Max's balloon ride...

Another kit that I bought used... this time I looked through the scrapbook site's gallery and then tried to make my own LO. Used a couple of ideas from what I saw of course! The kits are The Innocent Imagination by Jofia Devoe and In the Pixie Forest by Nicole Young. You may notice that I also used Jofia's kit to make my current blog background too!

A new look!

I tried out a new background for the blog here! And I have put the link under tools for where to go to get this blog background as well as a couple more. You can visit the Nicole link for the backgrounds and the tutorial for how to customize your own blog. I will probably tinker around and make my own background shortly, but for now I'm just happy to have this up and running.

Some more kits that I have "collected" used in a LO... yay! This time I used Madeleine, Heaven Sent and Sweetness all created by Birgit Kerr. I was inspired by/lifted one of her quick pages found here. The quick pages are in 8x8 and I wanted to keep my 12x12 size, plus I just love this style and wanted to try to copy it. I also used Meryl Bartho's overlay for the antiqued look on the background.

New challenge...

Yep... a new year and a new challenge to myself. I've been wanting to add to my style so I've challenged myself to take a kit that I love and then to scraplift or be inspired by a LO that I find made with the kit. I started with Thoughts by MK Designs. The LO I was inspired by is located here. I'm very excited by the idea of getting a new direction in my scrapping style!

Mason '98

Mason '98

I cut the brown cardboard background paper using the tear frame as a guide. Then I cut the strips for under the photo just by using the Rectangular Marquee tool. Other than that it was a matter of arranging the elements.

Max '98

Max '98

This one really is straight forward - all a matter of arranging elements. Only exception is that I lowered the opacity on the leaf stamps and the blue within the bracket frame so that it didn't blend into the blue on the frame itself.

Mason and Julie

Mason and Julie

It's been a long time since I put this LO together but I know that I used one of the photoblast effects that lowered the saturation on the two photos. Then I put a copy of the original photo underneath and lowered the opacity on the filtered one until I got the amount of color that worked with the kit. I also lowered the opacity of the pink background paper on top of the QC white frames until I got a less patterned look. Other than that I lowered the opacity on the tabs and changed around the QC a bit in order to use the elements in the kit.