I lied...

I'm back for a quick post before I get back to my class assignments. I feel really bad that I haven't been living up to my Dream Team duties for Creative Dreams. I've had this template prepared since before I went to California, and I hadn't uploaded or shared it, and I've been home for weeks now. Sorry, Anne! I love you! :) I uploaded a 2 page template freebie over at the Creative Dreams Dream Team blog! GO check it out!



I'll be making a sample soon!

ETA:
Here's my sample:





Supplies: Branding Iron kit by Creative Dreams; brushes by Nancie Rowe Janitz (remember her from my previous posts about the Brush*Abilities class at Jessica Sprague); fonts: Arial, Bleeding Cowboys, CK Becky. Template #16 by Senovia Designs (that's me!)

Nope,

I haven't forgotten about my blog or you lovelies. I'm taking another wonderful class at Jessica Sprague, and it's personal enough I don't think I'll post them here. So I'll be back in 15 days or less with some new layouts. ;)

Sea Cookies

I got too close to catching up on the Brush*Abilities class- can't let that happen! lol I spent 2-3 hours today decorating these cookies. I made a new recipe for what was called "painting icing". It worked GREAT for the base layer, but it was awful for piping. Turns out I like some of the cookies that I piped using this icing, so I might try it again. I love how bright the colors turned out in this icing. But I was really aggravated so I made royal icing (with egg whites), which is the traditional icing for decorating. Most of the bright white, and the pastel piping is the royal icing. What do you think? I would LOVE to sell some of these- they go for big bucks on the internet. I'm not much of a salesman, though, so for now, these are gifts. :)


Tell me, which cookie is your favorite?

Catching up!

This is Day 8 for the JS class. I love this class! I might be ready for designing by the time I'm done!

Supplies: paper- Jessica Sprague, inky brushes: Nancie Rowe Janitz; swirl brush: Obsidian Dawn, I think???

grungy photo mask

I'm only on Lesson 5 of the JS class, (even though the class is on day 9), and I've been learning (or at least experiencing something I've read about).

Here is a grungy photo mask that I made today. I used many techniques, including the gradient tool, which scares me.


Here is a layout that I made using that photo. I made it very clean (even simpler than I usually do). I just added some simple text and used the paint bucket and texturizer to make the background paper. Simple. Quick. Picture and words, as Ali Edwards likes to promote.



Supplies: brushes by Nancie Rowe Janitz and Jessica Sprague. Fonts: Bookman Old Style and CK Ali's Hand.
Techniques: (tools used) brush, eraser, gradient tool, paint bucket, texture filter.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I bumped up the saturation of the photo, used the color balance tool, and then a layer mask to bring Austin back to his normal color. ;)

12 Years

I try to keep this blog from getting too personal, but when my main hobby is scrapbooking about our lives, that's bound to happen occasionally. This is one of those days. ;)



I'm [still] a couple of days behind on my Jessica Sprague Brush*Abilities class, so this frame is from Day 4. Yep, I'd better catch up!

Supplies: background paper & bubbles overlay: LivE; brushes (for the frame): Nancie Rowe-Janitz, (for the swirl): downloaded from mouritsada-stock.deviantart.com as part of the class; fonts: Adorable, Goudy Old Style, Bernhard Modern Std.




ETA:
I was looking at the past few posts on my blog and thought "I like the bright colors better than the dark colors" so I pulled out my brand new kit by one of my favorite designers, April Staker, called No. 6, and threw in a paper and flower element. This is the result. Which one should I print???

Another layout

Supplies: Fall Hike kit by April Staker; journaling brush: Nancie Rowe Janitz; swirly brush: Obsidian Dawn; fonts: Arial, Baby Bowser (Sour), Edwardian Script (Sweet).

Another California layout

I'm inspired to work on the layouts from my recent vacation to my homestate of California. Yes, I'm in a brushes class, and no I didn't even use one brush on this layout. I keep finding myself going back to my basic, clean style- even though I'm learning all these cool techniques. Dang it! lol

Here's my layout about breakfast at the Pier in Santa Cruz.



Supplies: digital kit "No.4" by April Staker. Fonts: Old Script, Palatino, and CK Becky. Action "Warmer" by Pioneer Woman.

*TIP* I'm really big on remembering details. My memory sucks so I have to write everything down. So just in case I'm 80 years old and can't remember which kid is which- I used the CK Becky handwriting font to label each of the pictures on the right side with names.

I spent the morning

... turning the card from yesterday into a standard size printable card. And then I made the same effect into a 12x12 layout. Wanna see it?

It's about cousins. Most of us. ;) My brother and I should be in the pictures, but it sort of works out as a generational thing. So these photos are my children, my aunt's kids, and my brother's little sweetie. The photos span 2004 to 2009, and the journaling is about what could happen in the next 5 years.

Brushes Class

Now I haven't finished the textures class because I was on vacation. I will. :) But now we're on day 3 of Brush*Abilities over at Jessica Sprague.com. Here are my projects for days 1 & 2. I did the lessons literally but have so many ideas (already) for scrapbook pages!

Day1: We made a 6x6 butterfly card with brushes and a couple of strokes. The brushes that Jessica (and most of the students ;) ) have used are from the class, but I don't have room on my hard drive to download the .rar file opener, so I just used some butterflies that I had already downloaded. These are from Obsidian Dawn. Font: Old Script.


Day 2: Brushes (journaling brush & chalking brush) by Nancie Rowe Janitz at Scrapartist.com. Background paper by Jessica Sprague. This is an 8.5 x 8.5 quote that we can print up and frame. I used a quote by Maya Angelou that says "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."