2 in a row!

I'm back again. Be sure to stop on over at the Dream Team blog and check out the desktop wallpaper that I made for August.

I also have more of those layouts to share today. I think that for today it will be one of Dehlia and one of Colin. We were all sitting at the table eating ice cream the one evening and I just had to run and grab the camera. I got some cute shots of D with a messy ice cream face and used them to make this layout. I had a ball making the D to go on the paper. It is the letter D of a font called VTKS Deja Vu. I made it HUGE, put a bevel on it and then created 3 layers underneath it to "color" it in with the airbrush feature at a low opacity. I was really pleased with how it turned out so I will probably do it again in the future. Credits: Sweet Summertime - S. Neparko of Desert Designs, Fonts - Lizzielongstocking and VTKS Deja Vu

I also did a layout of Colin. In a weeks time he lost all four front top teeth. It left him with a big time gap. So of course I had to get pictures. There was also a quote challenge for July at DSO about toothless grins... Could it possibly have been more perfect? I played around with this one last night and this is what I came up with. All of the smaller type behind the quote is actually just more of the quote, repeated many times and occasionally in red. I have seen that done on other layouts and really liked it so I decided to give it a try. Credits: fonts used : Alder, Courier New and Impact, alphabeads - alphabeads by Ziggle Designs, twill tag - Gunhild Storeide, word art by me, everything else - Apple Delight by Sweet Blossom Designs

I guess...

that I am a bad blogger again. To my defense I have been out of state for over a third of the month. Then there was the prep for and recovery from the trip to deal with. So anyhow, I finally sat down and "played" with some of my pictures from the trip. I have gotten 4 layouts done so far, and will share 2 of them today. I found that most of the pictures that I took while we were gone were either "texture" pictures or flowers / bugs. I did get a few pictures of kids too and will share those another day soon. On the pink layout all of the pictures except for one were taken in Murfreesboro and Nashville TN. Credits: background paper - Vintage Blush by Creative Dreams, debossing and bows- Lily's Garden by A Work in Progress, date stamp - Shel Belle Scraps, Alpha - Grape Crush by A Work in Progress.


I am really liking the mostly black and white one. I think I am going to make a small photobook with some of my nature shots sometime in the near future. I think I will use similar style across the entire book. As I get more pages for it done I will share them here. Pretty much just the photo, plain black background, and simple type on it. I want the focus of that book to be the photos so keeping things simple.


I'll have more to share soon so be sure to check back.

Boys will be boys

I am sooo loving this next LO. I originally made it with a picture of my Dad, but he requested that I please not post it so I did the next best thing. I made it up with a picture of Bryce.

It was my first attempt at scene building and I had a blast doing it. It helped that I found a perfect kit to do it with during the DigiScrapAddict SYTYCD (so you think you can design) contest. The kit's maker took second place out of about 60? (sorry I don't remember how many were in the first round) designers over the 5 week contest. Credits:Jady Day Studio - National Park Fun fonts used - Yugly, Microsoft Sans Serif and Bradley Hand ITC