Straying away.....only a little....

I have strayed. I went to the Scrapbook Expo in Orange County and strayed. Well, sort of. My friend Karen and I wanted to do the make and take project at Quick Quotes because it was way cool! It was using the canvas boards, and covering them with decorative papers, and embellishments and photos. We waited but both of us were tired and hungry, so we got too tired to wait. We decided just to buy the canvas and do it ourselves. Of course, I had to buy a couple of their quotes on vellum...but the PAPER is Stampin' Up! It is from the Parisian Breeze Specialty pack and OOH, I love this paper! I had the perfect photos to add to this and I also went to Michael's to get another smaller canvas board to mount the photo of my daughter. (the photo shows it being clipped together to hold it after gluing.)




The photos were altered in Adobe, to be black and white, and I added Creamy Caramel craft to the edges of all the papers, and to the canvas. I also used some of the pastel chalk pads that I had (that we used to sell) to add a little more dimension to the edges. I tied the Baja Breeze striped ribbon around the front, and glued it to the front and to the back side. I used this paper glue because I thought it would work faster (I hate to watch glue dry...!!) and even though I could've used the Tombow Multi Adhesive, I didn't want it to curl which the Tombow sometimes causes it to curl a little.



I still need to add more elements to this, but I love how it is coming out so far...and even though the phrase in the center is from Quick Quotes, I hope you know that you can achieve something like this by using fonts from your computer. There is a new product brewing that is coming from Stampin' Up! and I can't wait for it to come...I think that it will definitely help doing projects like this one!

Wouldn't this make a cool Mother's Day Gift??? or for a Grandmother???


PS: To add a little stress to my life, We found out that my daughter's injury is more serious than we originally thought. Isn't that always the case??? I should've known that we wouldn't get away from it that easy..oh no. God always challenges our lives, and I should've known that He would keep on Challenging us. She tore her ACL, which means that her basketball playing in High School is over. I know she's a junior but her senior season will be less than a year away now, and unless we have total healing quicker than normal, we're looking at recovery later in 2010. So, she wouldn't have played in college, but, it is not a great way to end her high school days.....sitting on the bench and keeping score for the team. She'll be a team player, she have a badge of 'honor' on her knee......Keep us in your prayers!


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