Through The Camera Lens

Teeny Tiny Mini Album

Love this old aspirin tin from Jenni Bowlin's February kit.

Look what's inside:

 

I printed out contact sheet pics in different sizes from last Fall. How cool is the old negative strip? Added my own stars & hearts for some bling and will add a bit of journaling on some of the backs.

Loved beginning & finishing a project in one night! Not feeling very creative lately, so hoping this gets me going on doing some layouts again.

What is something you do to jump start your creativity?

Hope you're all having a great week! 

Depending when you read this you may still have time to enter a drawing for Red Lobster GC - head over to Laura's blog here, ends at 7PM CST tonight!

New Toy (Kinda)

 

Got this Wacom Graphire tablet years ago - only problem I really wasn't sure what to do with it. Enter Jessica Sprague, with a coupon & a class and I decided to give it a go again.

Our first task was to just get used to writing with the pen, it takes a bit of adjustment and some hand-eye coordination so for sure the more you use it the better you will get. Here are my little digi embellies:

With the pen we did the circles for the scallops - they are supposed to look hand drawn & mine sure do! And we added the bracket/text & then scribbled.

Next our first assignment. A digi page and not being a digital scrapper, this took me a really long time but I learned a lot of cool new things in PSE - SO worth it!

Still need some work with my handwriting, found zooming in REALLY helps. For this page we again did the scallops with some shadowing and using a different technique with the pen, added the title - how cool that was & journaling and did the little loopy dotted route line - more fun!

Hope you had a great weekend and Valentine's Day! Any surprises for any of you?

Here is what a part of our day included:

Instead of vanilla I added raspberry flavoring - they tasted a bit like jelly donuts. Yum!

Three for Thursday - Etsy Love

How cute would this ring be for a little girl? From ohsnuggleme shop.

 

Love elephants and this one is no exception from CuriousCharm's shop. And Laura, if you are reading this - there is a giraffe one too!

And I'm just drooling over this:

Such a beautiful necklace from decoratethediva's shop.

I do give the kids little gifts & since them I guess we don't exchange on Valentine's Day anymore, lol, so I dream. And if I really thought about it - I'd dream bigger and wish for a romantic getaway - maybe Paris? Dream big or go home right?

What would be your dream romantic gift?

Inspiration Defined - Week 3

Fell a little behind in class but was able to create one layout this past weekend, we were to "reverse engineer" a grid pattern from something we find inspiring - other than a scrapbook page. You wouldn't believe the Twitter discussion and googling involved in trying to figure that out, lol.

Anyway, I love getting my Real Simple in the mail each month, their covers are always so yummy, so I used one from August 2009:

Very simple journaling and some of my favorite pictures from each year, 1-6. I think I will repeat this layout for the girl, but with 9 smaller pictures. 

Where do you like to look for layout design inspiration?

Twilight-esque

Had to take some pics of the brightest Moon for the year last Friday night. It was super cold out and a bit before Midnight so I didn't mess around too much out there but I had to try to get some "Twilight" type shots, for a layout on the obsession:

Hope you had a nice weekend! And thanks for stopping by Saturday for our blog hop and leaving such nice comments!