OMG Can y ou believe it is almost September?????
Kids are back in school
The westher is cooling off (well, 28C today, so can we really say that?)
The days are getting shorter
Work is getting busier
man, time is flying!
Anyway, I am not going to lie to you. This kit scared me. Scared me silly! I think we all felt out of our comfort zone. But, we all rocked it! LOL As scared as I was with the papers, the layouts just seemed to come together.
We also had a challenge this month. Use a song title on your page.
My song title that I used is 1,2,3,4 by the plain white tees. As soon as I heard the song, I knew it was for a Kbear page. On this layout, I also used the bellies and made my own numbers (sorry Kari!).
This is a layout from my New York trip a couple of weeks ago. It is the view from the Top of the Rock at floor 68 and is of Central Park. Excuse the haze. The humidity while we were there was amazing.
Finally. my cards. I went google eye crazy! Too much fun. I played around wiht the words that were already on the paper and highlighted them a bit with a black pen. I put google eyes on all the dogs lol I also used on the bird diecuts from the chatterbox assortment that Kari had int he store and made it a smidge larger.
Thanks for looking!
~~Melanie
Like the album cover? It's actually very easy to do. I started with a piece of chipboard, and I left room so I could punch it through my zutter. I put down my title first, and then just added other chipboard letters everywhere. Once they were down, I painted over the whole thing with white paint, and once that was dry, I outlined the title with a sharpie. I saw this done on-line somewhere (I wish I could remember where so that I could give proper credit), but that artist used gesso to apply the letters. I skipped that step.... I used some older Heidi Swapp letters that I'd had for forever, and I felt very satisfied that I was able to use them all up... I've never done that before.
Now, I apologize for the image quality of some of these... I know they're a little yellow and a bit blurry, but it gives you an idea of what you can do too with all your great photos! The pages were made with some great Cosmo Cricket that had the wonderful bordered edges. I'd been hoarding that pp too for awhile, and it felt good to use that up.
And remember what I was saying about all the photos? Well, I cut some of them down, and put them into baseball card protectors. They were easy to put into the zutter too to add them to the book.
Fun eh? So I hope that gives you some more ideas of what you can do with all of your photos. Enjoy what's left of the summer, I'll see ya again soon!
Can you see it now? It honestly looks a lot better if you could really see it, see it. Just a subtle hint of texture. I punched butterflies out of leftover patterned paper, and lined them up so that they would overlap just a little onto the flowered patterened paper. And speaking of the flowered pp, I also cut out a few flowers, and used pop dots and added them over top some of the ones on the pattern.
And here's a layout of our new kitten, gosh, he's grown a lot already! The yellow circles on the background, I stamped with paint onto a transparency. While the painted circles were still wet, I put it onto the paper, and as it dried, it glued itself into place. I wrote "introducing" by hand, and traced around it with a black Zig marker, cut it out, and inked up the edges of it. I didn't have enough black matching letter stickers for the rest of the title, so I used some older, leftover basic grey stickers, and coloured them all black with a marker.
