And after this a nap

I had hoped to give you some more of my digital work yesterday, but a lot of life intervened and that included some people with serious issues. Fortunately for me, I was the listener most of the time. Did I get a boatload of gratitude for my life? oh you betcha.

So today, I'll give you some pretty or what I find pretty and then take a nap. Yesterday also included the last of Part 2 of the 2nd Shingles virus shots. I hope never to have that wretched stuff but yesterday and today have been what I call 'tylenol/zyretk' days. I've taken my temperature quite a few times just to be as sure as I can that it's not coronavirus. No fever, just aches especially on the arm that got the jab.

I'll also file my nails way down since I finally found a decent size of emery boards. Who knew they might be a scarce item these days?!??!



A lot of  my scrapping lately has involved this grandchild and/or the ongoing braces saga.



So often I say I want to try Travelers' Notebook pages or 8.5x11 so here I mixed both. Challenging for me to think in that perspective but fun.

moving on with the weeks

So I continued. By week 4 I had added the stroke, I reduced the size of the border and felt better about the Project Life issues. Well most of them. I wanted more color, more journaling and more. The  answer I finally realized was to get off my photographic butt and take more photos. Do the pages closer to the timeline so I could remember the little things that really do make up life. I needed to do more leg work so I had material for a project I did want to do.

That stroke really helps, doesn't it but in the printing it doesn't even show. And just fyi, that white border is down to 1inch. The base here is from Cathy Zielske and while her pages/books look gorgeous, I have realized I'm not quite that clean and simple most of the time. As the same time, I want the focus to be on the story whether or not I have photos. Product is truly secondary.

What I need to do now, is do more weeks!

Yes, I'm back!

It has been a while and I've waffled about a lot of things this year. Somehow, I just didn't have the incentive to do a lot of the things I've done for quite some time. The fit wasn't just right any more if you know what I mean.

I've loved the various forms of digital art that I've done in the past especially the Project Life pages. But somehow that was what was the hardest to start again. I was tired of the design I'd used in the past so I've done a couple of different ways so far. I'm still not sure how I'll continue or if I will, but I suspect I will. One thing that is hard is so many stores have specific percentages of their products that you need to include. I get that, I truly do, but I want to have the freedom to use whatever I please but of course I also do want an audience and the camaraderie that goes with posting on a store's website.

In any case, here are a few weeks for you to see how I've started. Though these are the early weeks, I only did them in late February. While you can't see it, these have a large white border round them. What I usually do when using white paper as a background is put a 1px stroke on the inside. It's enough to set the page off on a screen. <-- helpful hint of the day!

Right away I decided I wasn't going to put shadows on each photo despite the great love of shadowing  in the digital scrapping world.

Week 2 taught me that I wanted the dates on the bottom to be a larger font. Course correction on week 3 but the lack of color still bothers me and while I didn't have enough content for 2 pages, I had more than the one page was allowing. What to do....