I made a two-page spread for this week. I love it when I can make two page spreads. I feel like I have so much more room. Sadly, to fill the album that I’m using, I have to make more one page spreads. But oh well. Once again, I used Creative Memories’ Delight products.
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This is the first page in my new Project 365 Album that will span for the second half of the year. I worked on this page for hours. I restarted it several times, trying to figure out what paper pack and what theme I want to use for the these pages. I decided on the Delight series by Creative Memories. It’s very girly and light. I like the brighter colors. I hope I like using it.
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Since I finished book one of my Project 365 2009 album project I decided to get some of the pages printed. I get them printed at Costco, which is pretty reasonable at $2.99 a print, but I’m not thrilled with the result. The pages come out a bit darker than I would prefer. I’m not sure if they are using color correction on these kinds of prints, so next time I’m going to ask. Actually, that’s not quite true. Next time I’m going to go through this Internet service that prints 12×12s for $1.99. They market toward scrapbookers. An extra dollar a print saves a lot of money, so I’m hoping that I like the quality. I’ll report back when I find out.
Two of my favorite pages from the first album.
Woo-hoo! I’ve finished my last page for my Project 365 Album (Part 1). This means that for my next album I can use a different paper pack. The Earthy Power Palette by Creative Memories served me really well for the the past six months. Overall I made 32 pages. So tomorrow I’ll go get the 12×12s printed at Costco and slide them into my Portfolio Max. For this particular page I used the same paper as I did for the very first page of the album.
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I was quick on this one, and worked on it while watching Burn After Reading. I love that movie! Brad Pitt is so hilarious in it. Anyway, here’s a layout that I did for the pictures I took today. I used Creative Memories’ “Everyday Predesigned Pages” for it. That’s also why it went so fast. I love the pictures I took of Marissa and Johnny today.
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So for the past few nights I’ve been exerting my creative energy on making my own digital scrapbook papers and embellishments. I can’t even remember why I got started doing this, but I’ve been having a blast doing it and I wanted to share it with you fine people.
First and foremost, I am a loyal Creative Memories customer. They have some of the most amazing stuff at really good prices. They also have, hands-down, the best software I’ve ever tried for digital scrapbooking. I use Photoshop and Fireworks on a daily basis at work (and to make these kits), but for art of actual digital scrapbooking, their software Storybook Creator Plus is amazing. Trust me, save yourself a lot of time and effort and get this now. It’s well worth $60. You are not just stuck with using Creative Memories products with the software (although you’ll probably be unable to resist their goodies).
It’s got a lot of paisleys, but it’s the colors that really make this one nice. Purples and greens are so soothing to me. It has 20 pieces of paper and 3 coordinating embellishments.
And here they are in action:
The Simple Sisters
