Sunday 21 August 2011

Shimelle's Cyber Crop - Chop Your Paper

This one didn't go according to plan. Not that I HAD a plan, just that the picture in my head was no way near to what actually ended up on the page.

I'd already bought a piece of Cosmo Cricket's Joy Ride for the express purpose of chopping it up and cutting out all those lovely circles:

So I did that bit first. Then punched out some smaller circles, larger scallops and some assorted butterflies and layered them up. That was fun. I even made buttons from little circles, doodled on them and covered them in glossy accents. Took the best part of the week as I didn't have much Adam-free time to scrap. When I had all the bits ready I looked at them and thought "Meh." No idea what to do next.

Happily, the UKS weekly challenge involved using some black and scrapping a celebration. These circly things feature black, so I chose a pic of Adam, cut that down as well and made this:

{Adam is now 16 weeks old. He grew out of his dinosur top weeks ago. Looking at this photo I find it so hard to believe that he was ever this tiny. He's STILL a tiny baby and has so much growing to do and yet he's now becoming a little boy with a personality. He's no longer the squishy alien in this photo! Today - Aug. 20. Then - May 3.}

It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I'm happy with it and it'll go nicely in his Baby Album.

4 comments:

MiniOwner said...

This really is a suoer page, Laura. I love how you've grouped things around the photo.
Sue x

susibee said...

He might look like a little alien to you but he looks perfectly perfect to me. I like the layout of this page.

Unknown said...

I'm sure Adam will be thrilled he has grown out of his squishy alien stage lol!

Those embellies are the 'bomb' as my half-grown once squishy alien would say. Jen xx

Maria said...

Nice one Laura, Im sure you and he will boht be glas you scrapped this and its nice to be recording his changes already.