Today’s Technique: watercolor pencil distressing. I figured this out myself! I wanted some depth on this page and my little name tags looked like they were floating. So I pulled out the watercolor pencils I got from my brother Joel for my birthday years ago. I dipped the pencil in a cup of water, then…
Continue ReadingBeautiful Sisters (the Wedding Album)
Here’s the girls page. I Loved how this turned out. I love the colors, the textures, and, ofcourse, the memories the photos evoke. All the hours we spent sewing those dresses, every time the serger gave us fits, practicing our hair-do’s, shopping for shoes. 🙂Didn’t I have pretty bridesmaids?
Continue ReadingCake! (The Wedding Album)
Oh, can’t you just taste it? Yes, the cake was as good as it looks. I did black and pink and polka dots with this page in an effort to accent the vintage feel the photos had, especially the B&W on the left – looks like it’s from the 40’s, doesn’t it? I love it.
Continue ReadingFriends at the Reception (The Wedding Album)
Well, here is my page from yesterday, accomplished between folding a load of laundry, cleaning the kitchen, entertaining the sweet baby who lives at my house, and then totally interrupted by a trip to the DMV to get my license changed so that I am officially Trina HOLDEN. (hooray!) So, I never finished the page….
Continue Reading“Trust” (The Wedding Album)
These were such special moments, I’m so glad our photographers caught them! The text is what Dad said when he gave me away at the altar…
Continue Reading“The Groom and His Men” (the Wedding Album)
Here’s our first completed and photographed page – this is not in order! Just in the order that I get them done or get photos of them. I really like this page – the layout, the color scheme, and the way I was able to include the embellishments. The long photo on the bottom is…
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I’m practicing posting pictures and making links, figuring out blogger. Here’s our guest book from the wedding. Jeremy and I made the little book a few weeks before the wedding. The original artwork was done for us by our dear friend, Suzanne Bloom. She writes and illustrates the most endearing children’s books, and I was…
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