Take Two. . .

better?

Too much?

Is this too much on the page?

I wanted to catch the spectrum of emotions/life of my kids onto one page.

A Kale collage and an Ashton collage. I thhink they turned out pretty cute.

And I was able to use miscellaneous pics I wasn't quite sure what to do with.

This page is one Alissa told me I should post. I really like it. For the background page, I zoomed in super close to one of the bars. I think it make an interesting background as well as giving a streamlined look for the page.

Thanks for including me in this page. I feel like I am just rebounding from baby #3 in order to start these kinds of projects again. So hopefully there will be more coming soon! :)

Fun with CUT and PASTE!

So, one thing I like to do in my scrapbooking is create my own picture using many different elements I can find. For this page, I wanted to create a castle scene for my daughter Emilie. I got pictures of a castle and a horse on the Internet and a picture of Emilie dressed like a Princess to cut and paste on the page. It takes a bit of time, but I think it is so fun to see the end results. The clouds, sky and ground illusions were done with some plain blue, white and greenish papers. I shaped them with the cutting tool on Photoshop to give it personality. I have below the page pictures of the originals so that you can get an idea of how it works. When I used this picture, I didn't have enough leg to appear to be straddling a horse. I had to use the clone tool to make it look like her leg was longer.

I just cut this out in and pasted it

I had to flip this picture around so that it would point the right way when "Emilie" was sitting on it. When layering the pictures on top of each other in photoshop, the bottom layer is the bottom half of the horse, the middle layer is Emilie, and the top layer is the front of the horse. And by the miracle of photoshop, it looks like one picture!

Free Spirit

I am not quite sure on the title and if I like how it looks. Let me know what you think!

It's about time!

I thought it was about time we got this going again! This is a page I just did for my book about me. It's kind of dimentional so I hope you can tell.

I saw this coolest layout in Memory Makers magazine - check out this link : http://memorymakersmagazine.com/page_idea.aspx?id=20614

I may have to try something like this sometime!

Mini Map

I am in the process of making a card (Not finished) but I just had to share the little map with you. I had this wonderful picture of an Old World map that I have wanted to use on a card. I loved the map so well that I decided to scan it and keep a copy for future use. After I scanned it and printed it, I decided to use the copy since it was smaller and fit the card size better. I cut it out and folded it several times - always making sure the folds were up. I also roughed up the edges with the side of the scissor blade. Then I sanded it lightly and applied a caramel ink directly to it. I loved the effect!

Jill's Recipe - Good luck reading this!!

This is one of three, but it gives you the idea. I love this recipe exchange! It represents my only creative moment in the past 6 months!!

Scrapbooking Pause, Photo Class Began!

So I have kind of taken a bit of a break from scrapbooking because I started this photography class at our local community college. I am enjoying the class so far, it just challenges you to look at the world a bit differently. Anyways, I wanted to post of few of my favorites so far it the class.

These first are from our WATER assignment(yes, this one below is my toilet!)This week the lesson is about getting a picture that is unfocused in front and in back and the center needs to be focused.

Claire's Birthday Invitation

My first post...
No special techniques to share. Sorry!
Enjoy!

Making a Gold Effect

Finally a Page Done!

I have had a bit of a lag in between pages, but I finally got one done! I am really playing catch up! So hopefully I will be able to get going on doing more!

The pen is mightier than the mouse

Here is the link to the electronic pen and tablet exercise: http://scrapbookmemoriestv.com/projects/1300/1310/1310-2.htm

New Mag

I just heard about a new scrapbooking magazine. I guess it started about a year ago but this is the first I've ever heard of it. It's called Scrapbook Dimensions and it's totally about hybrid scrapbooking. I ordered some back issues to check it out. I'll let you know what I think.

Difficult Pictures to Scrapbook for Me!

These are the kind of pictures that I take all the time, the ones to show the fun progress your kids are making. The only thing is, I find them awkward to scrapbook sometimes. So I guess I just do what the page is illustrating, and try try again!

Grandma's 95 birthday

A few weeks ago my brother and my sister and I were cleaning at my Mom's. She has a "bouquet" of peacock feathers that she has had on her mantle for over 40 years. In the process of moving them, they tipped over and some of the feathers got bent. I tried to talk my mother into getting rid of them but she wouldn't hear of it. I told her I would make her a card with them so she could keep the memory of the feathers. Still she wouldn't part with them. Later she gave me a few of them that had broken and the rest she put back in their vase. I made her a birthday card for her 95th birthday out of one of the broken feathers.

Buttons, Buttons, Who Uses Buttons?

So I like when other people use buttons in their scrapbooking, but I seem to always have a hard time deciding what and how to use them on my digital pages. So I wanted to use them on this page to see how it would turn out. (side note, the colors I used on this page were the ones suggested on the Kuler Adobe Color Swatches link)

About Me!

I am working on a scrapbook about me, the things I like or dislike, personality quirks, just a few bits and pieces that make up who I am. Here are the first pages. I decided to do this traditionally instead of digitally because I wanted it to be tactile and also because I have STUFF that needs to be used! I tried to scan these but it didn't pick up the subtle colors and patterns so I had to just take a picture with my canera - pardon the flash and the funky angles, and wierd lighting!

A few of my firsts.

I am doing scrapbooking for my sister-in-law and these are my first few pages...
a lot of my photography too! :)
I am still learning photo shop and I am dying to know how Alissa is doing all this stuff, like cutting out the boots and putting them on cute backgrounds, and all the cute lettering and blah, blah, blah... I need to know EVERYTHING still. But I am doing better than I was at the start, that is for sure. I am also taking a photoshop class for the next four weeks. I am sure I will need the photoshop II class afterwards, but I won't be able to fit that in before baby J comes. Anyway... hopefully I can learn the from the best! Thanks for inviting me!

(the "thrillin' beats drillin' " comment is because my bro is a dentist... I was trying to decide among, "Doc on the rocks" or "the flying dentist" or "super Judd" there were a few others... anyway... It's hard not to let my mind get too corny.. Do you think it looks good like that? Do you like the saying? Just curious... )