Week 23 of DLP Summary

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by. :)

The right side of this two page layout is the tip-in, as described on the Art to the 5th blog and DLP project. :) A tip-in is a flap you attach to the edge and opens to reveal more pages. 

Underneath will reveal the facing page of my weekly pages (the 4th of June to the 7th). I printed three of my Instagram photos using Prinkl.  I didn't get a photo showing the whole page. Below is some of it as well as the Week 23 challenge on the opposite side of this page. 

So, when you open the flap, this is what is underneath. :) I am really explaining it in a confusing way, but I guess that's how my brain works. Teehee! Basically, when you open the flap, you have a three-page spread. :) In photo above, the right side is the third page. Week 23 Challenge was to write down one thing you are grateful for each day. Fun and important challenge. 

Photo below is a close-up of the middle page.

My sister and I finally planted my garden yesterday. Made a little chart of what is where. Very very pleased that I have a garden! Also planted Hops yesterday. So excited about those. Hoping they will creep to the top of the garage. Our house faces the east wall of our very white garage. {fingers crossed} 

On the opposite side of the little flap you LIFT, is the ICAD 2014 prompts. If you want to see my first three ICADs, go here. Still need to do four of them. I like to do them in batches, though it is meant to decorate one index card per day...:)

A close-up of my Week 23, (First week of June) header. Some fun zentangling of exploding hearts and bright neon pink to make it all crazy looking. :) 

Well, week 23 is done, on to the next week! Next week's challenge is to use book text. That's an easy one, as I do that all the time.  

Happy documenting but do not forget to make meaningful memories with your loved ones.

♥♥♥ Anna ♥♥♥

New FotoFusion Template and Layout

Have you seen this amazing sale?!?! Kim DeSmet is retiring, so her entire store is on sale for twenty bucks! The following layout was created using one of her kits. It's called Her Personality. I love it. Click here to go there.


I've made another template and created a layout with it. I hope you like it.

Template No. 11

Tips on using the template No. 11:

1. I created little circles for the flower middles, but you could always add brads, buttons or bling. 


2. You might have difficulty moving the little circles. The mouse tends to click on the yellow "panning" circle. To cease your frustration----:P----click on the blank area around your canvas to reset your mouse. Then click and drag. (The panning tool won't be activated with that first selection.) Does that make any sense at all? If not, just disregard my tip here and figure it out yourself. LOL (And declare Anna plum crazy.) Oh, don't select and release, click and drag is the order of business here. :)


3. You can add patterned paper to the slide mount (the little rounded frame). Just select it, go to the paper in your bucket you want to use, right-click>APPLY TO SELECTED FRAME.

4. There are empty image frames behind the slide mounts. If you find your picture does not want to fit into the little rectangular window, try changing the shape of the image frame. That worked for me. :)

5. The best tip is #5: The "title" and "subtitle" text is on the COLLAGE layer, not on the default text layer. In plain English, that means you can move the title backwards and forwards in your layers. You vant to know how I didit it?:)
Here she goes: Select the title>right-click>MOVE TO LAYER>check the little box that says COLLAGE.
You're welcome.:) (You just don't know how excited I was when I discovered that little tidbit.)

6. FOR THE NEWBIES. If the above tip made absolutely no sense to you, you gotta know this! If you would like a flower petal, for instance, to be BEHIND your photo, but you dragged it onto your canvas after your photo (so it's above your photo),you can change it! Select the flower>right-click>choose SEND BACKWARD. Whoo hoo! Isn't that great?


ABOUT THE LAYOUT:

1. The patterned paper that kind of fades into the background on the left side of the canvas was created using the matte called BLACK HORIZONTAL GRADIENT. Drag the paper onto your canvas, resize it the desired size, open your BORDER DIALOG BOX. In here you will find that coooooool matte. Select it, and VOILA! I also reduced the opacity of the image so that it wasn't quite so bright on my page. You know, it was gettin' busy and all. You understand.:) Remove the shadow on the paper. Very important.


2. I always remove the shadow on my stitches to make them look sewn to the page.

3. I split the largest image frame into two to better compensate my photos. If you don't know how to use the splitting tool, check out my tutorial on that awesome tool.


There you have it. All that blatherin' has come to an end. I heard the sound of relief from all you. See ya'all a little later!

Products Used:

Papers, flowers, buttons, bling, etc: OScraps: Kim De Smet Her Personality 

Stitches: Designer Digitals: Anna Aspens Stitched by Anna White No.07

Mask on upper right area of layout: Designer Digitals: Anna Aspens FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No.6

 (I "copied" this mask into my FotoFusion Mattes Folder.)

Fonts: Arial Black, Burst My Bubble and Cheri

ANOTHER TEMPLATE NEXT FRIDAY. I hope to, anyway. I'm not very good with my promises sometimes. I gotta work on that.


If you have any questions or comments, please email me at customscrapbooksbyanna(at)gmail(dot)com.

Scrapbook Therapy

One new layout, one older. The top layout is in memory of my precious niece, who I miss sooo much. The bottom layout is a scraplift from these artsy ladies. Thankyou, Emily at My Scrapbook Art and Gingersnaps at Little Dreamer Designs. LOL

Products Used:
Free as a Bird: 

The Crate Paper: papers, birdie stamps and die cuts

American Crafts: letters "FREE", painted with Smooch

Prima: lace paper

Chatterbox: "Bird" chipboard letters

Fiskars: spiral bound punch

These are My Confessions: 

7Gypsies: papers

Basic Grey: letters

CD Muckoskey: Suzy Q Alpha "confessions" letters

Tim Holtz: Grungeboard hearts

Chipboard: Close to My Heart

Chatterbox: fabric flower, bling and buttons
Altered the grungeboard with markers and Smooch, stamped with the Grungeboard as well, inked the white letters with my trusty sponge applicator.

Hmmmm...this would look nice....

Just playing. The bottom picture was taken yesterday morning. It's Levi's flower that he's nurturing and I figured I needed to document his pleasure of growing his own flower. I looked at the pic on my computer screen, and thought, hmm...I wonder what it would look like if I zoomed in, increased the brightness and contrast, hmmm...oooh, I like it. It would even be prettier with some digi brushes...and so on it went. 

DD KPertiet Passionaire Brush Set, DD KPertiet Grungy Ledger Brushes and Stamps No. 02, Hof3 Bird Cage Brush Kitn, 2 Peas in a Bucket RFarrer Floral Rubon

Log Your Memory Challenge #1

I've been enjoying this community, and downloaded their Memory Logbook 2010. This is a great resource to keep track of all your little memories and page layout ideas.

The website gives different challenges every week, and so I attempted my first and uploaded it to the gallery. The challenge was to create a layout using inspiration from a children's storybook. I was reading "Give a Mouse to a Cookie" to my youngest, and when I saw this page, I was inspired to create a page with similar features. (And that was before I knew about the challenge! :) ) So here's the picture of the book:

From Log Your Memory Photos

and here is my layout. It's not my usual style, but I enjoy trying different things.

Supplies: Designer Digitals Katie Pertiet Photo Masks, Little Dreamer Designs Doodley Doo Alphas, Lumapix FotoFusion frame, and Century and Georgia fonts.

Unlikely Inspiration Found in Mailbox

My kids brought me the mail this morning. A gorgeous envelope from World Vision appeared before my eyes. I instantly conjured up visions of a digital scrapbooked layout. The girl and title struck me first. Notice the slightly distressed white letters. Look at the incredible beauty of the girl with her memorable eyes and colorful head scarf. Then I saw the sub-title. I LOVE how it is slightly tilted, layered and distressed. Next, behold, that grungy looking white frame! But the eye-candy didn't stop there! I turned the envelope over and was pleasantly surprised with the white negative space. I could list more things I like about it, but I'll stop there. My son needs to do his phonics, and it ain't happenin' with me on this computer! 

I had promised I would post about the big project I'm working on for my sister, but I chose to post this first. It'll come yet.