Cards

I made these cards at the last Make & Take weekend at Archiver's. I really liked the colored-core cardstock in the 2nd one and bought some more to play with. I saw this card on Dana's Dabbling Studio blog this week. I really liked the paper, then I remembered seeing it somewhere before, then I remembered I had it in my stash, duh! :) Archiver's gave it to us at a crop I attended there a few months ago. I figured out that she used a mini deck of this same paper which is why her dimensions look more appropriate than mine but I still like how they turned out. I rounded the corners of the card base with the Zutter Round-It-All that I recently bought. It's so much fun b/c it rounds tin, thick layers of cardstock, chipboard, acrylic and more. I'm just looking for stuff to round now! :)

4x6 prints on SBC+

I'm doing Becky Higgins' Project Life approach to scrapboking for 2010. Every now and then I have a couple of pics that are vertical and the same event. Last month, I just printed 2 pics on 1 4x6 page using Picasa and it was pretty boring, had a white border around both pics. But this month I decided to use SBC+ to print them and add a little something extra to them. Just another way to play around. :)

Hours before I took my furbabies to their new home:

Babysitting my son's friend for the first time:
Journaling is done on journaling cards in Project Life so this was just a way to spruce up the pics a bit.

Freeze Frame

I used this template from CM's Simple Start CD. That CD is wonderful! I love how you can use the templates as-is or change them to suit your needs. I changed the pic arrangement on this one a little bit. It's easy b/c you can use the alignment tool to make sure the new picture frames you've added are perfectly in line with the ones already on the page. Love that feature! I used CM's Cozy Winter and NYC 2010 kits and 2 misc. papers. My favorite part is the overlay (on the small dotted paper) from the NYC kit, I changed the opacity to make it a light grey so it blends better with the other elements. Love overlays! There's not a whole lot that I don't love about what all the SBC+ software can do (but there are 2 things - the dreaded updates that the software won't recognize and the random errors. Ugh!).

DH is digiscrappin'!

DH wanted to try his hand at the new software and used this template to create his first scrapbook page! I think he did a great job. I showed him how to "glitterize" and use shadows, etc. and he went with it. He told me that if he could scrapbook like this, he'd go to crops too! LOL Yeah, I don't think so...

Template

I used this beautiful template from the Scrap It Digital blog (listed on the right side menu). I loved it the moment I saw it and decided to use the Black & White PowerPalette. I've always loved the look of multiple patterned papers but wasn't sure how to pull it off. I like this page right now but may not like it tomorrow, haha! I deleted some textboxes and used embellies in the place of some photoboxes. Fun stuff! I promise I won't post every single page I do! :)

A little bit of everything...

That's what I used to create this page! I received my Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus today, got everything installed and made my first page. I watched several webinar videos last night and this morning and ended up using a little bit of everything I learned. I used the Discover PowerPalette, which I love! I used: rubber stamping (for the brackets and arrows), color sampling (changed the colors of the brackets, arrows, "all smiles" sticker, and selected a photo mat), opacity (changed opacity on the notebook paper and the little pic in the brackets), photo edges (blurred edge on small pic and rustic edge on larger pic), made "all smiles" look like glitter (surfaces->amplification), and made my very first embellishment (I used the silver staple from the office supply kit and made a silver staple photo corner png file to reuse on future pages). I am excited to make more pages and use different techniques. Many thanks to the people who took the time to make those awesome webinar videos (you can see those on the list on the right side menu of my blog)!

Can't Wait!

I will receive my Creative Memories StoryBook Creator 3.0 Plus software in a week and I can't wait! I've started a blog list on the right-side menu dedicated to blogs I've been reading in preparation for my new digiscrapping adventure. I really think this is what is going to get my pictures off of my computer and in a place where me and my family can enjoy them. I'll add other blogs I find as I go along so stay tuned.