took a couple days off but got back to scrapping again

Yesterday I had to finish my last assignment for Design Your Life before today's new lesson started. My goal is to go through this class without falling behind. I love all the assignments and I love how each of them are building on each other. I must say that I can't wait until March though when we've learned everything there is to know about design. Here is a my last assignment on asymmetry. I used Wild Kingdom by Heather Roselli.

Then I did 3 more pages! I will admit that one of them I had the layout already done a couple months ago but needed to do the journaling, so that was easy. The fun part was that I bought my own handwriting and it's AWESOME! The other fun part is that I can use it for one of the January portfolio challenges at Sweet Shoppe Designs. January 23rd is National Handwriting Day so the challenge was to create a page that prominently uses your own handwriting. I must say it is totally wild typing and seeing your own handwriting show up. I have a feeling I'll be getting rid of a lot of fonts in my font folder because it's just so much more personal to use your own handwriting for journaling pages. You can get your own handwriting done too here by the lovely Darcy Baldwin. She was so great to work with. I had to do my letters a second time because this Type A person was trying hard to get the letters perfect and well, it didn't slant like my natural handwriting, oops! Check out her store, she has a lot of fun fonts and you can also get a custom cursive font too if you don't want print. I used XO by Fee Jardine (part of an older the digi files), Oh Baby from the Simply Sweet mag, You Make My World Go Round by Lauren Grier & Heather Roselli & Graffiti Grunge by Shawna Clingerman which is retired. The "twins" font is called angelic war which I think is from dafont.com, I can't remember.
I also worked on the Bonus Challenge for this week which was to create a layout using a white or nearly white background. I LOVE this page! I used my P365 picture from yesterday and added a bit of color pop to it. I used the kit His Playroom by Traci Reed and her awesome alpha template, Scribble One Out. The font is called Problem Secretary which I got from dafont.com. Oh, and there's Traci's bad sewing machine again... used Fleuriffic again.
Lastly, I'm really trying to work through my unused kits folder so I did a fun little page using As If by Fee Jardine which is one of the 21 mini kits for the 2009 quarterly assortment vol. 4. I love these quarterly assortments... who can beat 21 kits for only $4. I also used Scribble One Out by Traci Reed again... I LOVE that alpha! For the scalloped edge I used Edgy templates by Traci Reed.

Off to check out the new lesson for this week at Design Your Life! This week's lesson is on Repetition, YAY!