Proxy Handmade.

I've decided that one of the key reasons I cannot get studio quality photos of my 3 year old is because *he is a toddler*.  I have a high quality camera with many wonderful lenses.  I have ideas!  But he doesn't sit still for things and is outrageously independent.  This picture illustrates the point on many levels.

Octo-Saur?

I sent an instructional link to my mom asking her to make a dinosaur tail for my toddler.  She had some leftover fabric and made 4 different tails so Toddler could select one.  Of course, the minute she dropped off these adorable creations - the Toddler was uninterested because, well, he just felt like being uninterested.  Finally he started wearing one and flipped it up and pretended to poop everywhere - like a dinosaur. OK, so that was pretty funny.  I was hoping to get some nice photos of him and he jumped and ran all over, wouldn't stay in the nice lighting, or still, wouldn't look at the camera, and then took off the tail.  He then proceeded to knock things over with the tail in his hand.  

After that, he wanted to put on all 4 tails and run around and twirl.  Again, all these things are very funny and we were all cracking up.  So I wasn't going to try to get another nice photo but decided to enjoy the hilarity instead.  I snapped a few iPhone photos and that was about it.  Because if he knows I want a nice photo, staged, with him smiling and a dinosaur tail on for added cuteness, that ain't happenin' on his watch.  Oh well.  

More importantly, the dino tail was awesome.  Great way to use up some leftover fabric.   Cheers!  

Orange Birthday Fun

Elements, elements.  So many elements!  I had great fun with this one and really don't want to forget all the neat pieces that came together.  The base is an orange stock (Recollections) cut out in A2 and top folded.  There is a repeating stamp in black along the side.  The polka-dot paper is from a pad of paper I found at Michael's - cut in the shape of a balloon with the Silhouette.  The white cardstock is embossed.  The stamp and offset are awesome - this was one of my first successes with the Pixscan on the Silhouette.  I stamped the image on a thick stock and placed it on the Pixscan.  I created the cut area in the software and cut out the stamp.  Then created an offset in the gold/yellow in a self-adhesive stock (which is a kind of linen-y looking paper from DCWV).  And then some washi - that, in hindsight, should have been in dark blue.  Ya can't win 'em all I guess.