One Year (and now they are almost 5)

This is one that has been sitting waiting for me. It was one of my old hybrid projects that never got finished and I am determined to get those redone completely digital. It started off as a powerpoint presentation and I think I could have actually printed it from there as a jpeg, but I have learned a bit more about photo editing and think I improved my photos the 2nd go around, the original post is here.




Page idea from a layout years ago on 2 Peas in a Bucket
Paper kit – Sweet Sprinkles by Shabby Princess
Tape – Mellykat
Staple – L. Riordan
Fonts – 2 peas duck duck goose, pea johanna

Long Lost Sarah

Ahh -finally a moment to post my latest LOs. My computer was attacked by some virus/worm junk in March and that slowed me down considerably. I am still trying to recover some items, but did not lose any of my scrapbooking supplies or products for which I am very thankful.

Template 96 by Yin Designs Kit - Close to my Heart by Zoe Pearn Font - Trebucht

Template 41 by Yin Designs Kit - Summer Cottage by Shabby Princess Fonts - Bernard, CK Journaling	Template 22 by Yin Designs Kit - Spring Denim by Scraps from Sarah Belle Fonts - Rosewood, Segoe Script

Kit - Dani Mogstad - All You Need is Love Font - Highland Park	Template 9 - Yin Designs Kit - A Very UnMerry Birthday by Dani Mogstad Font - CK Journaling

All I Dreamed Of

This is a redo from paper to digital - another one of those LOs where I got one paper one scrapped and got all the pieces cut to do the second LO and just never got the second one done.

In addition to my MoM newsletter duties, I've also decided to try and teach some (so far 14 have joined our little group) of our mom's of multiples how to digital scrapbook. So this page is also serving as the first "lesson" of that process. I'm trying to lead the whole process on-line cause it's hard to get together without kids and with computers, but hopefully I'll be able to do some hands on stuff too.

I was finally able to scan in some ribbons, extract them and have them keep their translucence (sp?). Not something I want to do a lot of, but I did want the ribbon to be similar to the ones that I had on the original LO.



Template 06 by Scraps from Sarah Belle
Pattern Papers from Festival by Shabby Princess
Solid Papers from Sugar & Snails Mini by Scraps from Sarah Belle
Glue Blobs from Glue & Glitter Blobs by Flergs
Actions - Inked Edge by Atomic Cupcake


HERE is the folder with the mini kit & tutorial - take what you wish
HERE is the template

I won't be around much the rest of the month - we're close to halfway so it's time to start the newsletter and my internet browser keeps crashing every 5 minutes, so its not a lot of fun to be on-line and its practically impossible to get anything done. If I do have any spare time I'll be working on things for the OK, Just a Few Boys kit.

Cake Anyone?

I knew I had to scrap this picture when I took it, and I came to my computer with ideas of clusters & swirls and just more stuff on the page. I browsed through some galleries for inspiration and nothing. So I just laid some stuff out on the page and simple just seemed right. I modified the alpha a bit by changing the color the stroke inside the letter from it's original white to a color from the patterned paper.



Kraft Paper from Freestyle Paper by Kimberly Giarrusso
Block Paper from Trendy Pop Add-on by Cori Gammon
Alpha from Promise Collection by Shabby Princess
Clip from Miss the Bus by Britt-ish Designs
Fonts: CK Ali's Writing, CK Journaling, 28 Days Later

Easter Cutie

Ok, once again I don't feel like this is my best work, but these pictures have been out there for a while waiting to be scrapped and it feels good just to have the LO completed. Only this Easter to go (I think I only got one or two good photos this year too) and then on to Birthdays.

I had to spend some time with this LO recoloring everything. I really liked the designs in this kit, but the colors didn't coordinate with the photos. It took the longest to get the background paper changed from teal dots to green dots - it isn't really difficult, you just use the magic wand selector and select the color. Since it has a slight grunge effect the tone isn't 100% all over so I just had to select a bunch of times to get most of it, and then I enlarged the dots just a smidge and recolored.

If you'd really like some inspiration for this template check out these two LOs. This one by Tracyfish is a Spin A Lift - you'd hardly recognize the template. I think Dani Mogstad is a fabulous scrapper (and designer) and this LO is no exception.








Template #31 for Cookie Decorating 101 at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Kit - Trendy Pop Addon by Cori Gammom (all recolored)
Flowers from Promise by Shabby Princess (recolored)
Actions - Painted Metal, Colored Glass by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts - Mandingo, CK Journaling

RAK for Heidi

Last night I picked my DigiShopTalk member kit and it was from Shabby Princess. She just has these fabulous free kits on her site, and it me think of her last free release and the pages that my friend Heidi had done with them. Heidi is dear to me for many reasons, one of them is that we are both twins with twins and our twins were born on the same day and the same gestational age - so the twin factor is overwhelming between us. We've never seen each other in person, but her spirit is with me every day. She posted this beautiful picture of her twins from the July 4th holiday, and I had just gotten this wonderful kit & I felt tempted to enter a LO in the DST Featured Designer Contest where you are limited to only the items in the kit. That was a bit of a challenge for me as I'm usually grabbing stuff from everywhere. Heidi is a very talented scrap artist herself, and would probably do this photo more justice than I, but this one's for you Heidi.

I modified the photo a bit by adding an aged photo layer and then changing the opacity so that it had a bit of a sepia feel like the papers.





Kit - Summer Cottage by Shabby Princess available to Gold & Diamond DST Members
Page Idea from Beautiful Spirit by Vanessa at Your Favorite Pair
Actions - scalloped dot & inked edge by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts Amazone BT, Century Gothic, Times New Roman

Redo - Minutes New (still not satisfied)

Once again, I stumbled into a creative road block trying to get the title to work - and I'm redoing the page - arrgh. This was one of the first digital ones I did so it was rough anyway. It took me just a little bit to put the other pieces together and I knew what I wanted the title to say, but just couldn't make it fit on the page. Still not for sure it's really what I want. I like all the individual pieces, but I'm not for sure that they fit together the way I want.

This time I learned about Modify-> Expand & Contract and used it to create the detail on the number and the borders on the paper tags.

	original LO

Floral Paper, photo Mat from Vintage Garden by Flergs
Pink Paper, brown paper & staple from Blog Freebie by L. Riordan
Ribbon from Spring Romantic bonus by Doreen Stoltz
Flower from Sweety Spring by Miss Vivi
Fastner from Fastners by ScrapMatters
String Knot from Knotted Stitches by Katie Hadfield
Kraft paper from Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess
Actions - inked edge by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts - CK Ali's Writing, 2 Peas Hot Chocolate, 2 Peas Glitter Girl, Death

Bloom

I'm quite happy with this LO. I found this template a few days ago and it just seemed perfect for this theme. It was actually harder than I thought to find 5 different picture of the girls from this day, but it's nice to only have one of them together and lots of individual ones - its rare that I have that in photos.

I played around with some blending modes on this one with the title and I really like how that turned out - I ended up using soft light at 100%. I even used the eraser tool today for the 1st time to erase part of the letter B - it's supposed to look like it was there before the paper was sanded. I darkened the background paper just a tad using color variations instead of Hue/Saturation and got just the right color. The color of the glitter is supposed to bring out the color of the vinca.








Template from Template Challenge 2 by Fryske
Paper & stitching from Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess
Actions - glitter by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts - Jane Austen, Social Animal

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

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

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

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

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

Halloween 2007

I don't know that I'm completely happy with this LO. It looks so simple and yet it has taken quite a bit of time to complete. I've been fiddling around in PSE6, and can't make it do what I want it to do. I should have just created the background paper and done the rest the old fashioned way - cut out some paper!



Overlays - Vintage Floral Overlay & Shabby Mommy Sanded Overlay by Shabby Princess
Paper kit - Halloween Night Add On by Peggy France
Font – 2 peas ditzy
Layout Inspiration from {dagmar} at 2 Peas

6 & 7 Minutes New

Another digital LO. I did this first in Powerpoint and wasn't (and still am not) for sure how I was going to print it out. I liked the LO just fine, but since it was digital it just looked flat and that is the one thing I don't like about digital - but the things I love about digital (the speed, the ability to make two similar LOs at once and the ability to reuse things easily) make it hard to not give it a try. I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements and piddled around long enough to figure out how to do a few things - drop shadows being one of them (so easy), and edited this page enough so that now it looks a bit more "real". I'll post one before pic, and then the two final versions - you can see if you can tell a difference.




Paper kit – L. Riordan
Scroll frame – Family Love by Sliva
Edge Overlay – Vintage Floral by Shabby Princess
Frame – Funky Floral kit by L. Riordan
Stitching - by Vendula Sediva aka Natali
Fonts – 2 peas glitter girl, jayne print, 2peas gift
Layout idea – ad for berryberrychic by Karen Lewis

One (marvelous amazing) Year

This LO was totally scraplifted - but the idea was too charming not to repeat. The original was from 2 Peas in a Bucket. I think I like the cropping on the original one better, so this one hasn't been printed yet either so that I can try again. It took a while to find photos of both of them that work for this LO.




Paper kit – Sweet Sprinkles by Shabby Princess
Tape – Mellykat
Staple – L. Riordan
Fonts – 2 peas duck duck goose, jayne print
Journaling Circle - SLK (that's me), I designed something for reuse.

From a Little Baby to a Little Lady

OK - totally original LO design on my part. So far it's just digital, it hasn't made it's way to paper yet. I'm going to write in the values so that it looks sort of the same by the time the girls get 10 years old. I did this one in Powerpoint & Microsoft Picture It.




paper & embellishments - Miss Vivi Sweety Spring digital kit
alpha background - Shabby Princess Festival
Fonts - Kayleigh, Baskerville Old Face, 2Peas Chatter, 2Peas Flea Market

Anticipation

This LO was inspired by one at 2 Peas in a Bucket. I was so lucky to have quite a few ultrasound pictures. I had tried to do them earlier with some more of the rub-on words from Making Memories, but they just seemed blah. The inspiration LO got me looking for strips & dots and gave me the inspiration title. These pages all have Iva's pictures on them, but I'll have similar pages for Alena's book.



Papers - by Studio K - meadow line
Fonts - 4990810, 2peas Tattered Lace, Barbarjowe Pisanki, Blue Century
Digital Elements - Shabby Pincess Express Yourself, L. Riordan Blog Freebie