11/2006 - My favorite picture of my son and my mom, taken
at her office. I'm all about mixing patterned paper these days.
I cut the tags with my Cricut (George cartridge). |
11/2006 - I love how this one
turned out. I deliberately off-centered the letters on the title.
I wanted it to have an off-kilter feel to it. |
11/2006 - I used my new Deluxe Designs Pages by Design tool
for most of these pages and wow, it made it so easy! And with the
Cricut, I can cut many of the PBD shapes much easier. |
11/2006 - This layout is
pretty busy, but that's how I felt when my son was painting. I
wanted to use lots of color but not bright colors and I like how it turned
out. |
11/2006 - I've been holding on to that Paper Bliss popcorn for awhile now
and I'm glad I got a chance to use it. Always nice to use up older
supplies. |
11/2006 - Used some
other supplies that were over a year old on this one, namely the vellum
quote and the Heidi Grace title acrylics. |
11/2006 - As with any
trends, I'm getting a late start on my "Belief" album. I know the
trend is a "Faith" album, but that doesn't apply to me, so I'm making a
"Belief" album in which I can explore what I believe and don't believe so
that future generations of my family will know what I believed and didn't
believe, and why.
The article in the layout is an editorial by Andrew
Sullivan from Time Magazine from May 2006. He discusses his dismay
that politicos have tried to take over religion and thus, creating a rabid
"our way or no way" group he calls "Christianists" and how they have
bastardized the true meaning of God's word. I completely agree with
him and so I kept the article to include in my Belief album. At the
retreat this past weekend, I came across the article and figured now is as
good a time as any to start my new project.
The circles down the left
side show 5 things I've been called as an atheist, usually by people who
do not even know me: Hateful, Gay Lover, Enemy of Virtue (by Ken
DeLay in the article), Baby Killer, and Anti-God. Then I simply ask
"Why?". |
4/06 - Photos of my beautiful mom from about 1956, her senior year in high
school, taken by her father. The
ribbon is from her stash that she gave me a few years ago. No
journaling necessary. |
4/06 - Photos from 12/03, Bren "hugged" me after his bath and left a great
face print. |
4/06 - Bren accidentally got some egg shells into the cookie batter...
that's the secret ingredient. |
4/06 - Photos from 2003 of my son and I doing a craft that came with a
school kit. |
4/06 - Photos from our local A&W opening day. Big news around here.
LOL! The controversy involved the height of the sign. |
1/06 - From 12/02 when we moved Bren from a toddler bed to a big bed.
Title is done on painted chipboard shapes (ribbon slide is Maya Road and
letters are Making Memories). |
4/06 - Photos from 10/03 when Brendan was a pony for Halloween. The
bottom piece is Heidi Grace acrylic slide, painted and the word written in
silver pen. |
7/05 - I completed this layout just days before my dad passed away... I
don't even know if he saw it or not. |
2/05 - The letter in the pocket has the history of the GameBoy, both the
technology of it and its history in our family. |
7/05 - That's my Aunt Noni as a teenager. I loved how these colors
go so well with both the color and black and white photos. |
12/04 -My dad and my son, some favorite photos needed a special layout.
This layout is even more special now that Dad is gone. |
12/04 -The big title letters
are made with Shrinky Dinks. I printed the letters (CK Long and
Lanky) about 5" tall on plain paper, then traced onto the Shrinky Dink
sheet, colored, punched holes, cut out and baked. |
12/04 - Some fun photos of my son. I bought the topper at my
LSS, made by a local scrapper with clay letters. |
12/04 - I love this layout... great colors. And the photos are some
of my favorites from summer 2002. |
12/04 - My first layout with Paint! The photos are of my son when we
caught him peeing in the cat box at grandma's house. LOL! |
12/04 - A challenge to do a Christmas layout without red or green. I
used a BH Sketch (from her first book) for this one, too. |
6/04 - I heard this song on the radio and had to do a layout with some of
my favorite photos. |
1/04 - Still one of my favorite layouts! |
Sketch Layout Challenge sketch
from Moms Moments Yahoo group with printed digital elements from Pages of
the Heart |
Becky Higgins Sketch
The word "Mask" in the title is Stampin' Up letters embossed on a
microscope slide. The whale is chalked from a template of the whale
mask then stitched with floss. |
Personal sketch book
Paper piecings are my own design |
1/2004 - I made this
page for the design team at Pages of the Heart. Isn't my hubby a
hoot? LOL! No special techniques here, just a funny layout to
share. |
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