Dominoes

Another of the many fun things I like about our cottage  vacation is "Domino Night". It's a monthly tradition with my girlfriends and we have never seen any reason why someone's vacation should interrupt our schedule.


The girls travel to where I am vacationing. They come prepared to stay the night so that we can enjoy ourselves. The day involves sitting in floating chairs on the lake, a great dinner and dominoes. Well there is the wine to take into account as well. :)

I thought I'd carry the theme of the dominoes we are all holding in the photo and do the whole layout in black and white.  The layer under the photo is actually what was left of the white paper after cutting out the dominoes. Thanks Danie for that great up cycling idea. I didn't add a title because it was pretty obvious what the title would be.

My jumping off spot for Dominoes was the February 15th Stuck?! sketch by Laura Whitaker. At first glance it may not seem so, but I swear most of the elements in the sketch can be found in my layout.

Enjoy!

CanIne go fishing too?

What could be more fun for a 6 month old border collie that the space and freedom of a lake to race around on?
 
Little Remmi went for her first ice fishing day with Mommy and Daddy and found the experience so much fun. She ran and ran. She watched over the fishing holes, posed with Mommy when she caught a fish and even kissed a lake trout. You have wonder what goes on in the mind of a dog.


By the time Remmi got home there wasn't an ounce of energy left in her.

The inspiration for this layout is from Stick It Down. It's February's double-page sketch on it's blog. The sketch encouraged me to use different size photos.

Stick It Down also has a card sketch and a single page sketch on their blog.

Maybe you can do all three this month?

It's fun to participate.

You may become next month's featured artist.

Single Page Sketch

Greeting Card Sketch

Girl's Day Out

I am so fortunate to have been the one to host Ellie's first Girl's Day Out.

We started our day travelling an hour to Orillia where we had our McDonald's lunch. Ellie was thrilled to find Gidget in her Kid's Meal box because one of our plans for the day was to see the movie The Secret Life of Pets.


After lunch it was off the park where she and Erica explored every climbing, swinging and playing apparatus there was.


The finale was the movie. Not only was it Ellie's first movie theatre visit but her first 3D movie. She took the 3D in stride reaching out on occasion murmuring 'kitty', 'come kitty'. So close to her did they seem that she thought she could reach out and touch them.


I have two favourite pictures of that day. The first is at the start of my first page showing Ellie all excited for her first girl's day out. The second is at the end of the second page with the little Sweetie sound asleep after her big adventure. It seemed a good beginning and end for my double-page layout.

The inspiration for this layout is from Stick It Down. It's January's double-page sketch on it's blog. The sketch worked perfectly for a sequence of photos. Using a sequence was important for my layout because I wanted to detail our day step-by-step.

Stick It Down also has a card sketch and a single page sketch on their blog.

Maybe you can do all three this month?

It's fun to participate.

You may become next month's featured artist.

Single Page Sketch

Card Sketch

ENJOY GETTING YOUR CREATIVE ON!

Bubblicious

Blowing bubbles is so much fun. During our vacation this year my little BFF entertained everyone just by blowing bubbles and giggling at the magic of them all. It reminded us that the simplest of pleasures are the most enjoyable.

The inspiration for Bubblicious came from the December double page sketch at Stick It Down. Those floating hearts reminded me of bubbles and the pages came together from there. I used the bubbles to frame the photos and linked the bubbles together just as they would come out of a bubble wand.

A great big fun coloured title, some bubble wands and buttons for embellishment, and I was done.

Stick It Down also has a card sketch and a single page sketch on their blog.

Maybe you can do all three this month?

It's fun to participate.

You may become next month's featured artist.

Single Page Sketch

Card Sketch



Father & Son

I'm very happy to be November's featured designer at Stick It Down. I hope that something in my work will be of inspiration to you and that you'll play along with us this month.


The little guy in my layout has an abundance of talented musicians in his lineage, in fact both Mom and Dad are very accomplished musicians. It looks to me like he's going to carry that talent into his generation.

The sketch I used for inspiration is the double layout featured at Stick It Down this month. I found it so intriguing and unique. Image a 24 x 12 inch canvas with little suggested for pictures. It opened things up for playing with different media.

I chose ink/stamp and metallic paint. The metallic drew in the gold and silver of the instruments. I first covered the area with an open weave burlap and using a finger ink dauber 'pushed' paint through the burlap here and there. Some musically themed embellishments, stars for his future success, and washi tape, seemed to finish things off nicely.

There's  a great card and single page sketch released today as well.

Maybe you'll 'get your craft on' and play along with all three.

Card Sketch



Single Page Sketch



I'd love to see your work.