Life's Little Moments!

So, I recently blogged about how awesome my cousin's kiddos are...(not to mention two of the cutest boys around)!!!  Today I'm here to share one more LO I did with some pictures I found of these two cutie pies on FB.  The background paper for this LO was super bright with lots of pinks and pinkish reds.  I didn't feel like it fit the boyish feel I was going for (even though I wanted to use plenty of brights from a leftover Scraps of Darkness kit) so I muted the colors down with some watered down gesso (almost makes a whitewash type medium). 

 
I then picked through my scraps from and found some bright, fun, but still little boyish-ish scraps and colors.  The arrows were basically already "formed" into arrows on the papers, so I just cut them out.  The buttons were a leftover from the same SOD kit that many of the brighter papers came from.  (Sorry, I can't remember which one...I refuse to store them after I use them up...so they eventually get all bundled together, sometimes with notes about what month they came from.  *sigh*)
I used some Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist on the papers (turquoise) and made some splatters with other Color Shine Mists (pinks and reds) and Tim Holtz Distress Stain Sprays (Antique Linen, Wild Honey, and Peacock Feathers).

Since I was using pieces of kits and didn't have many, if any, of the flowers left...most of the flowers came from my stash.  Below you can see a close up of the cluster.  I loved the bright feel the yellow colors gave this LO!

 

Most of my layers that weren't cut into specific shapes were distressed and inked.  I love this little wood arrows.  Normally I prefer to color them, but I thought the bare wood made this project just a little more "manly" for these two boys!

 

 

That's it for this LO!  Thanks for taking a look!!!

 

love,

Mel