Birthday Page

This is a page I made for my DD's birthday party. It was very quick and easy to put together. I used paper from 2 Peas and a Photoshop Elements template.

Picnic LO

I whipped out another page. This one was created with nothing but photos and the Two Peas overlay from the fall botanicals kit. Simple and a little more time efficient. I think I'm going to reorganize my layers so that the photos in the upper right hand corner are under the overlay.

Graduation 2008

Here's a layout I did with my pictures from graduation this year. I'm trying to work on making pages that I like but that also have more than two pictures on them. Our school colors are blue and white. It wasn't easy finding a background that I liked that had the right colors.

The photo of the students grouped together melts my heart! Their joy and beauty is indescribable.

I'm thinking that I need to add more of the painted border around the smaller pictures. Comments, anyone?

Back to Digi Scrapping

Here's the first digi page I have done in literally months. I thought digital scrapbooking would take less time than traditional scrapbooking. It takes at least as long to do digital pages. This one shown here is all made from Shappy Princess Sun Porch free downloadable kit. I still have yet to print any of my digital pages. I want to discuss it first with someone who has used a couple different companies. I want to make sure I'm getting my money's worth and that a half inch of my page won't be cropped out. Anyway, this page is simple, yet still took some time. I wanted to do it in blue and white, since it consists of pictures from graduation, but I am cheap and didn't want to buy any more kits right now.

Ottobre outfit

Within the next week, I hope to writing my review for patternreview.com, but here is belated pic of the full Ottobre outfit I made. My daughter insisted that her friend be in the picture with her.

Invitations

Thought I'd share the party invites I made for the birthday party for my daughter and her friend. (We did a shared party at the park, since their birthdays are two days apart and since we share the same group of friends.) I had fun creating it. My one problem was that the text in the circle looked readable on screen, but when printed was tiny and too faint. One of those things you get better at the more you do.

I needed the invitations to work for my 5 y/o girly girl as well as a quiet, shy 3 y/o boy whose parents are very earthy and not into licensed characters. The boy wears a lot of orange, so I went with an orange and purple basic color scheme.

Up and Coming

As soon as I have the time, I'll post pics of the completed Ottobre outfit I made my daughter and the corduroy tote I'm making for me out my husband's old pants. In the meantime, here's what I plan on making next with a stretchy, cheap knit I bought off the clearance rack at Joann's a month or so ago. It's simplicity 3775. According to patternreview reviewers, it's both easy and flattering.