Monday, May 3, 2010

My latest layouts

Its crazy, ever since I started working a "regular" job I have been finding it challenging to keep up the paces of a creative lifestyle. Sadly the priorities of job and home get in the way. But as time is going on I am getting better at finding that balance and I am scrapping and stamping more. Not as much as I would like to..(would do it just about all day if I could) but still more then I was before.

A friend of mine signed up to do a Layout a day and I would love to get in on that kind of action. Realistically I would probably not do a layout a day but just to have the idea or a challenge, something to get the creative juices flowing would be great because quite honestly, I spend a lot of my creative time "deciding" on what to do rather then just doing. So perhaps a challenge just telling me to "to do this" would be most helpful. So a little searching on the internet and hopefully I found a few sites that will inspire me to create more.

For now though its time to update my blog with some of my most recent work. Then hopefully, I will get around to posting more. Seriously though I am beginning to think that blogging is not my strong suit.

So this first layout I actually created for a challenge at a crop I attended. Basically it was interpreting a sketch. I thought it came out pretty dang cute and I discovered I really loved our Authentic Stamp set. There is so much you can do with it!! I have used it a lot recently.






This one is also a sketch challenge layout. We could choose from six different ones so I thought what the heck, I had them, why not do them all! This one was ok. I seemed to get stuck on how to complete it but at some point I had to call it "done" and move on. Besides years from now its the pictures that will count, not the embellishments.



And finally I did complete the Miracle Kit from Close to My Heart. Available while supplies last during the month of May. This was a really cute kit and I had the perfect pictures to go with it. I really love the look of dimension without adding a lot of bulk. The new irresistibles are so yummy. What a great idea to add some texture to chipboard. Makes me think of some other ways I could make my own.

Well I am off to hopefully do some more creating. Have a day off today and now that my to do list is pretty much done its time to go off and create some more.