Hello blogverse! I wanted to take you through my inspiration for this week with our theme Birthdays!
It was long over due for my hubby's birthday pictures to make a debut, so without further a 'due here we go. The highlight of the day was the helicopter ride! It was AMAZING! It was the first time I had ever had my feet off the ground and J loves to fly (eventually will get his private pilots license) and it had been forever since he had a chance to go. We did the Shark Run which is a 16 mile ride with a high possibility to see sharks past the 2nd sand bar. We had a briefing before we went into the helicopter. I remember the very nice lady telling us not to go anywhere behind the helicopter where the tail rotter is or we would die. *laughs* We got on and were off, it was exhilarating! No sharks that day but a school of Tarpon, Sea Turtles, and beautiful water. He seemed at home in that front seat loving every minute of it! It's not often I get to surprise him without him guessing what it is way before the day.
I started with a sheet of regular 12x12 paper out of our Mambi Kit 'Our Travels' (J even gave his input) and edged all sides with a blend of Tim Holtz Crushed Olive and Sky from Rubber Stampede. The Sky brightened the Crushed Olive and I was quite pleased with it since the paper I chose had the tropical colors in it. 
I then printed off some of the pictures I wanted in my layout to tell the story of the day. I took a lot of pictures, but if you start focusing down while you in a helicopter you get slight motion sickness. I have a really good photo printer an Epson Artisan 837 that I'm in love with. I use Epson Glossy paper with it and it really does make a difference the paper you use with your printer.
After they were cut I moved on to getting a coordinating paper from the same kit to frame the photos with. Play with your layout, make sure you have an idea of where you want to see things go. Take time, get to know it, give it a pet name.. Okay maybe not but at least plan a little and not just throw a lot of stuff on a page. 
Once I figured out where I wanted everything I started thinking about embellishments! I have the DCWV Heirloom Paper Pack that Christy talked me into getting on our adventure to Joann's and I flipped through it and found a cool page with a lot of numbers in assorted ways. Since J was turning 34 that day I made my own bellish! <~Not a real word but should be. I trimmed out 34. Three, and Four gluing them to a piece of neutral cardstock to give them a little oomph!
The end result was really nice, bright, and fun. I stamped a few Tim Holtz stamps on the bottom and right edge with Color Box Archival Ink in Glacier Lake. I used a few dimensional embellishments from our kit as well as lifted the 34 with a couple of foam squares. The left 34 is from Thickers 'Everywhere'.
For the technical side of what I used: Tombo Temporary Adhesive on the photo's in case I wanted to do something with them later, I used a Paper Studio Glue stick for adhering the 34, three, and four to the cardstock but used Tombo Permanent Adhesive to put them on the page. I kind of just have a few options on my desk while I am working and just pick up which ever one I think will do the job I need it to. :) Being my own worst critique I think I need to practice on my journaling. I felt the need to go back over it to make it darker and it isn't as fluid as I would like it to be. Ah well, that just makes it unique!
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