Little Girl & Cute 4 Ever......

I love taking pictures of my children--it's my thing.  Camera in hand I am on a mission to record it all :-).  Unfortunately, Hayden and Maleia give me some difficulties:  Hayden avoids me (he is 12 and way too cool for pictures) and Maleia refuses to actually look at the camera, instead opting to look behind me or around me or up in the sky or just hide her face all together.  But, Allora, does not know any better yet and continues to give me lots of smiles! 

 

 

I made a "bold" decision for this one and decided to stitch a heart on the picture itself.  Love the added texture it gives, but wish I had moved the heart a little to the left.  I doubled and tripled checked to make sure I liked the placement of the heart before punching the holes (I used Amy Tan's stencil set), but it still was not quite where I wanted it.  Oh well, it is what it is...

 

 

This was a favorite picture taken earlier in the spring that I had been holding onto and finally scrapped using a mix of papers from Glitz, American Crafts, and Studio Calico.  The hearts were an element I had been wanting to play around with, so using two punches and my scissors, I played around with the size and placement of the hearts until I liked them. However, I have to say that this layout bugs me just a bit.  I feel like something is just missing.  I even had it sitting out for awhile so that I could look at it from time to time, hoping something would come to me.  Nothing happened.  LOL.  Inspiration denied.

 

Michelle