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February 10, 2016

Make The Most with Blended Templates

I have been making Blended Templates for Digital Scrapbooking since May of 2009. They really do stand the test of time and can be used as they come or as a template with new kits! To show you an example I have used Blended Template 98 and my new mix and match collection “Heart In..”

The changes I made to the template were quite simple. First I make a duplicate of the original template, then close the original and work on a copy. I deleted the three foliage layers and the title and journaling layers. I then added a solid colour clipping mask to the scripty word layer in black. I left the frame and mask in the position it comes in. I then added paper #2 from the Heart In Papers. It worked perfectly!

Next comes the fun part! I added and clipped a photo to the mask layer. I then added all kinds of embellishments from the Heart In Love Element Pak, a couple from the Heart In Life Element Pak and two of the Journal Overlays (1 I set to Blend Mode Multiply). It only took a short time to make a beautiful page! With the Heart In paks you really can’t go wrong with design!

You can find the mix and match paks for Heart In.. at Studio Rosey Posey.

January 23, 2016

Together

My husband left this morning for a week long course. The bulk of yesterday went to getting him ready to go. Cooking, ironing, laundry and more laundry. So this morning after he was out the door the first thing I did was to get crafty! I haven’t made a scrapbook page in a while and I was really itching to. I painted a sheet of flowers and leaves and then cut them all out. I doodled some centres in illustrator and then cut them out of white card stock on my silhouette. Somehow I managed to pile all the flowers onto my page and then added a few embellishments to finish it off! I look forward to more crafting this week!

January 22, 2016

Sweet Dreams Art Page

My girl got new pyjamas and she looks so cute I had to draw her. I snapped a picture on my iphone to record the details and then used it for inspiration. After I drew it, I scanned it into my computer and added her glasses in photoshop and then finished drawing her face with my tablet. OMG glasses are hard to draw. I can see I will need to practice them! The background colours were added in photoshop as well from papers I had painted awhile ago. I sometimes like to scan in my drawings instead of colouring them first so that I can print them in black and white and use them for different things!

Here you can see what I scanned in and then how it turned out!

January 10, 2016

New Doodles

With homeschooling a few of us Mom’s rely on each other to help at exam time. On Friday I went to “watch over” an English 30 exam and had 3 hours to entertain myself quietly. My phone was out of battery and at the last minute I had grabbed some pencils and a book so I had time to practice my drawing and doodling. Now they are ready to paint and will probably make it into my unplanner!

January 9, 2016

Art Journal – Homebody

While I had the paints and mess out I made this art journal page to put in my DLP unplanner. I am definitely a homebody! Putting a flower on her head was part of the challenge this week for me.

Funny how my word “embrace” is inspiring me so quickly this year. I have really embraced just working with the colors that make me happy and not over thinking the art!

January 8, 2016

DLP 2016 Week One

This year I joined The Documented Life Project. I had been sporadically doing the challenges the last couple years and thought I would like to follow along more closely this year.

I started out with making a divider and some pages for my “unplanner”!

I did the weekly challenge on a tag.

My Monthly Calendar

My Pocket Art Card with my word this year!

January 1, 2016

Embrace

My word for 2016 is Embrace.

My notes: include or contain , accept or support, hold closely, an act of accepting or supporting something willingly or enthusiastically, welcome with open arms, accept, take up, take to one’s heart, adopt; espouse, support, back, champion, take in, comprise, contain, incorporate, encompass, cover, involve, embody, subsume, comprehend.

I went through a couple of other words and then embrace popped out at me and encompasses many of the other words I was playing with so I embraced it! I have chosen a word for the last 3 years and in my experience it becomes ingrained in your life very quickly. I start making choices dependant on my word and hold it in the back of my mind and check in with it every so often. In the spirit of the word today I made an art page embracing what I love and where I am at right now!

December 28, 2015

Foxy Planner Clip

Made this super cute little fox for my planner! I made one for my daughter for Christmas and had to have one for myself! Cut it all out on the Silhouette and glued her together!

October 10, 2015

You, Me and Happy

I have always loved this photo of my Dad and my daughter, even though it is very dark and not the best quality. For me scrapbooking is definitely about the memory or the feeling the photos represent! I layered elements and added paint and gesso for a fun artsy feel!

This layout is a remake of the original that appeared in Canadian Scrapbooker. I changed the size from 12×12 down to 8.5×11 to fit in my new album. I find the 8.5×11 so much easier to scrap with and the album is not so huge!

September 7, 2015

Good Morning Sunshine

Recently I have been more focused on the storytelling part of my scrap booking/memory keeping. In digital it is so easy to journal and the options seem endless for style and of course fonts. One of the big drawbacks I have found with paper scrapping is that you really do need to have a good idea of how the page will flow and look before you print out the words. In order to get a bit of a rhythm going I have done some scrap lifting of layouts I see on Pinterest so that I can get the printed type part down, without making an epic mess and changing my mind after I print!

For this layout I was inspired by a layout on Pinterest and for the life of me I cannot track it down again for proper credit. When I find it I will be sure to edit the information here. Anyway I thought the design and simplicity of the layout was super cute so I took my jumping off point from it. The two shipping tags I made in Photoshop that closely resemble the ones on the scrap lift layout. I printed out the tags and cut them as well as printing my type on the scrapbook paper and on the little blue label. I also decided to add the stamped star and good morning sunshine to my photo in Photoshop before printing it out. Once the printing and cutting were done the fun part started with layers and paper bits and paint!

I love how it turned out and it was well worth all the fussing around to make the page!

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