Hello Dear Followers and Friends,
I’m making a few changes around here.
First, is to move all my blog entries over to My Design blog. Hopefully I won’t lose any of you in the transition,
but why have two blogs and leave one unattended
when I can clean up my other more appropriately named blog
and take care of everything from one place?
So again I hope you will join me over at my new nesting spot.
Thank you and see you there!!
So have you peeked yet, did you see the new kit?
Sorry for leaving you hanging, sometimes I get a little extra ADH
D and forget to come back. So here you go:
Isn’t this just the neatest kit you’ve seen in a while? I know it is for me. I love love the colors, everything about this kit is so fun!
I will be back with more from this kit soon! I just love it, I’m thinking of some other uses for it other than layouts too, you know a little something to get myself organized with, but I’m gonna leave you hanging with that one. Till then I hope you’re having a good day and we’ll talk again soon!
Good Morning! Trixie Scraps and simply.scraps have new collab coming out Feb 19th and I have a sneak peek for you.
I’ve seen this one and I can’t wait to play with it! But you’ll have to wait a few more days before you get your chance. Bwahahahahaha!
As Tom Petty says “The Waiting is the Hardest Part.”
Back soon with more goodies to show you. Oh… have you seen my new Slide show in the right column? All my layouts past and present? And it’s soooo easy to put together, and even better it’s FREE!
So if anyone has been reading this you’ll know my Dear Father-In-Law passed a year ago. It’s been a long tough year. I go back and forth in my emotions about it. Most days are pretty mellow, I miss him but I can manage. And then there are days I cry at everything. Well this month’s challenge at Good Grief was to tell a story without photos. (These are not my first layouts for Good Grief Challenges about Dad.) And I had the perfect kit for it.
Marta van Eck’s Don Quijote.
(Please note: I’m not on her CT, sometimes
I do scrap with kits that are not CT requirements.)
It’s a lovely but odd kit with beautiful flowers and moody dark backgrounds, but it’s the windmills that sold me on this kit for this project. Dad always called my DMIL his “little dutchmen” why it wasn’t dutch girl I’ll never understand, but anyway I’m getting off point. So with the windmill and the beautiful flowers which I thought at first were tulips, but are in fact poppies I created a sweet tribute that I could get some emotions out and accurately portray my feeling with. And the horses, horses always make me think of Dad.
Journaling says:
Dear Dad,
A year has slipped by since you left us so suddenly. I can't tell you how much I miss you, because I have never felt like this before. It often hits me out of seemingly nowhere. Somedays it does not hurt to remember, but most days it does. Somedays I hate you for that, and then I get mad at myself for that. There is nothing to hate you for, you would not have left if you had been given the choice. You worked your whole life, day after tiring day, rarely complaining, crappy farmers wages. But you made sure Mom would be taken care of. I just wish I had appreciated you more when I had the chance, and that is just a shame, I miss you so much.
I like this challenge because I’m in a phase right now of writing letters I have no intention of sending. It’s a nice outlet for my emotions. I can express those feelings we were told all our lives that nice girls shouldn’t feel or dare speak about and it helps me through a lot of things.
Well that’s all I have for now. Thank you for stopping by.
I’ll be back soon with info about the great challenges I am hosting
at Scrapper’s Delights new store.
I hope you can come join us.
Happy President’s Day everyone! I know, not a greeting you get much is it? I got to work with Trixie Scraps – Hot For Teacher. It’s a collab with simply.scraps and it’s so much fun.
I immediately loved it because it has my high school’s colors in it and my mind went to work. Thinking of all the ways I could document my high school memories. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find many of my pics from high school. Maybe my mom has the negatives in a box somewhere? Gotta put that on my list of things to ask her about. But luckily I have made up (in a way) with the subject and he posted some old photos on his Facebook page.
So this layout is very personal, it’s not the complete story of course only a few of us need to know all the details, but someday when my memory is completely gone, this will be enough. ;o)
This is one of those times when you think back and how
high school might not have been that bad… (sigh).
Those summer nights of youth, to be that confident again.
My second layout, I thought were perfect colors of my boys on their first day of school this year. I remember my mom took our picture the first day of school for years. I’m not sure when it stopped, probably when we were old enough to get ourselves up and out the door after she’d left for work. So is the life of a single mom, but I’m sure that was in my high school years.
Font credits:
LO #1 Digs My Hart
LO #2 Amazing Ruler
I almost forgot! Trixie’s new kit:
I get to play with this next!!!!! There is so much good stuff in here you just have to see it for yourself.
And you can get all this great stuff for just $3.50!
I can finally tell you the secret I’ve been holding on to for what seems like forever now!!! Scrapper’s Delights has opened her own store! And she’s opening TODAY!!! With all kinds of great sales and freebies. Make sure to sign up for her new newsletter while you are there for more goodies.
And I’m also very excited to tell you not only does she have the store but a new forum also!!! And we have been working hard to set up some super fun challenges for you. I jumped on to run a few challenges and I can’t wait for you to see them. So please come by and say hi, maybe join us in a challenge or two. SD wants us to build a fun place to hang out and learn from each other.
And as a bonus we’ve come up with a super point system for the challenges, it’ll be super quick to build up points and earn coupons to use on SD’s super cute kits. So please come check us out.
I look forward to seeing you!
I can’t say much now, the others are close and might hear me typing so I’ll make it fast… I wanted to let ya’ll in on the secret…
Something big is happening with Scrapper’s Delights… I’ve been sworn to secrecy but I know you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the news when it hits….for now I can give you this scrap… I smuggled it out before the guards noticed it…..
Trust me when I tell you you’re going to like this!!!
Oh, no, here they come!!! I’ve got to go,
I’ve stayed too long already! See you there!!
Well, as you all probably know by now, I’ve fallen head over heels for Scrapper’s Delights products! I can’t help myself they are just too cute! And if you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, once I clamp on to a designer I believe in I don’t let go. See my Winter’s Magic post for the first in what will probably be a long series of gushings about Janice’s super cute kits.
Well this month she released a super romantic Valentine’s kit
that just so classy you’ve got to see it.
Now before you say anything, yes I know my layouts are not Valentine-y. The hubs is not a huge fan of having his picture
taken so there’s not many I haven’t used in other layouts
already so I went the opposite direction and wanted to
show the versatility of this kit.
(And I just have to be difficult/different and not follow the theme.)
Photo aging product by Gunhilde Storeide all other items from True Romance by Scrapper’s Delights.
Maybe a little explanation would help this one, I’m a big George Burns fan more of a crush actually. I wanted to make this a “born too late” kind of thing, but I couldn’t find a pic of me with George (from Madame Tussaud’s of course) but the cards in the background easily lent to the playing card Janice included with the kit so I just went where it lead me. I made the cards by stretching the red background a little and clipping it to the card face, to keep the shape consistent. Then I added a Vegas style card back with the black velvet alpha included with the kit. A little outer glow and Rickles font and voila! we have perfectly Vegas inspired tribute to a wax idol.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you stop by the Scrapper’s Delights blog and give it a looky-lou or the store and pick up a copy of True Romance. I’m sure I will be back with more fabulousness from this kit (hint-hint). There’s all kinds of fantastic things coming from SD soon so stay tuned!
Oh, such a bad blogger, I’ve just been playing with all the goodies and not sharing the fun with you.
I’ve got to tell you about this new toy I’ve got from the wonderful Melly, Puzzled Photo Masks. This is sooo much fun I can’t even tell you, and Melly’s made it so easy that… well even I can do it! ha-ha!
You’ve gotta see what I’ve made so far (well other than the stunning sunset photo in the example above, he-he.) When the Sweet Melly asked to include it in her product packaging and I (of course) said yes! My dreams of the next Thomas Mangelson is starting to come true! And if you don’t know who he is you’ve got to check out his absolutely stunning photography, here’s my favorite.
We have a fancy framed up version in our living room, I love it so much. She reminds me of my dear sweet old lady dog, Raskal.
Can you see the resemblance? The salesman at the gallery said that the bear is a female that had spent the morning down on the river scarfing down salmon after salmon during their up river run and crawled herself up to this old log and settled down for a long nap. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know but I love this picture and a “story” is always nice, but isn’t that what scrapbooking all about?
So anyway back to Melly, and here fab new toy. Now I know this goes with out saying but this is great tool for ANY kit you already own, but of course I will show you my examples using Melly’s super fantastic and versatile products, because that’s how I roll!
Credits: Puzzled Photo Mask, frame
This Is Me both by Melly Scraps
On this one I put a little perspective “magic” on the puzzle field, which is super easy to do in Elements and I think it helps the illusion of the pieces falling into place.
Credits: Puzzled Photo Masks (heart field),
paper and elements from His and Hers, glitter from Icing
all by Melly Scraps,
font: Baby Boston by Kevin & Amanda
at least I could swear that’s where it’s from
but I can’t find it there, but I did find it here.
I want to mention that these masks do work in Elements (I had some problems with E5 but I know it will work with E6,
but that’s all probably operator error ;o) ) And of course with the real version of Photoshop it will work too. Melly has written up some super simple directions so you can “make it work!” and if not you can contact her via email (in the info kit) or leave me a comment here and see what I can do to help you or I’ll get you to Melly.
Or if you have questions about adding perspective
let me know and I’ll write up a tutorial.
I hope you’ll check out Melly’s Puzzled Photo Masks
and all her other fabulous products at DSDI.
Bye for now, I’ll be back soon with more fabulousness!
The Birthday celebration over at Enchanted Studio Scraps has begun! First up is the Scavenger Hunt set up by the lovely Janice of Scrapper’s Delights and ESS Pixies Talia & Laura. It looks to be a doosy but the ladies have already started and are having a great time. There are ten clues to be found and the prize looks pretty good:
6-9 clues correct get a $5 coupon to Scrapper’s Delights Store
10 clues correct get a $10 coupon to Scrapper’s Delights Store
Looks like a pretty good deal to me, the hunt runs till Jan 8, so there’s still time to enter, see you there!
