Tuesday 24 June 2008

Doodling

My youngest son loves nothing more than playing on the PS2 but on those rare days you might also find him doodling in Paint on the computer and this was on one of those occasions.

October 2006 and it was howling down with rain and hadn't stopped so off he disappeared and was very quiet, always a bad sign lol, so I went to investigate and he'd been creating a picture of our two cats at that time, Pablo and Lacie...I immediately knew it was going to be one of those moments that would be scrapped eventually and here we are June 2008 and I've finally got round to making a page about it.




I didn't want to change the photo to black & white but I really didn't have any papers to match so I foolishly decided to colour in some Doodlebug paper, well I started at 9pm thinking it wouldn't take me long...oh how wrong was I and was still colouring in at 10.30pm but I stuck with it and eventually loved the overall feel that the colouring produced.





I kept to the doodling theme by adding a border around the edge with the Marvy Le Plume pens in the red, orange and blue and doodled my own title...I choose the colours to match with the cat bows and his name. I added three brads in opposite corners again in the three colours, added a Doodlebug frill for the date and a crayon button at the end of the title. Printed off his picture and a smaller scale and used a paperclip to anchor to the page, I also used to the Spiral Bound punch for Stampin' Up to look like it was ripped from a book and after a hard nights scrapping I'm really pleased with how its turned out and not a blossom in sight...amazing lol.




Take care xxx

10 comments:

Unknown said...

This is fabulous - a really lovely page X Great doodling!

mandijane said...

claire thats really fab :)

Charlie said...

Pass the chocolate please, I am hopping too. This is a fab LO - well done on all the colouring and what a special day to remember. Cute kid too.

dddeeebbbzzz said...

Love the fact that not only have got photos of the masterpiece but you have the real thing too!

Claire said...

This is a really cute LO! Gorgeous

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous Layout Claire, Love the Colouring, It is fab xxx

voodoo vixen said...

What a fantastic LO!! Its brilliant, love the drawing of the cats and this way, it won't get lost or put in the attic...

Fay aka Beautifullily said...

This is fantastic! Great idea for a LO and your doodling's gorgeous!

SABEE said...

This is such a great idea !!! and a lovely LO. Hope you don't mind if I lift this idea for a LO sometime.
Oh and your doodling is great !!!

x Rachel x said...

fab LO, great way of remembering something that would have probably got forgotten over time