Monday, 24 December 2012
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Photo album ordered!
I love when I can cross a "to-do" item from my list. The item I crossed last was to make an album of my photo a day project.
What I had set to do initially was to take a photo a day from 31/10/2011 to 30/10/2012. From the start, I decided I wanted to make an album out of it. {what's the point otherwise? 365 random photos in your hard drive?}. I designed a double page for each week - one photo on the left, 6 on the right. And if I missed a day or two, I'd just reduce the number of photos on the right. Easy, and the album would still look OK, and the number of pages limited to little over a 100 instead of potentially 366!
Last week I finished filling my album and this week I designed the cover and sent it to blurb.com to be printed. Can't wait to see the album.
Here's the cover is designed.
The postage stamp shape is Maling Label No. 4 by Paislee Press. Font is Bebas Neue.
This is the last photo:
What I had set to do initially was to take a photo a day from 31/10/2011 to 30/10/2012. From the start, I decided I wanted to make an album out of it. {what's the point otherwise? 365 random photos in your hard drive?}. I designed a double page for each week - one photo on the left, 6 on the right. And if I missed a day or two, I'd just reduce the number of photos on the right. Easy, and the album would still look OK, and the number of pages limited to little over a 100 instead of potentially 366!
Last week I finished filling my album and this week I designed the cover and sent it to blurb.com to be printed. Can't wait to see the album.
Here's the cover is designed.
The postage stamp shape is Maling Label No. 4 by Paislee Press. Font is Bebas Neue.
This is the last photo:
Monday, 3 December 2012
No! December already?
I am not what I did in November - it went so quickly and I have nothing to show for it.
Well, almost nothing. Last post I mentioned I had made some cards for charity and didn't take photos. Afterwards I made some more and took photos of 3 of them.
I am not great at colouring, so at first, since they had to be quick cards I didn't think in using some of my images - but eventually I changed my mind and use the snowman in a few of them.
The sentiments are ready made, a digital download from Sahlin Studios.
I also wanted to use a decorated bauble, but couldn't find anything I liked so I made my own and cut it with the Silhouette.
The outside shape I designed in PSE and the inside is part of a snowflake brush by Ars Grafik. Originally the design was much more intricated, but the Silhouette wasn't cutting it right so I had to simplify it. My kinda card. Minimal.
Thanks for looking!
Well, almost nothing. Last post I mentioned I had made some cards for charity and didn't take photos. Afterwards I made some more and took photos of 3 of them.
I am not great at colouring, so at first, since they had to be quick cards I didn't think in using some of my images - but eventually I changed my mind and use the snowman in a few of them.
The sentiments are ready made, a digital download from Sahlin Studios.
I also wanted to use a decorated bauble, but couldn't find anything I liked so I made my own and cut it with the Silhouette.
The outside shape I designed in PSE and the inside is part of a snowflake brush by Ars Grafik. Originally the design was much more intricated, but the Silhouette wasn't cutting it right so I had to simplify it. My kinda card. Minimal.
Thanks for looking!
Monday, 12 November 2012
Reflection time
I am not sure if it is with everybody else - sometimes I am focused in scrapbooking, sometimes it is on photography. At the moment it is photography, I am taking a few photos and have been reading a lot.
I made a few Christmas cards in the weekend, but didn't take any photos before I gave to a friend; she's got a stall in a fair to raise funds for a charity and asked for my contribution.
This is one I made a while ago, I stamped in the cardstock with doily patterns in white and green. It isa good idea to add a bit of interest in a plain background. I used the same technique in some of my Christmas cards, using blue cardstock and white and dark blue ink - it looks a bit like snow, which is seasonal.TLF!
I made a few Christmas cards in the weekend, but didn't take any photos before I gave to a friend; she's got a stall in a fair to raise funds for a charity and asked for my contribution.
This is one I made a while ago, I stamped in the cardstock with doily patterns in white and green. It isa good idea to add a bit of interest in a plain background. I used the same technique in some of my Christmas cards, using blue cardstock and white and dark blue ink - it looks a bit like snow, which is seasonal.TLF!
Monday, 5 November 2012
September 2012 summary
We didn't do much in September, the only thing I wanted to register was that the kids went back to school on the 3rd. Looking at the layout now I think I should add a little note recording which year they are at and their teachers' names.
Friday, 2 November 2012
The day after...
Halloween last year, I started my Photo-A-Day project. I thought it was project 365, but I forgot to take into account that 2012 was a leap year. Silly me. Not that it mattered, because I didn't take a photo everyday, but I took a photo most of days. I haven't counted how many but I would guess my "success rate" was somewhere between 300 and 320. I have uploaded most of the photos in shuttercal - when I am done, I'll count them up and let you know.
What is worth it? YES. Did I become a better photographer? Probably. What could I have done better? I should have challenged myself more. Did I enjoy it? Yes.
This Halloween was my first free day, no obligatory photos. But of course, I took some (bad) photos of my children in costume. Also we drove from Tralee to Dingle and back - beautiful scenery - it was a rainy day with sunshine too, and we saw a record number of rainbows, 4 or 5 I think. We were in the car and couldn't stop, but I managed to take a few pics from the car.
And yes, I will continue to take a photo a day.
I am giving myself a few days' break. I want to first make an album with all the photos I took. Also I want thing about what I want to accomplish with my second year of photos.
If you have in any way interested in photography, it is a great exercise, I thought I would become to hate it at some stage but it didn't happen. Granted, there were some days (weeks!) when I couldn't think of anything interested to photography but on the whole it was a great experience.
What is worth it? YES. Did I become a better photographer? Probably. What could I have done better? I should have challenged myself more. Did I enjoy it? Yes.
This Halloween was my first free day, no obligatory photos. But of course, I took some (bad) photos of my children in costume. Also we drove from Tralee to Dingle and back - beautiful scenery - it was a rainy day with sunshine too, and we saw a record number of rainbows, 4 or 5 I think. We were in the car and couldn't stop, but I managed to take a few pics from the car.
And yes, I will continue to take a photo a day.
I am giving myself a few days' break. I want to first make an album with all the photos I took. Also I want thing about what I want to accomplish with my second year of photos.
If you have in any way interested in photography, it is a great exercise, I thought I would become to hate it at some stage but it didn't happen. Granted, there were some days (weeks!) when I couldn't think of anything interested to photography but on the whole it was a great experience.
Monday, 22 October 2012
Random Memories Mini
I took the Pop of the Page class to learn how to layer elements, but I meant to use the skills mostly for decorating presents, boxes, cards and the such, because I prefer my scrapbook layouts to be flat-ish.
But inspired by Jen Jockish and the amazing contributors to the class, I thought maybe I could risk a mini book? My first thought was to use some black & white pictures, but when I went looking for them I found a box with lots of memorabilia and decided to make a mini album of random memories instead.
I had a very small album with a big wire binding - ideal for bulky pages, so I started working. Everything but the kitchen sink was my motto!
Cover:
Opening page:
One of the things Jen said was to have some repeating elements in the mini, to give a sense of unity, so I decide to use the right page to house memorabilia/photos/decorations and on the left have the same shape journaling card.
The first page has our temporary membership cards for a sports club in my hometown. The pocket holds our cards and I used a spare photo of my daughter to decorate the front. I sanded the points of the leaf shaped pins to make them blunt. I am scared of pins!
My son's first proper shoes. The lady at the shop (Clark's) took a polaroid photo of him with the shoes, and gave a note with his shoe size and date.
Disneyland Paris. I took lots of photos which never made into an album... Here are the entrance tickets, plus one for the Paris metro. I secured the tickets with washi tape and you can see all of them separately.
Spare of passport photos...
I think this was the only time the four of us squeezed instead a photobooth. Must do it again!
Tickets for a Thomas the Tank Engine show. The Thomas image is the label for a shoe. Hoarder, me?
When my daughter had her first haircut, the hairdresser put a little bit of the hair in cellophane paper. I forgot I had it. This page is still missing something, I'll probably add a die cut later.
There's still lots of empty pages, but the album is already quite bulky so I am deciding if I will add more to it or not.
TFL!
But inspired by Jen Jockish and the amazing contributors to the class, I thought maybe I could risk a mini book? My first thought was to use some black & white pictures, but when I went looking for them I found a box with lots of memorabilia and decided to make a mini album of random memories instead.
I had a very small album with a big wire binding - ideal for bulky pages, so I started working. Everything but the kitchen sink was my motto!
Cover:
Opening page:
One of the things Jen said was to have some repeating elements in the mini, to give a sense of unity, so I decide to use the right page to house memorabilia/photos/decorations and on the left have the same shape journaling card.
The first page has our temporary membership cards for a sports club in my hometown. The pocket holds our cards and I used a spare photo of my daughter to decorate the front. I sanded the points of the leaf shaped pins to make them blunt. I am scared of pins!
My son's first proper shoes. The lady at the shop (Clark's) took a polaroid photo of him with the shoes, and gave a note with his shoe size and date.
Disneyland Paris. I took lots of photos which never made into an album... Here are the entrance tickets, plus one for the Paris metro. I secured the tickets with washi tape and you can see all of them separately.
Spare of passport photos...
I think this was the only time the four of us squeezed instead a photobooth. Must do it again!
Tickets for a Thomas the Tank Engine show. The Thomas image is the label for a shoe. Hoarder, me?
When my daughter had her first haircut, the hairdresser put a little bit of the hair in cellophane paper. I forgot I had it. This page is still missing something, I'll probably add a die cut later.
There's still lots of empty pages, but the album is already quite bulky so I am deciding if I will add more to it or not.
TFL!
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