We don't actually go to the fair on fair day cause ... there's no school and you can stay up late the night before so we go to the fair on Thursday night, it's much cooler at night anyway.
I was hoping to leave early Friday since there was no school but I was delayed by the lovely cable company. They came out Thursday to upgrade us to cable internet & phone (yeah I've been on dial up ALL this time, aren't you impressed? do you know HOW long it takes to upload pics to this blog on dial up) & Friday morning we got up & the phone wasn't working.
They did get it fixed before lunch but then I was waiting on the mail (hoping Tammy's b'day present would get here in time to take it with me & it did! :o) ) .
I was sooo busy Thursday with grocery shopping, fair, & working the photo club booth at the fair that I hadn't been able to gather & pack all my "stuff" for the weekend.
I finally got to Jonesboro around 4:30 Friday afternoon and of course my first stop was HL, it was 40% off coupon week so you know I had to go. :o) Wow! They had lots of new stuff, I'll have to post some pics later of my new treasures.
It was sooo nice to get away for a while even if it was just a short trip ( I usually leave here on Friday & come back the following Tuesday) but I had to work today so that means I had to come back yesterday. I've never gone for such a short period of time but it was still a good time AND I was actually very productive ... well for me anyway, lol.
I finished a LO & 1 page of another LO. I don't usually do one page & then add the other page but the second page wasn't coming to me. I have put this LO off for a long time, I tend to do that when the subject is something that I really want to be special or the product is something that I dearly love. It was both for this particual LO, but it was worth the wait I really LOVE the way the first page turned out. Now I need to come up with it's companion.
the first LO I did was a lift of this LO posted in the Aug. 2007 Ck by Audrey Lewis.
For some reason when I was going through the CK I saw this LO & I thought of the pics I shot of Sierra for her "Senior" pics.
She was my little guinea pig. :o)
We spent 3-4 hours shooting that day. Different locations, different outfits, she's sooo easy to work with-absolutely one of my FAVORITE subjects to work with ( she can really flirt with the camera sometimes).
I decided to print some of my faves from that day & do a LO.
all the papers & the flowers came from HL,
Tammy helped me pick the papers (thanks Tammy!)
strangly enough the photo of her walking away is one of my faves :o)
IF I enter the "shoot Dyer county" contest I think this will be my entry (think I'll have it printed on metallic paper) .
Kind of represents her going out into the big ol world, striking out on her own adventures...
here are both pages together, aren't her eyes BEAUTIFUL???
The next LO is of Devan, the pics are from Oct. 2006 ( I told you they were old) .
For spirit day he wanted to be Davey Havok (his idol) the lead singer of his favorite group AFI. I can't begin to tell you all the planning and money he put into this thing. :o)
This was the first time he wore make-up & fingernail polish to school . ( when he was born & they said it's a boy I never thought I would get to shop for these items with my child but it's oh sooo different in today's world) When we finally got everything just right I had to grab the camera and snap - well almost a roll of film, lol.
And when Marah Johnson came out with the Love Struck line I knew I had to have it & have it ALL. :o) The papers are all sooo cool, especially if you have someone who is more abstract and doesn't follow the expected path in life. This would be my child. :o)
this is what I came up with! :o)
I scanned the pic in, made a duplicate layer,converted it to black & white, and erased his arms to let his "tatoo sleeves" show, then I printed it on a transparency. (this is something that I saw in someone's gallery on 2peas, sorry I can't remember who) I then cut "him" out & layered him on a sheet of "reflection" paper. Under the transparency I applied a bleeding heart rub-on under his hand (where his heart would be).
His wings are Tim Holtz grunge board (I recently saw this set at HL). I painted them with a silver paint with a little purple glitter paint dry brushed on. I then stamped them with Heidi Swapp's clear wing stamps. I used embossing ink and black embossing powder. I LOVE how these turned out! I placed them under the tranparency and then took an craft knife and trimmed around his sholders and removed the excess so the transpancy would lay flat.
On top of this is the "Follow Your Muse" transparency, I really love the way the transparency looks layered over a pic that is printed on a transparency, over a graffic background.
The hinges are also Tim Holtz grunge board (from the same package) and they are also heat embossed black. They are held in place by Marah Johnson's skull brads & I don't remember where I got the little heart brads but I sure do love them & I'll be sorry when they are all gone.
There's a couple more rub-ons (dare 2 dream & hard core) & then a couple of the cardstock stickers.
So this LO has been all about layers, I think I've counted 6!
It's one of my favorites that I've done in a while, now I just need to come up with it's companion ...
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