Little Ted's Big Adventure

This is a page I created to document Edward's first plane trip, for my Project Life album. I took a lot of photos that day, so I decided to tackle it digitally. I originally made this for a Design House Digital 4-Play challenge, so it used just the four specific kits from the challenge, and then I later added the compass under the title.

I'm SO sad that DHD closed down a few months ago :( It was my digital home. BUT, I have found a new community to belong to, the Project Life Australia group on Facebook. That's how I heard about Life Paper Scrapbook... and so with this post I'm entering...

...the Life Paper Scrapbook Project Life Challenge #1: Layering in Project Life! How exciting!

I've used lots of layers on this page: the patterned papers as a base layer, transparency and text over a photo for the title, and then many clustered and overlapped photos to fit as many in as possible. The pictures are jostled a bit to get a sense of movement, and the order they're in shows the progression of our journey.


About my layout:
On the TV channel ABC4Kids, there's a cute little show called "Little Ted's Big Adventure". Yep, it's Little Ted from Play School, he has his own show! Actually I just saw today that Jemima now has her own show too: Jemima's Big Adventure :) Anyway, because our son Edward's nickname is Ted, that's what we called this holiday from the start!

This was the first time we used the car DVD player, so I have pics of that (VERY thankful that it kept him calm, as we'd hoped). Although Edward was able to walk from 15 months, he rarely did until Christmas, so going for a long walk was still a big deal, and I took a bunch of pics of him walking along. He has a little toy that we call "Pizza Man" as he looked to me like a little pizza chef (but someone pointed out he is probably a traffic controller - oh well, the name has stuck!) So it was pretty cool to see a real live Pizza Man - he was such a nice guy too. Edward fell asleep before we took off, so he probably didn't realise we went up in the air at all!

I followed the configuration of Becky Higgins' Design F page protectors, which I love, and used InDesign to create the entire layout, as it's much easier work in a grid and to crop images to frames than in Photoshop. I'm trying to avoid Photoshop for my Project Life, as it's a major time sucker for me! I only edit photos if they really need it, and I'm a lot less tempted to edit when designing with InDesign.

Credits:
DHD-Inkling & Wit-Destination Word Art
DHD-Tayler Mitchell-Tags & Tape
DHD-Tisha Chestnut-Photo Journal Papers
Compass from StockXchng User: Kalilo, Image: 490615
There were four DHD kits used originally, but I later removed a stylised flower (from Mary Moseley's Reminisce-Flowers, Frames & Borders kit), and replaced it with the compass, so there's nothing from that kit on the final layout. The flower was quite geometric and resembled a compass, so that's where I got the idea, but I wanted a proper compass to complete the look.

Project Life: Dear Lizzy Fifth and Frolic

I started working on a Project Life album last November, as a creative way of displaying my photos and recording memories. I bought the Neutral Baby kit and Wellington Childhood kit and have also used a lot of papers I already had, digital scrapbooking kits, and some Simple Stories Snap papers. I have loved the process so far!

I pre-ordered the Dear Lizzy Fifth and Frolic core kit the day it went online at Australian stores. This beautiful kit was an exclusive for a store in the USA, so I had already admired it from a distance but a limited amount of stock was then released to international sellers. Yay! I recently received it and absolutely love it! Here are some creative photos I took highlighting some of my favourite cards:

September 2013 Calendar page

This is my September calendar page. It's my first and only nephew, Elliott. What a cutie pie. I was so happy to have another boy in the family! This photo was taken on his first day outside the womb - and now we are coming up to his first birthday! 

This layout was "scrap-lifted" from Hutchie; I drew inspiration from her gorgeous layout and made it my own. Here's Hutchie's layout, 'Sisters'. Love it!

August 2013 Calendar page

This is my August 2013 Calendar page, featuring my beautiful sister and niece with my son Edward. These photos were taken two years ago when he was a newbie :)

Credits
Quick Page: DHD-November 2011 Bloghop-Liz Jutila
Alpha: Sahlin Studio-Sunshine Sticker Alpha
Bookplate: 2Ps-Michelle Underwood-Bright Smiles
Backwards Brad: Pickleberry Pop-Anne Marie-Kit Bash
Resin Button: Christina Renee-Scorpio Sue-A Walk in the Park
Font (small text): Palatino Linotype
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My September 2010 Calendar - Monet's Garden at Giverny

While in France, Mum and I absolutely had to visit Monet's house and gardens in Giverny. Claude Monet is her favourite painter, and I adore his work too. We had a fantastic day and really enjoyed looking around the house and the two large gardens Monet so lovingly created. I took over 100 photos. The gardens are separated by the road that leads to the tiny village. This photo of his famous waterlily pond is taken in the lower garden, which has a free Japanese inspired design, in contrast with the formal upper garden with its symmetrical flowerbeds. You can just see the grey roof, pink walls and green shutters of his house through the trees in the centre of the picture. Many of Monet's best loved artworks were painted in his gardens, but of all his creations, the gardens themselves are the works Monet spent the most time perfecting.

Credits:
2Ps-Rhonna Farrer-Pink October Free Template 1
KISM-Keepsake-Flower 1
Thaliris-Just for me-el84
Fonts: American Scribe, Bookman Old Style (Bold)
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I also clipped a small section of one of Monet’s most spectacular waterlilies paintings to the “M” for Monet. This was from a photo I took at the Musee de l'Orangerie.

Vintage Sunkist-inspired postcard

Postcard for a bowling night to encourage the many people serving in leadership at St Jude's Church Carlton.

I illustrated it myself, but based my design on this vintage advertising image from Dover clip art:

August Calendar Page - the Louvre

This is the August picture from my 2010 Calendar. I have digitally scrapbooked some of the many photos I took at the Louvre.

Close up:

Credits:
Layout: "My Boy" free template by Michelle Filo (Mushy); Little Dreamer.
Background (layered): "AA Freebie 1" by Scorpio Sue, Soft & Sweet Free Kit; Cristina Renee. "Paper 19" by Kirsty's Scraps, Keepsake free kit. "Future Rock Star Grunge Overlay" by Chris Ford, Future Rock Star free kit; 2Ps.
Stamped letters: "Handstamped Alpha Freebie" by Michelle Coleman; LD.
Flourishes: "Headpiece (19)" from Old Book Illustrations. "Think Pink" by Rhonna Farrer, Pink October Free Kit; 2Ps. "Blue Title" by Rhonna Farrer, Colour My World Free Kit; 2Ps.

Guilt Free Prayer

Image created for the St Jude's website to promote an upcoming Women's Morning Tea, on the topic of "Guilt Free Prayer".

Vintage birdcage and bird images are from the wonderful (free!) collection at The Graphics Fairy.

Cathe Holden: Just Something I Made

I love to see what other people have made! 

Cathe Holden has a wonderful blog, Just Something I Made, with lots of photos and instructions for craft and d-i-y projects. I love this idea for creating beautiful "engraved" jewellery from clear stamps:

Cathe's also giving away some sweet blog headers she designed:

St Jude's Welcome Flier

A welcome flier for St Jude's Church, Carlton. Folds inwards.
Cover:

Outside:

 Inside:

Many thanks to these photographers, whose stock images I found on stock.xchng:
Will Watt
Matin Dadfar
Heriberto Herrera
Benjamin Earwicker
Milissa Thompson
abcdz2000
Cecilia Alegro


Other images are from St Jude's Church.