Jillibean Soup Staples

This boy loves art. He has since he was old enough to hold a crayon. I remember him drawing and painting the most colorful, detailed pictures. All of his trees were rainbow colored and I never once corrected him. He could spend hours sitting at the kitchen table creating.

I wanted to combine his love of color and rainbows (through the patterned paper) and the "where" of the story. Using the geotag symbol here made sense. I kept the layout pretty simple, based on white card stock and stripes of Jillibean Soup Staples paper. The circle die cut was filled with a  jumble of random Alphabean letters and made an interesting background for the ART title. The navy blue banner strip was cut using a Silhouette.  I used a black and white photo because the lighting and shadows in the picture were really bad. Changing it to B&W and sharpening it a bit 'saved it'.

These pictures are almost four years old and you can still find that very same boy drawing + painting in that same spot. As a matter of fact, just tonight he was drawing a very colorful, detailed Nutcracker for me. Some things really don't change.