Top Dog

Credits:
Brandy Designs Here Lucy
Pea Yar Yar

Pretty in Pink

Credits:
Kit Forever Sisters by Wimpy Chompers
also pink swirl by Brandy Designs Sweetest Heart
Alphas Cala Lily Princess and Little Princess by Times and Life of Karyn
Font: Pea Yar Yar

Austin is THREE!

Thanks to Lizzy for the scraplift, this page and photo are completely from her. I loved the page she made for her son's third birthday so much I had to make one of my own.



Credits: Happy Birthday kit by Sweet Blossom Design
font: pea yar yar

New Layouts

I am doing the last few pages of Grace's book, here is her 1st Halloween!


Credits: Cala Lily Happy Haunting
Font: Pea Sarah Cute

Awww...is it possible she was ever this small??

Credits: Signs of Spring by Mandy Mystiques
Alpha credits to follow soon

Mommy Photo Shoot

Credits:
Brandy Designs Sweet Pea kit
deco glitters by brandy designs
paper blooms by brandy designs
Font: Pea Sarah Cute

Blog Giveaway!

Go check our my friend's blog at

iCreate She has a fantastic giveaway going right now, just don't enter...'cause I wanna win!! ;)

Week 15

Credits: Teri's Thing O My Jigs So Chic

Month 9

I'm on a roll! I'm really trying to get Grace's first year boon finished SOON!!

Credits: Friday's Child by Teri's Thing o My Jigs and Stacey Crossley

Month 8

Credits: Teri's Thing O My Jigs and Stacey Crossley's Friday's Child

Week 14

Better late than never, right! I've been keeping up with the photography side of Project 365, but the scrapping has fallen very short! But I'm on a mission to get my pages caught up, so be prepared to see lots of P365 pages in the near future!



Thanks To Brandy Designs for her SweetestHeart Kit and deco glitters!

New CT! New Pages

I've been hard at work making pages for my new CT. Brandy Designs! She is over at Elemental Scraps and I LOVE her work. Her kits remind me of my paper scrapping days, and I love that. Here are several pages I've done with her Water Party kit.

Bloom where you are planted

I've always loved this quote from Mary Engelbreit and I'm so happy to be able to use it on a scrapping page.

This is the page I made for the lastest "swim lesson" over at scrapable. The lesson was teaching us how to use templates. Although this is a basic skill in digiscrapping, I didn't know how to do it yet.

I'm at a bit of a disadvantage because I don't use photoshop. I use GIMP. I use GIMP because I like it, I've downloaded the free trial of Photoshop Elements and I have to say, I think GIMP is better. So for any of you out there interested in getting started in digiscrapping, go download GIMP and get started, it's FREE! So...back to what I was saying about being at a disadvantage.....that only thing about using GIMP that seems to be a problem is all of the tutorials are for Photoshop. Very few digiscrappers use GIMP so if you have a question or want to learn something new it's a bit harder to get started.

There are a couple of ladies over at Scrapable using GIMP and they posted some awesome sites with GIMP info.

This is a great GIMP site, check it out!

After all that, here is my page! My first attempt at a template. Result: cute page done very quickly!



Credits:
Kit: Thursday's Child by Teri Mayo and Stacey Crossley
Alpha: Shabby Spring by Krystal Hartley

New Los

I signed up for "Swim Lessons" over at Scrapable and these are my Lesson 1 pages. The first one was to create a basic page with some basic instructions. Just getting started with digiscrapping kinda thing. The second page is a scraplift of a page they gave us to work from. I'm excited to learn a lot of new things this summer with this class. Fun, fun!

I killed 2 birds with one stone, these are also CT pages for Teri. I used Teri's Thing o My Jigs and Stacey Crossley's Thursdays's Child for both pages. The cousins page has word art from Elegant Word Art.

Grace Month 12

Over at Scrapable.net I've been participating in their forums a little bit. This is a first for me. They have challenges and contests running all the time. I decided to do this challenge, it's called a Black and White Blast technique. Instead of taking a picture and simply desaturating it to make it black and white. You do that, then play with the contrast and brightness a little to make the picture pop. I LOVE the result. I'm glad I participated in this contest and I know I'll be doing a lot more in the future. Plus, an added bonus is you get a point for each challenge you complete and when you get enough points you get money to spend at their store! Can't go wrong there!!

I used Teri's Thing O My Jigs Weekend Getaway kit

Some More CT Pages

I've been WAAAY too busy lately to do much scrappin' but I took a little break from it all to make a couple pages with Teri's new kit. I loved it so much I had to use it right away. It just hit the stores TODAY!!

Valentine's Day 2009

Credits: Eight Days a Week by Madame Ming SYTYCD Week 3

A little CT Scrappin'

Here are 2 pages I made with Teri's kit called School's Out 4 Summer. It's on sale at Scrapable and Pretty Scrappy. It's more of a graduation kit, but I picked and choose the elements to make it work for pics I had. For those of you who have a Kindergarten Grad, or a Highschool or College Grad, go check it out!

Project 365

So how many of you out there started project 365 and have fallen off the bandwagon???

Surprisingly I've kept up with the picture taking, it's the scrapping that's fallen WAAAAAY behind. But I know I'll catch up. I took a 2 week break from the picture taking, but I had good reason. I figured the book is only for my family and I, and if I don't care I'm missing 2 weeks, no big deal, right? (it actually does bug me that I'll have 2 missing pages, but 2 missing is better than just quitting, right!??)

So, to all of you that started out the year doing Project 365, if you've fallen behind, just start back up with today! You can do it! Just think how happy you'll be when the year is over, your book is finished, and you have this awesome book recounting your past year.

In case you're wondering, yes, this is a pep talk to myself to keep me on the ball! :)

Magic

I did this page months ago but I didn't have the right picture for it. I had in mind a picture of Grace looking out of a window. I think there is something so magical about watching a child who doesn't know they're being watched. This isn't exactly that, but it's a sweet picture anyway.

Mister Pister, Toolman, Stinker

I've been working on Grace's first year book, so poor Austin has been neglected in the scrapping-ness :) Here is finally a page for him. I found a PERFECT kit for him. The kit is called Daddy's little helper, the TOU wasn't included in the element pack I downloaded so unfortunately I don't know who made it...if anyone out there knows please let me know and I'll update the credits. The teal paper from Circle of Life by Stacey @ Scrap that idea but everything else is from Daddy's little helper.

The Case of the Missing Teeth

Ahhhh! Finally a page I'm happy with!



Credits:
ransom alpha: by Bren Boone Designs
white alpha: Teddy Bear's Picnic by Charlie's Digiscraps
Kit: Go by Digiscrap Addicts Freebie

Uh oh

I haven't scrapped a single thing in quite a while....go look at my last post, April something or other, that's the last thing I've done. So I sat down at my laptop during nap time today, tried to scrap....no go. I didn't even save what I worked on, 3 separate pages down the drain. Ok, no big deal, I haven't done this in a while I'm just a little rusty. Well, tonight I tried again, I even have a brand new super cute kit of Teri's to work with....um....nothing. I tried scraplifting several pages I found and love just as a starting point and I couldn't do anything I even remotely liked.

So we've all heard of writer's block, I have scrapper's block it seems.

Hopefully I'll be back in the swing of things soon!!

Pretty little angel eyes

This is the kind of page I often see in digiscrap galleries. Lots of white space, clustered elements, a title and one single picture. When I started digiscrapping I wasn't a fan of these kind of pages at all but they have grown on me. For the most part I make pages to showcase the most number of pictures. I have the intention of printing all of my pages into books some day and the pictures are what I'm interested in, not only the elements and papers, no matter how cute or pretty they are. But, I do like to change things up every once in a while.

And, it turns out I really like this page.




Credits
glitter frame Mandy Mystiques Krafty Hearts kit
all other elements and paper Mandy Mystiques Sweet Slumber kit
font Pea Nancy
brown doodles:by NK design studio

Summer Baby

I love working with all the fun springy and summery kits that are coming out right now. I started digiscrapping in the winter and the kits that were new then weren't as exciting to me. I love colors, bright fun elements, little birdies, bugs and flowers.



Credits: kit Summer Sherbet by Becki Kress
blue ric rac Ready for Sun by Kimi's Kreations
alpha: Sugar Pixie by Pinky Pixie

Kit
Mandy Mystiques Sweet Slumber
Border by Sweet Blossom Designs

College Station, TX

So...I have this handy little thing on the side of my website called Feedjit. It tells me who is coming to my blog. I love it because most of you guys don't leave me comments, but I can see you came and checked things out. I can normally guess who you are by your location....but who are you College Station??? I have a bunch of guesses, and any of them make me smile but I really want to know!!!

Photo Shoot

Credits:
font- vaguely repulsive
kit- Envie de Fraises by Pouyou

Week 11 Scrapped

This was made using a QP I made with Teri's Bee Attitudes Kit for a QP album. So all the work was already done, all I had to do today was drop in the pictures!

WOW! 3 pages in one day....ummmm.....maybe I should go get some packing done or something productive?!!!? In my defense, I worked my buns off yesterday, I did a zillion things this morning and both kiddos have had nice long naps today...and yep, I did nothing but scrap during nap time! I hear the boy stirring....gonna run.

Project 365 Week 10

It's been ages since I did a Project 365 page.


alpha: White epoxy by Micheline Martin
font: Boring Showers
kit: Cala Lily Playmate

Can't think of a good title....

First Ponytail

Credits
Staples KrazyMary Flower Addiction
All other papers and elements Delicate Garden Collab from elemental scraps

(Not Really) Roughing It

I did this page last night for a speed scrap with a bunch of ladies from a message board I am a member of. It was the first time I've actually finished a speed scrap. My computer or program I use to scrap with usually freezes about 85% of the way through the page and I end up stressed, sweaty and with no finished page to show for it all. BUT! I prevailed! I was able to finish my page last night.

I was thinking, speed scraps shouldn't be called speed scraps exactly. At least the ones I've participated in, they last 1-2 hours, sometimes more. I don't know about the average scrapper, but I can guess they do it faster than that. I know I do. A normal page for me is about 30 minutes, I have finished one in about 15 minutes a time or two and at most it's an hour. If it takes much longer than that I normally just give up and start over later. I think speed scraps should be called Challenge Scraps. They always make me go out of my comfort zone and do something I wouldn't normally.

Anyhoo....here is my page

Grace 10 months

I've been on a roll today! These pages haven't taken me more than about 15 minutes!

Another kit by Designs by Krista. This one is called Blossom. I've never used black before. It always seemed to harsh for a baby girl's book but I had fun trying it out and I actually like the way it looks. I don't think I'll get in the habit of using black but I do like it occasionally.

Hmmm

I just realized something, I am stuck on 4 picture layouts. Go back to the last several pages I've made, most of them have one main picture then 3 supporting ones. I need to make sure I do something different next time.

My favorite way to get inspiration for a page is to go check out galleries of scrappers I really love and get ideas from their pages. There are so many really talented scrappers out there. So, if you're stuck in a rut (as I am, it seems!) go to a gallery, try DigiShop Talk or any other one you like. Look at recent pages uploaded and I'm sure you'll find something you love!

Growing prettier every day

Credits: Designs by Krista Cupcake kit.


I answered a one kit CT call for this kit. What a fun way to do it! This was my first one kit CT call. For all you non digiscrappers, that's just where you answer a request by a designer to make a page or two for them using their kit. You get the kit for free and you make a page for them to help promote their new kit. It's good for everyone!

Amazing little Grace

This is a coordinating page for the previous page I uploaded. This page was also done using Teri and Stacey's Tuesday's Child kit. It's a very pretty kit, with many choices, I could make many many pages with it I'm sure!

It's fun going back and seeing newborn pictures of Grace. She looks so different, yet still exactly the same to me.

New Baby

At my mom's request I am starting to go back to earlier pictures of Grace and do the scrapbook pages for them. Grace was 6 days old in these ones!

Credits: Teri's Thing-o-my-jigs and Stacey Crossley's Tuesday's Child

Font: Pea Ya Ya

Funny Girl

Credits:
Alpha by Mel Hains Moody Grunge
Kit "Go" By Ziggle Designs & Kami Leonard

Taking it all in

This was my first real attempt at doing an extraction. I'm pretty happy with it. It wasn't too hard though because the fence had so many straight lines, and because Austin is wearing a hat I didn't have to deal with a bumpy head. Many extractions I see the person's head looks strange. I'm sure it's hard to deal with hair. I was reading a tutorial for extracting thin or transparent things such as hair, it seemed pretty complex, I think I'll stay away from things like that for a while still.

Credits: Teri's Thing-0-my-jigs Bee Attitudes kit
font: Wish you were here by Kevin and Amanda

Grass Eater

Credits:
Grass and Green paper from TikiMama Designs Spring Showers created for Faith Sisters
Everything else from TMADesigns April Showers bring may flowers for Faith Sisters

Bad Hairday

I was just going through some folders cleaning things a bit and I found this page I never quite finished. I adjusted a few edges and here we go!

The credits will follow, I used a bunch of different kits and since I did it several weeks ago, it will take me some digging to find it all. The majority is from Calalily Girl Power, I know I used Sunporch from Shabby princess, and the font is Just Because by Shel Belle Scraps.

Makin' music in the kitchen

This is a LO I did for Teri's CT using her Bee Attitudes kit. It started as one of my very first quick pages. Once I had the QP just as I wanted it, I plopped in the pictures and Voila! I was done.

I love the page itself, but I don't think the pictures are perfect for it. That's a big reason I never use quick pages. I like to build the page around my pictures so it all flows together.

Cute page, cute pictures, I'm just not sure they're right for each other.

Baby Love

Credits:
Papers, ribbon frame, button flowers from Joy Comes in the morning by Merchi
Butterfly, bird, tree and grass by Stacy's backdoor designs, Refreshing elements
Word art by Elisja-About Love Collection

First Bedroom

Credits:
paper and flower by Chou Petite Moineaux
metal swirl by Coralie Designs one day one year

Grace's Gown

Credits:
Teri's Thing-O-My-Jigs Annie's Blessing Kit

Irish Eyes are Smiling

On St. Patricks's Day, everyone feels a little Irish. Our family has more that just a little Irish heritage, but not enough I don't think to say, "We're Irish". Not that it matters, Happy St. Patrick's Day to all! Don't forget to wear green on Tuesday, you don't want to get pinched!



Credits:
Paper: Gimme More by Sweet Shoppe Designs
Elements: Lucky blogtrain by Gina http://craftedbygina.blogspot.com/
Alpha: Acrylic Alpha by Kiki Digital Scrap Cafe

If Gracie could talk

Wow....three pages in one day. I've really been on a roll, either that or neglecting my kids. Haha...um...yeah. No actually, the pages I did today just flew, maybe the fastest ones I've ever done. Mike is playing guitar hero and I've been enjoying a little scrapping time. Nice way to spend a quiet evening.

This page makes me laugh a little. Grace is such a sweet little thing and really loves her brother. When I look at this series of pictures I wonder if this really is what she would be saying.



Credits:
paper, alpha, bracket and birdie by Oh Happy Day by After Five
frame by Lauren Reid Little Dreamer Designs Birthdays Mini
cloud and flowers doodles by Andreia Menegassi Handmade Doodles Freebie

Batter Up!

Here are my first pages made for Teri's Thing-o-my-jigs CT! I am so excited to get started working on her kits.

These pictures were taken just a couple days ago. We had one really warm day that we took advantage of by going to the park with a bunch of friends. One of the other little boys brought a ball and bat and Austin took right to it!

Credits: Teri's thing-o-my-jigs Batter Up!