LO Share: Boy and Girl

May 26, 2008 | Category: Layout Share

05-20 Boy and Girl

This is a scraplift of Natalie Braxton’s This Boy, This Girl layout. Have I already mentioned how much I love Natalie’s work and how she is a person? I was able to CT for her for around 10 months and she has the kindest, most generous heart I have ever seen in digiland. I had to resign because I wanted to cut back on work and there were some nasty things happening around the digiworld that made me want to boycott scrapforums altogether (uhmm..I actually am not active anywhere anymore save for SSD which is my home). Anyhow, I thought Id share some of my process in creating a layout with you.

I have what you can call a notebook for ideas – it’s very tattered and worn in because Martha writes in it too :) – I write down things the kids say – or I blog about it. Then I look for photos and then the kits. Before when I was in a gazillion CTs, it was kits first before the story and now I realized my kids wont care less about the kit – so I reverse even if it is harder.

I also am a big fan of templates – templates I make for my own personal use :) This makes my work so faster. I have saved templates of shapes I used and created.

Inspiration – I always always drowned myself in paper inspiration ideas (2Peas!). I rarely look at digi layouts because sometimes there are digi layouts which have no room for journaling which I cant live without – this is just me though. Clean, simple, linear :) I love that I have found my style.

Then I create.

June is just around the corner, I want you to look at all the layouts you have made this year and ask yourself – are these layouts Ive invested time and money from will make my kids smile? Will they be able to understand? Will they hear and read my story?

I look at mine and Im just 75% satisfied.
No worries there. Im close to finding how I want my memories to be recorded.
And that is all that matters :D

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Anyone tell me what a glass sink looks like?

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  1. alpha
    on May 26th, 2008
    1

    this is nice aggie.. lam mo ba, pag pinapakita ko kay estong etong pic ni martha tapos tanong ko kung sino to, sagot nya ma-ta.. hehe bulol pa kasi tong alaga ko, late talker kasi..

  2. admin
    on May 27th, 2008
    2

    Alpha Ma-ta nga sya at si Martha, tawag sa sarili nya, “Ma-ta Byth Chisu” LOL

  3. caryl
    on June 7th, 2008
    3

    that’s a nice LO Aggie.
    Thanks for sharing your process in creating LOs. I got some realization too lately in doing my layouts. Pag may nakikita kasi kong magandang kit gusto ko agad bilhin pero to think di ko pa naman magagamit, hehe, such a waste money for me. Tama ka dapat yung layouts that make our kids smile and they will treasure hanggang sa paglaki… :) My weakness kasi is journaling, though I have lots of story to tell… oh well!

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