My 3rd Christmas

These pages don't feel like my finest moments, but I always need to ramp up with my scrapping and I've been off for three weeks now. Lots of holiday memories to scrap - but I don't want to overdo it since we don't have lots of pictures of the previous Christmases.

I used a template, but had to change it a bit. It had some really neat elements that I kept - like the folder tie & the ribbon stitching - but I had to work at it to make them mine. The template was really neat, but it was all gray scale, so it was designed to be just recolored, but once again the bright colors of the girls dresses didn't really lend themselves to simple recoloring. I had to take the folder tie completely apart (thread, button, eyelet) and I had to add the gold eyelets to the ribbon tie, otherwise they would have been just brown too. In the end it was worth the effort, but sometimes I just wish I knew how to design a ribbon - but I think that might be a while off.








Template - Template 66 by Lottchen
Kit - Tis the Season by Retrodiva
Action - Chipboard by Atomic Cupcake
Font - 2Peas Flea Market

Mother's Day 2006

I'm so happy to post a new LO. December is flying by as well, and it didn't seem like I was making as much progress. Last week was terribly busy and this week is almost gone as well. Soon we'll be on our way to visit family & friends for the holidays and I haven't decided whether I'll bring my laptop with me or not.

Not many new techniques here - just reapplying the ones I learned late last month. I hope everyone has figured out when I post two LOs that look very similiar there is always one picture that is an individual picture of the girls, so they have a unique page in their baby book.








Template - Template 166 by Andrea Gold (Andrea posts a new template almost few days for free, but they are only available for a short time, so you have to keep up with her)
Kit - Chocolate Berry by Flergs
Layer Style - Chocolate Berry Glitter Styles by Flergs
Fonts - Scriptina, Jayne

Christmas Card for a Friend

My friend and neighbor honored me this year by asking me to help with her Christmas card. It was so much fun putting together a card that captured this jam packed year. Even I was amazed how wonderful putting the magic of Disney & Christmas together was. It was made even more fun because it was a full 4 sided card, so I got to design something for all 4 sides.






Paper - from Świąteczne papierki - part 1 by Monika
Layer Style - glitter freebie by Flergs
Font - Papyrus

Leaning Pumkins

On this layout I got to play around with two actions that make pictures concave & convex. You can do it yourself with Filters-Distort-shear. I was able to accidentally do it once and thought - ok, that is easy, and then I could never repeat it. I need to practice, because it is a handy trick to make things look more real, especially with the pulled away stitches.







Template - In Stitches by Tracy Drane
Kit - A Call to Act, a collaboration hosted by the Digichick Community
brad - recolored from No Room for Grey by Retrodiva Designs (was previously a freebie)
tag hanger - from Bonne Annee by Maman Scrap Passion
Stitching - by Natali
Action - Concave & Convex by Panos
Fonta - Euphorgenic, jayne print

2007 Christmas Card Photo Shoot

ok - not a speck of pink or green in sight - not even a variation like red. Making something feel like Christmas when you're all wearing black is hard (you look good, but it's not seasonal). Lots more adjustment layers and recoloring here - the original paper was purple - now that I've learned how to adjust hue/saturation the possibilities seem endless.







Kit - portion of collab kit Whimiscal Wonderland by Flergs
Embellishments - Cork Stars by Flergs
Glitter Style - glitter freebie by Flergs
Font - fontdinerdotcom sparkly

See these LO on Flerg's blog here

2005, 2006 Christmas Card Photo Shoot Pics

Before I started digital scrapping I would have never used glitter even if it was the hottest trend going. Now I can't seem to get enough of it - it is so fun, maybe it's just a girl thing, but I really like it. I found a fabulous collab kit for Winter coming out and even though only 2 of the 12 parts were out there was plenty of inspiration. One background I had to make and in it I learned about adjustment layers and how to recolor a bunch of stuff for a LO. The green one is a QP (quick page) and I just had to plop my pictures behind it. Now to go do a design for this year's photo shoot which I hope to have done soon as it's time to get cards in the mail.










Kit - portion of collab kit Whimiscal Wonderland by Flergs
Chocolate Berry by Flergs
Embellishments - Cork Stars by Flergs
Font - fontdinerdotcom sparkly