Happy Fall...a week late!
I'll admit it. I've been a terrible blogger. Let's face it - life got in the way. I spent my entire summer working on a product launch that ate up more time than I cared to admit and sucked the life (and creativity!) out of me. In fact, it wasn't until earlier this month that I realized I was forgetting how to use Photoshop, as I tried to do a layout just for fun. I picked a template, placed the photos on the page, then left it for about two weeks. I finally finished it last week, when I realized that I didn't want to have an unfinished page that was lost in the nethers. (It's happened - I still have at least three layouts that I haven't finalized, and I feel guilty every time I see them in my unfinished layouts folder. Someday...)
This does not mean that I haven't been noticing what's going on in the digiscrap world or missing out on all the new products. I view, I shop, I drool. I just haven't scrapped much. Of course, I'm collecting supplies. ;)
Yet, I did manage to a couple of layouts in the past week. Neither were for a creative team. Instead, I tried to scrap just for me and to get my creative mojo going again. For those of you who have taken a break before, you know exactly what I mean.
In late August, one of my brothers paid a visit - along with his gaggle of girls (there is exactly ONE boy among all his grandkids). We took family photos since we don't see them all very often. As usual, there was a few minutes of just plain clowning around, especially since we took them outside on a day where temps were 95+ degrees. I just snapped away at grandma and the grandkids and great-grandkids, knowing that I'd find at least one photo that would commemorate the occasion. Instead, I ended up with over a dozen. I chose 9 of those photos and placed them on this layout:
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| goofiness by cyranoscrap |
CREDITS
Fonts: Ashley
Brush Script (title), My Underwood (journaling, date)
For this layout, it was the template that came first. I knew I had a lot of photos to scrap, so I searched my archives, looking for one that could showcase a lot of photos.
This second layout I created last night. Sahlin Studio offered an 8.5"x11" template for September that I couldn't resist. I haven't done a page that size for quite awhile, so it was a nice challenge, and it gave me an excuse to scrap some of the many photos I've been taking, as well as search for Sahlin Studio goodies in my stash.
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| Saturday - Go See Do by cyranoscrap |
CREDITS
All products (except fonts) from Sahlin Studio
Fonts: Traveling Typewriter (date); Miserably Lose and PeaBMad (journaling)
I had a lot of fun looking through my stash to complete the Saturday layout. It was my chance to use lots of bits and pieces, although I had forgotten that it is easy to lose track of which layer is which when you use a lot of items. Oh well, fun is the operative word here, and capturing a little slice of life was the frosting on top!
Ah, I can't wait to scrap some more. Maybe another page tonight? We'll see...
