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We’ve had a few one photo pages of late to lift, so I wanted to feature a terrific page by muddygirl.  She is embarking on Project 365 this year and has an historic start to the year documenting the floods in Queensland Australia.  I love the random look of the photograph placement, but although it looks like they are scattered on the page, there would have been careful placement to have the page look so balanced, and with the embellishments she has included, the stitches, the journalling.

Whether you are doing P365 or whether you want to feature a few or a large group of photographs, a scattered collage approach may be just what you are looking for.

Lynnie and Janet played along with me featuring some important photographs in each of our lives.  I do hope you’ll join us with this lift.

Layout by Lynnie, Credits:  Katie Pertiet: Photo Clusters No. 15, Colorful Tabs, Flossy Stitches: Blue.

Layout by Janet, Credits:  Just Journalers No. 01 Brushes and Stamps, Art Class Frames No. 03, LoopDaLoop Arrows No. 01 BrushSet, Little Bits Alphabet: Red, Notebook Paper Pack No. 05, Mixed Stamped Months Brushes and Stamps, Staple Its!, Gator Crossing Kit, Photo Corners: Colors No. 01.

Layout by Carol, Credits:  Katie Pertiet: In Stitches: Hearts No.1, Defined Vintage French Clipping Brushes No.1, Photo Clusters No. 33, Sunday Gardener Solids Paper Pack, Nana’s Buttons, Journal Strips No. 01, Bird Watcher Silhouettes No. 04 Brushes and Stamps.  Anna Aspnes: Stitched by Anna White No.8.

It is, as I write, 25 days and counting til Valentines day!

If youre creating something, especially a photo book, time is ticking away super fast!
I personally have been putting it off, putting it off and putting it off… going to do it ‘soon’ but hundreds of other things to get done first. Well, with the printing and mailing not forgotten, the photobook companies tell me we are nearly out of time. eeek!

This new book set of templates could save your day Katie and her products nearly always rescue me one way or another

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I also intend to make little paper hearts on cocktail sticks, for putting into the top of Valentine cupcakes.
These sort of hearts,..

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printed off about two inches tall, two stuck together, with a cocktail stick between the layers. I promise a picture closer to Valentines!

Are you making a book? a card? Something else? I’d love to hear about it, maybe we can feature it on the blog and YOU can inspire others along the way.

It’s Thrifty Thursday at DesignerDigitals where we have a brand new item priced at just $ 99 cents and 383 items marked down 30%. These specials only last until 6am EST on Friday morning so don’t miss out.

It’s 3 Kits 3 Ways time on the blog!  Today I have chosen three bright and cheerful products from the DD Store that I think you will enjoy using together. . . . I know that I’ve had fun with them.  I thought that I would try something a little different today . . . and challenge myself to create the three layouts all alone.  At first, I had trouble . . . the second page I did was too similar to the first one . . . and the third page too much like the second page!  So two of them went in the trash and I started over again.  I was having a hard time getting my mind to move on to a new style.  After a few false starts, I came up with three pages that I like . . . and three ways that were a bit different than the previous one.

Yes . . . I know that I have two alphabet kits . . . but, I thought that they would be such fun to pull together for titles!  I will be watching the 3K3W Gallery to see what you do with the two of them!

The three kits for this week are:

Carissa Kit - Michelle Martin

Sketchy Alphabet - Jesse Edwards

DIY Sticker Alphabet - Pattie Knox

Yes . . . I know that I have two alphabet kits . . . but, I thought that they would be such fun to pull together for titles! 

Here are my three ways:

My first page is the recipe for my Mother’s Chili that I had cooked a few days earlier.  It uses the three kits plus only one extra . . . the background paper is Pina Solids Paper Pack by AndreaVictoria.  I love that the patterned paper I used from Michelle’s Carissa Kit picked up the colors from the photos so well.  And, I really liked using Pattie’s DIY Sticker Alpha in some of the colors from the paper too.

Next I made my Day’s of December album cover using the three challenge kits plus Ali’s Holiday Word Art No. 02, the red brads from the new Lovisa Kit and Jesse’s Hand Drawn Trees.  The two alphas worked perfectly for the simple look I wanted to coordinate with my pages.  Now if I could only finish the scrapping the days of December and sent it off to Shutterfly!

My last layout using the kits is “Sewing Basket Toy’s” which uses only Naturally Krafty No. 07 by Katie in addition to the three kits.

It such fun using these three kits in three ways for the challenge today . . . I hope to see your pages posted in the 3 Kits 3 Ways Gallery.  My blog partner, Merrilee love looking over the new & inspiring ways that so many people use the challenge kits. 

We are at the beginning of the third week of the new year.  I am still setting my own intentions for my pages during this turn around the sun. In the continuing effort to nurture my writing I want to jump start writing meaningfully on my pages. 

The method of assigning myself one word “seeds”, using one each month, seemed like a good way to move the process along.  I have chosen words which reflect the idea of planting, growing, harvesting and integration, an annual cycle.

I remember telling my daughter when she was very young and frustrated with trying to express herself …“Use your words, sugar.  Use your words.”  Words let us name things, describe reality and hold story. 

I want to be more fluent this year in using my words.  There are recommendations for journaling and excellent tools for writing in the DD shop. This year I will be highlighting some of these great products for our ongoing effort to “word the page”.

I just thought a few assignments would be useful for me to actually fulfill my goal.  Maybe you would like to give yourself your own thought map for wording this year.  Play along.  It will be fun.  Add your pages to the PageKraft Gallery and we can go with you, too.

Here is my first page for this year’s project.  My intention is to enjoy, learn about writing and capture a bit of my own view of the world.

Seed Words

I Declare Paper Pack
Underlined Months Brushes and Stamps
Chronicles Hand Drawn Words Brushes and Stamps
Year 2011 No. 01 WordART
Felt Directives
2nd Hand Memories Element Pack
Vintage Book Paper Pack No. 01
Taped Together Paper Pack No. 04
Scrap Express No. 91