In the Hood!!!

The minute I saw this kit, I knew I wanted to work with it. :)  I think I may have moving on the brain!  I've redone my blog header and background (though there is still some tweaking to do there), made a layout, and a postcard.  I really am going to send the postcard to family, since some of them didn't find out we moved LAST October until our baby was born in January.  Ooops!  (I reworked it after I printed this version to include our actual address, but didn't feel I needed to publish that on four different Internet galleries and here on my blog. Call me crazy. Or paranoid. Whatever. Anyway, without further ado, here's what I did with Crisdam Designs' "In the Hood":

I can't wait to send these cards out! The best part is, I only have to cut cardstock for the back (each 8.5x11 piece will make 4 cards), pop the printed card onto the stock, and put them in an envelope!  If I wanted I could even probably turn them into a real card, using the printed portion as the inside, tape them closed and address the outside of the card.  Come to think of it, that might even be easier than using an envelope!!  Thanks for letting me brainstorm with you!

I'll be back later this week with more layouts, and I have another hybrid project I've been working on (and finally finished) and an announcement.  The two are *kind of* related, but I didn't know it before I started the project. :)  Hmmm...wonder what they are???

It's been a while...

...since I've taken the time to scrap this week. So there are no new pictures for this post.  I decided to take some time to hang out with hubby, and catch up on sleep, so the extent of my scrapbooking this week has been to unzip and tag a few more supplies that have been waiting on me, and to create a new blog background.  I was inspired to make mine a little brighter after seeing another blogger create her new summer background.  At least I can say I did a little scrapping this week, as I think that counts in the long run!  (Thanks for the inspiration, Barbara!)

I guess I did do a little creating this week, in the form of photo editing.  I finally took the plunge and started Jessica Sprague's Photo Editing: Good to Great Workflow class.  Let's just say, between this and the photography class that just ended, my pictures are gonna start looking fabulous (as long as I remember to edit them!  I'm a SOOC kind of girl...just don't usually take the time to tweak the photos!). 

Background

I have been playing around with my blog background for a few days. I am happy with the look of the background I have saved on my computer, but am still working on making it load correctly. Today I had a breakthrough in that all of my background showed up, but it is a little on the big side now. Previously I didn't have it big enough! So I"ll keep it as it is for now, and continue to perfect it over the weekend. Hopefully by the end of the weekend everything will be business as usual.

Credits for blog background: Paper: OScraps Moonrise on Wikiki kit. Butterfly (recolored) from Ella Scraps "Happily After" Kit from designsindigital.com. Mask: Katie Pertiet from Help Haiti kit, designerdigitals.com.

New header!

I spent this morning designing my new blog header. More customization will follow as I figure this all out (and when I can put the baby down -- it's hard to work one handed).

Header credits: Butterfly (recolored) from "Happily After" by Ella Scraps (part of desinsindigital.com's NDS search, March 2010). Mask by Katie Pertiet from designerdigitals.com Help Haiti kit. Fonts: MaSexy and Impacted. Paper: me!