What I've Been Up To.

So I entered a contest over at ScrapStreet.com and while I really enjoyed myself, it was probably the most strenuous thing I've done in a long time. I wish I'd had the chance to be involved in this contest and not have to work a regular job. It was just very hard to find good solid blocks of time to do what I wanted. I feel like I would have been able to do better work if I'd been able to give myself more time. So, here are the other pieces I designed for this contest. I won't know how I faired until tomorrow, but all I need is for someone to like what I do, that's enough for me. Because, if you have enough people that like your work, well then you have a following, now don't you.






















My designs are the papers sort of in the background. I really like the trend of the office style papers, so I just put my own spin on them, by using none tradish colors and adding some cool elements simply made from many dots of different sizes. This round of the contest was done to collaborate with another designer to create a combo kit. I think it was pretty successful when combined with the cool Rusty Memory elements created by S&C Designs.






















This round I needed to create a kit using a specific number of elements, solid papers and patterned papers. The inspiration from this came from my little brother whom is a musician and the color palette was one I've just always liked. Typically both the color palette and theme come about simultaneously. Not always, but about 95% of the time. I was really happy with this and don't care what comes of the contest, I am proud of what I've accomplished.























The last challenge was to create an alphabet and number 1-10 for kit. I just wanted my alpha & #'s to match my wood grain and look "Well Worn" with holes in them. I think I achieved the look I was going for and again I am proud. We also had to create 2 layouts, one using another persons kit and one using our new kit.
























I used CactusMANGO Designs Urban Tropics kit for this twist on the tradish Christmas layout. I really like it, and feel like it doesn't need to be red & green to show me it's Christmas time.























And finally, here is the layout using my kit, obviously featuring my inspiration, my brother Joe. He is a really amazing person and hope that he finds true happiness someday. On this layout I used a very cool Photoshop action to achieve the photo collage look. It can be found at www.panosfx.com

So, you can wish me luck if you like, but really, I'm just happy when I am able to create, and simply telling me if you like my work, puts just as big a smile on my face as if I were to win the Mega Millions lottery.
Thanks.