Last Day

Credits Digital Kit: Pot O Gold by Raspberry Road Designs; Fonts: Baby Kruffy, Century Gothic, Freebooter Script

This layout shows various activities on the last day of Kindergarten for The Boy last year.  (Click on it to see it bigger.)   I really love the colors in the digital kit I used, Pot O Gold by Raspberry Road Designs.  Incidentally, the main kit is up for grabs as this week's prize on Sketchy Thursdays.

This week we have a double-page sketch:  

Remember, our sketches are design suggestions...check out all the different ways our DT interpreted it.

We'd love to have you play along with us! 

Also, don't forget we still have a DESIGN TEAM CALL up until next Friday 3/18.  We're looking for traditional AND digital scrappers.

I'm so not ready for this...today it is forecasted to be 89 degrees. 

89!

Toooooooo early!!!!!!!

How's the weather in your neck of the woods?

Ballerina

This week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch is a 2-pager!

I had taken lots of pics of my daughter at her Fairytale Ballet class so the extra area aloud me to get quite a few different shots in as well as an artistically edited close up of her adorable ballet shoes.

Oct/Nov 2010 issue - "Ballerina", animal prints call

 

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I used the Ninja Addicts "Carousel" kit for most of the layout. 

It's really hard to see but each flower petal is actually a stamped image of ballet shoes.  (Maybe if you click on the pic and zoom you can see it better.)  Isn't that bottlecap center adorable?!!  It's in the "Carousel" kit.

Thank goodness for the Stamp-a-ma-jig.  This quote is a stamp and with the help of the Stamp-a-ma-jig I was able to stamp each individual line perfectly on the lines on the journaling spot. 

A close up of the artistically edited ballet shoes shot.  (Thanks again, Picnik!)  I might have to blow this up and hang it in her room on its own!

Check out what the rest of the Sketchy Thursdays DT made for your inspiration.  There is even an example of breaking the sketch down for a one-page layout!

Back to tending to a sick little boy, a curiously clingy dog (not sure what's up with that), and an extremely jealous but otherwise healthy girl (she's just not getting all the attention, darn it all!). 

Heidi

100, 5000, and a swingin' good time.

Wow! Would you look at that?!! Methinks my visits will roll over 5000 today! I am absolutely amazed and humbled. Thank you all for coming by and taking look-sees so often!! And, this here li'l 'ol post is #100 for me. Cool!

THIS AMAZING PLACE

This is the first 2-page layout I've completed in a couple months. It used to be practically every single layout I made ended up a 2-pager. Huh. Wonder what happened.

My husband put up a make-shift swing in our front yard tree a few months back and the kids had a great time swinging on it. To me it looks as if there should be a water hole below for jumping off into.

I loved this particular pic of my son because of the perspective - he's practically swinging right up in your face.

The retro tree, corner flourishes, and title word block are all Quickutz Silhouette diecuts. Aren't they wonderful?! For a bit of texture, all the solid cardstock surfaces are stamped with various background stamps with VersaMark. There are also a couple of other flourishes in VersaMark stamped directly onto the background - they're hard to see in the pics but they frame the top of the picture and either side of the word block so beautifully.

I know a black background is a bit odd. I actually started out making this layout on white c/s. I was going to frame it with a thin black border and when I picked up the white paper to go trim it down the picture happened to settle onto the black c/s and the colors just POPPED. Which, incidentally, I used a Maggie Holmes Photoshop Color Action on this picture called "Color Pop". (See THIS POST for more info on the Maggie Holmes Photoshop actions.)

I love the whimsical touch of the paper airplanes. I trimmed them from some of my current favorite American Craft paper. I thought they conveyed the sense of soaring and fun of swinging.

Details: Paper - The Paper Company, American Craft; Stamps - Inkadinkado, Rubber Stampede, Autumn Leaves; VersaMark ink; Quickutz Silhouette diecuts.

Thank you again for stopping by!!

Heidi