Double Rainbow

A few years ago, just as a thunderstorm was ending, I looked out my front window and saw a beautiful double rainbow that went from one end of our street to the other. I grabbed my camera, ran outside, stood on my driveway in the rain, and quickly took some photos. It actually was a triple rainbow for a short while but the third arch didn't show up in the pics.

Last Christmas I scrapped one of these photos (bottom left), printed it and framed it and gave it to my neighbour for a Christmas present. She loved it and has it hanging in her front entrance hall. If I remember what I called it I'll post it too. :)

Kits used: 'Cloudy Day' (A Work in Progress)
and 'Rain on' (Caroline S.)

A Boy's Story

More pics shared by my niece. I love these photos of my grandnephew Hayden so much. Shannon just finished painting his new bedroom and I had helped her choose the colours (based on the bedding). Three walls are painted blue and one wall is that fabulous green colour. So fun. This is another one of my crazy 'use a lot of various kits' pages.

The main kit I used is 'Stars' (A Work in Progress *retired); journal quote card from 'Boyish Summer Journaling Cards' (DHD Erica Coombs), stitches from 'My Colors Stitches' (A Saxon Creation), 'Spotted Fun Alpha' (Marie Stones), string and tag from the 'Rough and Tumble' NSD Blog Hop by Plain Digital Wrapper (expired now), wordart from 'A Good Read' (Sweet Digi Scraps), blue paper from 'Boyo Grunge Papers' (The Urban Fairy), background paper from 'Drowsy Papers' DHD (Agnes Biro).

I'm not going to look up all the links for this like I usually do. I just don't have the time today :)

War of 1812 Bicentennial

Yesterday we went to watch a fabulous War of 1812 Naval battle re-enactment in Niagara-on-the-Lake. There were 5 tall sailing ships and 22 longboats with 300 naval re-enactors all dressed up in period costumes, lots of canons and muskets firing. We had a perfect vantage point and I got about 120 great pics. It was so cool to watch the tall ships sail across the lake, getting closer and closer, then the soldiers rowed to shore in the longboats and then the mock fighting began. It's always to fun because the American tourists root for the Americans and the Canadians root for the British, haha. We always have a blast and this year was extra special. From where we were standing I was only able to photograph the British troops.

Papers from:
'Boyfriend' (A work in Progress),
'Just Like Dad" (Meagan's Creations),
'Stars & Stripes' mini kit (Trixie Scraps) *July FB exclusive.

Embellishments from:
'The Great British Street Party' (LouCee Creations),
'All American Holiday' (Missy's Bits),
'Stars & Stripes' mini kit (Trixie Scraps) *July FB exclusive,
'Memories of Old' (LouCee Creations),
'Boyfriend' (A work in Progress),
'It's a Wonderful Life' (Kimeric Kreations),
'Boys Will Be Boys Addon' (Kimeric Kreations).

Template:
'Focal Point' (Little Green Frog Designs)

Waking Up is Hard to Do!

This is my youngest grand-nephew Tyler. He was born on April 28, six weeks premature. A week ago we had a large family get together on the weekend that was Tyler's original expected due date. He's now the size of a newborn :)

I took all of these pics within about 2 minutes. My sister-in-law was holding Tyler and we were talking to him trying to see if he'd open his eyes, lol. Great Aunties are allowed to wake up their great-nephews while they are sleeping .... 'cause we can always pass them back to their Mommy if they protest too much, lol.

I made this page today and I used a kit (now retired) called 'Oh Boy' (by A Work In Progress"). I love the colours in this, and although it is not a baby kit, it went really well with my pics.

I decided to do a photo effect on the last picture, and added a border to it and angled it, just make that photo stand out a bit from the rest, in a slightly unexpected way. The photo effect was done in PaintShop Pro X4, and is called the 'Vignette Effect'.