Laura Vegas

i’ve been dying to finish up this layout and share it. it’s too cute not to share!

i know my original post a while back about the whole "booger snot" nickname had a different picture of ady. but she’s given me plenty more photos with this same pose. lol! so i just had to do a layout with them. love the way it turned out. took me forever to start it though … seriously dug through pattern paper for about 30 minutes before i found some i liked. i had the chipboard letters out from the beginning … so i kindof had a color starting point. love the fact that i have so much color going on … love color! the pattern paper is from ki memories (green) and american crafts (circles), chipboard letters and ribbon are from lil davis, flowers are heidi swapp, and rubons are doodlebug.

believe it or not … i actually put some work into this layout. lol! i’m not a huge "techniquey" person … love using products, but tend to use them as is. loved these chipboard letters but they were a little too big to fit on my layout … which is another 9×9 size. so i cut each letter down to more of a rectangle shape … sanded the edges down … drew a thin black line around the edges … and adhered some cardstock to back them. the flowers were clear so i painted on some pink paint to the back side of them … and then lightly sanded them down a little. that’s definately a lot for me!

and of course … a card made with some scraps. i had this extra blue star that i painted while doing another layout about a month ago … i had sqeezed out a little too much paint and didn’t want to waste it. lol! i never have birthday cards … and those are the ones i always need the most. now that i’m looking at this card … i think i may go back and round the corners of the actual card itself to match up with the corners on the pattern paper.

in other scrap/photo related stuff:

• remember that album i mentioned over on the making memories blog last week … the one for the new challenge? i loved that cover so much and knew i wanted to play along … but wanted the scalloped edged album to do it. took me forever to find … but i got it today in the mail. 9×9 size … love that size now! can’t wait to start my cover and see the next part of the challenge tomorrow!
• still struggling with figuring out a workflow for my digital pictures. but i do have one awesome find. i’ve been shooting in the "raw" format for a few months now and love the freedom it offers. the one drawback that i was having though … i couldn’t see my photos without opening up photoshop elements. i can’t open them up in regular photoshop either … just elements … but that’s an issue for another day. lol! i like to organize my pics in "my pictures" on my computer … just where i find it easiest. hard to organize when you can’t actually see the photo. i could see them after editing them and resaving them as jpegs … but that’s a pain. i managed to download something (and don’t even ask, because i couldn’t tell you what it was. lol!) … and now i can see all my pictures. it’s a glorious sight! and i can organize to my hearts content!
• got my goodie box yesterday with the april issue of paper trends … i had a card published in there. got some of the new scenic route grid papers … fun stuff. some other goodies too … just can’t remember what since i already put them away.

i have to interrupt this to tell you that it’s seriouly hailing right now! the weather has been so funky lately … really windy. today it kept sprinkling off and on … then the sun would hide and then come out. it was like it didn’t know what it wanted to do today. and all day we’ve been trying to figure out whether we have softball games tonight. i swear this is the most rain (in the last 10 minutes) that we’ve had all year. my computer desk sits right up by a window in the studio upstairs … and overlooks part of the slope of the roof. it’s coming down pretty hard. this could be declared an emergency for this area. lol! and i think it’s safe to say at this point that we do not have games tonight. the thunder just started too … kind of cool! although i’m sure the kids aren’t loving it! lol!

well … guess that’s it for now. i have a lot to say right now about my beloved "melrose place" … but i’ll save that for later! thanks for stopping by!