Micheggy: July 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Color Room

I think I have mentioned this website before but it is called The Color Room. It is really quite fun. They post a new color palette and a layout sketch each week and you design something using the palette, then upload a picture of your design to the website. It is a great place to get inspiration. I know that Peggy has used the site a lot for color ideas. This is the palette for this week.

I have to admit that this was not my favorite color palette but I found some pictures of Ian when he was two visiting Pismo Beach. Here are my layouts. These were done digitally on Photoshop Elements 7. I used the colors to make my own papers and elements. I didn't really use the sketch this time. But I sort of liked the sun element so I put that in. It was actually quite fun.

You should check out this site and all of the layouts that have been posted. They are really great. Some of them are a little "over the top" for me. I obviously like clean lines and pretty simple design. They are beautiful, don't get me wrong. Just different taste than mine.

If you are not a digital scrapper, you can post pictures of traditional pages as well. Check out this blog. I love the page she made of her son's (well, I think it is her son) first guitar. Awesome!

Enjoy!
Michelle

Who is Micheggy?

Micheggy proper noun, slang -The combination name of Michelle James and Peggy Stolley. Often used when referring to both Michelle and Peggy

Michelle James is a former scrapbook store owner, who has moved on to another career, but still has a love for scrapbooking, paper crafting, and card making. Michelle's newest love is digital scrapbooking, where she can sit in front of her laptop, virtually anywhere, and manipulate digital versions of papers, brads, flowers and more to create pages for her treasured photos.

Peggy Stolley currently works as a sales representative for several different scrapbooking companies, but in her former lives she has worked as a retail employee and elementary school teacher. Peggy also loves scrapbooking, paper crafting, and cardmaking, and her passion is altering objects. She finds great pleasure in taking an old brie cheese container or jar of snack mix and turning it into an adorably altered item.

Micheggy has worked together on many projects, their most favorite of which are weekend long crops. Their crops are always full of fun, prizes, ideas, shopping opportunities, and other unique experiences known only to those crop attendees. Micheggy has also collaborated on classes, researching and teaching techniques to fellow paper crafters.