Scrapbooks Plus DT

Sweet Treasure
This is a photo I took of my Grand Niece (not sure that it right but...). My niece had a baby therefore... This photo of Kylee on her soft blanket had the perfect color combination for this months MLYB paper. I kept the page very simple because I wanted the photo to be the main focus. One of the great things about working with distress stains & glimmer mists is you can create the colors you need. For example the leaf ribbon is white, I colored the leaves using distress stains to match my layout. The flower was created with book text & again colored. Voila, custom made embellishments that match my layout. I left the journal tag blank, I want my niece to tell me a story about being a new Mom, or how her baby loves being on a blanket... What makes this page is the photos. I lay on the floor with the baby so I could get the picture just a bit above her. I spread the blanket out so there was no carpet or furniture to be distracting. I made the shot very close up. Do not be afraid to do super close pictures. that way you can capture the mood or feeling instead of non-emotional background. It can take 20 shots to get 2 or 3 really good ones. Plus the subject, especially a baby will start to relax & ignore you, that's when you get the best photo. Hope that helps!
Supplies:
Paper, bird, tag & word-My Little Yellow Bicycle
Die- Tim Holtz for Sizzix
Distress Stains by Ranger
Brad- My Minds Eye

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One Sunday we took the family for a nice hike in the woods/park. These are the photos I took, the big photo of my boys trying to see if Mac had caught up height wise on his brother. Of course Trinny had to hop in the photo. Its a fairly simple page using Dylusions stamps along the sides, painted in with distress stains. Make a puddle of ink on your craft mat & use that to paint in the leaves. Some of the MLYB words are embossed so I ran an ink pad over them to pick up the embossed images. Enjoy fall!