Layouts by the numbers

December 2009

My kid is seriously a hoot.

October 2009

I LOVE this picture of my best friend's girls!!!  In this pic, ages 6.5, 4, and 3.5

For this page, I used "Oh So Chic" by Eva Kipler, available at SweetShoppeDesigns.

Happy Jake

For this page I used "Bridge to the Future" by Eva Kipler, available at SweetShoppeDesigns.

Christmas 2005

I've been looking at Christmas scrapbook pages lately, and filling in the blanks for great photos I have yet to use.  I love this picture of Jake and my mom.

This is a piece-of-cake page from ShabbyPrincess (love. her.) - there's all sorts of ways you can tweak templates to make them your own.  To this page, I added the cool bracket journaling spot (and text), the staples "attaching" it, added the same paper to behind the bookplate, and then the date.  I used the Eyedropper Tool in Photoshop to sample the green already in the page to use for the text.

Christmas ornaments

My best friend and I often baby-sit each other's kids . . . she has 3 kids and I have just the 1, so it's a pretty big change for me to have 4 kids at home!  Sometimes I put in a movie and turn down the lights, but sometimes I decide to do an activity with them.  Tonight was Christmas ornaments.  With very little Photoshop prep (and pictures emailed yesterday by mom!), I was able to amuse them for 30 minutes!

Here are pictures of the Christmas ornaments. The first column is the Photoshop file, the second column is the ornaments on the tree, the third is the girls proudly displaying their crafts.  (Jake didn't want to make a photo ornament today.)

I printed the images on cardstock, attached them to craft foam, then let the kids decorate the backs with glitter foamies. Then we ran a ribbon through hole-punched holes, and it's ready for the tree!  (We also sat for a while with more paper to goof off with MORE foamies.  You can tell Lorien - the youngest - liked the foamies the best.)

 

You can find the Christmas kit I used (by Eva Kipler) at SweetShoppeDesigns.