Supplies: frame by Jessica Sprague. Everything else came with Photoshop. ;)
The goal was to make a perfectly good photo into an old timey look. This photo wasn't great SOOC, because her face was in shadow, but the effect is pretty cool.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Old timey photos with a frame & stars
AKA lesson 3 of the "Photo Editing: Frame-ups and Special Effects" class at jessicasprague.com
Supplies: frame by Jessica Sprague. Everything else came with Photoshop. ;)
The goal was to make a perfectly good photo into an old timey look. This photo wasn't great SOOC, because her face was in shadow, but the effect is pretty cool.
Supplies: frame by Jessica Sprague. Everything else came with Photoshop. ;)
The goal was to make a perfectly good photo into an old timey look. This photo wasn't great SOOC, because her face was in shadow, but the effect is pretty cool.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Natalie
I almost made it through the day and forgot to scrapbook this picture! I'm not good with layering elements & I prefer straight simple pages, but this was fun. The hardest thing about this is I haven't seen this girl (my niece) since she was born, so I know nothing about her. And you all know I like lots of journaling! Guess what, though? I get to see her this weekend! WOO HOO! I'm going home on vacation!! :D
Supplies: No.5 kit by April Staker, font is Edwardian Script. I'm loving that font lately. :) Photo frame & word art by House of 3.
Supplies: No.5 kit by April Staker, font is Edwardian Script. I'm loving that font lately. :) Photo frame & word art by House of 3.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Another class at Jessicasprague.com!
Okay, another class just started at Jessica Sprague! It's about frames & textures. Here's lesson one.
Supplies: Frame & wordart from House of 3. Severe gaussian blur to get rid of the background distractions. :)
Tomorrow I'll put it on a layout.
Supplies: Frame & wordart from House of 3. Severe gaussian blur to get rid of the background distractions. :)
Tomorrow I'll put it on a layout.
Friday, June 26, 2009
CAD#25 Right Here...
Okay, so this layout started out as the Challenge of the Day #25 layout- which was to use all black and white with a hint of color (b&w background papers, photo, and ONE color either in the title or an element. Well, I just couldn't give up this gorgeous blue background. It truly is my favorite color- and since the layout is about ME, I decided to leave it.
Since the layout was sitting open on my laptop, and since I can't use it for the challenge... and the same day, coincidentally, someone in the new Tablet Community at JessicaSprague.com posted a challenge to plug in our tablets and USE THEM, I did just that, and wrote my name & title on the photo. And the date. Love it. ;)
Anyway, here it is:
Supplies: blue paper from the Butterfly Bling kit and beige torn paper from the Branding Iron kit, both by Creative Dreams; print flourish (Farmer's Market kit) & flower element (Freak Out kit) by April Staker; font: Garamound (I think).
Plan on seeing more of my handwriting!! :)
PS The Branding Iron kit by Creative Dreams is 50% off this month!
Since the layout was sitting open on my laptop, and since I can't use it for the challenge... and the same day, coincidentally, someone in the new Tablet Community at JessicaSprague.com posted a challenge to plug in our tablets and USE THEM, I did just that, and wrote my name & title on the photo. And the date. Love it. ;)
Anyway, here it is:
Supplies: blue paper from the Butterfly Bling kit and beige torn paper from the Branding Iron kit, both by Creative Dreams; print flourish (Farmer's Market kit) & flower element (Freak Out kit) by April Staker; font: Garamound (I think).
Plan on seeing more of my handwriting!! :)
PS The Branding Iron kit by Creative Dreams is 50% off this month!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
DIY Girl
I just made this layout with the newest kit by one of my favorite designers, April Staker, called Summer Grunge.
Supplies: Summer Grunge kit by April Staker. Fonts: Didot, Arial, CK Ali's Hand. Based on a layout by Linda Rodriguez published in the July 2009 issue of Scrapbooks, etc. magazine.
Supplies: Summer Grunge kit by April Staker. Fonts: Didot, Arial, CK Ali's Hand. Based on a layout by Linda Rodriguez published in the July 2009 issue of Scrapbooks, etc. magazine.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I paper scrapbooked!!!
Believe it or not! lol
The goal was to interview my kids (my oldest writing his own answers) and putting them on scrapbook pages. I made a digi "layout" of 2 photos and a title for each kid, and was going to add that to the interview questions on pattern paper. Well, I didn't bother to measure or anything, of course, so I ended up doing all out paper pages! I cut apart the photos, threw out the titles, stamped a new title with paint... On Austin's page I just used the corner rounder on the interview, trimmed it, and layered it on the page. For Brett's, since he wrote his own answers which took up a lot more room, I also cut apart each line and glued them on his side of the layout. Yep, that's a lot more paper scrapping than I've done in a long time. I'll take pics here soon. I'm afraid to touch them before they dry.
Anyway, as I was admiring my work, ;) I sat there and pulled out a scrapbook of Brett from probably preschool to present. I was disappointed in how many page protectors were either empty or just had photos or artwork stuffed in them. That's how I used to paper scrap- I'd put the photos where I wanted them and I'd scrap them when I got around to it. I even had a few pages (not as many in this album as the older albums) that the page was done but I left a space for journaling and had never done it.
But what I noticed was this. I love the layouts with lots of information. You know I do them a lot- with my lists and questionaires and all that, but really those are my favorite pages. Even my paper pages with a list of his favorite things, or what he says right now, or whatever. The pages that make me appreciate this hobby more than ever- because Lord knows I'd never remember all this stuff without that page.
After I finished that album I pulled out Austins. And I felt the same way.
Then I pulled out the next album in line, which is a heritage album- and I realized I have a lot of work to do in that one! lol I have lots of pictures, and Art's grandfather had given me lots of photos years ago that I had written a few notes about (thank God), but other than that, I just have a lot of black and white photos stuffed in the page protectors. Anyway... I just thought I'd share.
(ETA: The layouts shown have been previously published here on my blog, so forgive me if I don't type out the supplies again. It gives you the opportunity to stick around a while and check things out!)
The goal was to interview my kids (my oldest writing his own answers) and putting them on scrapbook pages. I made a digi "layout" of 2 photos and a title for each kid, and was going to add that to the interview questions on pattern paper. Well, I didn't bother to measure or anything, of course, so I ended up doing all out paper pages! I cut apart the photos, threw out the titles, stamped a new title with paint... On Austin's page I just used the corner rounder on the interview, trimmed it, and layered it on the page. For Brett's, since he wrote his own answers which took up a lot more room, I also cut apart each line and glued them on his side of the layout. Yep, that's a lot more paper scrapping than I've done in a long time. I'll take pics here soon. I'm afraid to touch them before they dry.
Anyway, as I was admiring my work, ;) I sat there and pulled out a scrapbook of Brett from probably preschool to present. I was disappointed in how many page protectors were either empty or just had photos or artwork stuffed in them. That's how I used to paper scrap- I'd put the photos where I wanted them and I'd scrap them when I got around to it. I even had a few pages (not as many in this album as the older albums) that the page was done but I left a space for journaling and had never done it.
But what I noticed was this. I love the layouts with lots of information. You know I do them a lot- with my lists and questionaires and all that, but really those are my favorite pages. Even my paper pages with a list of his favorite things, or what he says right now, or whatever. The pages that make me appreciate this hobby more than ever- because Lord knows I'd never remember all this stuff without that page.
After I finished that album I pulled out Austins. And I felt the same way.
Then I pulled out the next album in line, which is a heritage album- and I realized I have a lot of work to do in that one! lol I have lots of pictures, and Art's grandfather had given me lots of photos years ago that I had written a few notes about (thank God), but other than that, I just have a lot of black and white photos stuffed in the page protectors. Anyway... I just thought I'd share.
(ETA: The layouts shown have been previously published here on my blog, so forgive me if I don't type out the supplies again. It gives you the opportunity to stick around a while and check things out!)
new layouts
I jumped back into the Challenge a Day at www.jessicasprague.com with both feet now that I've returned from my camping trip! Day 23's challenge is another template (we all know how much I love templates!)
Supplies: template, overlays by LivE; fonts: Palatino & Century Gothic. Colors taken directly from the photo for the elements and paper. I'm proud to say the lilac photo is SOOC!! No post production for that photo & I love it!
Supplies: template, paper, overlays by LivE; fonts: Palatino & Century Gothic. Colors taken directly from Brett's eyes for the elements.
Supplies: template, overlays by LivE; fonts: Palatino & Century Gothic. Colors taken directly from the photo for the elements and paper. I'm proud to say the lilac photo is SOOC!! No post production for that photo & I love it!
Supplies: template, paper, overlays by LivE; fonts: Palatino & Century Gothic. Colors taken directly from Brett's eyes for the elements.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Wedding #2
I need journaling. ;)
Supplies: Vintage Blush kit by Creative Dreams, brush by Coby17 at Brusheezy, fonts: zapfino & big caslon (& is Perpetua Titling MT), layout by jessica sprague. Actions for photos by Pioneer Woman.
I'm not sure I love it....
but it's been 12 years and this is the first time I've attempted to scrapbook my wedding photos.
For the Challenge a Day for day 12, it was to scrapbook about weddings or love. So I pulled out my wedding photo book, re-learned how to use my scanner, and made this. It was the 5th attempt I think, and my wonderful friends over at the Creative Dreams forum helped me figure some stuff out. I think I like it, and I think I can carry the elements through to the rest of the album. That's why it's so stressful, I think, because I want my whole wedding album to coordinate. This also reminds me that I seriously need to make my pages look more digital! Wasn't that one of my resolutions for this year?! lol
Supplies: Black paper- from the Dreaming & Directions kit by Creative Dreams (changed to black from purple), brush from Coby 17 at www.brusheezy.com, Fonts: Zapfino & Big Caslon. There's a line in the journaling because I can't remember the Reverend's name, and I'm hoping my Mom does. ;)
What do you think?
For the Challenge a Day for day 12, it was to scrapbook about weddings or love. So I pulled out my wedding photo book, re-learned how to use my scanner, and made this. It was the 5th attempt I think, and my wonderful friends over at the Creative Dreams forum helped me figure some stuff out. I think I like it, and I think I can carry the elements through to the rest of the album. That's why it's so stressful, I think, because I want my whole wedding album to coordinate. This also reminds me that I seriously need to make my pages look more digital! Wasn't that one of my resolutions for this year?! lol
Supplies: Black paper- from the Dreaming & Directions kit by Creative Dreams (changed to black from purple), brush from Coby 17 at www.brusheezy.com, Fonts: Zapfino & Big Caslon. There's a line in the journaling because I can't remember the Reverend's name, and I'm hoping my Mom does. ;)
What do you think?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Camping layout
This layout doesn't correspond with today's CAD but I was inspired by this Becky Higgins sketch from the June 2009 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Supplies: Sketch by Becky Higgins, papers from the Chillin' kit by April Staker of DigiApe Designs. I haven't been very good at keeping track of my fonts the past few days. I'll try to do better. ;)
This layout will be printed 9x9 inches and will go into an album specifically for camping.
Supplies: Sketch by Becky Higgins, papers from the Chillin' kit by April Staker of DigiApe Designs. I haven't been very good at keeping track of my fonts the past few days. I'll try to do better. ;)
This layout will be printed 9x9 inches and will go into an album specifically for camping.
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