Happy new Year everyone!

Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2011!  My family spent New Year's Weekend here:

 in this cabin:

{Unedited iPhone 4 photos}

Isn't it awesome?  We had a fabulous time!  We didn't see any wild animals, except a dead (frozen) muskrat and a squirrel, but we had the most Alaskan time!  You can't even drive to the cabin- we had to drive snow machines! (Yes, Alaskans call them snow machines, not snow mobiles.)  Let me tell you that walking to the outhouse in my pajamas while it was 18 degrees out was....exhilarating!

This trip led me to the following layout:

Here's my first layout of 2011!

{Supplies:  Art Box 04 Watercolor Brushes, Creative Musings 01 - Isn't she Beautiful,   Creative Musings 01-04 Jan Base Kit, Creative Musings Kits 2, 3, font: Minion Std.}

  

I actually made this one below, but I liked the light paper with the painted shapes on it.  So I tried it and made my friends vote.  They ALL chose the lighter paper! 

I used the January Creative Musings kits (all 4 of them, even though 2 of them are not available yet), and brushes from the Art Play Watercolor Brushes kit.  Those are AWESOME! I may have to do a tutorial on them for ya.

What do you think of the title texts?  I used  a regular font, lowered the leading so the words touched if it takes up two lines, and then used layer blend modes to blend them into the backgrounds.  I love that effect.