I've Finally Started....

After we got back from England I told my grandson, Dylan, that I would make him a book of all the photos we took so he would have a nice keepsake of his trip. Well, I've made a start!

I usually do 12x12 or 8x8 page layouts but this book will be 11x8.5 to fit the cover that I got when I bought the Photo Book Creator machine over 6 months ago, that I had to have and haven't used yet, lol.

I want to put at least 4+ photos per page and I've already made all my templates. (I did really well with those and got them made in no time.) I've also made about 10 papers and a few elements but will make the rest as I go as I want this book to be TOTALLY made by grandma - so with a bit of luck it may be finished next year, lol!

For the past few nights I've worked on ONE page! The page templates are all set up and I know exactly which photos I'm using but I really do struggle with how to "fancy" them up. I just hope that the further I get the better I get or this book will be a long time coming, lol.

Anyway, this is my first page - the flower may have to go as it's a bit "girly" but I'll have to put on my thinking cap to figure out what I can replace it with. I'm open to any suggestions!

New Layout

I used pieces from my Colour Challenge kit to show off these photos of my youngest grandson.

Colour Challenge

Here are my contributions to the Colour Challenge with the CSE3 group and here's the download link: http://www.4shared.com/dir/3316998/63a23c28/Colour_Challenge.html

Outdoor Kit Extras

Here are my last few pieces for this kit. (It's the Share2 file)

http://www.4shared.com/dir/3247542/84c369af/Outdoor_Kit.html

Thanks to Atomic Cupcake for the metal action.

Outdoor Kit

This is an ongoing project so I'm hoping to get some more elements done in the next few days.

Download link: http://www.4shared.com/dir/3247542/84c369af/Outdoor_Kit.html

Butterfly kit

This is for all those cute little girly layouts! Enjoy!

Download link: http://www.4shared.com/dir/2644344/467e5664/sharing.html

Thank you to Tandika Star and DigiScrapDesigner for items used in the creation of this product.
Also to Donna Mook for her DIY ribbons and bows kit, which can be found here:
http://www.digitaldivasdesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=91

My first blog entry

I'm amazed that I'm sitting here writing a blog when I said this was something I'd never get in to - especially when I don't really know what I'm doing - but here I am!
I'm hoping that this is a place where I can "show-off" some of my layouts (although I haven't done too many) and where I can share some of the kits I've made.
I love following tutorials but I spend lots of time making things that I don't do anything with and I can whip up half a dozen papers faster than I can do a layout. It takes me forever to do one and then I'm not usually really satisfied with it. I'm a little lacking in the imagination department I think!