purity...

I found this page (well, at least part of it) in my files while I was posting my "thank you" page yesterday. I started it a few months ago and never finished, I'm such a scatterbrain! So I made a few changes and think I really like how it turned out - It's funny how much digital is like paper - your style changes/evolves and you look back at something you did and all of the sudden know just how you want to change it. I've never done it with my paper pages, (definitely thought about it!) but with digi it's just so much easier to open it and start throwing stuff in, lol..and I tend to use techniques that I learn and love, like this and my "thank you" page - I open a pic, use a cool paper to clip it, adjust the style/filter and then clip it again onto a mask, and then plop it down on another coordinating paper to begin the page.
This mask is by my favorite Annie Manning collection, called "Paint the Moon" which I got at oscraps.com. I used various brushes, mainly from B. Silvia's BorderLite collection, Word art (collab kit) by Vicki Stegall and Taylor Made, and the background paper is by Danielle Young.

thank you...

Life has been crazy lately, it was so much fun to actually sit down and finish a page! We moved a couple weeks ago, and I'm still unpacking, it's been nuts! Anyway, here is my little one, she actually wanted me to take her picture which was a rare opportunity for me. I just realized I'm always partial to the shots I get of her profile, maybe because that's all I can get most of the time, haha!
I've been doing a lot of practicing with photoshop, mainly learning how to make my own digital elements/papers and stuff and while it's been really frustrating, it's definitely been beneficial. I really wanted to just get a page done because it's been soooo long, so I just used my stash of stuff from my fave designers to do this one. I promise soon I will show my own goodies (with free downloads too!)
Design credits: Taylor Made, Vicki Stegall, Fei-fei's Stuff, K. Chen, Kate Pertiet, NinaScrap Designs.