SHCG: I actually made a LO of the wax museum, but I looked and I didn't post it. I'll have to post, because I have pics with some of the same figures. I think I would have made the journaling about 3-4 inches wide to make it more legible and adding some spacing between the lines. I also would have lined up the photos, but that is my own little quirk! TFS!
SHCG: When I first saw this lo, the first pic I looked at, was the one of your pop helping to raise the flag, and I wondered what the story behind that was because I thought the people were real! The wax figures there are way better than ours. I love how the looks on your folks' faces actually match the mood that the wax figure sets, so they totally blend well together, and it's your folks who make them look so realistic. Check out your dad and Madonna! Too funny. Two small suggestions--slide up that photo diagonally up to the right a tad, and add some gold to the black square confetti pieces. That will nicely accentuate that lovely gold photo corner embelly. I like seeing your bleach doodling at work again.
SHCG: First things first: I LOVE YOUR MOM"S OUTFIT...may have to lose weight and then borrow it. My fave pic is her with Elton John! She could so tour with him. LOVE it! The firefighters one rocks too! I love the whole bleachy thing on this amazing two pager. I would not change a thing on it. NOT one little thing.
SHCG: Sharon, I love this! Your parents are adorable and I'm glad to see that they are overcoming their internet shyness. *wink* I love your multi-photo layouts. You always rock the placement and the journaling. I am craving more of that bleach-doodled Ellie Pooh paper. I haven't looked at the opposing page, so maybe some is there. My eye just wants more of it because it is soooo fabulous. I also like that you used the blue on the bottom photo. It creates a visual triangle of color for me and me likes. Nice job, girlfriend!
SHCG: Your journalling is always one of the best features of your pages, and this is no exception! You can really tell a story! THe pictures are great too... of course, I love the one of the 9-11 firefighters. I also really like that the colors and patterns of the pp you used don't fight with or overpower the pictures. Great job!
SHCG: Your parents are frigging adorable! Love that pose of your dad with the figure in the teddy and also with the firemen! Awesome! I do have to say that I would maybe space the top 3 photos more evenly across the page and then move the bottom right photo a bit to the left for more balance but otherwise, as usual, awesome job!
SHCG: These photos are a blast, it looks like your parents had fun posing for them :) Love the background paper, the gold scroll charm and the double matting of the larger picture. Did you do the printing on the title yourself? I would have put those small black squares on the corner of the pics. Great job :)
This 2-pager is really great! Like how you incorporated so many pictures (which are great btw!). The texture of the bg paper is really cool. The only thing I'm not so sure about are the small black squares.
When DH graduated from grad school, we made a vacation out of it. We took a few days off & stayed in NYC (we lived in the ‘burbs at the time). Various family members came to town, including my parents – we had a wonderful time! This is the start of graduation day, the journaling on the top left side covers what we did before we went to the museum.
"Mon 5/23 Day of Greg's Graduation! Free continental breakfast at Lily's (the hotel restaurant), a stop at the lovely 16th floor terrace. Then later lunch w/ Mom & Dad at the nice Greek restaurant Molyvo's, the locale of many of my boss' power lunches next door to my folks' hotel, The Wellington (Mom & Dad looked sharp! Mom especially in her pink & black dress). It was so nice! Food was yummy (I went for a “quick lunch” – lentil soup, chicken in phyllo fruit tart]. Great conversation (Dad “You give free refills?...Look at that Diet Coke, it is in a test tube!” Stuff about our family's move from NY to TX, the Bronx days, etc). Then Greg went to the hotel to rest & we went to…Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum” (Journaling continues to rt side)
This LO comes chronologically before the “Greg's Graduation” LO earlier in my gallery.
All the paper I used, beside the background & what the text was printed on, were scraps. The matte behind the title is one of my bleach pen doodling test sheets for my “Toe Side Triumph” LO w/ bleach pen doodling (earlier in my gallery). (This piece was Ellie Pooh paper w/ bleach pen doodling, I thought it was neat how it bleached to that warm beige color but ultimately I liked the cool violet bleaching of the Bazzill I used better!). The sticker on the lower rt side was given to me by Karishma, a buddy from the Manhattan Scrapbooking Meetup.com group (she's here on sb.com too but forgot her screen name)… we both thought something should go in that corner & these stickers of hers were perfect…love it when that happens at crops!
Pardon the very imperfect stitching (slicing Louis Armstrong's face) & inadvertently cut off scans.
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