Some Oldies Part 2 (Evan)

So in this post I've added some of my favorites of Evan, my middles son. I know there's more of him that are my favorites than of Marshall, but I think that has a lot to do with how I've progressed as a scrapbooker. Marshall's pages were mostly done as I was learning so a lot of his pages, while still good, don't pop out at me as much as the ones of Evan and Owen.

This is one of my favorites for several reasons: I wrote the poem, I love the picture, and I used UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) on a few things: the water in the picture and the rocks I cut out of the paper. "Bubby" is what Evan used to call my dad when he was little.

I distressed this one without even knowing really what "distressing" was lol. I just liked the way the ink looked when you rubbed it on Bazzill cardstock-I didn't realize there was an actual name for it when I did this one. I just wanted a rough/dirty look to match the feel of packing boxes.

 This one was for a challenge on a site (I really can't remember which one!) where we had to leave White Space. Once you've seen a lot of my pages, you'll realize how hard of a challenge this was for me! I tend to use up as much space as I can on each page-I mean, that's why we do 12x12, right? lol

 This is one of my favorites for the lack of color in the paper, allowing the pictures to really pop out. The words over the picture were printed on a transparency using Word and various text boxes and fonts. I had printed it ages before these pictures were taken and I had planned on cutting the words out for another page, but they fit this perfectly!

This is one of my favorites because of all the non-traditional elements I used: wood, burlap, cardboard (which has become a favorite even now!) combined with the flower and rock papers, as well as the stones in the picture.

 This one is so much a favorite, I have it on my living room wall. There's not much to say about it really, just that it all fits together so well.

 This one was for an on-going elimination-type challenge years ago on another website I can't remember. The challenge was to use white as a back ground, a solid blue ribbon of any shade and black cardstock. Inks and stamps were allowed but no other colors or patterned papers. Eek! What a challenge! What looks great when done, took me AGES to figure out!

 This was another challenge in the contest I mentioned above. We had to use a certain amount of buttons, flowers, types of ribbon, circles, 3 patterned papers, and the numbers 1, 2 and 10 had to appear! Another one that took me awhile, but with awesome results!

 This one was a fun page I basically threw together one day. I used mostly scraps, some felt pieces, doodling and an insert from a notebook scuffed up a bit.