100 Layouts #14 - Oh Brother (completed 1/4/06)
Now Playing: AFI
Topic: Cats

Another layout I wasn't sure I was going to post. I'm still grieving over losing Tora, but it's been almost two years and the other day I saw this layout again and it didn't hurt quite as much as before.

A comparison of Tora and Shiro, the two brother kittens we adopted. Photos from fall 2005.  I love love love this boy paper from Reminisce. I'm usually not very good at using papers that have a title or border printed on them, but this one worked out well. I cut the letters from the alphabet paper.

 

100 Layouts #9 - Lords of the Jungle (completed 12/28/05)
Now Playing: Coldplay
Topic: Cats
One of many layouts of my new kitties.

Journaling: "Or of the backyard, anyway. Tora and Shiro on an early exploration of the yard. Shiro is the bold adventurer, Tora the intrepid climber. 16 November 2005"

A fun use for some flowered paper. (I LOVE Chatterbox paper!) For a long time I never bought flowered paper, figuring that since I didn't have little girls, I had no need for flowered paper. But it's perfect for pictures of kitties in the backyard. Besides, who says you can't use flowers on boy layouts? You just have to do it right.

The picture of Tora scaling the back wall is classic. He couldn't jump right to the top of the wall (still can't; at that place, the wall is about 7 feet high), so he claws his way up instead. Even the photo guy at Target commented on that picture. It's one of my all-time favorites.

I played with the descreen on the scanner, and think I've got it figured out now. It's WAY WAY WAY faster than the descreen on my old computer and scanner.

Materials: Patterned paper and stickers - Chatterbox; black letter stickers - Provo Craft; computer font - Bongo Fraktur