Yay, project 365 layouts caught up again :)

The Digi Dares #132 - UnSquared

I try to upload layouts to the galleries where their designers come from, and Shabby Pickle is DOWN...which means, I put it here instead :)

The Digi Dares had something pretty cool this week, so I gave it a whirl. No squares or rectangles, 4 fasteners and black and white photo(s). SO HERE IS MINE!

Everything in the layout is by Kasia at Shabby Pickle Designs, except the shape of the paper which I so carefully scribbled...and the crayon word & scribble I used as a photo mask (layered and stretched and flipped then merged) which is by Holly Designs - also from Shabby Pickle.

I like it :)
**update** I just checked some of the others, and you should too, they're AMAZING!! (which doesn't make me like mine any less - I'm always open to good ideas!)

I'm Learning how to enter I ♥ Faces

You should check out their site while I try to figure it out...
I ♥ Faces

My Fave SOC shots today...

First we have the sea lion pup, way too cute. Then a so so photo of Annie & Duke - but a somewhat cool wave breaking in the background...Then Duke & Annie, Duke & Annie, then just Annie...
Then there's the moon (the part that you can see in the daytime), Ruby & Oscar (have a series of these), Ruby and Abby (in a blown out photo that Kurt loves because it looks like a dreamworld fairy tale), and Ruby just being bright, normal, happy Ruby :)

Random Shots Today...May 7, 2009

Ruby doesn't like Abby getting more photos taken or Abby than of Ruby (I have WAYYYY more Ruby than Abby photos, but Ruby only counts when she actually sees the camera.)

The Nakoa is cool, it's an old rust bucket FULL of color and personality, wouldn't you agree? The three girls need some boosting of color type edits. Eh, whatever. Beck on the tracks has been over boosted on purpose - and Abby just likes to have her mouth opened all the time (like her mother). They are on their way to winkflash.

Photoshop Actions - Magic for your pics...

MCP Actions

SERIOUSLY - these are amazing! (I want them all)
Think of all the fun things you could do...(Angie...Sister King...I know some of you would have a blast with this kind of stuff).

Contest at I Heart Faces - please do check out their site, lots of neat things (and photography tips) - and actions from Jodie, of MCP Actions are PRIZES :)

Scrapbooking My OOOPS shot.

Sometimes I forget that running the DSLR in Manual for Sunday morning church means that I set it for bad light, dark conditions, etc...so I rush outside to get cute pics of kids...and get washout. That would be almost white. That's what happened with my photo of the day today, but I USED IT ANYWAY because I LOVED IT :)

Anyhow, I scrapped it mostly with the DARLING *Alien World* kit that I won from Little Dreamer Designs over {inter}National Scrapbook Day [weekend] on their Facebook wish granting frenzy! The only things that aren't from that kit are the piece of string and the ric rac and they are from WHO REALLY KNOWS WHERE - they're in so many kits by so many people, recolored, retrimmed, flipped, chopped and rotated. SO, no credits for string and ricrac. sorry.

I love the single photo layouts all over, the simple ones that TaylorMade always has with her high contrast photos and simple text (and her team as well - they're amazing). What I am not fond of is having the photo so teeny tiny that the page is mostly empty with a postage stamped sized photos. I think I sort of balanced this alright - I can tell this is Ruby. Nothing really to say about the photo - I goofed up shooting it, but she's busy throwing that beanie for the dog and she's just delighted to be doing so :) Liz also has fantastic stuff for the simple scrap (and I have a terrible time scrapping that way, so her quick pages and templates rock!) I have some of the Paislee Press quick page books - and they are awesome (I have actually used 1 or 2 pages...after I messed with recoloring them and all sorts of stuff because I couldn't leave well enough alone, but I can now...I promise).

Now, I am going go scrap with some of myNSD goodies. All night. For real...unless I fall asleep :) I do have a spread started about Ruby being a Ninja Spy Snake that can wah-puh-choooie things...
no wah-puh-chooie yet, but I took these today on the correct settings.
Taylor Made word art, Kasia papers and elements mostly from "Sweet Blossom" - the photo mask for the large photo came from "Winter Romance."