Self Portrait Challenge

Vince took this picture of me when we were at Sea World a few weeks ago. I have no idea what I was doing. I remember we were both waiting for Jeb and Olivia to finish an Elmo ride and Vince was taking pictures of them. So I was really delighted when I saw this on the camera. I didn't photoshop any bit of this picture. I love the over exposure and the half face picture. And when I saw this digital brush from Ali Edwards, I knew what I wanted to do with it. Really simple layout. I just misted over an old flower mask I had with turquoise and bits of gold. Added a butterfly from Making Memories. And then I printed the journaling on fabric photo paper. xoxo Jenny

happy birthday jen!

it's a crappy pic i took with my phone, so i will post a better one when i have the chance. just wanted to get this on here today so i could share. thought about making a card, but i felt she would appreciate this more, especially since she got me into scrapping in the first place :) it was {lovingly} lifted from stephanie howell (my new favorite scrapper). j - hope your day is full of happiness, relaxation, reflection & love! here's to many, many more!

love you - W

challenge #5:

self actualization in one page :)

well, not really...

summertime is so much fun & i know we've all filled our schedules with beach, park, pool & movie days. i've decided to make this one easy -

scrap a self portrait

a lot of times we scrap about our kids (mostly), our hubbys (sometimes), but do we ever scrap about "me"? for me the answer would be: out of forty one pages i have only 1 of just myself; that would be .02%. so gals - reflect, ponder, and relish in - YOU...this should be easy, right? :)

challenge #4: color + plastic sleeves:

mellow yellow

plastic sleeve is from close to my heart. i put the embellishments right on top of the page vs. inside the sleeve

jb cream rub-ons from this june's SC add-on kit #2 luckily i still had some yellow lullaby thickers left, that "e" is actually a "c" :)

the cork letters are mm (clearance from michael's!)

thanks to r - he did all the collages for me!
*note to self: LEARN PSE!
man, oh man, this challenge took me forever! i first started with brown, wanting to work around the "happy scrapping" cake photo; then i changed to red b/c of one of emma's project red jackets. i was going to attempt to be clever by doing things "red" -- well "read", inspi(red), da(red), yeah --lame idea. i finally decided to go with yellow & center it around one of our many trips to disneyland. this was fun, but a bit stressful (as usual, lol).

can you tell i'm struggling with trying not to be 'matchy'? i guess that's something i'll learn with time. i went with the polka-dot yellow paper b/c it reminded me of minnie mouse's red polka-dot skirt :)

xo - W