2012 Captured // April Guest

Hi Everyone! 

I'm excited to share with you all that Lisa Truesdell (gluestickgirl around the web) asked me to participate in this month's Two Peas Captured class! Captured is a year long class dedicated to Project Life. A new lesson debuts on the 15th on every month. Full details here: 2012 Captured // April. 

I'm a huge fan of Captured, and I love the themes for this month's class -- Washi tape & Catching up when you get behind. Guesting along with me this month was the *amazing* Marcy Penner -- who has one of my favorite Project Life styles. 


Here's the spread I created for Captured. 

I'll be back on Thursday with some more details on using washi tape, and what I do when I'm running behind on my book. 


Until then make sure to check out Captured, 


and if you need even more Project Life Inspiration, please check out my monthly Project Life Inspiration Newsletter -- filled with tons of great tips, tricks, and freebies from around the web. 

Tweet

Layout: Look its Me & My Hat

Today I'd like to share a fun layout with you, and one of my favorite ways to get the most use out of your photos. 

I play around with my iPhone all the time -- lots of self portraits. Unfortunately the front facing camera doesn't have the best photo quality, so the photos don't look that great when you get large prints. 

One of my favorite solutions is to make the photo a smaller size and then use that same photo multiple times. It takes up the same space as a larger photo, and your picture doesn't get distorted because it was enlarged too much. 

For this specific photo, I opened it in photoshop and created a block of three pictures right next to one another, with a black border around each one. I then printed it out as a 4x6 at my local photo shop, and cut off the excess at the top and the bottom. 

I used the dear lizzy papers to reinforce the snapshot theme and I washi taped around the outside. The translucent washi tapes are really good for going over other washi tape (or patterned paper) and muting brighter colors. 

Thanks for stopping by!!

Tweet

The Flu & a Layout

Hello!

I've been struck by an awful case of the flu. I haven't been able to do much but lay on the couch and watch some TV.  Over the weekend I was able to play around a little on the laptop and edit some photos, so I'm able to share a layout I created.

I really like how this layout came out. I used the Studio Calico October Kit: Field Guide for the majority of the layout---I added the bird stamp at the top which was in a previous kit. I've been in love with all of the new Amy Tangerine products, especially the thickers and washi tape.

The journaling on the manila tag was done by running washi tape through my home printer. I really love how it came out.

It was very easy to do: 

1. print out a test page with your journaling

2. grab a second clean sheet of paper and place it on top of your test page, put the washi tape where your text would be

3. run it through the printer with the same settings as your test page

4. make sure to let it dry after it comes out of the printer, or it will smear. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tweet

Tried something new tonight

I tried something new tonight, and hand-painted on a layout. I was totally nervous, but I really like how it came out and snapped a quick picture with my phone.

Here's a quick Instagram photo of the layout:

Its the first time I've ever really tried painting right on a layout like this. I really like it--I think its all the Julie Fei-Fan Balzer I've been watching lately =). The strips of color are new washi tape!

Thanks for looking!

Tweet