Design Your Life: Weeks 6 & 7

Tomorrow we’ll receive Week 8’s lesson and assignments. I thought I ought to get my Week 6 (Design Principle: Unity) and Week 7 (Design Principle: Emphasis) uploaded. Finding photos that work well with the templates we receive, tell a story I want to tell, and are decent enough to scrap is getting harder. It’s certainly not that I don’t have hundreds of photos to scrap, but many are in piles for theme albums (Disney, birthdays, a family Christmas album–over multiple years, trips), and many are old 3X5 photos. And, truthfully, a lot of our old photos are simply not very good. With both kids living away from home, there aren’t a lot of photo events happening any more. Once I finally find the photos, though, I’m generally pretty happy with the layouts. So here they are.

Week 6:

Another layout that was 90% digital, thanks to a lovely woman in class who provides templates for all of Cathy’s designs.

This was fun, and prompted by Stacy Julian’s Photo Freedom book where she encourages you to scrap photos from a variety of years.

The Real World Color assignment.

Week 7:

I love these photos from last year’s trip to the tree farm, so I was happy to do another layout. I had previously done a one page layout, but it is quite different.

 

These photos were taken LONG before I even knew about scrapbooking, but it’s a story I don’t want to forget.

The Real World Color assignment, which I almost didn’t do, but I’m glad I did.