have you all gotten your january 2011 issue of creating keepsakes yet? i'm so excited for all the great things that they have planned for the magazine this year. and i think the january issue was a fantastic start to the new year.
as seen in the January 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. copyright creative crafts group. posted with prior permission from the publisher.
i should have re-taken the photos of this layout. forgot i had a huge glare on that second page. lol! i knew i was creating a birthday layout for this assignment, so i dug way back for some really old birthday photos. this was sarah's 1st birthday, over 10 years ago. which hopefully, explains my hair style 😉
when i work with older photos from my film days, for assignments, i will usually dig out the negatives and get reprints made of them. i have three huge binders full of my negatives, all organized by date. so it's easy enough for me to find the ones i need. and most of the time, when i get reprints made, the photos turn out a lot lighter than my originals. which is nice.
i used lots of the design shop 3-d stickers, from making memories. the felt cupcake, the cute little banner, the cupcake tower, and the chipboard accent on the second page. all easy to use stickers.
i created confetti for my layout, using a regular hole punch and a small circle punch. i picked out a few colors of cardstock, that matched my strip of pattern paper along the bottom of the layout. and then i punched out a TON of circles. then i randomly adhered them along both sides of the spread. i used super teeny tiny pop dots to adhere some of the small circles.
i don't think i have ever split a title in between the two pages of a spread. no idea why not. it looks totally fine. maybe my next step will be to split a photo in between the two pages. that idea still scares me. lol!
just a random side note, that just caught my eye, seeing this photo above. see those garlands hung up on the fence, in the photo? those were made with cardstock. i remember i cut a TON of cardstock strips, and then made the paper rings, all strung together. i made a huge amount of these, to hang on our fences along the backyard. i'll have to remember that simple idea for the next party 🙂
Laura Vegas 
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