Where was I?

I haven't been around for a while. Been busy organizing my kalat room so I can do some traditional LOs. This is the latest one I did which I entered in the http://pinoyscrapbookers.blogspot.com/ stamping challenge. Not a lot of stamping on this one though. I don't do a lot of stamping on my traditional LOs. It is more fun on digital since mistakes can easily be deleted. This is a picture of my daughter under the magnolia tree, one fine day in Spring 1990.

Supplies used: DCWV Summer Stack, Autumn Leaves/Rhonna Farrer's clear flourish stamps, Versacolor ink, card embellishments from Joanne's. The big swirl, I drew and hand-cut.

The picture below is a digital LO I submitted in the Bigi-Digi Contest by http://scrapbook.com/. This is a picture of my daughter who is now 17 years old. The effect I used is called "pop" which is getting to be a popular thing now in the world of digi-scrapping.

The original journaling I wanted to use was "You've outgrown your world and now you can't wait to explore the rest of the universe." I don't know why I didn't go with that. Do you think it is too OA [over-acting]?

Supplies used: Heart and Soul paper kit from Scrapbook.com; Instant Sparkle Circle by Jodi Anderson; Font used is Davis; picture frame by CraftFairy1

The picture below is the original LO I made using the Heart and Soul kit. These are the original colors too. I opted to re-color the background paper blue so that Christina's picture will really pop out. I took out the brad border at the top because it looked crowded on the blue-background version. Which one is your favorite?