To go with this page that I blogged the other day I used Shimelle's Bazinga kit (from 2peas in a bucket), used some summery pictures from my Hipstamatic app on the iPhone and wrote a bit about the lovely weather we have had lately. Although today....grey, overcast and raining!

The title is a download from Shimelle's class (available on the forums if you are registered).

It is only a simple page but I wanted to write a bit about the unusually warm summer and the hosepipe ban (which cracks me up, as no doubt we'll be flooded in the winter!!)

Those Lazy Summer Days...

Ahh, whilst I'm totally biased about Shimelle's kits as I'm one of her Baker's Dozen, I'm totally in love with the latest Bazinga kit available from 2peas in a bucket! This is also one of my Liberty Elements templates (8-Oxygen) revisited with such lovely colours.

Recently, I've downloaded the Hipstamatic app for my iphone which basically funky-edits the photos without having to go near photoshop! Seeing as my favourite action there is "vintage", the fact I have about 10 different "films" in my iphone makes my heart sing.

I seem to have it on the "sunny" film a lot when I'm outdoors and just snappy snap all happy summer photos.

Then today, I made this page. And I darned well love it. The colours make me want to go and sit in the sunshine right now...except its 1am and its dark. Damn!

See you all tomorrow in class no doubt??? WAHOOOO!

Project 365 - Re-loaded

So once again, despite promising to keep on top of it, Project 365 has fallen by the wayside *sob*, I sooooooooooooo want to keep on top of this.

If you are behind like me, here is my strategy to catch up:

1. Upload all phone and camera photos to your computer.

2. Sort them by date and use them as a starting point. Put the photos into the right dates on your page (or however you are doing it), use these to jog your memory.

3. Are there still gaps? Check your diary to fill in any blanks. If, like me, your diary is empty (through laziness rather than lack of activity), then turn to technology.

4. Check your tweets, check your facebook status's, check your e-mails and check your texts to remind yourself of what you were doing on a certain day.

5. If all else fails make something up to fill in the blank :)


I have taken stock of how far I am with this project.

* Week 1-10, Week 12, Week 25 and 26 are complete

* Week 11 and Week 22 need one more photo adding to each page

*Week 23 and Week 24 are half way there {insert memory blank}

* Week 13-21 don't exist - boo. I have lots of photos though just need to sort them out.

I started with Week 27 (this week) and worked backwards as surely my most recent memories are the easiest to remember (helloooo week 23 and 24???)

Here is a reminder of the template I am using, it is Cathy Zielske' No. 25 and available from Designer Digitals. I love the simplicity. Every 2 pages I just change the paper and colours and keep everything really simple.





The paper however is another matter....it is from Shimelle's fab new kit called BAZINGA which comes with 50 digital elements for the bargain price of $4.


The paper, despite being gorgeous was too 'busy' for my photos, but I loved it so much, I decided to tone it down a bit. I used a 20% transparency brush in PSE and intended to use white just to soften the colours a bit.



However, I had the 'lemon' colour selected, and below is the result. I love it! It feels so sunny and warm and worn and acid washed.


....Only 9 full weeks to catch up on....wonder what I was doing in those weeks..hmm? Getting married perhaps? ;0)

Hope your yearly/monthly/daily projects are going well. I would love to hear about them!!