Here's a page I made using the Word Art I created. The great thing about the word 'grandpas' being 'grey' is that you can use the hue/saturation feature in PSP or Photoshop and change the color of it to fit your page's needs. Cool or what? I made this page with photos of my dad playing with my son Nicky. Very cute! I used a background page with just a couple of elements, I mainly used a mask to create the effect around the photos.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/dec20012.html


This second image is a vintage picture of my dad when he was 23 years old! Oh... the handsome devil! I used a quickpage for this one.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/apr1953.html

These new pages today I did with Nicky's help! He picked the QuickPage and the pictures to use.

The first one was a trick we saw on the Scrapbook Memories TV show, he watched it and wanted me to do it, LOL.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/feb042.html


The second one Nicky just decided to do a page from old Camp pictures, so, voila'.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june05.html

I am in the middle of doing these cute royal dollies, but I needed 2 minutes to relax, so here's the page I whipped out. Of course, a quickpage! Nicky and Connor, too darn cute in this pic, were 9 and nearly 2 here. Awww... brotherly love!

Bigger version here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug05.html

BIGGER version of this page can be seen here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/apr08.html

I got Nicky's spring pictures from school yesterday, so I looked up my pre-made layouts so I could show everyone! Nicky looks SO CUTE in this pic my heart melts. This pic was taken a few days after his dental surgery when the dentist removed 7 baby teeth! He's my trooper and always will. Hard to believe he's 11.5 years old. Where does time go? Where's my baby?

As a quick update on his EB... so far so stable. He's been sick so he's had a lot more mucus to deal with than normal, so he's been pretty miserable. Nicky has allergies that get better or worse depending on the time of the year. We think it has to do with pollen or whatever. Anytime we go anywhere like Arizona they disappear. We can't test him because allergies test need to be done on the skin... so...

Nicky is now in 6th grade and doing okay. This has been a TOUGH year schoolwise for him, but he's developed a liking for the Lemony Snickets books, he's also read the books from the movies Chronicles of Narnia, Spiderwick Chronicles & Mr. Magorium Magic Emporium. He's looking forward to CAMP as usual, which we'll go to toward the end of June. Next year he'll officially be in Middle School, I am really worried because the other middle school was horrible, so we'll have to move him to another mid-high nearby, which might be okay because all his friends from his elementary school days go there so he'll already have friends!!!

Keep your fingers crossed for my angel!

.. until next time!
hugs, Silvia

Here's a cute one I did today of Nicky. These pictures were taken in 2002 and for some reason they were lost in a disc for a few years, I only found them when we moved in the new house and I got a new computer. At the time we had a digital camera (that Connor destroyed by taking it and putting it in a sink full of water-aargh... but that's a whole other story) that took mini-discs.

At any rate... Nicky is usually pretty afraid of animals in general, but he really liked this particular kitty that his stepsister got for a birthday gift. Of course he only liked the kitty while he was young, once he grew that was that and he would scream anytime it got a couple of feet away!!! LOL. Ahhh... my little Nicky looks so darn cute in these photos!!! I actually cheated once again and used a pre-made quick page made by Rita.