Sorry for the radio silence last week! It was absolutely crazy busy. Both babies had therapy (Mia twice), they had their well baby visit with shots, Mia had to go to the cardiologist for a check up, we had to replace our AC, Kate had open house, and one of my BFFs came to visit for 3 days. Whew. I’m tired just typing all of that! I’m hoping to get back in the swing of things this week and by some miracle (a combo of therapy for both babies wearing them out and my mother-in-law sticking around after therapy to help me transfer post nursing sleeping babies to their swings) they both slept for over an hour. At the same time. IN THEIR SWINGS! It was a Christmas miracle y’all. I’m thinking about buying a lotto ticket tonight. 🙂
I love how this page turned out. Full disclosure, I was a wee bit tipsy when I made it so I was willing to take a few chances. I haven’t been scrapping much since the babies decided that daytime sleep is for the week, but now that our AC has been replaced post bedtime crafting is an option again. It’s like a whole new world has opened up! Previous to this our office resembled a sauna in the evenings.
I started off with some gel medium, yellow gelatos, and a heart stencil. It was subtle but I liked it. Then I decided to go crazy and try the “packaging technique.” Basically, you smush your distress ink stamp in some of the clear plastic packaging that embellishments come in. Then you add a few squirts of water and smush it around in the paper. I didn’t have a squirt bottle handy so I added a bit of Heidi Swapp color shine in gold and I love the effect! It gives it just a bit of sparkle. Plus, I didn’t have to go find a squirt bottle which is a real positive considering how lazy I am. 😉 These papers are all super old too. It is nice to be using up some old stuff! I want to organize and purge my craft room and I figure the best way to start is to force myself to start using up this old stuff I’m hanging on to.
I finished the whole page and then realized that I needed a border to help ground it so I just trimmed it slightly and mounted it on a piece of patterned paper. Normally I hate how thin this cheap cardstock is, but I actually love that you can see a teeny bit of the pattern peaking through so consider this a score for thriftiness. I also realized after I took these that I never journaled! Whoops. Thus are the perils of tipsy crafting. I went back and added a few lines of journaling tot he right of the photo between the Sunshine and the actual sun.