Fun journaling! :)

Today is the last day from the most recent Letters and Words challenge.  The challenge was to create shaped text.  Check out the details here.   Your link needs to be posted tonight at midnight EST so if you have time today...play along!

Here's a layout that I made (it's hybrid):

What I did was make a page in photoshop of patterned paper and butterflies.  I then printed it and too my exacto knife and cut out the butterflies (leaving a border).  I layered a piece of cardstock behind it and added my journaling to those butterfly spots!  :)  Here are some close up's of the journaling.  

The digital papers and elements are from Audacious Designs.  I used the Butterfly Fancy kit for this layout.

So Kelby and I have a date tonight.  :)  We are going to see the new Harry Potter movie.  Anybody seen it yet?  

Supplies for "the Clan":

Cardstock--American Crafts, Papers (digital)--Audacious Designs, Chipboard Letters--Basic Grey, Buttons--Rusty Pickle, Pearls--Kaisercraft, Thread--DMC.  

Hybrid Mini

You may have already seen this, it was up on Audrey's blog (uses here product).  :)  

As soon as I saw the "Big Numbers" kit I knew that I wanted to use it to make a mini album. I wanted it to be a random mini where I used each number for my journaling...page one would have one thing about me...page two would have two things...and so on.

I started with my cover for my album. This is what I designed in photoshop for the cover (Uses the Big Numbers kit and the Be {Re}Solved kit):

I printed my cover. Then I wanted to add some fun embellishements. Since my album was "random" I really wanted my embellishments to be kind of random too. Here's the finished cover:

Then I moved on to the pages. I shrunk each of the numbered pages down and printed them, then adhered them to my page along with some ribbon or trim. One other thing I really wanted to do was to cut the edges of my book pages. I've seen several of those cool albums around where all the pages are shaped differently, but I don't have any of those albums. So I thought I would cut my own edges on a regular 6 x 9 album. Here's how the pages turned out:

Since my focus of this album was really about the journaling, I took time to sit down with a notebook and make some lists. I just thought of topics of lists...like favorite movies or songs. I tried to throw in some topics that may be a little bit deeper than that too. 

Then I narrowed down what I wanted to say and added it to my pages. My final topics:

One Best Song Ever
Two Goals for My Life
Three Places I have Lived
Four Secret Crushes
Five Things I Couldn't Live Without
Six Things I Don't Like
Seven Things I Wish Were Different
Eight Things I Love
Nine Books I love
Ten Character Traits

Here's how they look:

Supplies:

Album: Cosmo Cricket, Digital supplies and Computer Font: Audacious Designs, Ribbons/Trims--Various (I used a bunch of different scraps that I had).  White Pen--Souffle, Black pen--Sharpie.  Additional Supplies on cover:  Chipboard Letters--American Crafts, Chipboard bird--Heidi Swapp, Pearls-- Mark Richards, Thread--DMC.  

The Cutest Birds Ever!

Ever!  View them here.

Aren't they fabulous!  It was my turn to make a hybrid project for AUDacious Designs this week...and this is what I made.  It was very simple and came together super quickly!  

Another look:

It uses those awesome Thumbprint Birdies and the Express Yourself papers and quotes.

Supplies:

Digital kits and elements--AUDacious Designs, Chipboard heart--Rusty Pickle, Black Chipboard--Cosmo Cricket, Ribbon--Maya Road.  Flower, button, and gem--unknown.  Thread--Prism.