January Challange 2008 About This Page:

[mom to 3 princesses and 1 prince]

Originally Posted by Nala

I need to stop looking at these pages because it makes me want more cartridges!

Mom to 3 & 1, what a great way to get lots of pictures on a layout. Your pictures are beautiful. And that font is too cool.

Great job, both of you.

Thanks, Nala! I got that sketch from a magazine; I don't normally like to crop my photos down so much, but it worked for that layout. I did one last night for the Tree of Life, where I also cropped my pics to bits. I will probably post that one, just for the fun of it, because I used cricut on that one as well.

I was at a crop last night and got to play around with the two Princess cartridges. They're not ones I would need to own, but they are great for autograph books!

[mom to 3 princesses and 1 prince]

Just for fun, here is a layout I made last night, using Boot Camp.


Here is a closeup of the cropped-to-bits page!

[djcrysi]

I have been trying to finish up my disney album from my 2006 trip. I am going back in September and really need to be finished with it by then. Here is my latest completion. I used stamped and my cricut for this haunted mansion page.

haunted+house.JPG (image)

[LilMarcieMouse]

I love it. What did you make with the Cricut?

[DawnDenise]

Here's another one that I just finished. It's the title page for the PP Girls trip to DL. I used Jasmine cartridge for the Cricut for the lettering.

[Marv]

Wow, lots of activity since I've last been on!

Nala, beautiful pages again. Love the story about the rain, that was one of my favorite memories, too, when my kids were young. They had a ball. I love all the subtle mickey embellishments you use! I need to do more of that.

Dawn, cool mickey hand border. I love it! Title page is awesome. What a fun font and love the background paper.

Mom to 3...that opposites font is very neat, unusual from any pages I've seen. Your tree of life pages gave me great ideas. I have so many closeups this time from tree of life and wondered what I was going to do with them. The peach and olive green with the brown in the trees is so pretty! The way you matted some and not others really gives it interest!

[djcrysi]

Originally Posted by LilMarcieMouse

I love it. What did you make with the Cricut?

the 999 happy haunts is cut from the cricut.

[scdisneyfan]

i cant see your page crissy....i hope it loads later.....

[mom to 3 princesses and 1 prince]

Originally Posted by Marv

Mom to 3...that opposites font is very neat, unusual from any pages I've seen. Your tree of life pages gave me great ideas. I have so many closeups this time from tree of life and wondered what I was going to do with them. The peach and olive green with the brown in the trees is so pretty! The way you matted some and not others really gives it interest!

Thanks! I was wandering around the pattered paper aisle in the store, trying this one and that, because I knew the pictures couldn't go right onto the brown paper. I didn't really know what I was looking for, but thought "I'll know it when I see it!" and I did! My friend was there and when she saw my page, she said, "Oooh, patterned paper!" because I almost never use it; I just don't know what to do with it, I guess.

I'm glad to inspire you; I love that ToL so much and think the layout gives it its proper due! Please post yours when you complete it! I'd love to see it!

[Nala]

Originally Posted by mom to 3 princesses and 1 prince

Thanks! I was wandering around the pattered paper aisle in the store, trying this one and that, because I knew the pictures couldn't go right onto the brown paper. I didn't really know what I was looking for, but thought "I'll know it when I see it!" and I did! My friend was there and when she saw my page, she said, "Oooh, patterned paper!" because I almost never use it; I just don't know what to do with it, I guess.

I'm glad to inspire you; I love that ToL so much and think the layout gives it its proper due! Please post yours when you complete it! I'd love to see it!

I love that you used patterened paper on this layout. I am a freak for patterened paper and I love it when people try it and then get hooked on it. Those are beautiful pages and it is a layout of one of my most favorite things at WDW! Again, great use of multiple pictures and I also love how only some pictures are matted. It gives the page a perfect balance.

Dawn, how did you do that page? I love it. Is the scroll printed on the paper? Also, do I see a bunch of ribbon on the left side of the photo? Do I also see ink on the mat? Love the look of all of it. Beautiful job.

Keep the pages coming! I'm getting great ideas for my new toy, I mean tool. (and my wish list keeps growing and growing.......)

djcrysi, I can't see your page. All I am getting is a the little box with a red X. I wonder why some of us can and some of us can't?

[DawnDenise]

Dawn, how did you do that page? I love it. Is the scroll printed on the paper? Also, do I see a bunch of ribbon on the left side of the photo? Do I also see ink on the mat? Love the look of all of it. Beautiful job.

I have to admit the background page is from the "Once Upon a Time" collection, DCWV stack. There is gold ribbon down the side, and I used two different inks on the mat, aged mulberry and vintage photo. I'm getting addicted to inks.

[kmurburg]

Dawn and Nala - How 'bout if you girls give those of us who have little artistic talent and experience a demo on how to ink and chalk so beautifully. I know those techniques would enhance my pages but I'm so afraid that I'll ruin what I've already done! Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks

[Nala]

kmurburg,

I think I would be lost without my inkpads! I would be happy to post some tips for using them for you and anyone else who wants to try them out. I will start a tread about how to use ink and hopefully Dawn will join in and add her tips too.

[Mouseketeer]

That's a great Tree of Life page - what a good way to showcase all of the details on the tree!

Dawn, I love the background paper on your layout and that's a great font too. I really like the look of the script fonts.

[Shell_of_the_South]

You guys have blown me away with your pages this month! Nala is a true artist - what else can you say about her pages!

Dawn - my favorite page of yours is the girls' DL trip - I am in love with that page! I love the whole thing - the font, the background paper, and the arrangement of the photo.

Mom to 3 & 1 - Yay for stepping out of the box and using patterned paper! I've learned to love it. My fave is the Stars and Motor Cars pages - they look very professional!

Before I forget, here are some pics of Marcie's Christmas card:



I've got 2 entries for the challenge. The pages I've done this month were pretty blah. I worked on miscellaneous old photos that just needed to be organized.


These were just some odd photos of my kids and their cousins. I had a scrap piece of that blue bandanna paper that needed to be used up, and since they had bandannas on their heads in one picture, I used it up. The letters were cut with a sizzix.


The letters were cut with the sizzix, lollipop font. And the hearts behind them are also a sizzix die cut, a double heart. I used the inside heart behind the letters, and the outside one is in the middle of the page.