Happy 6th Birthday Aidan

Today is my nephew’s 6th birthday.

2006

 

2007 – 1st birthday

 

2008 – 2nd birthday

 

2009 – 3rd birthday

 

2010 – 4th birthday

 

2011 – 5th birthday

 

2012 – Taken after his birthday party last weekend

 

Where has the time gone?

Happy birthday.

Love

Aunty Shanna

A few layouts.

 

On Monday we went to the Mumbles in Swansea, here is a layout I made of the pier there.

Credits: Club Scrap Digital Bridges collection

The other day my 2yr old  nephew decided when he grew up he wanted to be a LADDER. So I had to make a layout about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credits: Weeds and Wildflowers Life 365, Jesse Curly Alpha, Jolly Holiday Alpha.

Shanna xx

Why I Love Digital Scrapbooking....

So I have this cute picture of my nephew Aidan and my adopt-a-nephew Kieran (my sister's best friend's son) when my sister went to visit them at the beginning of the month.

I wanted to make a layout of it, so I spent some time editing out the digger and my sister's arm. I liked the idea of bringing out the orange hints in the picture so I choose an orange background paper, and then decided it was too much so I choose a cardboard paper to layer over and turned it blue. I spent ages picking the right frame, I knew I had the perfect word art title, adding a stitched frame and names and date. I added some buttons which brought out various shades of blue in the picture here's what I came up with.

I went away from the computer because I knew something just didn't look right. When I came back I realised that the orange was too distracting it was what instantly drew your attention the blue cardboard washed out the picture and the picture needed more pop as it was meant to be the focal point of the layout.

Now if I had been making this layout the traditional way, with everything stuck down I would have either had to try to unglue it or had to start all over again. But since I scrapbook digitally all it took was a few clicks of the mouse and I have a layout I much happier with.

I used auto level to give the photo more pop, changed the background paper to black and turned the cardboard paper back to it's original colour and instantly the photograph was the focal point of the layout. I am so much happier with it. Now it's all ready to print and put in my album.

Supplies used:

Buttons from A Whole Lot of Buttons (freebie download a long time ago)
Stiches : LBA-Stichsquare from Little Dreamers Designs Vintage Retro Kit
Title: from Scrapgirls His and Hers Kit
Cardboard Paper from Weeds and Wildflowers Jolly Holiday kit (coloured and uncoloured)
Orange paper from Weeds and Wildflowers Happy Garden kit
Frame from Raspberry Road Away In a Manger freebie kit

Shanna xx