When it Rains

So I'm still rocking the Mother LOAD.  I can't believe I've kept up with a layout a day for all of September so far.  Every day Lain gives us a challenge that we can choose to use or not.  One of the challenges was to use a less than your best photo.  My cell phone has not been "smart" and I only recently figured out how to get photos off it without internet access on the phone.  (although those of you following me on facebook know I'm now totally in love with my new iPhone and instagram)  I knew these photos accompanied a story that needed to be told.

This page focuses on a day that was full of struggles but finishes with how friends and family bring sunlight into your gray rainy days.

Notice the photo collage on the bottom 4x6?  Wanna know how I did it?  Check out the tutorial here!

Design Inspiration: I always get so many ideas from the Write.Click.Scrapbook monthly galleries.  I pinned this layout awhile ago and while scrolling through my Pinterest board I knew that this design would leave plenty of room for the LONG story I wanted to tell.


Color Inspiration:  My story set the tones for my page.  Gray background for the gray skies and yellow for the sunshine.

I cut these little clouds out of a piece of pattern paper.  Just to make them stand out a bit I inked the edges with blue and popped up one with pop dots.

I debated making my own sunshine but in the end decided to use this FREE digi one by Crystal Wilkerson.  To top it off I added a little yellow brad.  And added a little cloud.  Love this part of the page!

I gotta say, this is quite a story.  Hope you can read it, cause it's much too long to retype.  :)  Just to add some interest in the long text I altered the color of certain lines to make them stand out.

I am so glad this crazy story is documented!  And I truly love how the page turned out.





























How do you use your iPhone pics?  Have you ever scrapped about a gray skies kinda day in your life?  Or do you have a story about a day that just seemed like a comedy of errors?  Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear all about it!