Spread Your Ears and Fly

These photos of Rudi (a handsome English Springer Spaniel, the best breed of dog on earth, lol) are from a lovely lady from Sweden named Britt Marie Webster that I met on Facebook. I told Britt that I loved her photo and wanted to make a page about Flight and her photo of Rudi with his ears flapping was perfect.

Britt said she was flattered and said I could use her photos. She also said that she really like that picture too, and it won a photo competition in her local newspaper a few years back.

So I happily made this page and sent it to her and she posted it on her blog Julita-Rudis Blogg.

I posted this page on GingerScraps yesterday, Wednesday (September 12th). This morning I got a message that it was nominated for Baker's Best 9/9-9/15

Update: On Sunday (September 16th) I got a message from GingerScraps that this layout was nominated for LOTW (layout of the week) and voting commenced. There are some truly gorgeous layouts this week, so I don't expect to win, but it is an honour to be chosen none-the-less. :)

Credits:
Photos of Rudi taken by his owner, Britt Marie Webster (Sweden) and used with her permission. Thanks Britt!
Primary kit used: Take Flight Collab (Kimeric Kreations and Sweet Digi Scraps).
Paw print border, green background, leaves and journal oval from 'Cats and Dogs' (Connie Prince). Orange mushrooms from 'Fall Frolic' (Marie H Designs).
I made the text bubble with an SVG shape and did the extraction of Rudi on the bottom right. :-)
Note: In the pic on the left Rudi is laying in a patch of moss and wild mushrooms.

Oh and I should mention, the Swedish text in the thought bubble says, "I have my own wings.", courtesy of freetranslation dot com, haha, but Britt said it's right.

Rockin' the Mickey Mouse Hoodie

After yesterday's multi-hour scrap page I decided to use a QP today. When I logged into Facebook at 8:00 this morning Connie Prince had posted a freebie on her blog and I knew it would perfect for these pics of Hayden. It's a Disney-inspired quick page called 'MY HAPPY PLACE' QP (by Connie Prince).

Of course I rarely use a QP without customizing somehow it in Paintshop Pro, haha. I know how to take the "quick" out of quick page! This was fairly minor though. I painted over the tag that said 'A Magical Adventure' with the Clone Brush so I could add my own text; and I painted out the lines in the round tag on the botton and made it white, again just to make adding my own text easier and more legible.

Later today JM Designs posted a new Facebook Exclusive mini kit called, 'You Rock My World'. I used the "YOU ROCK" wordart from it for this page.

Then I extracted the red Mickey Mouse hoodie/T-shirt/jeans set from my own photo. This past Christmas I had bought two of these outfits, one for each my grand-nephews and took a photo of them to show my sister (just to make sure we weren't giving the boys the same thing. I also added a round close-up of Mickey Mouse playing guitar to this page, from the photo.

Just Being a Kid

More pics of my grand-nephew Devin playing, taken on Saturday, June 9th at our family get-together.

I never used to use quick pages but over that last little while there have been some really cute ones that were too hard to resist. This one is called "We Are Family QP" (by Connie Prince) and I added freebie cluster frames from the same kit in the bottom right corner. The yellow Tonka truck is from the "Rough and Tumble" NSD Blog Hop by Plain Digital Wrapper (expired now).