giggles and grins

this was a fun little layout, maybe because the pictures were so stinkin' cute! I always like pages where ya mix up color prints with black and white prints, but for some reason i hardly ever do it. why is that? anyway i thought id do it with this page and im so glad i did, i think it really add some intrest to the page. i used a bunch of different "paper" from different kits, just looking for some that went well with abby's shirt. one of the last things i added was the big top note shape under the prints, and boy howdy do i LOVE that!!! i was inspired by a sketch from Nuts About Sketches, its so nice to be able to pull up your images and go to Nuts about Sketches and find a layout and jump right in. without a sketch i seem to sit and stare at the images and not know where to start, but with a sketch, you have a plan and you can get started and get pages done. and to me thats the point of scrapbooking, to get your pictures off your camera and/or computer and on a page in your scrapbook for everyone to enjoy!

 

hair cut

ive been doing lots of digital pages lately, its just so much easier when you have little ones running around. so reagan got a big girl hair cut, she was a bit nervous at first, she thought her hair would turn brown like Rapunzel. but now she loves her new do!
i thought i would have a hard time finding a sketch for 14 images, but it was really easy. i found this on Nuts About Sketches. the sketch was for 15 images but i had one (the 1st on on the 3rd row) that was vertical and i wanted to keep the whole image because abby was "riding" on the chair as leah would spin reagan around. so i just had that one image take up 2 spaces. ive been really busy this summer and the past few week especially, so i stuck really close to the sketch. i used a variety of digital supplies, changing some of the colors to match my colors better.

digital scrapbook pages

 here are a few pages that I did yesterday. They are digital pages that i made in photoshop. i used kits that i've had forever, nothing new. the layouts were inspired by kerri bradford

Workspace Wednesday: 07/11/12

Ok I realized that I didn't post my workspace picture for last week! So here it is.. Im working on alot of things, first of all starting on the left, I have my color coach out trying to come up with some new color combos to play with, right now I'm loving Rich Razzleberry, Pacific Point (both from Stampin' Up!) and a lime. I don't have a good Lime color ink :( I was using Green Galore from Stampin' Up! but that pad is now dry (sniff sniff) and they don't have that color anymore. So I gotta find a new one! Next on the desk is the GYPSY! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my gypsy, I can't do anything without it! the Rolodex is a project I'm working on using THIS stamp set from Paper Trey Ink to help me keep all thoughts in one place. I'm really loving it, when I'm working on a project and need a little something I just flip through whatever section I'm needing help with and I find what I need! Its just simply great! All the little white hearts you see are from this die from Stampin' Up!. The big notebook is out because I'm gonna enter a design team call!!! I've never done that before but I've wanted to. So I thought I'd give it a try, I gotta get a couple more pictures printed before I can submit it, I'm pretty excited about it all!! So that's my desk for last week. I'm working on different stuff this week so things will look different for the post tomorrow!

workspace wednesday: 062012

So I had a busy day yesterday so I didn't post my workspace photo for the week. I've been playing with some stamps from Hero Arts branded with Studio Calico and I LOVE them!!! Can't wait to use them with Project life & in my smash book! When I play with stamps I normally end up making cards, so I did a couple cards but then I just couldn't wait to use them on a scrapbook page. The stamps have more of a scrapbook feel than cutesy images for cards. I will post some of those projects soon. so lets start of the right side, I have  a couple stamp set out from Hero Arts I LOVE the polaroid stamp!!! I've stamped it several times on some white card stock so I can quickly add it to a card or scrapbook layout. under the scissors is a little flip book of layout sketches, the top one is the one I'm using to put together the 12x12 in the middle of my table. I'm using some paper from my stash that went well with her shirt in the picture. above the layout there is a pink bottle of glow in the dark nail polish, Reagan gave it to me (to keep it away from Abby Jo) to do her nails later that day. to the left there are more stamps sets that I'm playing with to see how I want to use them on this layout. I keep a piece of white copy paper close by to test colors of ink before I put them on a layout. Plus a couple cards stacked up there. And you can see the Little Spook Mini album is still on my desk! lol!

        

Project Life: Week 24

Workspace Wednesday: 061312

Ok so I've not posted a "Workspace Wednesday" photo in awhile... oh I just noticed I misspelled "Wednesday" in the photo! lol! (I had a rough night last night, had to wake up every couple hours to check on Abby) So back to my workspace, its rather clean for my space :D I reorganized some storage space over the weekend so I did tidy up my desk. In this picture I'm working 2 projects. A 12x12 scrapbook page in the left side of the picture about half way down then opposite side of that I was putting together some pillow boxes for a business so I was playing with design ideas. The "Little Spook" mini album is on my desk because I need to make another one for Abby Jo AND  I need to update Reagan's. The cricut booklets are from Creative Memories, I think its "Be Young" its a REALLY cool cartridge I'm having fun with it. I will post some projects using it in the weeks ahead. So stay tuned!!!