Janna Wilson

A little bit of digi magic- ooh La La!

Ooh la la! Vintage Carina - by Carina Gardner...new products arriving in the JS store soon! I did these layouts with the Paris & Co. papers and elements. Not my usual color palette but very refreshing! Love these cute pics of Abby and Ellie.

 

 

Like what you see...you can go NOW and pick up several of the items I used:

Paris & Co. Ala Mode Paper Pack

Paris Market Stamps 

Essentials Stitches V.1

Sew Crafty Stitches by Splendid Fiins

Keep a watch in Carina's shop at JS to see MORE Vintage Carina: French Paper Pack 2, Ribbon Stash and Lil Travel Journal Strips-- will pop in very soon!
 

Free Class - PS Top 5!!!

Summer school...YES!!!

You'll definitely want to check this out:

Kindergarten...seriously!?!?

Cash is still trying to wrap his head around the actually date/moment/time/morning he will get up and go to kindergarten. {giggle}  I can usually get through to him by saying you have to wake up "X" mornings but somehow I don't think telling him he has to wake up 100ish mornings would work this time. For now, I just say after summer...because he does understand that the sisters will get out of school and we all have more time at home for a while then they (and he) will go back to school. Whew!

The big day of registration was pretty monumental...getting to go to the school, tour, have milk and cookies and experience the classrooms and teachers. (click the image to find out all the products I used from JS)

I'm so bad, I just don't mess with my big camera so I catch it all with the iPhone...and Instagram :) Love it. I could totally live without the phone part...gotta have the camera. You can see how eager Cash was and how much fun he had the day we visited the school. Course I had to scrap it ;) I'm pretty much obsessed with all things Echo Park. oops! Would love to design for them someday?

And for those of you that I've scrapped with/around for years...how impressed are you that I can do boy pages! I didn't think I could! Its so fun!

Did I mention...that I got straight A's this semester. :) Just had to throw that in! I'm so excited! YAY!

 

Appreciate your teachers! FREE printable note card

It's that time of year again, time to do something sweet for your child's teacher. We do lots of personalized goodies at the store, stationery, acrylic cups, totes and so many fun things.  So here's a little card you can add to your gift.  I used these a couple of years ago and make packs of 10 or 20 personalized with Abby's teacher's names on them. Teachers always need fun stationery, right?

These print two to a sheet and you can add your teacher's name or put "THANK YOU" on it...personalize it however you like. The pdf is blank...no name included. If you're not savvy with Word or PS you can handwrite, stamp or add stickers to it.

Download the file here:  Teacher Note Card

NOTE:  You may have to set your printer settings to "BORDERLESS" in order to print this as is on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet.  You can print on plain or textured cardstock but these look FANTASTIC printed on bright white presentation paper like this Epson brand.

Hope you enjoy! 

 

PLEASE carefully read the Terms of Use when using my printable designs :) You are free to make these and give these as gifts but not for sale. Thank you!

 

My dancer...and a doodle :)

Been spending a lot of time running to and fro with the kids goings on...some fun things happening. Lots of dance recitals, tball and school trips! A couple of weeks ago Sara got to participate in her first Dance Show. Our school has a wonderful performing arts program and facility and the kids can get into dance class starting in 7th grade. Sara loved it this year. The big show at the end of the year was AWESOME. I can't even begin to tell how impressed I was...this was one of my fave acts from the night.  Caught Sara with pretty hair and make up before heading to the show...and scrapped my beautiful dancer:

Did this for a Jessica Sprague CT project...and LOVE the Schmootzy Stamped Alpha (DANCER) brush for the title! WOW! Looks like rub ons or stamping with paint SANS mess!!! Awesome. 

So I've been out of school for three days and I feel just as busy as ever. Going from 6:00 to midnight...whew! Got some freelance jobs going and trying to keep learning too...taking a creative class for the fun of it :) Ever learning...keeps me inspired.  Also working in my sketchbook...daily.

Want to do a collection of pretty words...

Been thinking about summer, sun, and together. 

Sad news today that the Meredith Corp. decided to cease publication of Scrapbooks etc. magazine. Working with those guys was the most wonderful experience...I am so grateful, thankful and have great respect for the editors, staff and my fellow contributors. Sad but I know they will all move on to something even better and bring their talent and professionalism to another publication and wishing them all the best.

Well, I'm on to my next task! Thanks for stopping in! 

 

Tball fun! (more Echo Park love)

I seem to be stuck on Echo Park , hmmm? 

I have to admit, I'm drawn to their clean designs and vintage feel. So fun to actually be designing layouts to share again. 

A few people have asked me if I'm going to print these or what? Its kind of strange since I was such a hard core traditional paper scrapbooker...I'm loving digital but I still want these to be something you can hold in your hand. So yes, I am printing...but not 12 x 12. I prefer 8 x 8 because the albums are easier to deal with and I can use regular matte presentation paper instead of purchasing the big stuff. 

Products used in this project are:

Echo Park Hybrids- Grand Slam Mini Theme, Note to Self Full Collection

and canvas paper (my design)

 

 

My first JSct layout: Echo Park Boys

I'm pretty sure I love creating boy pages just as much as girly ones! Its fun to kind of relax and create for the fun of it. I did this one in answer to the challenge posted here, but I also love all of the Echo Park stuff and really enjoy using it. Used a brand new Mini Theme by Echo Park "Boys" (coming May 7) and The Essentials stitches by Carina Gardner. LOVE!

I'm hooked on using my Instagrams.

geeked about web design!

Yep. I guess I'm ligit. I've designed two websites on my own-- (Bryan Alexis at UAFS is a pretty awesome web professor, if I do say so) and I'm pretty proud of the most recent...my portfolio website. This is bare bones coding from the ground up...wow! I've got a couple of issues in Safari browsers gonna troubleshoot that soon as I get a bit of time and I can't wait to add more of my work and tweak it a bit more. I actually never thought web design was something I'd be interested in doing but its really challenging...I love a good challenge. I've learned a lot and hope to keep at over the summer to hone my web skillz.

Hope you'll pop in and check it out. Try out the contact page and send me a note?

 

a day off? nahhhh...

I've been lying to myself and pretending I had a real day off today. Well, maybe not to do whatever I wanted but no school/work and I haven't done housework yet either :) oops!

Abby had her track meet and that was fun...she was a little discouraged with 6th place in her first race but I reminded her to do her best on her next event and she was thrilled with 2nd! And she felt satisfied that she did her best.

I got a couple of pics...and this is why I love Photoshop-->

You can still see the selection around where the girl was. Just lasso'd the little girl and deleted with content-aware...I didn't mess with it anymore...even though I wanted to.  It left the track lines a bit wavy in the background but girl gone...mission accomplished :) Abby is the super star now!

Abby got second in the hundred meter dash :) Cash was cheering her on--->

And I went to Staples and took advantage of this awesome deal!!! And I came straight home and printed this for my laundry room - I love it!

This was a part of my final in Adv. Typography...oh you can see more here.  It was a fun project, I think I'm going to offer some of the prints in my Etsy shoppe! Fun!!!

Well, I'm on the run again-- happy Thursday!