Joy (at Christmas time)

ooh - scrapbooking again pictures that are less than a week old (and I still have paper LOs that need my attention). Not for sure that this page is finished. The white space on the left feels good - but I don't have a title so that feels odd. Guess I'll let it simmer a bit and see if I come back to it.






Well I came back to it. I spent quite a few hours learning how to load actions, brushes & layers into PSE, but I finally figured it out and I know I'll use them alot in the future too.







Template - Template 15 by MOriginals
Kit - Dear Santa by Karen Lewis
Actions - Pristine Chipboard by Atomic Cupcake
font - jayne print, 2 peas Flea Market Block Regular

Born with a Little Diva Inside

Another day where the photos to scrap were totally dependent on the freebies I found today. The Diva kit was just perfect for this pictures of the girls and their sunglasses which were not necessary to scrap, but were too cute not too. This is the true benefit of digital, I'm able to do scrap so many other moments that might have been just left behind because it just took too much time. My goal now is to do two LOs a week - one for fun and one that really belongs in a baby book.







Template - Clustered by Tracy Drane
Kit - Diva by Daniela Peuss
Stitching - by Natali
Overlays - Vintage Floral Overlay by Shabby Princess
Fonts - Tall Paul, Euphorigenic

Thanksgiving 2007

We were blessed to spend Thanksgiving with friends (all from A-B). We had our first taste of fried turkey, and Julianna looked out for all the little girls so it was a relaxing afternoon with lots of yummy food (and desserts). I tried a new sweet potato recipe that was quite scrumptous (and almost healthy).







template - 6 Pic Double by Heidi Lentz
Kits - Harvest Spice & Shabby Fall by Shabby Princess
Overlays - by Clara Wallace and Jill&Jack
Fonts - grumble, 2 Peas Hot Chocolate

On Your Own

A traditional paper LO. I love how it turned out, but as soon as I figure out how to "ink" edges I'll be doing this type of LO digitally. I thought it looked done, but now looking at the pictures I think I need to add just a touch of stitching here & there - hard to believe it needs more with all those papers on there - I love them and they are the reason I'll continue to do paper LOs in the future.




Fonts - Serrific Grunge, Jayne Print
Papers - Basic Grey: Ashbury Street & Sausalito from the Phoebe collection, Ratine &n Mila from the Urban Couture collection, and Beatrice from the Perhaps collection
Layout Idea - Scraplift of 'Wibbly Wobbly' by beaglesonthebrain at 2 Peas in a Bucket.

Your Own Style

This is one of our favorite pictures. It doesn't look like much really, but it captures such a special time when the girls were first moving around - Alena by crawling and Iva by creeping on her tummy. This meant that Alena was always in the lead, but Iva made pretty good time.

I was working on this LO when I decided to check for freebies and this template was right there - I knew it would be perfect for this picture. It took a while to get the background color - I tried green, brown & pink all from the patterned paper, but they distracted from the photo. Finally I just made it the same color as the blanket in the photo and it all just clicked. The hardest part of this one was learning to use the text mask - you can't just move the text around or resize it once you use a mask (or at least I couldn't find that you could) so it took a few trials to get it right.

And now I really must get to work on that paper LO that I've been meaning to work on - but keep letting the computer distract me.



Template - Template 11 by MOriginals
Digital Paper Kit - Live for the Joy by Kay Miller
Overlay - Zoey by Clara Wallace
Overlay - Vintage Christmas by Sunflowers
Fonts - Serrific Grunge, Euphorigenic, jayne print

Perfect Pumpkins

I'm just getting all the old holidays taken care of - this once again required learning a few things - like modifying the clip for color, the direction of the spring and then breaking it into two pieces so that the shadows could be applied properly. Shadows are what make the whole thing realistic and I think this turned out ok, but still more to learn in this area.



Paper Kit – Festival by Shabby Princess
Clip - from Manic Monday by Lizandherbabes
Bow & Ribbon - from Tis the Season by Retrodiva
Tape – Mellykat
Fonts - 2Peas FleaMarket, CK Journaling, Euphorigenic

My 2nd Christmas

I got it done! Christmas #2. Not only did I get this done today, but I'm headed off to the neighbor's tonight to work on paper LOs. And because I got these done I'm all ready for Christmas #3. I do love this kit.

only 1 page for this holiday-it's hard to take pics of toddlers!

Template - November by Bastelzauber
Kit - Tis the Season by Retrodiva
Overlay Edge - Edge Pack by Lauren Bavin (couldn't find the product again on her site)
font - 2Peas Flea Market

My First Christmas

Another LO finished today!! It's getting easier and I'm realizing now some of the mistakes I made on the first digital pages - oh well. I'm sure that I'll have to make some adjustments too, since I'm using PSE6 now as a trial, but bought PSE 5. Just like paper scrapping in that regard. I found 3 of these Christmas papers as freebies, but I liked it so much now that I made this page I decided to buy the kit - hopefully I'll be able to do Christmas for several years with this kit.

And alas, I'd like to work on their 2nd Christmas tonight too - but other duties call.



Template - October by Bastelzauber
Kit - Tis the Season Freebie by Retrodvia (they offer only one freebie at a time, so this link may take to their current freebie, and alas the freebie papers are not in the kit.
Overlay Edge - Edge Pack by Lauren Bavin (couldn't find the product again on her site)
Staple & Bling - from the Design Tool Box by Raspberry Road Designs
font - 2Peas Evergreen

Splash in Puddles

I am making headway with PSE - I managed to do these LOs in about 2 hrs - so much faster than with paper. I've been wanting to scrap these pictures with this poem and I finally found the right combination of stuff - and I taught myself a few new things tonight as well - so bonus for me.

The girls had just gotten their new Crocs and they couldn't wait to wear them. They were the perfect shoes for a rainy day and the girls loved splashing through the puddles.



Template - Paper Squares by the DSP Team
Kit - Emma by Amy W. Designs
Push Pin - from the Design Tool Box by Raspberry Road Designs
Overlays - Vintage Floral by Shabby Princess, Crumpled Paper texture by Jill&Jack
Fonts - Jayne Print, Euphoroigenic

Moments

I had a little time today and I was going to work on getting a few paper LOs done, but I browsed through my inspiration site and I found a quote that fit perfectly with these pictures that I wanted to scrap - so the paper once again will have to wait. Using a template does make things so much easier. The hard part for this one was the mat/photo. The template just had straight edges all around and it just looked a little blah to me. Once I found the edge cropping in PSE I was much happier. Then I added the crumpled paper overlays to everything except the background paper and it all seemed to come together then.

These pictures were taken when we went to The Homestead in Virginia. It was beautiful and they had a walkway that just had perfect light.



Template - #10 by Pixelninechen
Paper Kit - Sweety Spring by Miss Vivi
Overlays - crumpled paper from Template 12 by Jill & Jack and crumpled paper by Cindy Doerksen
Stitching - by Vendula Sediva aka Natali
Staple - by Leah Riordan
Fonts - CAC Shishoni Brush, Calligraph421BT, 2Peas Hot Chocolate

The most Precious Gift

This was not what I was going to work on tonight. But I glanced through today's freebies and found this awesome template, and I had a couple of photos that went perfectly, so I thought I'd give it a try. Several hours later, I have a LO that I'm pretty happy with. Spent the the most time on the frame for the heart - applying different effects, trying to make one from buttons (spent alot of time searching for how to make buttons or find black buttons) only to have the solution hit me at the last minute (a piece of paper from the same kit) - and then it was only 5 minutes 'til I was done.



Template - B-day bonus 4 by Kim B
Digital Paper Kit - Urban Kiwi by Shabby Princess
Staple - Blog Freebie by L. Riordan
Fonts - Luna Bar, Portia

a tweak on Halloween 2007

So I wasn't totally happy with the first LO I did, and while I have other ideas in my head for pages that need to be done, inspiration struck and so I did this page again. When I went back through the photos, the one of them from the back with the bright orange pumpkins just really needed to be included. I think the 2nd result is better - yeah for digital scrapping!



Original LO


Overlays - Shabby Mommy Sanded Overlay by Shabby Princess & Zoey Overlay by Clara Wallace
Paper kit - Halloween Night Add on by Peggy France
Stitching - by Vendula Sediva aka Natali
Font – 2 peas ditzy

Fairy Tale

TWO layouts in one day - a record. Of course this is only one page, with one picture - so it should have only taken an hour - plus I used a template to boot. So a little modification for the photos (it had two), some Word Art, and a simple manipulation of the scrolls and bingo a finished layout.



Template - Template #24 by Netty's Scraps
Digital Kit - All Organic by Kay Miller
Fonts - The King and Queen, 2 peas Hot chocolate, Swiss

a sweet little baby (baptism)

Woo-hoo, another set of finished pages!! Ok, once again, just on the computer and not actually in the book. Boy, do I hope I like the way these print. This one was actually 75% done in PSE6 - that program is actually getting easier, but I still did some of the text and moved the photos in using Powerpoint - that way I could design two files in PSE, but use them as backgrounds for two different people. I added all the drop shadows (even the ones for the photos) on the quick page. So - do I like digital scrapping?? YES, it is great - especially since I used to spend this much time on the computer working on the design anyway.





Digital Paper Kit - Live for the Joy by Kay Miller
Edge Overlay – Shabby Princess Vintage Floral kit
Alpha - Sweet Serenity Alpha by Shabby Princess
Stitching - by Vendula Sediva aka Natali
Fonts - 2 peas glitter girl
Poem - Carlton Cards (thanks Aunt Betty!)
Layout - Feb 2004 Sketch by Becky Higgins