Matadors and a Princess

This is the other page I did. I think I like it better...but I can't tell tonight for sure. Same exact text as the other one. Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions?

Need help here. This the first of two. Did this one, but didn't quite like it. Can't tell exactly why, my best explanation is that it is too formulaic. Opinions, please? Text reads: 26 March 1998 I was so frustrated. He brought me home and everyone who hadn’t seen him in years asked if I was his wife. “Not yet!” What?!?! Did I miss something? And what should I say then? His Mom said I should call her “Mom” like all of his friends did. If we were less intimate it would have been fine or if there was a proclaimed relationship, it would have been f ine...but for the time being I just couldn’t. All I knew was that I really wanted more than we had and in spite of being part of the wedding, he was very attentive to me. Little did I realize his intentions were far grander. So when he dragged me away as they were opening the last gift I was a little surprised. But then he stopped suddenly and dropped to his knees and shouted, “Anne Marie LoForte, will you marry me?” Every female in the room squealed as his mom climbed over several folks to get to us first. All the fathers beamed as if was their doing, while they snapped away with cameras. I answered him before he’d even finished the question and then we bonked heads because I leaned down to kiss him as he came up to kiss me...the rest of the evening is little more than a hazy happiness.

So it's not a very exciting title...but it was fun. Is there too much pink, though?

Hah! Thought no one would EVER want to see one of my pictures in a pre-assembled layout...you gals always keep me guessing! Her two comforts...Mommy & her fingers. This was: COL_Amazing_Jif6_LO, but I reduced the size of the title and added "comfort" with COL_InspireMe_Alpha

Hope it's okay to post in both places. (I posted this for the January JumpStart Game, too). I DID use the Date Strips. My brain is coming up with all sorts of ideas for using these latest Club offerings...Just wish I had the time for them all!

I haven't used styles very much in the past...so I'm trying to experiment more with them. Here I used the "Pencil Drawing" style in PSE8. But it looked too bland. I couldn't see the facial features very well. So I put the pencil drawings over the original photo and took the opacity of the pencil drawings down a bit to let the picture show through. The big picture was similar, except that I used the BGBlenders brush separately on each layer. I tried merging these two layers together...but when I did that it changed the look entirely. Not sure why that was. More experimentation needed! The final actually has his classmates in the photo frames instead of repeating him...but I didn't feel okay about putting their pictures up without parental permission...but it is really cute with the different kids in the frame.

Another one for Hannah's Album...Her idea...Daddy went along with it. Tabitha & Samuel joined the party on their own.

So we were gifted a used binder-style date-minder in pink & brown. It makes a perfect scrapbook album for my almost six-year-old daughter. This is the first page that we have created together for that album. It is a double-page spread at 5"x7" on each side. Details in EXIF.