Project Life 2013 – Week 9 (right side) Deconstructed

Here's the right side of my PL Week Nine:

This page was made using the Project Life Baby Edition for Him.

Top row, left side:

The first photo, including the white border, is straight from Instagram. The second photo was texted to me by Carter to show what he was doing in California while we were having a blizzard in Tennessee.

The arrows were drawn with the Custom Shape Tool. I copied the Drop Shadow Layer Style from a mask in the template and pasted it on all three arrows at the same time by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on all three of the arrow layers.

The smiley face is from the web. I Googled “smiley faces png” and got about 4,680,000 results in .25 seconds. (Pause to remember the olden days when we didn’t even have smiley faces, let alone the web or computers.) I copied/pasted one of them in my Project Life folder called “Repeated Use,” because it will get repeated use on my PL pages. I chose the png format, because the image background is transparent. In other words, the face is not sitting on a white square that would be visible on my page.   

The green grid card used as the base is a Baby for Him 4x6 bifold card. So it wouldn’t get lost on the page’s gray background, I added a stroke to the edge of the mask under the card. I chose a green from the week card on the left page of this two-page spread. Physical scrapper don't have the problem with cards getting lost, because each card butts up [Southern expression?] to the next card. There is no background showing.

Fonts: Arial, Helvetica Rounded, my handwriting

Top row, right side:

(I love this photo.) The “collage” above is not a collage. It’s a photo received via text messaging and a screenshot from another texting session. I painted the whole turquoise mask in this spot on white. That way when I left a bit of space between the two “photos,” the white beneath them showed up and divided the photos.

Fonts: Arial (for “Me” and “Graham”), Monotype Sorts for the hands with the pointing finger. Monotype Sorts has characters, or dingbats, instead of letters. The asterisk key makes the hand. The font also includes scissors (my favorite! not), snowflakes, flowers, stars, check marks,  . . .. I added a small drop shadow to the hands so they’d stick out. The orange for the hands and the red for the text is from the week card.

Middle row, first spot:

This is a Baby for Him 3x4 journaling card.

Middle row, second spot:

This is a screenshot of the weather from my iPhone on top of a photograph I took with my iPhone.

Font: Arial

Middle row, third spot:

This is a Baby for Him 3x4 journaling card. When I find a new font I like, I tend to use it a lot. That’s good for my PL pages. A repeated font gives a tad of continuity to the pages. My new favorite font (for today) is Lavanderia. It makes a pretty title, but it didn’t show up well on top of the green dots on the journaling card. I used the Dodge Tool (50%) on the card right under “Nursing school…” A few strokes of the brush faded the dots where needed.  

Middle row, fourth spot:

I made an arrow made with the Custom Shape Tool and put it right on top of the photo. I usually put strips on top of photos for my writing. Why didn’t I think of arrows sooner? I love arrows!

Font: Arial

Bottom row, left side:

Here a cropped photo and an Instagram photo were placed on top of a Baby for Him 4x6 bifold card. This card also blended with the background too much, so it got a stroke with a color chosen for the week card.

Bottom row, right side:

This six-photo collage was made with a template from Designs by Lili. On top of  the middle of the collage I made a white rectangle, added a black stroke, and rasterized the shape so the white rectangle and the black stroke were one. Then I could add a white stroke, too. The color of the text was “picked” from . . . yes! The week card!

Font: Helvetica Rounded

Cathy Zielske has a video tutorial on her blog this week about how to add a caption box to a predesigned journal card.

Product links for physical scrappers:
   * Baby Edition for Him
   * Pocket Pages Design A
   * Designer Paper (24 sheets of double-sided 12x12 designer paper)

Product links for digital scrappers:
   * Baby Edition for Him
   * Template Design A 

Thanks for visiting!

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