I just love my sweet little girl, she is the light of my life :) Design credits: Fantastical Papers, Fantastical Elements, Journal Me Beautiful Brushes, Glitterati Strokes by Sherrie Piegdon, all available at pixelgypsydesigns.com.
Just a quick scrap of a pic I found floating around one of my folders, I think it was actually taken last summer. Design credits: Fantastical Papers, Fantastical Elements, Whit's Sassy Lassie Elements, Cherries Jubilee (mini kit) all by Sherrie Piegdon and available exclusively at pixelgypsydesigns.com. Thanks for looking :)
I already posted this one in a couple of my online galleries, and then decided to make changes to it (so it might look a bit different if you've seen it elsewhere). This is really one of my all time fave pics of my daughter. We were at Disney on a little vacation a couple months ago and she was having a blast at the hotel pool. The sun was setting and there were water fountains spraying everywhere which, as you can guess made for the coolest photo opps! I used a lot of masking techniques in this page, I wanted it to be really different, so instead of keeping my elements & title outside the photo, I put them inside the photo....aren't I tricky, lol! Thanks for looking!
Lauren got a Tinkerbell costume for Easter, and now she's obsessed with being a princess. It's really cute because she has never liked to dress up, and she's a total tomboy. I'm so happy that she likes something girly! She runs around in full garb singing "I'm a magical princess!!" at the top of her lungs...it's hysterical :)
So, I'm really excited to tell all of you that I recently joined Pixel Gypsy Designs as a design apprentice! I am absolutely thrilled to be apart of their community, and so grateful for the opportunity. If you've never checked out the site, jump over right now! They have amazingly talented designers, and it's a really friendly community with a wide range of digital products, freebies, fun forums, challenges and lots more :)
Here is a link to the shop where you can find the products used on this page: Pixel Gypsy Designs Shop. Design credits: Serene Papers by Sherrie Piegdon, Journal me Beautiful brushes (frame around photo) and film strips by Sherrie Piegdon, paper strips, stitched flower element and border from Ami Collefello's Inspired collection, button element from Abish Allen's My Garden collection. "Impervious" font by kevinandamanda.com. Thanks for looking, and I hope you check out the site!
5/17/09
This is my beautiful sister and her wonderful husband. In case the journaling is too small to read, it's from Corinthians, Ch. 13; "Love is patient, Love is kind, It does not envy, It does not boast". I made this word art a while ago with some other famous & inspirational quotes, and this is the first page I've actually used it on. Thanks for looking :)
the one accessory that i truly love using on every page is scrapbook chalk. i currently use 2 different dry palettes, one called Decorating Chalks, which is a bright and vivid palette with primary colors, and another by Pebbles, Inc. called Kan'dee Shimmer Chalks. I always use at least 3 different colors of chalk on the area that i work on. for example, if i want an area to appear blue, i would use a deep blue on the outer parts, a mid-toned blue next to that, and finally a very pale blue (or even white) in the center. this process can also be reveresed, using the deepest color on the inside rather than outer sides. I use applicators to apply the 3 shades, but i always blend them together with my fingers. using 3 colors (or more) ensures you will achieve good depth of color and goes back to basic art principals of shading and highlights. if you've tried chalking in the past and were not happy with the result, it might be because you didn't get the depth/dimension of color you hoped for. if this is the case, get those chalks back out and practice with the 3 color rule. i also suggest trying colors that you never tried before, especially deep/dark colors can look intimidating in the palette, but are necessary for creating certain effects on paper. i think you'll really be amazed at how easy it is to create beautiful effects with chalks if you keep an open mind about color!