So I recently got a new iPhone, and I’m super excited about the camera most of all, the pictures look great from it. My older phone didn’t take the greatest pictures, but that hasn’t stopped me from scrapping them. I thought I’d share a handful of layouts I’ve done recently using pictures from my phone.
Sometimes with a less than stellar photo using a smaller page size works great. And for me fun embellishments help take away from the graininess/off color of some cell phone photos.
Using a bunch of pictures on one layout works too. Because I used five pictures on this layout I was able to crop out parts of the photos that didn’t add to the story.
One of the best things about a cell phone is that it’s with you all the time (at least mine is!). So you’re able to capture things instantly instead of running for your bigger/better camera. I really like the photo of Tuesday reaching for the phone too, I could do a whole mini book with those types of photos!
I have a few photo editing apps on my phone (camera + is my favorite). It’s fun to play around with cropping and filters in the camera. And if you use a program like postal pics (which I did for all the square shaped photos) you can get them mailed to you with out ever uploading them into the computer.
Don’t forget to actually scrapbook about the fact that you are taking photos with your phone! I’m sure Tuesday will never think anything of it, so it might be interesting to her that it was a big deal to me when she was little. I’m thinking a mini book about this topic is in order….
What have you done with cell phone photos? I’d love to see some of your projects, link up!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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I keep meaning to post these photos of our living room, updated and without the television. Here is the before:
It wasn’t all that terrible, it just wasn’t all that useful either. We didn’t use it as much as we could have because we don’t watch TV with Tuesday (or really that much ourselves anymore) and it was weird to hang out in here all facing a big black box that wasn’t on. With the television gone we re-arranged to make the room more open and hang out friendly. I also wanted to lighten it up so I sewed new curtains from some gorgeous Japanese fabric.
I still need to figure out a few accessories, but this is it! We love the new layout (and we pretty much tried everything). I’m sure you’re going to ask about this beautiful rug. I’ll tell you it’s by Amy Butler for Chandra. DON’T BUY IT! Stay far away from these rugs, and this company. We searched all over the place to find a rug that fit our look, and this was it. Unfortunately I think the workmanship is poor. Our first rug had chunks coming apart and now we have to treat this thing like a baby. We can barely vacuum it, it took months for the company to finally concede and give us another rug and I’m not sure this one will last either. Super annoying.
The only new things I made for the room were the curtains and pillows. I just moved everything else around from the room or other places in the house.
The surround I painted five years ago (over existing tile). It’s held up wonderfully, I’ve never retouched it, though I probably should in places. I was reminded of what it used to be when Amanda posted this. If you have a surround you really don’t like and no money to replace it I highly recommend trying paint!
Now this room I still have to figure out. I want to pull down the pretty glass fronts for the side cabinets and paint those. They have a lot of little panes so I’ve put it off for years and they’re collecting dust in the garage. The table I am still wavering on. I think black would be too dark. I’m glad I didn’t get to this project in the summer because with light coming in I didn’t think about the darkness factor. Now that light is so much less and such a rare site I think I would be sad to see all the reflection from a lighter top go away. But I don’t know if I want it all white. Maybe a black base? I’d like to not have to bother much with the chairs, and that way I could just keep them black. Ideas my friends? -
Last month some girlfriends and I went to the beach to celebrate craftiness. Sarah, Sciarrino, Erin, Kristen, Jenna, and I headed to Pacific City on the coast to get our craft on. We were each responsible for a project or activity, and of course we brought lots of other things to do as well, including games and great food.
My project was mini books. Everyone’s turned out so great. I love how different and special they each are. And how everyone had a different process (that’s Kristen’s laid out above).
Other projects: natural dyed scarfs, bottle cap art, freezer paper stencils, necklaces.
Plus great food.
Such lovely friends and such a great weekend. It’s so easy to forget these kind of single adventures when you have a significant other. Then you add a child, and for us it’s all about family time. We can never seem to get enough. So it seems kind of selfish in a way to take days away from the family. But coming home relaxed, inspired, refreshed… that is really worth something for me. I don’t do this kind of thing often, but I want to make sure I remember to let myself have this time, because I really am a better everything else (partner, mom, friend) when I do.
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