Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Some Traditional Layouts

The sketch for this one came from "Best of Becky Higgins Sketches" I love the clean lines and how the the color scheme simulates a cloudy sky, one thing I remember most about San Francisco!

This sketch came from CTMH Inspire. The entire background is stamped.


This page is all about distressing. I thought that Zach's desert camping trip really lent itself to the technique.



I always have fun with layouts that aren't boy focused. Since most of my personal albums are focused around my son & hubby I used A LOT of blues & greens. Its nice to use pink once and awhile.

I am a member of the Pink Pineapple Scrapbooks "Book" club. This layout uses techniques I learned there and goodies from one of the kits. Stephanie Ackerman came and taught us some doodling techniques for titles, which I incorporated and used my Souffle pens. One of our kits came with the Fiskars Threading Water border punch which I just LOVE!





I did this layout for a challenge for a yahoo group I participate in. We had to use glitter so I traced some of the design from the patterned paper with CTMH liquid glass and added some glitter.





Another CTMH idea book layout. I used my cricut for the title and inked a lot of the edges.





Another favorite layout. I love the October Afternoon paper and the clean lines.






Digital Layout Mania

Although I'm generally a traditional scrapper, I do like doing full digital pages, if for example I have way too many photos from an event, if I've taken photos that I want to use for a background, as in the two layouts below from Julian, or if I just feel like it.












These were created using CM's Storybook Creator Plus and my background paper is a picture I took while we were in Julian.




I had a first year frame that I was filling up, but I liked the idea of doing it digital so I could easliy make a copy for Garrett's grandparents.




Bling your Blog

I'm so excited. I am taking a class through http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/ called Bling your Blog. So far I've created the template for my blog and the header. I've always thought that so many blogs looked fabulous but wasn't sure how to do it. So now I am learning, and I'm pleased with the results thus far. The best part is that I can update it as I wish. Yeah!

Its also gotten me a bit more familiar with Photoshop. I've been playing with it for years and been frustrated because there was so much I knew was possible, just not how to do it. I'm still not there yet, but I've got a few new tricks up my sleeve!

Now that I'm happy with the look of my blog I'll start uploading some pages I've done.