Woah

Blue has never been what you would call a small guy. And he only looked like a baby for, oh, 2 weeks. So this picture, the one where he looks like he could just take off and walk, had to be scrapped. Because you know, he's only four months old in it. :)

Project Life Week 3

This week has been problems. For some reason, the pictures coming out of PSE are printing way too dark. But the ones from my cell phone are coming out fine. Even after brightening them up, something just isn't working.
And it's been raining since yesterday, so there has been no opportunity for a decent picture. So the photos are dark, and the picture of the spread is dark. And it's a little fuzzy.
And Blue got his 6 month shots yesterday, so he's a grouch.
And did I mention that it's raining? That's made me pretty blah too.

Anyhow. Here's my spread. This was my first time adding in something and I threw in the Valentine's card I had whipped up for family. I had a $20 gift card to Shutterfly that was about to expire so I made the poor kids sit in the back yard for a quick photo shoot. Turned out pretty well for a last minute thing.

Two for One

Since I am now doing two kid albums, there are a lot of pictures that overlap. My solution has been to use the same photo, in the same size, with the same basic layout for each kid. Even my patterned papers come from the same collection. It's just the colors and embellishments that change. Super simple.

Here are my two takes on the Sweet Feet layouts I did for both kids.

Both layouts are made from my stack of Crate Paper papers and embellishments. I threw in some flowers for Anna and some pink, of course, and walla! A girly layout.

And here is what I did with their Christmas pictures.

The same layout. The same collection of papers. The same splattered ink. I replaced the flowers with stars for Blue's layout and had to change the title because I didn't have enough letters. Once again, super simple and super fast. Of course, in real life, Blue's layout is all crooked. I don't know how I managed to make it look so wompejawed in the picture. :)

Sweet Feet

Blue was born with ginormous feet. Feet so big that the nurse had to turn them in an angle to fit the footprints on the birth certificate. So when I had the two kids sitting together and noticed that there isn't that much difference in the size of their feet, I had to take a picture. Sure her's are bigger. But there is 3.5 yrs difference in their ages. Seriously, his are huge.

I created this layout for Practical Scrapper's clean and simple showcase. I loved it so much that I created one that is basically the same for Anna's album. It's set to post tomorrow, so be sure to check it out.

Clusters

Yesterday's topic at Practical Scrappers was clustering on layouts. Because I'm a white space kind of gal, if I want embellishments on a layout, I cluster them around my photos or up in a corner.
My clusters usually consist of scraps of paper I have lying around, a few stickers, and maybe a chipboard element or two. This time around I punched some circles from scraps and glued those down too. The dots blend with my silver mist splatter pretty well.

Project Life Week 2

I know it's not much, but I'm super excited that I've completed two weeks. I have horrible commitment issues. :)
I'm still trying to figure out the best way to take pictures of the spreads. My camera has such a hard time getting a sharp image when things are in the protectors. If you have any tips or tricks, let me know, please.

 The plan is to take a family picture on the 12th of each month. We forgot about it until the very last minute this month. Anna had just gotten out of the bath, which is why she's all wet and soggy. She also decided that it is her job to pose us. We'll see how that turns out throughout the months.
I also included a small version of the missing poster we put up for our dog. We've had a couple of sitings, but no one has been able to catch her - even the dog catcher.

I added in some smaller pictures this week. I like the looks of it.

Today

We are hoping that someone at the animal shelter will be nice and pick up the phone, even though it's a holiday. We got a tip about Midge on Sunday and tracked her whereabouts down to a place we never even thought about looking. And people in that store say they saw animal control trying to pick her up. So hopefully they did and hopefully she's there. But I'm still questioning why her picture hasn't been put up on their website.

I'm working on Project Life so I can post Week 2 on Wednesday.

I'm brightening up a few pictures from the park. Blue is the only one who got to go because Anna was in a mood. I'm still working on getting my focus just perfect with my new lens. Swinging babies are hard to shoot!