Candy Bouquet for the Ballerina

Being a "novice ballet Nana" I didn't know about the flowers for the ballerinas following the recital.  I had already started making a "candy bouquet" to give to Avery following the recital when Jennifer gave me the heads up on the tradition.  It worked great, however it was so hot that even though I kept the bouquet in a cooler with ice packs, it started melting by the time we got these pictures made!  If you look close, you can see a big candy ladybug on a large candy leaf and 2 small ladybugs on the sunflowers.  I didn't think to ask what Avery costume looked like, so my candy ballerina with a black tutu and red tights didn't match her perfectly, but it was close.  Seeing all these pictures again for the first time since June, I think there's no doubt, Avery had a very special first ballet recital!  You can see I used more ladybugs from Helen's freebie for this kit.  You can see previews of Nouveau Summer and this freebie HERE!

OK...could see real quick when I joined these two I will be making some changes should I ever print these together.  Will have to decide if I would enlarge the family group photo on the left or reduce the photos on the right. I made the pic with bouquet large so it would be seen better.  I can cut some off the top of that photo and adjust every thing on both page to balance them out better. Also will have to make a choice between the backgrounds.  I used a blending technique to bring the gold out on the right side page.  Rather redo now, I think I will just study them and make changes later.  Besides, Luke and Avery will be here for a few days, so I won't be scrapping for a while!  Still have some excess ballerina candy on hand and Luke has started football...can see us making football candy mints while they are here!  

Who Let the Ladybugs Out!?!

Helen, that's who!  Helen so generously passes along freebies with her kits.  This adorable little ladybug I used here is part of Nouveau Summer's Freebie.  I probably used too many ladybugs, but I think Avery will like all of them! Can you find Avery among the waking ladybugs on stage?  This is the 2nd page of the 2-page LO below...keep scrolling and you see the large size of page 1!  You can see previews of Nouveau Summer and this freebie HERE! 

Ballerina in the Meadow

Definitely have plans for a 2-page spread of each of the first two LOs below, but I couldn't resist playing with the "Summer Meadow" background paper in this kit.  We took several pictures of our little ballerina in the park in the city.  It was fun putting Lady Bug Avery in the meadow with all the dragonflies and butterflies.

 After the posed ballerina pictures, Avery and Luke could not resist rolling down the little knoll in the park.  This little lady bug was having fun!  I love this paper and have used it in several other LOs in the past...even a heritage LO of Granny when she was a baby.  You can see previews of Nouveau Summer HERE!

 

 

 

 

Avery's First Ballet Recital

We were high in the balcony, and Avery looked about the size of a Lady Bug...thank goodness for tele-lenses! Beeatrice is a very cute story and so many adorable little insects entered the stage (the backyard) from behind that tree.  For Avery's part of the program, they flooded the stage with red lights as you can see by the background of the stage where I blended her closeup photo taken in the dressing room once stage makeup and glitter had be applied!  I was extracting Avery but ended up leaving her with the stage showing.  Pretty sure there will be some pages with her extracted.

After the Ballet Recital we went to a nearby park to take some pictures of our little Lady Bug Ballerina.  Family and friends present their ballerinas flowers following the recital and these gorgeous roses are from Freddie and Luke...two of her biggest fans!  They both had to admit that though it didn't compare to a drag racing event, the ballet recital was actually fun to watch.

Nouveau Summer provided just what I needed for the first very elegant LO and then for this fun photo of Avery with her roses and family.  You can see previews of Nouveau Summer HERE! 

Pages with Nouveau Summer

Helen's kits are always very versatile...so much so that to everyone's surprise at DP, my CT LOs with Nouveau Summer were pics of my granddaughter's first Christmas. Now at 5 this kit with it's reds, greens and golden accents is perfect for her first ballet recital.   Here's a look at the Christmas LOs and I'll be back soon with some ballet recital LOs!

You can see a preview of Helen's Nouveau Summer Kit HERE!