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Saturday 9 June 2012

Sitting Pretty



Well I have got yet another two pages completed for my daughters book .My trouble has been picking the best shots which capture her. The first page was taken at an official photographers just after her Christening. I love this shot because she looks so proper . The photographer posed her and she just kept the pose   throughout it was so sweet. Now a days she'd be fidgeting about the whole time or pulling daft faces.



I love the page the photography however really doesn't do it justice




For this page I have used a variety of media paint, card, ribbons, braid, die cuts, charms, gems, dusty attic cut outs and Angelina fibres. I really like the overall effect, I think the purple and gold give the official type pose a sort of regal quality you know like an old gallery painting.

Four years later and the real pose is gone though that look is still there. This photo was taken at a venue called 'Happy Landings' which has long since disappeared. In this picture Bryony was getting ready to cut her Hunchback of Notre dame cake  

  

For this page I used a basic blue background paper and mounted the photo on some coordinating paper from my stash together with some ribbons I then created some windmills from from some new Stampin Up paper I acquired. This paper I believe has the lovely name 'twitterpatted'. I also made up some bunting from oddments of the same paper plus some scraps I had in my 'small bits stash'. I know I'm awful I save even small bits of paper  just in case especially if they are pretty,.    




I hope Bryony likes them 

8 comments:

  1. How gorgeous. I wish I had done this when mine were little. Maybe there will be an opportunity with grandchildren - sometime.

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  2. I should say Annabellouise my daughter is nearly twenty (Goodness sounds so old) These are pictures taken and put into albums which I am now getting copies of and making the book ....its sort of a retrospective ha ha

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  3. Hi Dawn, thanks for becomming a follower, I too have joined you in return. I do love these scrap pages you have done. It is special to do these for our kids and grandies. I have many albums for each grand child from babies to now, all are still young. I also have done Vintage albums for my parents, though mum has passed away in November just gone. I am glad I did them as they are now my memories and have origional documents from when they travelled from Poland to Australia after WWII/my dad now nearly 100 lives with us so more memories to make...great job you are doing..x

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    1. Vintage books sound great but its a case of having the time. I have been quite good doing my daughters but its so easy when the weather is good to get distracted. The rain isn't great but it keeps me on task.

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  4. Love it....and you used the dusty attic - it looks great. I also love all the bunting and the pin wheels too :D

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    1. Yes have used some Dusty attics before but painted them gold this time and I think they look rather nice. You know me and bunting I love bunting.The pin wheels are rather fun but I want to see if I can make some really small one too .

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  5. Love the bunting and the pin wheels. I must dust off my scrapbooks and get going again. Think I need to be selective when it comes to printing the many digital photos I now have though.

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    1. The pin wheels were great fun to make note the Stampin Up papers used.

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