2012 MMDT December Photo Challenge: The Year in Review

It’s been an amazing year and our final challenge for the year 2012 was to take a look back and review the photos we've taken this year and share some of the highlights.

Our biggest event for the year has been the birth of my first grandchild, Isabella, in February. It seems that most of my photos have been of her! However each event we’ve been to and places we’ve traveled to have yielded their fair share. The events from the year included in the photos are the Medina Ice Festival, Isabella’s birth, Memorial Park in Spring, The Creation Museum, Bright Lights Workday, Baking for VBS, The Ohio Highland Games, Isabella going to BSF with Hannah and I for the first time, trip to Canada and the relatives we were visiting (including a photo of my cousin’s new grandson with his great-granddad!)  Bright Lights Father-Daughter Dinner, Birthday’s for Hannah and Andrew, Libby’s car accident and the search for a new car, Chik-fil-A Appreciation Day, some of the many flowers I’ve taken photos of,  our Thanksgiving meal and at least one photo of each of my five kids, often holding Isabella!

The first version of the “great idea” consumed a huge amount of time and planning and soon proved to be less than what I was looking for, for this final assignment of 2012. Tempted to scratch everything and begin again I chose instead to sleep on it in the hopes that once I was less tired and began fresh things would look better.

Well, all was not lost, but reworked. I began again with a white 12 x 12 Mosaic Moments Grid and included paper tiles punched with the 1" punch from several metallic shades of DCWV paper (silver, gold, champagne and gunmetal). Then sticky face tiles that I've added glitter from Martha Stewart to really make them shine were added. Why metallic papers? Well, the one thing I seem to associate with New Year is a huge metallic disco ball…and that’s the inspiration for the background tiles.

while the sticker is still on the sheet sprinkle glitter a little at a time and rub into the surface until you have a smooth burnished finish...you have to fill in all the spaces...or at lest, most of them :-) 

Close-up of tiles...sticky face tile covered in glitter in the center.

The photos are arranged in a pattern so that the numbers for the year 2012 would be revealed. The “blank” spaces were filled with various tiles including three larger tiles to make notes of what are included in the photos, and one for a title. Two of the smaller square sticky face tiles were covered in glitter and cut in half for photo corners for the title block. On a previous occasion I found that rubbing the glitter into the sticky tile gives a smooth burnished look that really stands out. 

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This photo shows off the shimmer of the glitter covered sticky face tile very well. The title was done with a Sharpie water based paint metallic pen, extra fine point in gold.

Thanks for taking a look back with me on 2012. I hope you all have a great Christmas, time with family and friends and that you'll join us here again in 2013. Keep safe...

thanks for stopping by...

andrea

Here's a photo to show you what it looked like as I planned...before I made the 2012 blend into the rest of the metallic bling tiles! 

So now maybe you'll see the 2012 a little easier!