More Glamour-Week and Ookie Spookie

I found some more scrap time this week and used it as a chance to continue to play with Danyale's releases from last week.  You can see the page I made last week, as well as the kit previews in my post from last Thursday. 

This is the idea I had for Ookie Spookie that I didn't have time to put together last week. I love how the green worked perfectly with John's costume, and that photo that didn't quite turn out blended well with the background and helped tie in the wordart.

The next page had me revisiting Glamour-Ween to put together a page of my neighbor's daughter and mom. I thought this was fun, since her mom lives out of state and isn't here very often.  She was here for this particular Halloween though (and happens to be on her way here right now)!

I'll be back later today with another page I made to show off one of Isabel's (Crisdam Designs) kits. Halloween is definitely in the air!

Autumn Walk and Autumn Nights

I need to work on blogging more regularly! If I was thinking about it, I would pre-load a blog post when I go post my pages for my designers. But that would make a little too much sense, now wouldn't it!

Danyale (Etc by Danyale) has a new kit out today, and one that came out last week that I missed.  First, this week's kit, Autumn Walk.

I've been in a bit of a scrapping slump.  I don't know whether it was because I was focused on designing so much this summer, or the change to our school schedule, or whether it was something entirely unrelated, but I have had a hard time sitting down to scrap.  Then this kit came along.

Also uses Gimme Layers Lite Vol 7 by Cluster Queen Creations (template), and an action by Pioneer Woman on the photos...can't remember which one though.  Sorry!

I sat down and cranked out "Read to Me" pretty quickly, and knew I wanted to make Tree Hugger the same night, but couldn't stay up any longer to finish it. Tree Hugger was the first thing I did when I sat down at the computer the next day.

Last week's kit, Autumn Nights, also helped me get out of my slump.

I fell in love with this kit as soon as Danyale started posting her progress on it. But when it came out I was in the middle of my slump and just couldn't think of anything to make with anything!  I should have tried working with it then...I might have come out of my low point faster.  But when I finally did sit down to play with it, WOW!

It gave me the chance to play with this photo from a year ago.  One year ago, we were in the middle of our move from Wyoming to Colorado, and this photo is John playing in our empty house, waiting for the movers to bring all our furniture.  I used an action by Pioneer Woman on the photo (maybe Seventies?...I don't remember), and also used the word art that matches the kit. I hope to have a chance to play with this kit a little more, as there are some great papers in there that I didn't get to use (or use much of!).

Here's hoping I can get to blogging more often this Fall!

On a personal note...

My son rolled over tonight!  He's 4 and a half months old and doesn't really like spending time on his tummy, so I had figured it would be a while before he was fully rolling.  But tonight, laying in his gym, he threw his feet around, and the rest of his body followed!  One arm stayed underneath him so he was able to flip himself over without problem.  The biggest part of this story is that I almost missed it.  I had my back to him, and if my husband hadn't spotted it, it would have gone completely unnoticed.

But I was busy. I had blogs to read.  :-P

Weekly Challenge - Week of 5/21/10

I finally finished my layout for the weekly challenge.  I had fun with this one, and spent a lot of time thinking about which "favorite" I would use.  I love these challenges, because if nothing else, I get one layout created a week! (And they are often layouts I wouldn't set out to create on my own.)  Have a great week! 

Credits:

Template: Crystal Wilkerson Template 4
Papers: Striped, 2 polka dots, circles, diamond, solid green papers by Sweet Tomato Designs’ Prince kit. Paper used behind the green paper is from RKDesigns Bouncing Baby Boy kit (for texture)
Flower and Stitching by Sweet Tomator Designs (Prince Kit)
Coffee Stain by FRDesigns Ink kit
Fonts: Lainie Day and VTPortable Remington and Century Gothic

Catching up on classes

When I decided to enter the JS Design Team search, I kind of pushed my current project to the back burner while I focused on the entry layouts (and setting up my blog). So now I get to play catch up in the Type+Writer 2 class that I was in the middle of. Officially the class ends tomorrow, but the fantastic part of classes at jessicasprague.com is that the materials are available forever, so when life (or other projects) gets in the way, I don't have to worry about not finishing a class. So here it is Saturday night, and I am working on the page from Wednesday. It also occured to me that I never posted the last page I did finish. Last week, we were supposed to take a photo a day and take a few notes about why we took that photo. Then, we made a layout that detailed major events each day during the week. It was a very appropriate week for this task, as it was my first week back to work after maternity leave, so there were many things to write about.



Papers: HRoselli (blue and green solids), MLima (floral swirl), SClingerman (blue stripe) from Carnival kit (Sweet Shoppe Designs); Green polka dot - Katie Pertiet Email Inspired 1-17-10. Flower: SBartolini from Carnival kit (Sweet Shoppe Designs). Tag: SClingerman from Carnival kit (Sweet Shoppe Designs). Fonts: Yukon Gold, Impacted, Impact, Pea KT Doodles (www.kevinandamanda.com).