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WOYWW 356

Happy Wednesday and happy WOYWW (click link for more on the creative blog hop that's sweeping the globe.)

Here's a view of my work table last evening -- so nice to have more daylight. This was about 7:30 in the evening. 

This is the layout I just completed. I wanted to use the pieces of paper that I had cut the swirling botanical designs out of and eagle-eyed visitors will notice that I stuck some of the fiddly remainders from the die-cutting session back into the design on the right side of the page. I thought it helped to bring the darker color from the left side onto the right side. 

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura 
 

Shimelle's Online Scrapbooking Weekend: Last Challenge: Choose an element from the comments

My second, and final, layout for Shimelle's weekend of challenges (at least for now) is this layout below. Shimelle suggested choosing one or more elements from the comments to her final challenge post. Someone mentioned chevrons, and my layout has chevron paper, so I say it counts! In full disclosure, this was just the next thing I wanted to scrapbook and was hoping something I'd chosen would fit -- ha, ha. Yes, this does probably make me a giant cheater-pants. So be it. :)

I had a lot of photos I wanted to use, so the design of this two page spread really began with that choice. Then I had the ever-popular two vertical, one horizontal photo situation and some ephemera I wanted to use. I'm most pleased with my final decision, which was to add multi-colored jewels as embellishments. They look the most like glass of anything I have and really add a lot of visual interest, but not, I feel, in an overwhelming fashion. 

[Editor's note: After taking the picture, I noticed an extra word in the journaling and printed the whole thing out again and readhered everything. I tried repairing it first, but knew it would bug the heck out of me if I left it.]

Shimelle's Online Scrapbooking Weekend: Challenge #1 | Monochromatic

Shimelle is sponsoring a weekend of scrapbooking challenges over at her blog and the first one, as a warm-up, was to choose one of the following: selfies, hearts, mixing old with new, monochromatic, or maps and globes. This layout is monochromatic, uses a selfie, and even has a map-themed brad, so it definitely hits the mark, I think. 

This layout may not be fancy, but I'm pleased with it and glad to have made it. :)

 

WOYWW 299: Reporting from the frozen tundra

Here is a lovely underexposed picture of my work table on this winter morning. Guess turning a light on would have been the way to go. I'm working on my second Halloween page, which you will see closer below. It's kind of nice to work with these warm saturated colors this time of year.

It's downright balmy today -- 16 degrees above zero when I woke up! (This is Fahrenheit -- Google tells me this would be -8.88889 in Celsius.) One of our local meteorologists mentioned the other day that we are likely living through the coldest month ever recorded, breaking the record from 1857. Well, at least we're not imagining how brutal it has been! While we do have large piles of snow -- feet deep -- it hasn't all fallen at once the way it did in western NY and eastern MA, so we'll count ourselves lucky.

I thought this Graphic 45 paper was a perfect complement to Gabi's Dia de los Muertos-inspired Halloween costume. The top left and top right photos show our decorations, the carving of the pumpkin rounds out the left hand page, and a couple of trick-or-treating pictures (one of Gabi with her Daddy, one of our neighbors and their dog) are on the right side. All I need to do is write the journaling and maybe add a few more small embellishments. When the pictures are interesting and the papers are vibrant, the page kind of makes itself.

Thanks so much for visiting and if you want to see some more crafty work spaces, click on over to Julia's blog, The Stamping Ground, and have at it!

Happy WOYWW!

~ Laura

Moxie Fab World Challenge: Card Play

Check out the Card Play challenge details over at Moxie Fab World, if you want to play along! :-)

Here are two layouts I recently made, both of which are about (and incorporate) playing cards.  In the first, the cards house the title.  They are part of the focal point of the layout, because I don't have any pictures from my childhood of playing cards at my grandmother's house.  (The playing cards were scavenged from a deck that got spilled all over the cellar.  Sometimes you get inspired while you're doing the laundry -- ha, ha.)  The second layout is all about my daughter playing cards with her grandparents -- our Uno deck contained some cards that are blank on the other side, so I was able to use actual cards on the layout.

"Favorite Memory"


"All's Fair in Love and Cards"

December Daily, Day 3

The left page: the "B" side of a Graphic 45 paper (the one with The Night Before Christmas on the front), an ornament die cut from cardstock with a Papertrey Ink die, sentiment from Vintage Ornaments stamp set (PTI), distress ink, glitter sticker from Making Memories

The right side: done digitally with an Ali Edwards template from Designer Digitals (modified for the pictures I wanted to use), and Cosmo Cricket digital paper in the background (available at JessicaSprague.com)

 

Create layout

I've been having a good time during the first week of Use Your Stash with May Flaum over at Big Picture Scrapbooking.  I've got certain things I'm hoping to use quite a bit of -- buttons and a specific line of patterned paper that I bought the whole line of (and now I'm finding it a bit too bright and busy to use often enough). 

American Crafts patterned paper, Thickers, and card stock, ticket from Tim Holtz

December Album: Ornament Layout

I was inspired by Lain Ehmann's posts this week on Write, Click, Scrapbook.  She wrote:  "There is only done and not done -- perfection doesn't exist."

I'm putting together an album for December 2009 and did this whole layout this evening. (Thanks for the encouragement, Lain!)

 

Supplies: card stock (green: Bazzill Basics; white: Recollections); watermark ink (Versamark); Vintage Ornaments stamps (Papertrey Ink); Thickers letters, Flair button, chipboard tree and ornament (all American Crafts Merrymint collection)

[Layout inspired by the 2nd layout here: kbwalker.blogs.com/random_relfections/2009/12/two-more-jy...]