons and bows...  love it..

 Do I hear a drum roll.... ???? 
These are fantastic ribbons... look at all that COLOR... Each one entirely different than the other one... and even when we all use the same color combinations... they were still different...

Just super ribbons...

  And another DRUM ROLL.... Marie made pretty ribbons too...
Each ribbon is so very pretty... just look at the colors popping out of the picture...

When we first started to make the ribbons... we used only one color... and then started to add more colors.. and by the end of the ribbon making.. we were adding 2, 3 and 4 colors... they were really wild...

So please be on the alert and go to Marie's and April's blogs to see the way in which they have used their ribbons... I have already started to use mine... and hope my next order gets here quickly... 

I promised Sande I wouldn't use her's... but gee whiz.....  but a promise is a promise... 

 Okay... so I had to share with you some of the ribbons I made... they are just all in a pile here...

Each color is so very special to me... and I know that Marie and April feel the same...

See what you did Shelly... ???  Did you realize that you would have this effect on others..???  LOL... we thank you again and again... 

So here is the other half I made..

I used up 99 yards.... and totally enjoyed myself.... what fun it was... and again.. .I am now waiting for more ribbon to dye...

I had t o share this with you also... here are the colors all seperately laid out...

They are so very pretty... do you want to make some now???

I knew you would... they are so pretty and so easy and fun to make...

 Oh the reds, pinks, rose, rose with browns, and the little bit of blue left over from the previous ribbon that was dyed... so very pretty... a little orange and a little tan... just to make the perfect ribbon...

 Oh... the oranges, yellows, straw and brightly colored glowing ribbons...  all so alive and ready to be used on art work that will be finished off with each use of these ribbons...


Rusts, marigolds, and sunshine yellow all ready to be used..  how about the mustard seed... love it.. 

 The GREENS.... oh my goodness... add a little Broken Glass.. (a color of a lovely ink)  and a little lavender and wow... pop it with some brown...

And then look at all the lovely tans, browns, with some blues, and oranges mixed in... what fun to use these ribbons...

I am going to be thinking of ways to use them...

I love the aray of colors and the ways in which I am thinking about using them...

I had to save my favorite color until last... the purples, blues, and all mixed to create dreamy colored ribbons... wow... they are so very pretty... I love the mixture of each one...

Okay.. so now you have seen them all.. .don't you just love them... ???  I am anxious to use them... I have been having trouble all day long trying to get these pictures up on this blog... so please enjoy these... 


Hope you have a wonderfully fun day... and if you have any seam binding... dye it... dye it all... have a blast... and then start to think of ways to use them...

Thanks for stopping by today... and see you soon... I hope that I dont' have to give up my computer to be cleaned etc... but if I am not back you will know why... and I will be back real soon... my computer man is super good and quick... best there is...aren't they all.../?????

Thanks again for stopping by... Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

High Stepping Mom...

About 10 days ago my Mom sent me a box of about 80 photos... and I have been having fun with them ever since...

This is a picture of her taking her first steps... so very cute... anyway... I am combining this with making another book... and also with the 12 GRUNGE MONDAY challenge... which is a Tim Holtz challenge along with a lot of very talented people that put their hearts and souls into their work...  I truly wish I had a faster way to see everyone's blog... but right now being on dial up it takes me about 30 minutes for a simple blog.. and large blog longer... so please understand that I would love to go to your site... leave comments... and see ALL your pretties...

I created this tag using a lot of fun things... the challenge this week was to used a printed paper...  and stamp something onto it, with clear embossing powder... then paint with acrylic paint over that... and then embellish... oh such fun..  I had to do something a little bit different... I also made my stamp...  I wanted to do a brick wall... and wanted the wall to be small... and not even... so I took some fun foam... and created this brick wall for my tag...

I also made the flower... and ALSO.... had a blast making ribbon... oh my goodness...  Shelly Hickox gave me the link and I quickly bought some of it... and even though the spool of binding was 100 yards... I have died it all... waht fun I have had... actually I had two friends over today... and they split a 100 yard spool of binding and created some out standing ribbons too... what a binge we had... I love making these pretty ribbons...  I will show them all to you in the next couple of days... (all the ribbons are dyed with what else.... Distress inks... and also Rangers other fantastic colors... love them all.... )


So I died my ribbon... made the stamp...  Made my flower... and used some Tissue Tape on the tag...  and love the whole process... Thanks Tim for all the "lesson's" and love you give to all of us...  love it...

I do hope that you will also take a look at the Wedding book I made for My 92 year old Mom...  thanks for all the love you all have showered on me recently... I love you all...

Hope you have a wonderful creative fun filled day... and enjoy every minute of it...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Wedding book for Mom

My Mom and Dad got married in 1942... during WW2  and because of all the lack of money around they were unable to have the wedding that my Mom had always dreamed of... She did have a beautiful dress... which she still proudly has... and they did go on a honeymoon... so they had a pretty nice time of it... but they didn't even have too many pictures... film just wasn't around at that time...

But we did find a picture recently of them right after they were married at the church... and so I decided to make a wedding book for my Mom.. at 92 she deserves it...  LOL...  So I did it a little vintage... and a little fussy... but generally with a lot of love on each page...

This is the cover of the book... a picture of each of them on their honeymoon in Virginia Beach...  the oval is torn out... with a page from a dictionary on wedding...  the grunge letters were painted with metallic gold paint...

On the edges of the cover... which I also made the book for these pages too... using a little cardboard and also a 2 ring binder from Tim Holtz Ideology collection...  and some paper by Bo Bunny and K and Co....  and also TISSUE TAPE... what a great invention that tape is... it just binds everything... and yes I have them all... waiting for more designs and variations.... love them all.. there is even one with butterflies... which is on of the reasons I am showing you the inside cover...

One of the themes of this book is also butterflies... I love them... and so does my Mom..

I wanted the book to be very informal... even though my Mom is very formal...  I didnt' want it to be stuffy... more relaxed...

So I also wanted the shabby chic look too... along with a lot of other feelings... so I wanted tabs on the pages... I have the newest Spellbinders tabs... but they were a little too small for this grand book... which by the way the pages are 8.5 x 8.5 .

I used the Fancy labels by Spellbinder and folded them in half... what great dividers they create... don't you think???  I used white paper and then used Antique Linen Distress stain by Tim Holtz...to add to the vintage look of this book...

I used lots of paper laces, but also lots of vintage things to bring that out... hopefully it shows the way I really wanted it to look... at times when I am working on something, I loose the real look I desire... 

The first two pages are on the ENGAGEMENT... that is where it all began... so here are the pages... only two on each subject... as there are not a lot of pictures... this is all of them...

I used Le'Romantique by Graphic 45 for these two pages...  also some Bo Bunny in the back ground...

 On this page I had the only picture of my Mom and Dad at that time... it is the day of their engagement.... so it is just perfect for this page...

I added a butterfly made from a dictionary page... and some sheet music... I love using Spellbinders as you can see for frames and also for embellishments... like the butterfly....

 Okay... I just lost my cool... it has taken me over three hours to get this far... and I am not getting the pictures in the right order here... I am not sure if it is the dial up, me or the blog problems...  LOL...whatever it is ... I am just about ready to save this... and finish it at some other time... I need my night time sleep...
 This is the Announcement section... so please forgive the order of the pictures... only way I could get them in... after 5 tries...
 Look thru this section and then relook to totally understand what I am taking about...

I used the newspaper article on the left side of the book... and the wedding invitation on the right... I wanted to cover the invitation up... for a more formal look for my Mom... so there is a heart shape panel for the opening of the invitation...

 I also wanted to create the shabby chic look with this page.   I want to tell you some things about this page... it took me a long time to create it... as I learned a lot of things... one was the flowers... I made them from my hand wipes...  which are baby wipes...  I had gotten some of the inks on my hands... and needed to clean up prior to working on the next section... and there they were staring me in the face... why not try and make flowers from these pretty sheets... and here they are...  they are a little tricky.. .but so soft and pretty.... the other thing was this is a scrapbook... so how am going to keep the flowers nice and upright and not get all squashed... so I used four buttons in areas to hold up the pages... the buttons are from my Mom's mothers bathrobe!!!!  She will be shocked...  anyway they work perfectly... holding the pages up just the right height so my flowers stay fresh and pretty...

 Here is a pink one... and the little one is a Pretties by Bonnie flower that I stamped words all over them...

 One that is a combination of browns, tans, and I think a little yellow... from somewhere... but again.. the colors are just waste from my hands... 


I used a piece of the dictionary paper for my leaves on this page...

The lace is antique lace... and the color is 100% natural... just old... love it.. 

 Okay... here is the page that was suppose to be first... sorry about that... but I did try... just computer issues of some kind...

And here is the cover of the invitation... I used the Grand labels four and made a holder for the invitaion... nd then on the smaller one, ran it thru an embossing folder... and then used some Distressing ink to color it...

I hope you can see the heart lock panel... it is so pretty... (by Tim again... )



The papers that I have used are really mainly Graphic 45 and Bo Bunny... there are some K and co papers... and of course papers that I create... I love using white paper and making it into something else..

Onto the WEDDING pictures... 

 This is the only picture that we have of my Mom and Dad's wedding... My Dad was in the Coast Guard... and his best man was his cousin... who was also in the Coast Guard...

I used the same picture twice... to make it look like I had more... but I only had one...  I used some pretty cutouts from a Le' Romantique sheet... and then used my Just Rite Stamps to create the little frame...

Again... a little tiny piece of dictionary paper was hanging around... so I cut it out in the shape of a flower... and since I was using the buttons on this page, used a larger button from me Mom's button collection...

As you can see the picture is not that good... but it is a picture of them... and so we are making believe that is it is perfect...




The wedding was perfect for them... and they were married for over 59 years... maybe it was shy by only a few months of 60... wow... that is a long time...

 On to the Honeymoon...
They went to Virginia Beach.. which from Connecticut was a long drive... they stayed at the famous Cavalier Hotel...  and had a wonderful time...

The wedding was in October... so it was a little chilly during the days for swimming etc... but they totally enjoyed all the walks on the beaches etc...

I used a lot of Spellbinders for the background papers on this page... and even used some Just Rite Stamps to accent some of the areas...

No on this page I had fun with some punches... and used the Antique Linen Distress Stain on everything that I could... I wanted it to look old and pretty...

I accented the waves from the ocean with a sand dollar... and then put a ticket behind my Dad... it wasn't too long after their wedding that they moved to Lewes, Delaware... where I was born two years later... then my Dad was shipped off to the Phillipines  for a tour of duty...  home though to see me take my first steps...

I love these last two pages... I really had to strugle with them... as they were the last ones in the book... and didn't want the time to end...

But here they are... the one on left... a picture of my Mom when they arrived home after their honeymoon...

I know they didnt send post cards etc... but I know that my mom started to write a journal...so I used the ink well stamp... and then colored it and put a sheet of plastic over it.... so it would look like glass.... the ink well spots/rings are so much fun...love using some stamps that I have had in hiding for way too long...     someday maybe I will find it... and then I will put it with this book... . LOL.. what fun.

I used the EK success punch on the bottom... with the pumpkins... it was late fall when they returned home... Pumpkin time...  the flower I made from paper... a little bud...

 But I wanted to add one more picture... and it was of thier first home together... it was in Lewes Delaware, and my Dad was stationed in the Coast Guard there...  it is also where I was born... and the first home I lived in too... so the story starts all over again....  LOL...

Down in the bottom right hand corner of this page is a picture of my Dad and I used diamond glaze over the picture and made it look even more antiqued than it was.... the key says LOVE....  and the sign 1st Home I created from the FAMOUS Grunge Letters and paper.... I used a black paint and then a brown paint... and then sanded it and touched it up with Broken China...distress pad.... love the look...  I had to add a few butterflies as the back ground of this paper is one large white butterfly...  it just was calling to me...

I really had a great time making this book... and was really sorry when it finished... but I am going to add a few embellishments prior to putting it into the mail to my Mom... I just found an engagement ring... and will put that into the book... it is a very nice junk ring...  looks like the real thing... until you feel the weight... LOL... also a few more butterflies and things that I feel it needs...

Started on another book yesterday and have that one almost done too...  wait until you see that one.. love it too... it is with all my Mom's toys she had while growing up... she was a very spoiled child...  yiikes... totally spoiled... to the umph degree...

See you soon... have a few other things to create... but will be back soon... hope that you are too... I love having you visit...  and thank you to all those that are becoming followers... I really have a nice bit pile of goodies that is growing weekly... so as soon as I have 300 followers, I will have a drawing and there will be some lucky people...

Hope you have a wonderful day today... and every day... create something fun, creative, and loving...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie