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Creative Imaginations Projects
I am a big fan of Karen Russel. I first knew her as a photographer. Then I realized that she is also a scrapper. I check out her blog daily. I feel like I know her family very well. I am practically a stalker! Going through her blog posts never fails to make me smile. It's so refreshing to read about her family, their weekend outings, the quips and quotes from her kids. Anyway, I later learned that she designs scrapbooking stuff for Creative Imagination and I realized, I have a couple of them - papers and embellishments. Since then, I always make it a point to get some of her stuff from local suppliers. Fortunately, Visual Creations carry some of her products and here I was able to use some of them. Below are my recent projects using mostly CI products.
For details on the above layouts, click here.
Thanks for looking!
For details on the above layouts, click here.
Thanks for looking!
Playing with Adobe CS2
I woke up with migraine today. It's the 3rd day and I really feel terrible. I feel a bit feverish as well so I decided to stay at home to sleep it out. Good idea, too, because by 8am, I'm also having diarrhea!
Being cooped up in my room the whole day (I slept most of the day) got me really bored so I devoured the magazines my friend Karen lent me. After going through a couple of pages of the Digital tutorials, I decided to put my new knowledge to the test. The results...
Voila!!! Tell me what you think!
I'm not exactly sure if this qualifies for a digital scrapbook page because this is really just a photo with a bit of journaling. I am so loving the Orton effect that I keep looking for ways to use it. It looks great even with black and white photo! For this page, I learned how to shuttle between Photoshop and Image Ready to edit the photo. The rounded rectangle marquee tool is in Image Ready (unless someone knows how to do it in Photoshop!) unlike in PS Elements where you can use a cookie cutter to crop your photo into a certain shape. I tried the clipping mask but the result looks different.
For this next layout, I used the torn paper effect. I sandwiched the photos between two copies of the brown paper. I erased parts of the one on top to put the photo "under" the lace. I also edited the photo before putting it on the layout. Again, I used the Orton effect on the background, and used the lasso tool to put my parents's image photo on the dreamy background.
Now I have a dilemma. After reading the two issues of Digital Scrapbooking, I kinda fell in love. I know I cannot add to my subscriptions so I guess I'll just have to scour Book Sale for the P90 back issues.
Being cooped up in my room the whole day (I slept most of the day) got me really bored so I devoured the magazines my friend Karen lent me. After going through a couple of pages of the Digital tutorials, I decided to put my new knowledge to the test. The results...
Voila!!! Tell me what you think!
I'm not exactly sure if this qualifies for a digital scrapbook page because this is really just a photo with a bit of journaling. I am so loving the Orton effect that I keep looking for ways to use it. It looks great even with black and white photo! For this page, I learned how to shuttle between Photoshop and Image Ready to edit the photo. The rounded rectangle marquee tool is in Image Ready (unless someone knows how to do it in Photoshop!) unlike in PS Elements where you can use a cookie cutter to crop your photo into a certain shape. I tried the clipping mask but the result looks different.
For this next layout, I used the torn paper effect. I sandwiched the photos between two copies of the brown paper. I erased parts of the one on top to put the photo "under" the lace. I also edited the photo before putting it on the layout. Again, I used the Orton effect on the background, and used the lasso tool to put my parents's image photo on the dreamy background.
Now I have a dilemma. After reading the two issues of Digital Scrapbooking, I kinda fell in love. I know I cannot add to my subscriptions so I guess I'll just have to scour Book Sale for the P90 back issues.
Holiday Mini Album
I started this mini album on December 26th, thinking that the sooner I scrap the photos, the more details I would remember. I focused on key stories only. I realized it is easiest to do it this way. So, for future occasions, I might just scrap the photos as soon as I can - I hope I have the time.
For this one, I used mainly the Studio Azul December kit. I still have a couple of papers and some scraps left over from my 12 x12 layouts. Here are the materials other than what's included in the kit:
Mini Album - MM Cheeky Mini Album (Dot White); PPS - Cosmo Cricket (First Gift, Cocoa w/ Peppermint - I just used scraps for the tags); Stickers - American Traditional Designs (Dear Santa Vellum Stickers), Sandylion; Rub-Ons - Crafting Studio (stitches), Imagination Project (Battery Pack Alphabets); Ink - Brilliance by Tsukineko; Pen - Staedler Triplus, Uniball Signo, Artline Calligraphy Pen, Sakura Aqualip
Page 2. The album is in chronological order. I started with our Christmas Tree.
I wrote about our 3-year old tree which we bought really cheap at Divi. Every year, we'd buy new ornaments to add to the old ones. There's still space for a lot more.
Page 3. Here are some photos taken on Christmas Eve. For the first take, Ariel sneezed just as the shutter was released (I used the timer and the camera was on a tripod). We had four more takes after that. I decided to make the 1st shot the main photo for this spread. I even encircled Ariel's sneezing face using the rub-on included in the kit. I wrote the journaling on the photo itself.
Page 4. This page is about the gifts Ariel adn I got for each other. Took us a while to decide what we want and finally bought Charriol bracelets on Dec. 23rd. We had them wrapped so we could put them under the tree. We both wanted to wear them right away but decided to open our gift on Christmas eve along with the rest of the family.
Page 5. Here's a photo of us opening our gifts and one that shows us wearing our bracelets. I love those Daisy D's Rub-ons! I'm so glad that was part of the kit.
Page 6. I included a page with photos of our parents who joined us on Christmas Eve.
Page 7. These are photos of my sisters-in-law and my nephews. My brother couldn't make it on Christmas Eve as he had to work late.
Page 8. Christmas Day. Ariel and I wore matching shirts - my idea of course (he didn't like it but he eventually relented).
Page 9. Every Christmas Day as far back as I can remember, my mom's siblings and their families would always come together at my grandmother's place for a Christmas feast. We kept the tradition even after my grandma died. When Ariel and I build our house in Kawit, Cavite, everyone thought we should change the venue to our place.
I journaled about the lunch. We decided to eat out in the garage on banana leaves. We ate with our fingers and feasted on grilled bangus and pork belly, grilled veggies and green mangoes with alamang, fish sinigang, buttered prawns and steaming white rice.
Page 10. New Year's Eve. I documented that this is our 7th New Year. No matching shirts this time.
Page 11. Our Media Noche feast. Nothing fancy. We had almondigas soup, lechong kawali (though cooked in the turbo broiler so it's not deep fried), oven-grilled chicken barbecue, lumpiang shanghai, grilled hotdogs (for the kids at heart) and rice. For dessert, we had apples and grapes dipped in chocolate fondue.
Page 12. No New Year celebration would be complete without fireworks. I doodled a bit here. And I used those cute buttons from the kit.
Page 13. A photo of myself and Riley - my 7-month old nephew - who joined us along with his parents (cousin Jojo and wife Richel). My cousin Jo-Ann and her hubby Alfred also joined us, as did my brother and parents.
Have a great 2008!
For this one, I used mainly the Studio Azul December kit. I still have a couple of papers and some scraps left over from my 12 x12 layouts. Here are the materials other than what's included in the kit:
Mini Album - MM Cheeky Mini Album (Dot White); PPS - Cosmo Cricket (First Gift, Cocoa w/ Peppermint - I just used scraps for the tags); Stickers - American Traditional Designs (Dear Santa Vellum Stickers), Sandylion; Rub-Ons - Crafting Studio (stitches), Imagination Project (Battery Pack Alphabets); Ink - Brilliance by Tsukineko; Pen - Staedler Triplus, Uniball Signo, Artline Calligraphy Pen, Sakura Aqualip
Here's the Mini. You can see the 1st page through the cover. 
1st Page. I used the Studio Azul stamps here. Note that I used Valerie Salmon's sketch for the Kaya December Challenge. I wasn't able to make a card so I used the sketch for this mini album.
Page 2. The album is in chronological order. I started with our Christmas Tree.
I wrote about our 3-year old tree which we bought really cheap at Divi. Every year, we'd buy new ornaments to add to the old ones. There's still space for a lot more.
Page 3. Here are some photos taken on Christmas Eve. For the first take, Ariel sneezed just as the shutter was released (I used the timer and the camera was on a tripod). We had four more takes after that. I decided to make the 1st shot the main photo for this spread. I even encircled Ariel's sneezing face using the rub-on included in the kit. I wrote the journaling on the photo itself.
Page 4. This page is about the gifts Ariel adn I got for each other. Took us a while to decide what we want and finally bought Charriol bracelets on Dec. 23rd. We had them wrapped so we could put them under the tree. We both wanted to wear them right away but decided to open our gift on Christmas eve along with the rest of the family.
Page 5. Here's a photo of us opening our gifts and one that shows us wearing our bracelets. I love those Daisy D's Rub-ons! I'm so glad that was part of the kit.
Page 6. I included a page with photos of our parents who joined us on Christmas Eve.
Page 7. These are photos of my sisters-in-law and my nephews. My brother couldn't make it on Christmas Eve as he had to work late.
Page 8. Christmas Day. Ariel and I wore matching shirts - my idea of course (he didn't like it but he eventually relented).
Page 9. Every Christmas Day as far back as I can remember, my mom's siblings and their families would always come together at my grandmother's place for a Christmas feast. We kept the tradition even after my grandma died. When Ariel and I build our house in Kawit, Cavite, everyone thought we should change the venue to our place.
I journaled about the lunch. We decided to eat out in the garage on banana leaves. We ate with our fingers and feasted on grilled bangus and pork belly, grilled veggies and green mangoes with alamang, fish sinigang, buttered prawns and steaming white rice.
Page 10. New Year's Eve. I documented that this is our 7th New Year. No matching shirts this time.
Page 11. Our Media Noche feast. Nothing fancy. We had almondigas soup, lechong kawali (though cooked in the turbo broiler so it's not deep fried), oven-grilled chicken barbecue, lumpiang shanghai, grilled hotdogs (for the kids at heart) and rice. For dessert, we had apples and grapes dipped in chocolate fondue.
Page 12. No New Year celebration would be complete without fireworks. I doodled a bit here. And I used those cute buttons from the kit.
Page 13. A photo of myself and Riley - my 7-month old nephew - who joined us along with his parents (cousin Jojo and wife Richel). My cousin Jo-Ann and her hubby Alfred also joined us, as did my brother and parents.
Have a great 2008!
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