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

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

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