Digi Me Too!

I have been busy digi scrapping ever since I realized there were soooo many free kits out there. The kits for these 2 LOs were both downloaded for free from CK. I have used Microsoft Picture It for years and have now progressed to Digital Suite. So far, all that I have downloaded work one way or the other with my software. Yea! The halloween kit is Rhonna's and I am not sure about the other.

As Bonnie already said, I could never give up playing with paper, and therefore I have been working very hard on my Italy pages. To tell you how far behind I am , this trip took place in March , 2005! I love the mess and the texture of handson scrapping!

I am also posting Week #4 from Emily Falconbridge's Art Journal challenge. Her prompt was "a symbol that you love". Guess what mine is!!! Thanks for your comments! *c

Goin' Digi

Just kidding - I could never leave my paper supplies for long but creating this was so cool. Joe installed my new PSE5.0 yesterday and I needed to crop a few pics today. I almost went to my old program because I know it but decided there was no time like the present to give PSE a try. It was so easy to crop, resize and save for the web that I decided to try a digi layout. It has been on my want to learn list for a long time so I am so excited that I got my first one finished in an afternoon. I used Rhonna Farrar's free June kit at 2'peas. The layout looks really simple compared to what I would normally would do but I spent all afternoon on it. The thing that took the longest was the chipboard accent. It was bare to start with and I had to figure out how to add all the accents and text to it. Overall I am very pleased with my first attempt. I have more pics from our putt-putt golf outing so hopefully on page 2 I'll learn how to create a journaling box.

Let me know what you have been up to.

Bonnie

Use your stash!!!

I love using new things and all of these layouts have at least one new - never used item on them. They are all using papers from the January 2006 Scraptivity kit and are from our trip to the Isle of Skye in April of 2005. New items used: Duntulm Castle: the stone stamp - by STA Designs; Bearreraig Bay: Journaling Line stamp from Purple Onion Designs; Coral Beach: Notes from today stamp from Cats Life Press. When we went to Duntulm Castle we had gale force winds and to get to the castle we had to walk along the edge of a cliff - VERY scary. On the day we went to this castle we had all the possible weather conditions except heat and midge swarms - there was sun, clouds, mist, rain, sleet, snow, hail and gale force winds. The Bearreraig Bay pictures were taken on the same day as the castle. I'll have some more Skye layouts to show you soon.

Bonnie

Week 2 of Emily's Art Journal

"What is powerful to you?

I have to share Emily's answer---FAMILY! The quote on the back is "Family is one of nature's masterpieces." by G. Santanya. I hope you can read the quote on the front...hee hee! I used lots of new techniques. Gold Sharpie around the edges, journaling on strips, used my Xyron for the first time, and still liking those sequins. Here is Emily's excellent blog---http://www.embers.typepad.com/

Another Challenge

"What are you proud of?" Emily Falconbridge has a weekly challenge on her blog. It was easy for me to take this challenge because I was lucky enough to take her class in Paris. We made little bags big enough to hold a deck of cards and then she helped us prepare the cards for practicing techniques. 52 cards for one new technique every week for a year. Terrific! I just needed to finish the bag and start the challenge. She helped us with a prod---"What are you proud of? Well, I AM PROUD OF MY FRIENDS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP! I have never used sequins before so that is my new technique! She is trying create on Sundays---so we should be seeing a new card and new prod soon. Thanks Emily!

STASH

Are you ready for a challenge? I have so much scarpping stuff that I have not used so I joined a challenge at Scraptivity to so 50 layouts before I buy anything new. I'm not sure I will make it to 50 but I am going to try. It helps that the closest good scrapbook store is 1 1/2 hours away. I've also given myself another challenge - to use something new/never used before on the 1st 10 layouts of 2007. So far I have completed 8 layouts but I haven't taken pics yet so hopefully in the next few days I'll have my new layout pics to show you. Until then I 've included a layout from last year that is from the tell us something about you challenge - it is about how I would love to be able to sing!!!

So are you going to join me in my use your stash challenge????

Bonnie

Inspiring

Happy 4th of January! Love the look of Bonnie's "Christmas Tradition" book. As soon as I get things put away, I am going to start scrapping!
My New Year Resolutions are:
1. Enjoy my family!
2. Take pictures!
3. Have fun!
4. Scrap!
5. Enjoy my life!

Right now, I am busy taking pictures of our Christmas stuff, so that I have a pictorial inventory. Thought I was pretty smart to do the Christmas stuff now, while it is out---and not later when I am trying to inventory everything else. *clever me*

I took quite a few pictures this December, so I think my mini book is going to run like a calendar/date book of the holidays! Sounds like fun!

Ryan has a creative project to do for school, so we have been searching for stones throughout the bonnie land of the Picts. Tonight we were way up in Dyce, in a kirkyard, in the dark, and the wind was howling. What a memory---whether the pictures turn out or not!

Inspiring---am reading "The Textured Scrapbook" by Kerrin Quall. It is fabulous and so much fun! Bonnie and I met and took classes from Kerrin in Paris. She was a riot!