STS Birthday Bash!

Please check out THIS POST at Jenasis Design with some great info on all the wonderful things going on at Stuff to Scrap in May!

Good Garden Eatin'

Now that I'm a member of Pretty Pixel Designs CT, I got to take advantage of using this kit that was released earlier in April. In fact, I think the fact that I drooled all over the kit in my email to the designer (Colleen) made her pick me for her team. :) But seriously, LOOK AT IT! I. Love. This. Kit.





Here's my first layout with it. There are so many fantastic embellishments in this kit that I got to fiddle with...I actually took some off the page because I went a little embelly-crazy! But I really like how it turned out. I love the alphabet that comes with the kit, and she even included both lowercase and uppercase letters!! Such a great deal. If you want to purchase the kit, go to her store at Stuff to Scrap!


And now that you've seen my layout, you understand the title. Cameron loooooves to put crap in his mouth. Seriously. I have pulled just about any item you can think of out of his mouth at one point or another in his 18+ months on this planet. I found out the hard way that I could not put any furniture together while he was awake and roaming, because I had to drag one of those wooden dowels out of his mouth that is only about an inch long...just about the perfect size for choking! The kid is definitely orally-stimulated, and has been since birth (with a very possessive appreciation for a pacifier from the get-go). So there you go. That's why I said garden eatin'. :)

Lesson 4...I'm DONE!

So here are my final two layouts for Jessica Sprague's class "Up and Running with Photoshop". I have truly enjoyed this class! I love that it was self-paced, with very specific videos and how-to's for digital newbies like myself. I've already told my husband I'm taking her next class, called "Now We're Rocking". :)

In the actual lesson, we learned how to use a grid to combine lots of different papers. We also learned how to invert specific parts and delete other parts at the same time. We also converted a photo to sepia tone, played with brushes, learned how to create different layers of text, cut out a shape and make it "shadowed"...I think that's it. Pretty involved lesson! All materials were courtesy of the large file you get when you sign up for the class. LOVE IT!


In our bonus lesson, we received a mini kit that Jessica designed, and learned how to make the trapezoid photo box used below. How cool is that? Not sure if I could ever replicate it without watching her video again (which, by the way, I will ALWAYS have at my disposal: part of the joy of taking her classes are that the materials, videos, and lessons are always there for you to look at!). The font used for "Bathtime Fun" was downloaded from dafont.com for a challenge at Stuff To Scrap, which can be found in the forum HERE.

I'm currently working on two releases for May 1st for a Build A Kit featured on Stuff to Scrap. There will be three more kits that will be released for my designers in the next few weeks as well...I'm going to have way too much fun creating these great layouts! I love how quickly I can pull a layout together and really document life. I still enjoy paper scrapbooking, but digi is just too easy and really accessible for me. I'm very much enjoying this venture in my life!

I'm now on THREE Creative Teams!

How exciting! I'm now a proud creator for Jenasis Design, Flower Scraps, and Pretty Pixel Designs! Click on their names to go directly to their blogs to see wonderful inspiration.



And wait until you see what GREAT things all three have in store for you in May! I can't stop fiddling with all the goodies. :) Ahhh. I love this stuff. :)

Revamped

So I was so irritated with how my previous post looked, I did the template again. :) Much better!!

I seriously used the same stuff: the same kit, same template, same font, same pictures. Just used different stuff. I liked how this turned out so much that I decided NOT to use any embellishments. I like how its simple and the focus is on the pictures.

I did find that my previous attempt actually was wrong. The journaling around the circle wasn't completed on the last one. If you clicked on the pic to make it large, you probably saw the journaling, but it was from the template and said something along the lines of "click the big T for journaling" or something like that. :) Ooops. :) hee hee Glad I caught it and was able to include journaling!

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