A simple page

This is a digi page I made this afternoon. I wanted something clean, where the focus is on the content, although I am thinking I might want to add an embellishment like a ribbon between the journaling panel and the picture/title panel. Suggestions are welcome.

New Sewing Projects

Finally, school is pretty much over for me, with the exception of some projects here and there. That means I can start thinking about sewing. I haven't been able to do much for months and am looking forward to playing in my sewing area again. So this morning, I cleaned up my sewing area and made a list of some projects I'd like to complete:

• Curtains for the bedroom (Had the fabric for 2 years, time to get on it)
• A couple shirts for me
• Another Ottobre outfit for DD
• Barbie clothes for DD
• A dress for me

The list was longer, but I edited for a reality check.
What's up first? Barbie clothes for DD. She wants to help. I'm not sure what to do with her at this point. She's five and is getting to where she can do some things, but Barbie clothes require some precision. Yesterday, my friend cut out a couple items with DD and they "sewed" one of the pieces with fabric glue. Much to my surprise, it worked quite well. I may just do some gluing myself, and then DD can help with that.




For me, I am going to make one of the following two tops:

Both tops have gotten great reviews on patternreview.com. For the McCall's 5586, I plan to make make view A, the read shirt. I love how they embellished. Fun, but not too over the top. For Simplicity 4076, I plan to make the short sleeved version with the gathered neckline. I'll probably lengthen it a little, since the reviews indicate that it runs short, at least according to current styles.

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.