I think this was my first time playing along with Day in the Life. I didn’t really take many pictures, but I had fun telling the story of this day.
I used the digital Little Things Story Kit by Ali Edwards, as well as one of her previous Story Kit stamp sets, Prompts. Those little icons were perfect to tell the story!
Have a nice week!
Hello and happy Friday! The page I am sharing today means a lot to me, because it’s about one of the most important people in my life, my beloved grandmother. Her health has been declining rapidly these past two years, so I wanted to document one of the happy moments she’s had when I visited her recently.
This is one very special lady right there, who gave me the best childhood memories I could possibly have.
I combined 2 new products from The Lilypad (left) and digital brushes from Ali Edwards (right) to make this page.
This lovely kit is perfect for Mother’s Day (this weekend in the US) and it’s 20% off too!
And after the pandas.. my second page from my vacation features a koala! 🙂 Straight from Australia.
It was seriously the cutest!! This is a hybrid page. I printed out the picture, word art by Ali Edwards and journaling, then added it on top of the background paper, and embellished with some paper and washi, plus a couple of physical stamps.
I love how Ali’s products encourage me to get those stories told! It would have been easy to make a page with this awesome photo and no words, but I wanted to document more than just the cuteness.
Hello hello! Wow, it’s May already. I was gone the entire month of April.. just got back last night. I was on the trip of a lifetime, to China, Australia and Thailand. So no scrapping for a month, but plenty of memories! I came back with nearly 3,000 photos(!!), and the first thing I did today was make a page with the latest Story Kit from Ali Edwards: Click.
I love this theme since photos are a big big part of my life! I haven’t even finished downloading all my photos yet, but this one taken one of our first few days in China deserved its own page. Wherever we went, Chinese people kept asking to take photos with us, which we found pretty funny. And then as I was taking a photo of my husband with the pandas, this happened. It was so funny and cute!! 🙂
I also included the shot of my husband and the pandas that I had set out to take. 🙂
Also, if you want a chance to grab past Story Kits and Stamps on sale, check out the store for some great deals going on right now!
I have been traveling quite a bit lately so I had no scappy time, but I got back just in time to grab some of the newly released Memory Pocket Monthly add ons at The Lilypad:
Of course the bright colors are right up my alley! I combined them with these fabulous brushes by Ali Edwards:
and used them to make this page:
I love how it turned out! I am so ready for spring right now.. 🙂
ETA: SPRING SALE!! Everything in Ali Edwards’s digital store is 40% off on March 30 and 31!
It’s Wednesday, and this means that it’s time for the weekly sale at The Lilypad – select products are 50% off! Here’s what I made with a few of them.
Credits:
On this next page, I used an awesome template by Ali Edwards. I love how this design showcases all the pretty and colorful papers in the kit.
I really cannot wait for warmer weather and being outside!
I stopped posting my Project Life pages online a long time ago, but I certainly haven’t stopped making them. 🙂 I fell behind at the end of 2014 with a huge work deadline, so I am still working on that year. 50 weeks down, 2 to go. 🙂
Here’s half of my Week 49, done using some awesome printable cards by Ali Edwards.
The photo collages are by Designs by Lili at The Lilypad. I use them a lot since I always have many photos.
My latest page for Ali Edwards’s Digital Creative Team uses these fun brush set:
This set is great to document all the not-so-great moments in our lives.
I made an all-digi page, very simple, focusing on photos and the story.
I also used the Story Frame brushes to highlight a couple of details in the photos where the difference was most striking.
I really do love snow and winter. But I am starting to feel a bit trapped by all this snow!
I don’t use my Silhouette digital cutter nearly as often as I should, but when I saw these cards by Ali Edwards I knew I wanted to cut them out!
I enlarged the card and cut it out with my Silhouette. Then I backed it with patterned paper that matched my photos.
I am reposting a quick hybrid tutorial I made for the write.click.scrapbook blog.
I ventured into scrapbooking from the digital side and, while I still do all-digital pages, now I also love incorporating digital designs in my paper pages. Digital designs are so easy to use. They can be as simple as adding an overlay on top of your photos, or they can be used to jumpstart the page’s design, like in the example I will show today. What I really like about it is that I can plan my page on the computer before committing to paper.
The start: on the computer
For this page, I used a set of digital brushes by Ali Edwards called Who What Where Why Boxes. I was inspired by this set of brushes to make a page about me, so I selected four boxes that would help me tell the story. I laid them out on my canvas in Photoshop, and picked four photos to go along with them. I also changed the color of the boxes. I laid everything out in a nice grid design.
This could very well be a digital page as is, and could be completed by adding some simple journaling. Instead, I decided to turn it into a hybrid page — this means that I printed out the digital elements and my photos, and combined them with some papers and embellishments from my stash.
Print
I print everything at home – it’s so much easier for me to be able to go from computer to paper in one click and a few seconds. I recently got a new printer and I like the quality of the prints. For this page, I wanted to add some texture, so I decided to print the digital brushes on vellum paper. I printed the photos on photo paper.
Match with other supplies
Next, I picked a neutral background paper from my stash (by Basic Grey). I also used some letter stickers (Simple Stories) to add a few words under each box. I used colored brads to attach the vellum boxes to my page.
I stitched down the letter stickers with my sewing machine. At first, when I laid out my page on the computer, I was planning to make an 8.5″x11″ page. But then, after placing the photos and boxes on the background, I liked the white space on the side, and decided to keep it and add a stamped title.
And there you have it!
I love the texture that these boxes add to my page with the see-through effect.
And now.. I’d love to hear from you! Do you incorporate digital designs in your pages? Leave me a comment and let me know!