Scrapbook layout

This winter we took a fabulous vacation to the west coast.  We flew into LA and then drove the Coastal Highway up to the Monterey Peninsula, stayed there for a few days and then drove back to LA for a couple days and flew home.  It was wonderful to escape winter for a week and enjoy the coastal CA weather.

Of course I made an entire album of digital scrapbook layouts from our vacation.  Lately have been scrapping mostly in Anna Aspnes  artsy style.  This layout, however, I did mostly from scratch.  I used one overlay from Designer Digitals but that's it.  My original inspiration did come from Pinterest (of course).  The camera and iPhone icons are from the web; everything else is from photoshop elements.

The font is Bebas Neue.  The dots I made with the brush tool in photoshop (hold the shift key down to keep the line straight) and all the icons (except previously mentioned) are in the custom shape tool.  I took the photo with my iPhone and used the burn tool on the sky.... that is the only editing I did on the photo.

As an aside... I took all my photos with my iPhone (my husband was the one with the fancy camera) and I loved how my photos turned out and how convenient it was to just take my phone out of my pocket and take pictures and video instead of carrying my point and shoot camera too.  I brought my camera and never took it out of the bag.

Lego Craft

I was rummaging through my craft stuff and I came across these slightly rectangular metal tins.  I know I bought them from Stampin' Up! during one of their clearance sales, but I cannot remember why I bought them or how long I've had them.  On Pinterest I have seen little mint tins reused into little travel lego sets and so I thought I would do that to these.  The tins I have are probably twice the size of mint tins, so I needed kind of a large lego piece for the top.  There really aren't any lego pieces that big except for base plates.  So I ordered a couple of base plates and cut them with craft scissors.  They actually cut easier than I thought they would.

Then I hot glued the cut base plate to the top of the tin.  Does anyone use hot glue anymore?  It was the only thing I had.  If it doesn't hold, I will use gorilla glue.

I made six tins all together.  I am sure each boy will get one.  The others I think we'll fill with Lego mystery mini figures and use as gifts.

Here they are with some Legos in them.

So, yes, the whole year of 2014 went by without a blog post.  I have still made stuff... I've mostly knitted, but I've also sewed and scrapbooked.  I made some pretty cool stuff in 2014.  Now I'll have to make some more and remember to blog about it.

Happy New Year!!!