I found this photo project yesterday morning before we left for Ithaca. I thought it might give me a new focus for the week. Actually there isn’t a lot of yellow in this house–lots of red and blue, but not much yellow. Anyway here are photos for Days 1-3:
This was my father’s favorite holiday. I know lots of folks who think it’s so commercialized, and they are right. Nonetheless, it remains a favorite holiday of mine as well. We exchanged cards, chocolates and flowers today, but our big Valentine gift to each other is two tickets to see Jersey Boys on the 26th. We’re playing bridge tonight.
I had a lot of fun making the challenge cards recently so here’s another one from card-a-licious. I didn’t have room for “Thanks” on the outside, so I left the inside blank so I could write a thank you note.
This weeks challenge–make a thank you card using something
felt, some sort of stitching and use the color pink.
CPS is hosting a challenge in conjunction with PaperTrey Ink’s anniversary. Here’s my card based on their sketch:
This was fun. I love these little felt flowers and the Making Memories button brad.
Another card challenge: three patterned papers and orange letter stickers. Not my usual, but I’m pretty happy with it.
I wasn’t planning to do another all digital page, and I certainly didn’t expect to do a landscape layout, but that’s what I did. I got into it and decided to finish it. Like all digital layouts, I have mixed feelings about it. Next week will be another two-pager! All this digital practice, however, is paying off as I didn’t have much difficulty with it.
Photogenic papers (A Neal), the template was downloaded without identifying information. If you recognize the creator, please email me so I can give them credit.
Every day Papertrey Ink introduces a new product prior to their monthly release. Because this is their second anniversary, there have been all kinds of special announcements and new releases. Today was the introduction of polka dot papers and ribbons. I love polka dots, especially the itty bitty ones. So here’s a card for today’s challenge which was based on a dot-to-dot sketch.
Products: Papertrey raspberry fizz paper and ink. A flower from their Floral Frenzy set, and a patterned paper from the Black and White Basics collection. The “love” stamp which I’ve had for ages has no company identification on it.
Although I have a long list of layouts I want to do, I don’t seem to have had much motivation for scrapping recently. I have been keeping up with the card-a-day project I hoped to do this year. Some days I make several; most days I make at least one. Today’s card is for a challenge at Papertrey Ink, my favorite stamp company.
Since I had all but one of the cardstock colors I decided to join in. Here’s my “entry.”
And a few others I’ve made recently. (All my valentines are made, but they can’t be posted until after Valentine’s Day.)
I’m not so happy with the sharpness of this photo, but the card is already in an envelope for my niece’s birthday. This is another Papertrey Ink card–new stamp set (so versatile), raspberry fizz cardstock, and
Black & White Basics patterned paper.
Three cards with the same recipe.
A birthday card for a friend.
And, finally, another card with the Round And About stamp set from PaperTrey.
It was a good day. I finished two hybrid layouts, both using the same template I downloaded for free from KylieM Designs. It worked well with both sets of photos which really didn’t require any journaling. Since I caption all the photos in the photo blog, I feel less compulsive about the journaling here. This was a layered template which I find much easier to use than the frame I used for Week 3. After it was done, I resized it to 8X8 and put it on cardstock. I’m a much happier girl with a little texture and a bit of embellishment.
After a session on the treadmill and a yoga class, I took off with my camera to Powder Mill Park. I’m not sure I got any stellar shots, but I’m enjoying the switch to manual mode and finding it easier and easier to set both the aperture and shutter speed. Not as quickly as I’d like, but getting there. I’m so sick of being inside, it was great to spend some time in the outdoors. Hopefully the photos will get edited tomorrow.
Here are my two favorite photos from this week. The rest are posted in the Photo-a-Day log on the sidebar, although four of them don’t show up on the calendar. I don’t have a clue why that happened and have sent a ticket off to Typepad for some help.
We had the nicest weekend:
It's not often that we make so many travel plans in one weekend. With all this cold weather and little desire to go out I'm glad to have such nice events ahead of us. Something to look forward to is always a good thing.
The day after the election I tried in vain to find a New York Times. Then I tried to get on the web site to order the special (expensive) edition, but I could never get through the process. Too many people like me wanting to preserve an historic day. This morning I was out of the house by 6:30 and found a paper at my first stop. On the local news tonight they had a brief story about the fact that all the New York Times were gone by mid-morning. I enjoyed mine with a cup of coffee and a touch of spring.
I’ve decided that I’m not a fan of totally digital layouts. I need some texture, some layers. But this week I downloaded some photo frames (no link, unfortunately since the blog has been closed down) that I thought I’d like to try. My first attempt was not very successful, but after some help from my blogging friend, Joni, I managed to get all the photos where I wanted them. Since my album is an 8.5 X 11 album this is what I have. Next week (since I’ll need another one page layout) I think I’ll try resizing the frame a bit and then mount it on cardstock with a little embellishment.
Although it doesn’t appear to have scanned, there is a narrow black border around the top and two side edges.