I love the look of stitching but find dragging out my sewing machine such a daunting task. Even hand stitching seems to be overwhelming when I just want to get my scrapbook page done in a snap! That always seems to be the case too because I've usually go a project planned and haven't had the time to leisurely scrapbook the day away (I miss those days).
So here I've been able to incorporate stitching, a quick template and my current favorite digital designer Boutique Cute Doll.
The kids really love Space Mountain. My Mom....not so much! Hubby and I decided to make faces (my kids affectionately call it 'The Uncle Face'). Lots of fun memories in August will stay with out for years to come!
I've got another scrapbook page to share. We stopped to take some photos with Tigger, Eeyore, and Pooh! I don't know what it is about these guys, but even as an adult, I was excited to snap a photo with these buggers!
Once again I used a template to create this layout. I added a fun frame to one of the larger photos I wanted to highlight. I stuck with those Disney bright colors to give a fun Disney feel to this page.
And of course I can't go wrong with a Boutique Cute Doll kit and a Connie Prince template! Oh how happy I am with my digi purchases from these designers!
I am IMpatiently waiting on Shutterfly to finish my photobook order! Hopefully in the next couple of days my book will be printed and on its way to me!
I think the easiest way to create a digital scrapbook page of a family vacation is to use templates with multiple photos. With this particular template, I chose to duplicate one photo strip to give me 4 more places to put photos. It was so easy! With good quality templates you should be able to clip your photo onto the photo placeholder without having to crop down the original photo. Just size the photo to fit within the box! this particular template was created by Chrissy W for a Digichick collaboration kit (called That's Life). If I'm not mistaken, I gathered a bunch of elements and ended up with a huge FREE kit!
Anytime you see a digi blog hop and like a few of the designs, you really should hop along and collect them all! I'll be using the buhgeezus out of this kit in the future.
This is another page in the album I'm creating. I'm on a roll! I'm planning to get this album done before the kids go back to school! Boy do I have my work cut out for me! Once again, oodles of kisses for stopping by!
We recently celebrated my sister's birthday at my house. The family got together and ate Mom's cooking. And to top the night off, I got cupcakes from PinkaBella Cupcakes instead of a cake. We got to sample most of the cupcakes there! I can't wait for the next celebration to get another dozen cupcakes!
Whenever I would like to scrapbook more than 3 photos at a time I find it challenging. But with the help of photo masks or a multi-photo template, I can achieve this feat easily. The only think I wanted to change on the mask was the size of one photo. I wanted to spotlight one photo by enlarging it. The original mask (Masks Volume 3 by Carina Gardner) looks like the photo below and I enlarged one of the photo squares so I could put a family photo in it. Super easy!
With digital scrapbooking, you have so many options. This layout uses a smattering of kits from Sweet Shoppe Designs.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful week!
Two of my favorite girls in the whole wide world! My nieces are too darn cute! Here I've used the Boho Bliss Kit by Pink Reptile Designs. Mirjam of Pink Reptile Designs is so talented. I can't stop using her kits! I also really enjoy templates by Connie Prince. They make it so easy to create beautiful pages. Here I stayed true to the template design and only removed a few areas where embellishments go. With a little digital shadow know-how, you really can add a lot of dimension and depth to a digital layout.
Digital pages make great gifts, especially when compiled into a bound photo album. They take up much less room than traditional scrapbook pages do! I also love how I have control over how large or small my individual photos are. You can zoom in on particular parts of photos and crop them to your liking.
I'm on this multi-photo scrapbooking kick! I think you get an even greater sense of accomplishment when you knock down 3 photos at one time! Aaaaaah!
I'm on the search for challenge blogs to help motivate me to churn out some scrapbook pages! I found the Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog! You don't have to live in the Philippines or be Filipino to enter! You can even win a prize! This month there is a fun multi-photo sketch to use which I turned upside down (kind of). My take is slightly different and inspired by the sketch!
This layout has a fabulous mix of a template, sketch and some bold and beautiful stuff from Pink Reptile Designs! The woodgrain pattern I can't seem to locate and am unable to credit the designer at this time :( But I think it just might be Cosmo Cricket!
Here I've got a few different textures working together. The washi tape paired with the crochet flower and trim bring lots of fun personality to this page. The wood elements (woodgrain paper and heart) help to balance the exceedingly feminine flowers, hearts and crochet elements!
My niece is such a good sport. She indulges Daddy's request for poses! Over and over he'll ask her to do a certain pose and most of the time she obliges! Such a great sport. I suppose it helps that she's a ham! I love her to pieces!
If you're in the mood to scrap or create a card, head on over to The Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog! They've got a sketch and some wonderful inspiration from the design team! Good luck!
Now that I have internet access, I can share some photos from my camera with you all. There's a TON, but here are some fun ones of the family taken on our day visiting Universal Studios. That was the first stop of our theme park everyday trip!
We had a Spongebob sighting!
Creepy Statue Guy scared a few kids as they sat next to him to take pictures (at the request of their parents, of course)! Mean ole parents! My kids saw him move before I had a chance to trick them!
And because I needed to share some crafty eye-candy with you guys, I created a layout using these photos!
I created this layout in about 15 minutes with the help of a kit from Boutique Cute Doll and a template by Agnes Biro! (Click on the photo to get to my flicker gallery where all the credits are.) I'm going to create a fun Shutterfly photo book to remember this fabulous vacation!
I hope you are all having a lovely Summer! Ready for the busy times ahead? I'm not!
I'm not a big football fan really. But over the years I do love what the season brings. As a child, my Sundays were full of naps beside my Dad while he watched football. The sound of cheering fans in a football field actually lull me to sleep to this day. There's a sense of safety and security I feel on the couch on a Sunday just lounging and napping and eating next to ANY family member.
I love how it brings people together. The world may be busy the rest of the week but come Sunday, it slows down enough to cherish togetherness.
I scrapped about my dear friends above. My God daughter is the younger of the two gals. I love those girls to pieces. Love love looooove them! I pulled that collage from my girlfriend's Facebook page! Yes, they all know they are not safe from Mo's photo lurking!
I know, I know! I can't stop with the digi-gushing! But time and time again I'm so happy with what I can do! This is a layout that was published in the February 2013 issue of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine. The beauty is I used a template so it's not completely my design. I chose the papers, pattern combination, words and embellishments. I also added that collage to the layout.
This is probably one of the most precious scrapbook pages I have ever created. In the center is Grandma (my husbands grandmother who passed the same month this was published). All the cute little gorgeous baby faces in this collage are of her GREAT grand kids. There are 30...and I'm sure more will come! In fact, one is about to arrive in the next few months.
I created the collage for a family calendar featuring the grand kids and gave them to the uncles, aunts, cousins, and my brother-in-laws. It's such a precious gift to give for the holidays and it doesn't put a big dent in the pocketbook! I was even able to send the digital file to family members who were out of state. I'm not gonna lie, it took a WHILE to make that collage. So, the ability to drop that right into a scrapbook page was like.....magic!
I am on the hunt for a collage template to use for our 2014 calendar! Now that I've made it once, I probably won't take me as long to make it again...right?
I hope this post finds you all well and happy. May the weekend be grand! Next week we will be heading off to....Disneyland! If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, I'm sure you'll see some of the fun! Thanks for visiting!\
Have ya ever felt goofy? I can't help myself sometimes. I love playing with new apps and that is how this photo came about. It was the perfect topic to digi scrap about. I was having fun playing with my Silhouette Cameo cutting out mustaches for my dad's birthday party. Yes, I said "dad". He turned 60 in January. We throw birthday parties for each other a lot and it's just a great reason to get together with cherished family and friends. We sing, we dance, we laugh, and sing Karaoke. We also take photos with mustaches!
The app I used here was Pic Collage. Do you have any fun apps you like to use?
Summer is winding down and that means it's time to start scrapping some summer memories while they are still fresh in your mind! Virginia has a fabulous Summer scrapbooking class called Sensational Summer Layout Recipes you should check out. She made this fun video:
I thought I'd share about two classes I'm currently taking at The Art Studio. Virginia's Onion envelope class is FABULOUS! If you're looking for a fun quick class to take in a day, this is it! It's like a non-traditional mini album. You'll have to check it out and read the description HERE!
And yall know I'm into digi but for those of you hesitant on jumping in because of the cost of the program, you really should check out Paint Shop Pro X5 (from Corel). It's quite affordable. Cassel's class is a great introduction to digi! You'll have downloadable calendars, fonts, letters/alphas, and awesome PDFs to help you along. Cassel is also quick to respond by e-mail for any questions as are all the instructors at The Art Studio! For more info, go HERE!
Speaking of digi! I've got a couple scrapbook pages to share. These digital scrapbook pages were published in the April issue of Scrapbook News and Review.
Digital scrapooking allows you to do lots of fun things you can't easily achieve with traditional scrapbooking. That's why I love this layout of my cute niece.
In this layout the idea was to use lots of blue. I threw in some yellow to balance it out a bit. We played around with stick mustaches and frames at a family party. I had to capture some of the fun!
And documenting day-to-day activities is always fun. I don't think I set out to document this day, I just made it a point to remember to snap a few photos. Periodically I do this and come up with some day-in-the-life type of layouts that are priceless.
I hope you're having a faboo day! As always, thanks for stopping by!
My favorite people to scrapbook are kids. I have so much fun picking and looking at photos and coming up with a fun design. They are just so fun-loving and joyful and such a pleasure to observe! You can't help but smile when you see photos of happy kiddos, especially when they are dancing around! And who doesn't love frogs either!!!!
My nieces and nephews are as cute as can be and they sure liven up a party with their dancing!
What's so great about digital scrapbooking is the ability to extract images from photos and adding shadows for dimension!
Well, that's my quick post for today! I hope you have a fabulous week!
I love how I can do a digital page without having to do all the stitching! I find stitching so labor-intensive that I don't tend to bring it into my traditional scrappy projects. But when it comes to digital pages, you bet I include lots of stitches to embellish my layout.
Okay, so I took some time today to take Donna Salazar's new class at The Art Studio for Scrapbook News and Review! I loved it! I've been meaning to tackle a canvas and with my beginning Mixed Media skills, it seemed overwhelming. But after taking the class, I feel like have direction and she makes it look so easy. It is an uncomplicated approach to building a canvas.
I'm very excited to get started! I'll be sure to share my work of art with you all!
I've also been hard at work filming and editing short fun videos to share on my YouTube channel. My newest video is set to music for those people interested in viewing the creation of a scrappy project without the talking. I noticed a lot of my videos with high view counts were those videos so I decided to do a series called Scrapping to Music. The first video is geared toward beginners and how I approach designing my scrapbook pages.
I hope you likey! Give me some love by liking the video and/or leaving a comment and maybe even sharing it!
Facebook gets a bad rap, I know. It's just like anything in life, use it wisely and it will be to your benefit. My family knows this....I frequently poke through their albums, Instagram photos, status posts and find lots of fun events in life to scrapbook for them. When I can, I'll add any captions from Facebook and add them to the layout as journaling.
I pulled this adorable photo of my niece kissing her Uncle...priceless! I think I've scrapped quite a few pages and soon (I hope) I'll have the time to print and put them in albums!
This happens to be a digital layout I created for the February 2013 issue of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine. (As always, all credits are available on my Flickr site, just click on the photo to bring you there).
Baby kisses are truly the best kinds of kisses ever!
And the May issue of SNR has been up and it's awesome!
There is much celebrating going on at Scrapbook News and Review! The magazine is celebrating 5 years, The Art Studio is celebrating 1 year, and there are fabulous new classes to take!
I've got a new YouTube video up. Watch me make a fun tag with gesso, gelatos, inks and stamps! I've also got a couple more videos I'm editing and other ideas a-brewing in this peanut head of mine! In a couple of them I let you see my funny faces and my constant hand-talking...ugh! I decided to take the plunge and let you guys see me talk once in awhile since I'm feeling more comfortable filming and watching myself.
I've even got some new ideas for video series so I'd appreciate your love and support, likes and comments because my channel is like a ghost town! LOL! Tell me what you'd like to see and I'll do it if I can! Give me some lovin' and help me spread the word!
Here is a digi share for you! This was published in the February 2013 issue of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine. I love the play of pattern, the addition of ink and lots of lovely digi layers!
Digi is a fun way to play with things you probably wouldn't normally attempt. I added some chevrons, circles, and fun journaling arrows. I really have to attempt lifting a digital page to create a traditional page. I'm sure I can come up with some fun stuff! Hmmmmm...will have to think on that one...what do you think?
We celebrated my little sister's birthday by spending a night out on the town!
I've got some things in the works. I'm editing a tutorial right now which will likely be shared on my YouTube channel and blog. This is going to be easier than it looks....
I'll fill you in on it later, so I'll tease you with this sneaky peek!
Here's a card that was published in Scrapbook News and Review Magazine's January 2013 issue. It was a card I created for someone at work. It's probably one of my most favorite cards and I created it with a specific person in mind. Usually when I do this, I'm able to infuse a lot of personality into the card and I always love what I end up with!
Believe it or not, this is a hybrid card. When I say hybrid, it's really not that difficult. You don't even need a computer program, just a trusty camera!
Can you pick out the digitally generated part of the card? Even in person, it's difficult to tell! Here's the secret...
All I did was create that background (the one with the yellow, blues and greens) on mixed media paper. You can use watercolor paper or even some white cardstock. I brushed on some watercolor in several colors and ended up with a 11" x 14" background (watercolor paper). I then photographed the background and cropped it to a more manageable 8.5" x 11" digital image. From there you can print it out or even use it as digital paper when creating a digital project. I've used this very same idea to create this scrapbook page (published in the January 2013 issue of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine):
This wasn't the same background paper as above. Here I played with a dauber-topped mist bottle and some dark mist. I created this new background that I photographed and turned it into digital paper to make more projects. If you saw the SNR January 2013 issue, I have another hybrid card using this background.
I love this because your artwork adds an something extra special to all your projects. It's truly one of a kind artwork you can continue to bring in to several different projects.
So there are two ways you can use personal artwork to give your projects a mixed media feel without all the extra time and mess! I love love looooove it!
And for more ideas on using your Crop-A-Dile in more projects, check out my steal of a class. The card above uses a technique from the class. I've got lots more just waiting for you to learn about all wrapped up in my jam-packed class at The Art Studio!
Stash CPR: Breath new life into your stamps and Crop-A-Dile
Will you look at that....I titled this post "Remember" and I TOTALLY forgot to share it! This was digital scrapbook page I created for the Color Palettes on the Scrapbook News and Review blog in January! Better late than never, right?
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Do you love playing with color palettes? I really really do too! What I'm loving is that we've got Color Palettes now up at the Scrapbook News and Review Blog! The fabulous Candace has been creating them and she's so talented and inspiring!
The blog has so many great inspirational posts almost everyday and I've subscribed to get the latest and greatest news there is! The wonderful Christy Strickler has done such an amazing job in keeping the blog full of great ideas, tips, tricks, and fun!
I created this layout using one of the January color palettes. I really don't scrap purple, though I adore the color! These color palettes take me out of my color pairing comfort zone and help me create something slightly different from what I normally do....and I love that!
click on photo for credits
If you wanna see that post using the color palette...go HERE! There's usually a new one every week!
I love challenging myself with employing color palettes. The blog at Scrapbook News and Review features a weekly color palette to inspire you! I created a fun layout using this week's color palette which consists of pink, gray, and blue.
I loved how this turned out. I tend to stick to super bright colors like reds, turquoise, and blues in many of my projects. To break free from that cycle, I turn to color palettes for variety.
A couple other staffers created other projects using this same color palette so check it out HERE!
I don't know why I hadn't done so before, but I submitted this layout for the February Blog Challenge at Pink Reptile Designs! I love love love Mirjam's kits and hadn't thought about creating something for the blog challenge...until now!
He he...this kiddo is the most adorable guy in the world! Love him! Auntie MoMo love her Huddie!
Here's another color palette inspired layout I have to share! I don't think I'd ever come up with this combination of colors but I adore them together!
I am loving sunburst patterns lately and I think the purple pairs wonderfully with these shades of yellow and red...and orange!
Aren't my niece and nephews adorable! I just wanna pinch their cheeks!
You really should check out the January SNR color palette I used HERE, because you'd probably gravitate toward a different color! Play with the color combos to spark some inspiration and creativity!
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