unpubbed?! seriously...

so, check out what happened in my world today...how fun! thanks, unpubbed! :)

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unpubbed is asking for your favorite unpublished layouts. i suppose i have many favorites (and they're all unpublished, btw!), but this one i do love.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

mid-year check-in

so, it's june already and i took on several year long projects this year. like so many others, i am doing the 365 challenge (well, 366 this year!), an atc journal spinner, monthly recap scrapbook pages, as well as documenting my daughter's first year and keeping up with my son's growth and on and on....i thought i'd share just a few photos of my spinner, which i have to say is one of my favorite things right now. i could work on those little cards forever and would love to do one of these as a travel album. it's a combination of patterened paper (of course), stamps, word stickers, journaling, ephemera and photos. love it. i look forward to seeing it complete.

the larger spinner that 7g just came out with is cool too and i SO have my eye on that for an 09 project - forget storing clear stamps in it! :)

anyway, i'm happy that i'm pretty much up to date on most of my projects...



i also bought some of the little 7g atc transparencies...am loving to layer those in as well:

i got a flyer from hallmark about their (red) products and i saved some of the awesome paper to reuse here:

that's all i have to show for now...

banner

i made my first banner last night. i like it although i need to tweak it a little more to get the right edge to fit better and i used my new toy for some text. i also added some color, etc. slowly making this place a little nicer! :)

self portraits

as i was looking through iPhoto the other day, i realized that i have begun to acquire quite a few self-portraits with my daughter. some are good, some not so good, some blurry BUT i've decided that i love this - one way to make sure there are pictures of us together (when my son was born, I feel like I didn't step out from behind the camera often enough). so, i'm beginning to "collect" these pictures and will do some type of series book - maybe of her first year or maybe i'll just continue it beyond her first year. either way, i'm writing it down just so i don't forget! here's the latest:



it was an otherwise challenging and exhausting first week back to work after almost 4 months at home...trying to stay positive and still eek out a few minutes here and there for creating.

(and thank you for leaving me a few comments....VERY COOL since i just started posting and wasn't sure if anyone would ever visit!)

photo shoot

took lots of fun shots of my daughter yesterday - making sure i capture all those little bits of her before she gets too big.....ah, baby toe love (and loving the antique edit option in iPhoto):



just an otherwise overcast, lazy day around here. nice.