The first project of the weekend was Thanksgiving 2008. That’s slightly out of order currently. My scrapping goal this year was to catch up 2007 and keep up 2010, I want to have 2010 done by the end of January, 2011. Well, I needed appropriate photos and those were in 2008.
Darlene Haughin has a new mini kit, Bountiful Harvest. Right now that kit is a limited time freebie available at Scrap Bird. It just screamed Thanksgiving to me. So, my first layouts of the weekend were Thanksgiving layouts.
Credits: Bountiful; Harvest by Darlene Haughin, Word art by Caribbean Mom,
turkey shape from the Thanksgiving shapes -
\freebie from the Adobe Photoshop Exchange
Credits: Bountiful Harvest by Darlene Haughin
You can get this kit for free for a limited time at Scrap Bird. That would be a great next stop after The Chronicles of Nani!
Moving up to the current year again, continuing my work towards that finished by the end of January goal, I opened up the next file in my 2010 “to be scrapped” folder. I just finished up 14 pages from our Florida trip and the next April folder was “cat mom-cad dad!”
I bought a bundle of mini kits by Ellie Lash when she was interviewed on Veelana’s blog and offered a coupon. I love mini kits because they let you focus on the photos and the page instead of going through 40-50 elements and papers or more before you even get started! I do like larger kits for larger sets of photos, because that variety is essential to do many pages with the continuity of one kit, but for solo pages, the right mini kit is the perfect answer to getting a great page without an hour of choosing the papers and elements. One of the kits in that bundle was Cats Meow, purrfect cat pages!
I thought putting the cat cutouts in the foreground was a nice “walk all over us” effect too!
Now one more really cool kit and layout I did today. I swear this kit was made for me, it just feels like it! I don’t even have ell of it yet, but I LOVE it!!
All Aboard is a freebie collab by Edna B and Suruah-Freespirit . Trains!!
What an awesome kit for all my train layouts. They offered the first parts last Monday, the day I don’t get too much time for blog-reading, so I was delayed in getting back to the Monday blogs! Parts 3 and 4 will be available tomorrow and if I don’t get time for reading tomorrow, I’ll be sure to check back when I read blogs on Tuesday. Tuesday and Thursday are big reading days because I need rest time for a while after aquatic therapy.
My layout was inspired by a photo. I’m not going to say I took the photo, because we got in trouble because I aimed my camera at the subject. It seems the security guards at refineries think a woman with a party camera and a cane is suspicious. I get that there is a heightened sense of fear in today’s world and I don’t think safety is a bad thing at all, but come on, seriously, I look dangerous?
Anyway, the photo, that I DID NOT TAKE, was one of the refinery, the storage tanks to be precise. There were several sizes of storage tanks and they were on a hill, so there was some amazing texture to the lay of the land. I envisioned varying sizes of paper blocks in front of and behind the main photo. Of course, scrapping early May in November, I couldn’t possibly remember the inspiration for the layout, because I didn’t have the photo. I didn’t take the photo. Just like I told the nice security guard.
I don’t defiantly break the law, but I’m not such a stickler for the company policy of a company for whom I don’t work. I don’t observe the technicalities often, because I seldom have to, but when I’m standing on public property, taking a photo is not breaking a law. I’m really not exposing anyone’s secrets in a scrapbook page. I didn’t even post or scrap the photo. I mean, I can’t because the photo, of course, does not exist!
Anyway, void of that wonderful inspiration, here is the layout I did with the parts of All Aboard I have so far:
Credits: All Aboard by Edna B and Suruah-FreespiritI still maintain that one of the wonderful things about digital, photography is that you can shoot like there’s no film in the camera, because there’s not! That also includes getting shots of buildings and industry that inspire layouts!
Okay, now off to finish dinner and do another layout before bed!
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1 comment:
Gosh, it's been a few days since I've been able to come sit and read a while. I'm so glad to hear that you are feeling much better. As for the on-line shopping, I absolute love it!!
This past weekend, I spent several hours designing my holiday cards and my new calendars, and uploaded all the photos, etc on-line. Everything's all ordered and paid for. I just have to sit back and wait for the mail to come. Yup, I definitely like it.
While we were designing "All Aboard" you ere definitely on my mind. I was thinking of all those wonderful train photos you've taken over the years. I hope you enjoy it. We had a lot of fun working on it. We have decided that these monthly collab kits are just too much fun.
Now I'm off to get Tootsie's pm meds, and then it's betime for Bonzo here. You have a great night my friend. Hugs, Edna B.
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