amy tan class projects

I promised that I'd be back today to share the projects I made in the Amy Tan class that I took last week, and true to my word, here I am to share!!! You'll have to forgive the photos. My computer crashed a few weeks ago and the only way to get it working was to reset it to factory settings...that meant that photoshop was gone and we just haven't put it back onto the computer yet. So these photos were all taken with my iPhone and edited with the PicTapGo app (one of my favorite photo editing apps on my iPhone)!!

Up first we made a layout. I lifted the design pretty close to the sample that Amy had. Love this layout and you might laugh at the photos with the title...but if you know me then you know it fits perfectly!!!

Yes, the title is "oh hello there my darling friend" and my photos are of Starbucks!! LOL!! I love my Starbucks that's for sure!! There is a barista, Cindy, at our local Starbucks that knows my hubby and I, and our drinks very well so we occasionally get notes written on our cups!! So much fun and I am so happy to have it documented!!

Our second project was a set of 3 mini journals. Again, I stuck pretty close to the samples for my journals and I can't wait to put stuff in them!! That craft one with the camera and xoxo...that's the one that Amy wrote in and signed! She put a message on the first page and then signed the bottom on the last page. So cool and I can't wait to get some fun stuff in these!!

Last year, when my hubby and I planned our summer trip to Minnesota, I had 2 similar sized journals that I used to document the planning and the trip, along with ideas of things I wanted to document!! That white one with the "here we go" on the front is going to be used for our planned summer trip this year to Boston, MA!! So excited to have this done and ready to go for that trip!! I am thinking I might make a few more of these cute little journals!!!

And then I wanted to make another layout to go across from the Starbucks layout in my album. This one I lifted from the fabulous Janna Werner!! 

I lifted this layout pretty close to the original that I saw on my instagram feed. I did change out a few things and made a journaling spot in the bottom right corner using a technique I had seen her do a while ago using chalkboard paint. I tucked that idea away as a "I want to try that" and pulled it out for this layout!! Will be doing that again!! Used my white gel pen to journal and it turned out perfectly!!

Hope you had or are having a fantastic Monday!! Thanks for stopping by!!
deb