2013년 7월 23일 화요일

project life - week 2


hard. project life is a whole different project from 12*12 scrapbook. It is a struggle with photos, papers, and everything.






My second daughter loves to draw. She brings me a bunch of drawings, and tiny handmade cards all the time while she is awake. so, here is one of them. And they are really good to use here @ projectlife!

This is the result I've come up with. Hope that I could enjoy the whole process...

2013년 7월 22일 월요일

something I adore,

 
It is easy to love and adore somebody's style, but it is really hard to pursue and express it because style is a matter of who I am, what I like, and how I think. Because I am kinda person who wants everything's to be clear and lucid, I love contrast. Contrasts of colors, shapes, images, and etc. I am displaying part of my personality through everything I do. That's why I easily attracted to the style locating at the opposite pole from me. (I usally get attracted those not like me...)
 
And when I saw such warm and soft designs from several galleries (remind me of cotton candies), I was filled with some sort of desire and inspiration to make one of my own.
 
I cut a doily paper into pieces, then put them inbetween the layers. and the Amy Tangerine stickers well matched with watercolored background.
 
 
When I finished with it, I felt it is not done for some reason, so I started doodling to make a border with a pencil.  

Well... I think I've done it anyhow. Maybe I have to practice more to be comfy with this subtle  style since I'm not that gentle. :D

struggling with gold




I bought this gold foiled paper few years ago, perhaps 7 or 8. It has such an outstanding gold colored border, and bold as well, which makes it hard to make a harmony with other color or pattern. So it has been kept in my storage box quite for a long time.

Lately, I had found that I still have so many collections left from past seasons (as years go by). Yikes! What have I done so far? I keep buying (want to wrap my behavior with a good word COLLECTING, but I know what I really am doing is just like that of shopaholics) papers and stuffs, then what comes next? Stacking things up! Oh my god. Everything's going to fall soon.

So? Actually what happens is like this. When I saw the latest class video 'In the mood to scrapbook' of Wilna, and her challenge, my brain that works sometimes(most of the times he or she takes a break. Pity) rang a bell and said, BINGO! that' s it. Use gold? And a gold foiled paper in my work desk is still forcing me to use it! What else could I do besides work with it?
So here it is.
Because my daughters' Cinderella costumes add some sort of luxurious feel to the page,(yes I am casting a spell on me. Classic. Luxurious. NO old fashioned.) it gives a bit heavy feeling but anyway, I like it!

I made this big gold butterfly embellishment with chipboard, sticking crinkled tissue paper by gel medium. That's everything I did with this layout!
Now I try to get an assuarance from myself not to buy a whole bunch of collection from a season, to prevent my storage box from blowing out, but I cannot hear anything. ooooops.

2013년 7월 17일 수요일

good boy,

 


 
One day moring I found that my baby went to sleep by himeself while I was doing the dishes. And what's more, he was laying on a pillow...  he's so little to put it under his small head (is it ?).
 
I colored white cardstock with pastels, and used fixative to stop the colors getting mixed and mudged more than I wanted. 'cause I love to make contrast between colors, volumes of the embellishments used in the layout, I used color contrast in here. Red violet and green can makes quite big contrast when used together (but partially) since they're (almost) complementary colors. Solid color parts, and  delicate die- cuts, they created a harmony that I wanted to make.

 

2013년 7월 12일 금요일

from my old albums



I found some layouts give some inspiration back to me. I never thought scrapbooking is a trend following craft before, but now I spy that it has a TREND in it. My 6-7 years old layouts seem to be old fashioned anyway! Fine, 'cause I love old things and vintage looking... but the only problem is that it is somewhere between 'trendy wannabe' and 'vintage lover'. I don't know what kind of look I pursue, I'm just having fun to do experiments with tons of materials. just love it.

2013년 7월 5일 금요일

I am so happy to share...


 
I never felt easy with hexagon patterns. It is a real tricky one to work with to me, but I wanted to do it somehow. Think I got a clue how to use hexagon through working this layout...
Since I am the person who takes photos in this house, I don't have my own photo unless I take it by myself... which means I don't have a chance to work with my photo.  Probably that's why I am so awkward to see myself on the scrapbook page.

Anyway.
I'm going off for a new page layout! Good day.

 

2013년 7월 3일 수요일

calming tones


I love that subtle tones. My ordinary days are always filled with BIG and LOUD and MERRY noises of my two girls and a baby(more like a toddler maybe? but he doesn't walk yet), so sometimes, I do need to calm down my messed up mind. But I am thankful that my kids are healthy enough to horse around like that. :-)

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