Allen's World

Blue

For Romy's iNSD Minimalist Challenge @ MScraps. Everything from my Colors of Sweet kit, except for the frame from Mother Light @ MScraps. Font: Another Typewriter. Journaling reads: I am complex. And I like blue. =)

Gerdemann Garden Wander

The gardens were open today for unlimited wandering, which I adored! All rhododendri, except for a trillium, a narcissus, and a flowering maple tree. =)

Some More Layouts

I probably got the dates all wrong on this... do we still own this quilt, Mom?

For the Journaling Challenge @ MScraps. Everything mine from the Home & Hearth kit. Fonts: Mecheria and Poor Richard. Journaling reads:

I remember this quilt quite well--soft, torn at many of the seams,the embroidery a bit ragged, sometimes letting the shapes hint at their meaning with a trail of needle holes only. I had this quilt from the time I was born--my Aunt Bertha made this for me, by hand.  What an incredible gift! I can’t imagine anyone doing this nowadays...

For the Miscellaneous Challenge at MScraps (May; scrap in green and white with only accents of red & black).

Everything mine; template from A Year of Hope: Templates 5, plus elements/papers from Home & Hearth and A Year of Hope kits 1 & 2. Fonts: Mea Culpa and Another Typewriter. Journaling reads:

fog plus light equals mystery

i love it when the light
comes pouring down through the trees
and reveals the water-laden air

i can see the dark better
but a veil swirls between me and the beyond

A Work of Art

Used a digital watercolor technique by Rahul Jha.

Everything mine @ MScraps, most from my kit "A Year Of Hope" or in production. Fonts: Pristine and Good Vibrations.

My Day

For the Photography Challenge @ MScraps: We had to illustrate the following 8 words:

1. Loving: This is a gorgeous little sculpture that Eddie bought for me, and that I keep on my desk to watch over me.
2. Sweet: I've fallen in love with this sugar free, no fat, coffee concoction, and have one almost every day.
3. Seven: Little Allen at seven months--I was looking at some old pictures today.
4. Comforting: Our marvelous new non-eiderdown comforter which we recently got from Ikea. (I'm allergic to feathers.)
5. Silly: My upside-down dog.
6. Dry: My plant. =( We got a new couch and lost our plant table, and this one just can't get enough light, so it's dead. Dead is pretty dry.
7. Cold: Beer, of course!
8. Colo(u)rful: My lovely Copic markers!

Photo Filter

Published this month in the September Artisan Notebook.

I shot this photo through a light blue rubbermaid food storage container lid!

Everything with my Making Up kit @ MScraps. Font: Caviar Dreams.

Journaling reads: I only just got my camera; and I certainly can’t afford anything else right now. So how about a few filters? Ok... how about the plastic lid of a food storage container? Nice filmy
effect...

Oops, a couple more...

My Digi-Family (created for the ASDR race):

And a little vision of our garden these days (who's coming to visit, eh??? We're waiting!):

I think it must be getting around that time of the month...

Made this for a challenge @ MScraps to journal about a "feeling", with photos. Whatcha think? Subtle enough? *giggles*

A Love of Pattern

Another layout for this scrapbooking "race" I'm in:

Layout must have 2 photos: check
Title must have {a mix of font and alpha, check}
Layout must include journaling: check

Credits: everything mine @ MScraps. Background paper, ribbon, and button flower from Quiet Play. Graphic tree from I Think I'll Have Tea. Main patterned paper not yet kitted. Alpha not yet released, Stitched Alpha 1. Font: HMK Pegsanna & Barbara's Hand. Journaling reads: I may have inherited my {lack of} looks from Dad, but any art talent I might have, I definitely got from you, Mom, especially your love of pattern. You have made the most amazing dishes, like the one you made here, with amazingly regular repeating patterns, all exquisitely painted on porcelain. I don’t have your patience or hand-steadiness for painting such things, but I do love to make them on the computer! Unfortunately, what I do can’t be handed down half so easily as your beautiful pieces that I have on my shelves.

Me

I had to do this for my MScraps store. So I figured I might as well take some new pics, and one of them was actually somewhat palatable... ;)

Everything with my What Do We Do All Day?kit @ MScraps. Font: What Do We Do All Day (not yet released).