Just Me and My Babies...

If you recognize this image, you may be blinking and saying.."hmmm is THAT how it looks?". Well no... it's not. In fact... it's only 2/3's of how it looks. This stamp image is from Asela Hopkins, "The Journey". It has a female and male/boy image. If you remember back a few posts I did a card with the original image and saw it as an image of my son and I. Well now... you can't do a card with one child and NOT the other!! So, I improvised. I stamped the original image twice and cut the boy/child out and basically added it to the other side of the female. Hee Hee Now I admit... I did more than that. I cut the hair off the edges of the neck and drew in a bit of a flip and a longer look. Then I paper pieced a "dress", if you will, out of DP and adhered it to cover the shirt and shorts. To cover the line on the neck which was part of the shirt... I simply colored in pink line to make it appear as though my girl had a necklace on. I have to admit... there were NO curves to indicate "girl" when I paper pieced the dress, but hey... how about an "E" for Effort, huh?? LOL My kids saw me working on this and I asked... "Does this look like a girl now?" Since they both realized it was originally a boy... they said..,. "OH SICK MOM!!! You turned that boy into a girl!!!" LOL And it wasn't "sick" like the kids seem to say when they think something is cool nowadays either. LOL Well... at least I was thinking of BOTH of them, right???? When I showed it to my husband he said... "Family, huh? I'm not included?". So I opened the inside and said... "I was thinking...maybe... next time the kids and I go out of town on a small trip (like we often do for a short weekend getaway), we could send it to YOU!" The inside says... "Wish you were here." Touchy, touchy family I have, huh? You try to include them and they think you've done something "sick" and you include them and they think they are forgotten! *sigh* Ay yi yi!! Stop over at Gina K Designs and get your "family" set. LOL Have a great day and whatever you do.... please, please don't offend your family by making a card you thought was clever of you! LOL *smile*