Perfect Beach Weather

I really loved working with these old photos. And the snow paper was great for a winter beach layout. I had someone request that I do a layout using "inchies" so this was my offering. I thought maybe the class would find it tiresome but everyone really enjoyed the process of creating these miniature works of art. Kind of unusual for a scrapbook page, as we usually think BIG. But it works, I think.

Chetco River

It's a "guy" page for this week's class. The paper is Stamping Station. The circles are tranparencies that were colored using alcohol inks. This techinque is very adaptable to any color scheme. The title is a very cool laser cut from a a company called Northwest Memories located in Lynnwood, WA. And I've wanted to use one of these license plates from Karen Foster for a while now. They are just so cute. I've stuck with my resolution to do more journaling. This time, I interviewed my husband about this fishing experience. I think he was pretty pleased to be able to tell his story.

Cousins

Couldn't believe I could finally take a picture outside Saturday. No rain and even sunshine so photo is in natural light (the best!). This layout was designed for a demo using Copic markers for my LSS. I used a Prima Marketing printables transparency. These are perfect if you have some photos with colors that are difficult to match to any scrapbooking papers. The markers can be blended to create just about any color you need. I then made a matching page for a 2-page layout using a transparency sheet that I stamped and colored and then attached to a tag kind of ala Tim Holtz. He shows you on his blog that the alcohol inks will also color glitter stickers. In keeping with one of my new year's resolution, this layout has a significant amount of journaling. And the "JOY" on the tag, well that is my one little word for 2009.

Precious Nativity

One thing I want to do more of this year is journaling. I decided to make my first class layout for 2009 a little different. It's a Christmas layout, but this time it is about a Christmas item that means something special to me so I could write about it. All the swirls were fun to do and I really like the tree (or half a tree as the case may be). I even included the words to a song I wrote back in December 2002. The supplies were from all over the place, including Little Yellow Bicycle, Bo Bunny, KaiserScrapbook, and Prima Marketing. It felt good to use up some of the many extras I had laying around. The chipboard was from last year's Cosmo Cricket's JOY collection.