{Life & Musings}

All About the Rides

With this layout, I finish JS' Now We're Rocking class.

I'm not wild about the papers in this layout.  They are the ones they gave us in the class.  I'll probably change it when I find something that I like better.

Enjoy!

Magic Morning

Lesson 3:

(Supplies are Jessica Sprague, Katie Pertiet & Mary Ann Wise from Now We're Rocking class)

Yes!  I scrapped again today.  That makes it 2 days in a row of doing both traditional, paper scrapping and digital scrapping.  I gave myself a 2 hour time limit this morning and got a ton done. 

Hopefully I can keep it up.

Enjoy!

Pixie Dust & Lesson 2

(Papers: S. Bartollini, C.Lyle, Katie Pertiet ; Embellishments: Katie Pertiet)

I finished Lesson 2 of the Jessica Sprague class tonight.  I'm trying to get my Disneyland trip from last Summer scrapped.  I like the results. 

It always amazes me just how much you can do in photoshop. 

It was a scrappy day around our house today.  I started working on 2 school days albums that someone is paying me to do.  It's always slow when I get started.  I swear it took me 2 hours to finish 3 grades.  I hope tomorrow I can get double that done.

Enjoy!

Always

I'm taking JessicaSprague's "Now We're Rocking" photoshop class.  This is the first assignment.

I didn't really want to take the class, but she has some cool things coming up and you have to have taken classes 1, 2, & 3 to be eligible to take them.  So here I am.

I still need to finish the Illustrator 1 class and they just announced the illustrator 2 class.  I want to take that.  I'm hoping for another coupon offer.

Still need to finish the pen class that I started in January too.  But I've been busy taking an InDesign class that I have to finish on time.

I can't believe it's almost April 1st. Can You?

Enjoy!

5 & 6

I guess it's been awhile since I've shared anything that I've been working on, but that's because it's been awhile since I've worked on anything.

 

This is page 5 & 6 in my 28 in 28.  Today is the 21st.  That means I have 7 more days to complete 21 more pages.  YIKES!   I think I can do it. 

This is lesson 2 from JessicaSprague.com's pen tablet class.  In this layout, I "drew" with my wacom tablet, the swirls, the leaf print paper, the birds, the loop-d-loops, and, yes, that is my handwriting around the edges of layout.  This was a really long lesson but I feel like I learned a lot.  (Hopefully, I remember it all!)

Life has been crazy, but then when is it not.  I wanted to get more than 1 layout done this weekend.  Maybe I'll try to do more tonight.

Enjoy!

Lilly Belle

template: paislee press
paper: fei stuff & paislee press
embellishment: jessica sprague

This is layout 4 of 28 for me and lesson 2 of Jessica Sprague pen class.  That is my handwriting on the tag.

Enjoy!

Multitasking

Is it multitasking if you use a layout as an class assignment and as one of my 28 in 28 layouts?  I don't think multitasking is the word I'm looking for, but it's close.

So, in this layout, I created the scalloped edges with my pen tablet and the dotted orange trail on the map.  That is also my handwriting on the tags that say "here" & "to there" .    Very cool.  Writing with the pen is still kind of difficult.  I think it's because the pen tip is kind of wide.  Maybe it would have been easier if I used a smaller brush--something to think about. 

So this layout is also 3 of 28 for me.  Only 2 behind as of 9:33pm. 

Enjoy!

Using the Pen

Look what I made today.  I'm running a few days late here but I'm in Jessica Sprague's pen tool class. 

I've had a wacom pen tablet for quite awhile but I've never really used it. (Maybe 2005 or 2006).  When JessicaSprague
.com offered the pen class, I jumped at it.

So I've only finished the bonus project so far.  I used the tablet to "draw" the scallops and to fill in the the bracket.  I hope to finish at least one of the lessons tomorrow and catch up on more this weekend.  So far so good.

Today, I also finished layout 2 of the 28 in 28. I'm already 2 layouts behind here.  I've got some work to do here.

Enjoy!

28 in 28 days

paper: Baer's Garten; embellishments: Taylormade; fei-fei

So today we started a challenge to do 28 pages in 28 days at SBA.  This is my entry for today.  It's a digital layout.  But the cool thing is that I CREATED the template in Illustrator as part of Illustrator 101 class at JessicaSprague.com. I'm still not exactly comfortable with it and have some questions, but I'm very excited about this new development.

Enjoy!

Life Revisited

I was just reading my friend, Rinda's, blog today.  She mentioned an album that she completed in March 2007 that included a picture a day.  Until she said that, I didn't realize that it has almost been 3 years since we made those albums.  This is one of my FAVORITE albums that I have ever made.  It's a snapshot of my life in March 2007.  I know exactly where that album is (I still keep it out) and I sat down and looked through it and read the captions that I wrote. 

WoW!  I can't believe how much my life has changed.  We've aged.  Different habits, hobbies, etc.  Makes me think that maybe it's time to do it again--especially since I'm now a drop out of project 365.

Last time, we had a theme or an item to photograph everyday. I wonder if we should do the same themes this time or different ones.  Any ideas?

You can see my whole album here.

Enjoy!