Wednesday Layout.

Beautiful layout and instantly made me feel dreamy.

Beautiful layout and instantly made me feel dreamy.

Great layout--as always.
One really doesn't need a tablet to create this look. If you do not think you'll use it a lot--which i doubt I would-- try the Ali font for the same result. Similarly, I cannot justify spending big bucks on a cricut type cutter--and I don't think you own one either. Sheets of stickers or my printer work just fine, save money, and save room in my art room. You are so good at encouraging us to not buy needlessly. Use a pen, paper, some photos and get it done. Thank you, Ali. (Also thanks for the link to your interview. I'm happy about another upcoming book, yay.)

I like that you suggest not complicating the story - I like the way you broke down your adventure with Simon into almost point form - gets lots of info across without clouding it with 'wordiness'.
Thanks again, Ali - good, good stuff!!
A.

Beautiful layout as always!
What type of paper do your print your photos on?

WOW your photos always amaze me! They are beautiful!

I am going to confess that I really don't worry too much about archival quality scrapping... I've been scrapping for over twenty years and I used to do my layouts on wallpaper and wrapping paper. I think the yellowing and age add the vintage charm, and really - only a handful of people will be looking at my scrapbooks "when I'm gone". Does this make me a bad scrapper?

wow....this is fab! love it!
R

Two LO's done so far (on my blog), and I'm very happy with the results! It's back to basic scrapping, and that's almost a treat to me after making so many complicated projects, being a design team member... thanks for this weeks project!

Awesome layout, Ali. I love the phrases directly on the page. Definitely want to give that a try. Thanks for always showing us new ideas & new ways of looking at things.
Happy Wednesday.

Hey Ali,
I love the simplicity of this layout.
I notice you use an inkject printer at home sometimes to print your photos. Are you concerned that they'll fade over time, or is it okay because you've put them in an album?
KazT

I love that your doing this daily. Each new day I fall in love more!!

LOve this layout today Ali, these are the moments to treasure, everyday happenings. I have a question - my printer is bad and I want to get a new one any recommendations?

I really love this one for the simplicity...following along these two weeks has made me take a look at where I get "stuck" in my process. Your examples have helped so much.
Hope you don't mind one more question...
How do I get my handwriting on my photos without a WACOM? I've scanned my words in before - that works fine on a plain white background -- any easy/good tutorials out there that you or anyone would recommend? I do have photoshop and illustrator CS2 but still trying to figure it all out. thanks!

Ali, thanks sooo much for sharing the answers to those questions! I love what you did with the Wacom tablet...I just might have to get me one of those!

Hi Ali... I have a question for you... well more like I am curious. I love to take pictures but majority of the time, I am never in it. I notice that there are a lot of pictures of you with your son or you with your husband or you with your family, who usually take the pictures in those situations?

The printing directly on the photo is very nice. I enjoy the completed look of this layout and it might be simple enough for me to accomplish! Thanks.
Sue

Gorgeous layout! I love the clock with the arrow pointing to the photo. Nice touch!

This layout just blew me away! I will steal it immediately.

this is perfect and something I need to try. thanks for sharing the layouts this week.

Your life and your art is always a great source of inspiration to me! I love how you create without 'rules', that is very freeing & I am learning to do more of that! Thank you for the design tips...I am a photoshop novice (sad to admit!) so the simple ideas let me explore a little at a time!

This is absolutely gorgeous. My kinda layout, simple clean lines, just tells the story with no other interference from the page. Great Job!
can I scrap lift this one? with minor changes of course.

I'm so enjoying your simple & beautiful daily layouts- this one is amazing too. :)

Am slowly catching up on this week of blog entries---I really appreciate your journaling, and love that you write it out for us in your blog entry!!! One of my mini-pet-peeves with some magazine layouts---(and other shared layouts) is that the journaling is too tiny to read! A layout isn't complete without the story, and when it's unreadable, it's almost not worth looking at in my book! Ha :). So thank you for sharing the words along with the photos & layouts!