Building the Workbench

Cheers

This layout is fantastic! Excellent work. The matching colors, the spacing and embelishments are all great. All details work perfectly together right down to the font of the letters.

September 17, 2006

Wonderful! I love the colors and the journalling!

July 23, 2006

Ilene, you make amazing layouts. I just love them all. I love the embellishments on this one and the journaling is fun. You have a great husband that is for sure!! Would it be possible to get a photo of your plum tree and replace one of the other photos? I think it would help tie it all together if we could see the plum tree that you are referring to in your journaling on the right side. Keep these great layouts coming...I LOVE looking at them and they inspire me to get scrapping again.

June 19, 2006

The digital elements are pulled from numerous kits. First, from Cottage Arts, I used elements from Sage Sisters and Outdoors Page Paks, and from ecuts, I used elements from School, Honor and Autumn Leaves. Generally, the ecuts cost about $6 a kit, and the Cottage Arts elements come on cd's that generally cost about $25-$30 each, but they are well worth the price because they have numerous page paks on each cd. The plum tree is not visible in the pictures. In case anybody is interested, I am careful to organize my digital elements in such a way that they are easy to browse through with Photoshop Elements. My motto is it's no use having it if you can't find it, so I spend a lot of energy on organizing.

June 18, 2006

I love this layout, and I am full of envy for all those wonderful digital elements. Was it a kit? Where can I get me some of that? (I have a layout in mind that I think it would be great with). The ruler element is just perfect and I love the "vise" around the title. I am a little confused about the journaling about the plum tree. Is that the tree in the top right hand picture? I don't usually like arrows on layouts, but I wonder in this case if a small arrow linking this box to the section it describes would clarify this for me without distracting from your layout.

June 18, 2006

aww! You have an awesome dh! I love reading your story! The embellies you used are just perfect for the page! The only thing I can think of is the way the picture was cropped (particularly the one on the extreme left and the extreme right), it looks like it's not proportional. I'm not sure what program you use, but in photoshop when you crop a picture, there's a place at the top where you can actually put the dimensions of the photo so that it will still maintain its proportion, or if you resize it, you can hold the shift button so you retain the correct proportions. HTH!

June 18, 2006

Gr8 layouts! You did awesome work. TFS!

June 18, 2006

Very nice! Great colors. Love the ruler. Terrific pics. It's wonderful that you used quite a bit of space for journaling. Great work!

June 18, 2006

I, too, love the colors. The journaling is a great tribute to the "wood-artist" your husband is. It sounds like he'll never slow down with the projects, but that's great! I like the brads/tacks on the ribbon and the tag. They remind me of nails, and are very subtle. I like the use of the same font throughout your title and journaling. I think it unified the three blocks of journaling nicely.

June 18, 2006

Ilene, this layout is amazing! You are so good at the two page layouts! They all look so balanced and well preportioned. I love the colors you used, and the ruler and photo corners and tag are perfect embellishments! I like how you overlapped the two photos on the right page. "outdoors" looks cool too! Great LO, again!

June 17, 2006

Excellent color and paper choices for a very masculine layout. I really love the embelishments you chose too, especially the ruler, photo corners, and the "outdoors" letters. Again you've done a wonderful job of placing journaling and pics so that there are nice focal points for the eye to zone in on. The cs and ribbon on the bottom do a great job of tying the two pgs together to create a cohesive "whole". I really enjoyed this journaling. It is light and really keeps the readers attention and interest. I really like the section of journaling that ends "and then there’s...." HA! Isn't that just how it goes with home improvement? The projects never end! We moved into a very run down fixer-upper home in the summer of 2003. Slowly but surely, it is becoming our own and beautiful, but there is always more that needs to be done. One journaling suggestion. You may want to reword your second sentence of journaling. Because it is very long and uses many commas, I found myself getting a little lost, and had to read through it twice before understanding just what you were talking about. I think that you could reword the first part of the sentence, and then use a colon to denote the list of things Larry accomplished by extending the fence to the front of the new shed. Just a thought. :) This is a wonderful tribute to all of the hard work he's done - a very nice way to show your appreciation!