Our New Home

SHCG: What a fun LO :) I love the strip with all the brads across and all the moving stickers are cute. I would just suggest moving the "our" and "new" on the same line right above the "home" Fab job :)

July 07, 2010

Congratulations!! Great pictures too!

July 02, 2010

SHCG: ROFL I LUV the photos drinking the wine and chilling on the chair. great job on the brads, luv the different colors and the stripe paper. I really dig the "moving" embellishments.

June 29, 2010

I love the brads and striped paper together! Nice placement of all those pictures. Good work!

June 28, 2010

very nicely done!

June 24, 2010

SHCG: Cute LO! I love all of the embellies, the color combo and brads strip !

June 17, 2010

SHCG: Cute page and love the stickers and the color combination that you've used. My only suggestion would be to maybe matt the 'our new' part of the title because the white really stands off the page a lot. I also really like the stip of brads.

June 17, 2010

SHCG: Buckle up, newbie! This is gonna be a bumpy ride. ;) Lots I like about this page: the color palette is a good homey one, super cute embellies, and I love that the focal pics are matted and larger than the busier, photojournalistic film strip of pics. All that noted, I have a load of suggestions: When I first joined this group, my SHizztas at the time got me to start seeing the value of anchoring stickers. You also mentioned that you could do more with the title, so I'm thinking you can anchor the embellies to your title. First, I'd shadow the title in one of the brighter colors of your palette, then make a rounded rectangular mat for it. Next, cut a curvy road to go under the moving van that leads to and connects the our and new charms, continues to HOME (maybe under it, too), and trails off the right side of the page. At the end of that road, I can see the package tied with a red ribbon, sorta like your embellies are taking us from point A to B. This is gonna take some fiddling, moving stuff around, possibly closer together. You might wanna consider extending that road idea to help the viewer's eye flow from one pic to the next, and that might help redirect where your other embellies could land rather than having them float around in certain spots. Photo placement: I think the center strip would be better suited at the bottom, move the bottom two pics together and place them in the center row under the title, move the journaling block to the center row under the top photo. Journaling: Your pics have me wanting to know more, not necessarily for me, but maybe you'd wanna document the thoughts going through your minds in these pics by either lengthening the journaling or adding captions. More on embellies: I really don't think you need that many brads, in fact they currently bisect the page horizontally. Save them for the flowers, or as corners for the title block, or punctuation... Finally, one thing I do a lot of is question the purpose of embellies, especially flowers and buttons, and how they relate to my subject. Are they complementary/necessary to my central idea? Or are they just thrown on to decoratively fill negative space I don't know what to do with? All right, I gave you a lot to think about. Use what's most meaningful to you, your style, your message, file it away, or fuhgeddaboutit. Ultimately, it's about pleasing yourself. Welcome to SHCG!

June 13, 2010

Really like all the diffrent sized photos you have on here.

June 11, 2010

what a great subject to document!

June 06, 2010

I love the moving truck and the "dolly" (I think that is what the two wheeler thingie is called?)

June 06, 2010

SHCG: Fun LO. I really like the colors you used. After reading the other comments about the bright our new tags I can understand what the flash can do. If they aren't as bright, there is not an issue. I like the embellies you used, the brads along the photos in the center of the page are great. I love seeing hand written journaing, such a personal touch. Great inspiration for me, as I have to do a page of buying and moving into my place.

June 06, 2010

Thanks for the comments Blushpea....the "our home" is actually brushed metal and the flash brightened it up..... ;-)

June 06, 2010

Great lo! I like the film strip of photos!

June 06, 2010

Nice....like the embellishments.

June 06, 2010

SHCG - Those are some WAY cute moving-themed stickers - the keys, the handcart - love 'em all! And love your use/placement of multiple pics & your handwritten journaling. Super color/pp selections. Excellent how you echoed the circles from the title, in the line of brads. Now, I like how you did the title but I feel "our new" in those bright white circles, when there's no other spots of such bright white in the page, makes them take a lot of focus. I suggest using a white gel/paint pen & dotting "home" with white dots, so that the rest of the title gets as much emphasis as those 1st 2 words. Overall, fabulous scrapping, Shannon! Great memories captured here.