randomness

the days have been flying by...a bit to fast, i might add. i will hopefully wind down next month with some of this craziness...also throwing a bridal shower this weekend and just finished printing out personalized stationary for my cousin's thank you's. they coordinate with the bridal shower invitations i made...cute :) hope she likes.

i did manage to do a layout that is very different than what i usually do. i started it and it morphed into something else...very sort of random thoughts but i actually like it. i don't share enough of "me" i suppose and so i am trying to...anyway, i'm actually going to share it. it is so very very simple and i could sit and ponder and tweak it forever and find better or "deeper" things to say but i am saving it and calling it done!
here it is:

digital layout: index frame - Katie Pertiet@designerdigitals.com

PS - lovin' designerdigitals.com...if you sign up for the emails, you can access freebie items each Sunday. they also have $.25 elements each week....i've been collecting some lits bits here and there...good stuff.

Okay, I also need some blogger expertise - how do i get it so my layouts aren't enormous? i thought i was saving small files but apparently not...

digital layouts

hello...i've managed to do a few digital layouts over the last week or so and have realized in looking at them that i clearly have a thing for blue and beige....i'll have to remain aware of that the next time i'm making a page. gotta love digital though; i find i am so much quicker with it and can commit to being "done" easier than i can with paper. maybe it has something to do with being able to "reuse" elements....you can't really hoard digital elements like you can with the physical supplies and let's admit it...don't we all have a problem with that? either way, i am really happy that i got a few more layouts done. i am probably close to having created as many layouts as last year (but that's not saying a whole lot) and it's only mid-year. feeling good that i'm getting back into the swing of things. oh, and i've never really been good at the whole 'title' thing.....

without further ado:


all digital elements - blue paper, Jessica Sprague Echoes of Asia kit; frame, designerdigitals.com Katie Pertiet; stains (how sweet are these?!), graphics-illustrations.com; font, sans serif; handwriting, my own


all digital elements - patterned paper, designerdigitals.com Katie Pertiet; journal strip, designerdigitals.com Ali Edwards; font, hartig; blue gems, michelle coleman


all digital elements - patterned paper & everyday stamp, Ali Edwards for CK KOTM; tape expressions, designerdigitals.com Katie Pertiet; font, hartig

hey can someone tell me what i'm missing - how do you get your photos to be smaller when someone clicks on them? i resized these but it doesn't seem to work.......any tricks for me since i am a new blogger? thanks!

looking back

unpubbed is asking for your favorite unpublished layouts. i suppose i have many favorites (and they're all unpublished, btw!), but this one i do love. it's my first all-digital layout from some time ago. still remember that day:


the digital elements are all katie pertiet, if I recall and the paper is from a free download by jessica sprague.

i will even share the journaling:
Amazing; that’s you. I love to just sit and watch you explore things in your world. Like on this particular day - something so simple as you playing with the tags on this ball caught my attention. I love the way the natural light coming through the window
silhouetted you as you played so happily on the floor. Curiosity. Wonder. Innocence. It’s just so exciting to see things through your eyes.
I love you so.
photo: 11/3/06

jacked

so, i just found this blog the other day and it just so happens to be here as well this week. so, i thought i'd participate in the jack (first time for me). i really liked kate's layout - especially the repetition of the photos and contrast of color v. b/w. here's what i came up with and really just liked keeping it simple. i think i'll just finish it off by inking the edges. cool.

my first time!

okay, here it is. this is the very first layout i've ever "submitted!" here's my take on beth's layout over at unpubbed:

my son has been obsessed with ladybugs lately that come into the house and i finally caught him examining one up close! i converted the photo to b&w and created a duplicate layer in PSE to show color for the ladybug only. i like how it turned out.