ok so yesterday was a crazy day for me. this was reagan's first week back at preschool and i ended up working 2 days back to back at work, which isn't normal for me, plus i had a headache. so thats why i wasnt able to post a workspace photo yesterday - i took the picture - just couldn't get the time to upload it. so here ya go!
check out how clean it is! yeah - thats clean for me! I'm working on a 12x12 "fiesta" layout, so the supplies are laying around for that. the cricut handbook for the Autumn Celebration cartridge (i cut the word "fiesta" & the pinata) and the Gypsy with the cricut right behind it. little pile of scraps from the cuts here and there. plus i just picked up a Zig 2 way glue pen (LOVE IT) for little cuts, I'm not sure how i survived without one for so long! And then just some random stamp sets that im playing with.
I'm planning to relocate my scrap space this weekend. right now its in a corner of our bedroom and its gonna move into a guest/storage room. it will be closer to where the girls play during the day. im so excited! i will post updates as we get moving on this!!!! please feel free to leave comments or questions!
i knew i wanted to go with bright colors (whats new?) with this picture. not only is r wearing a rainbow shirt the band hat (im not sure if it has an official name, im sure keith will let me know when he reads this!) is solid purple & gold. i though this sketch would be fun to make the elements on the right be in rainbow colors, so that really why i selected this sketch! i only changed the photo to vertical and the shape of the one of the papers, i just love the top note shape! hope you enjoyed and leave a comment!
somehow these images were saved in a very low resolution. so i knew i needed a sketch where they would be small. i flipped the images in this sketch but other than that i kept to it. i used everything, except the alphas, from one kit called "Happy Go Lucky" from Shabby Princess. The main color in the pictures is Reagan's purple outfit, so that is what i was looking for. then i found this kit and the warm orangey-yellow colors went really well with color of my cabinets. this was a very fast layout, everything just kinda came together. i had fun with this one! thanks for looking & please feel free to leave a comment!
i had so much fun working with old pictures that i pulled out some from 2009. this was reagan's first time to "do art". once i decided on a sketch and was looking through the kits i got so excited when i found the crayons - i knew how i wanted to use them! i needed 2 vertical spaces on the right but the sketch had 2 horizontal. so i rotated them which gave me space to add the "little artist" cluster.
its been such a hot summer i thought id take a break from the heat and work with some snow pictures from a few years ago. i used a sketch for 9 images from Nuts About Sketches, i ended up with this one and then i decide to only use 8 images. i changed the right side at the top, instead of 3 images i did 2 and made the larger. and i made the image on the bottom right a circle instead of a vertical image. the digital kit i used was called "winter wonderland" that i downloaded from two peas in a bucket several years ago. i changed some of the colors in the kit to match my images better. thats the fun part of digital! :) i also changed the alpha i used to match better.
here is a layout of the girls' first trip to the library. i used a sketch from Nuts About Sketches, i did modify the sketch just a bit. i changed the largest image from a horizontal image to a vertical and instead of having all the smaller images square, i made them whatever shape they needed to be to fit the image. I added a white border to all the images, i really like the look of this, it also helps to define each from the others when you overlap them. I added the date at the bottom in a rather bold way, normally i just put the month & year somewhere inconspicuous, but i thought it needed something a more at the bottom. im not very good at titles, im trying to work on that. i love how mercytiara (also check her out on youtube) does her titles! since thats not my strong area i look to quotes for titles. this one is from Jackie Kennedy, but i will also use movie quotes or song lyrics. at the bottom there was space to add a subtitle but since my image was horizontal i didnt have the space, so i added it under
week 30 of Project Life - we were getting ready to go to Florida! it looks like i was busier than i thought because i didn't take many pictures!
