Summer Garden

Quickpage by Gina Miller
She also is offering a mini kit with the same colors at the Shutterfly Digi site

New Blogs to Me

Each time I look for freebies or new blogs, I generally add them to my Google Reader. Right now I currently have over 35 different digi blogs in my reader. I also have others including: Mom ideas, Gluten free cooking, IBS, Dave Ramsey, Smartboard ideas, and Technology. It is so much fun to look each [...]

Summer Fun

Template: Manda Girl
Papers: Just My Scrap
Font: Summertime
Say it Isn’t So – Challenge at Digital Freebies
The bottom wave portion was created by stretching a ribbon that was about 1/4 inch wide.
I really like how this turned out. Manda Girl has 2 portions of summer templates. I hope to make one of Lucas with the other template.

Joys of Summer

Template:Scrap de Manue
Word Art: Tripmom06 – Challenge at Go Digital Scrapbooking
Papers and Elements: Amy Bleser

Together

Here’s another attempt using a clipping mask. It didn’t turn out the way I had hoped. I saved the image of my boys as an overlay so I can always attempt it another day.

Word Art: Kim Scrappin
Paper: Yard Bunny (Freedom Kit)
Clipping Mask: Misty Cato

Truer than true

Here’s my 2nd attempt at blending a photo into a background paper. I made another similar one but my program quit with an error. The papers started out being blue but I messed with the hue and saturation to match it with his bubble container. I like this layout better than the one I lost.
Papers [...]

Century Ride

Recently, my brother Scott rode in a Century Ride up and down a winding and steep mountain near where he lives in California. Here he is riding just recently and as he came around the corner a photographer told him to smile. What a nice shot! I use to be so excited when I topped [...]

Up All Night

Template: Andrea Gold
Papers – Digitreats
I flipped the template horizontally in order to make the large “L” to look just right.  Image > Rotate>Flip horizontal.
I think I might be coming down with something. We went shopping on Saturday and by 2:30,
I was so hot, nothing cooled me down. Since then I have felt real clammy and [...]

Limited Time Freebie

Mandy has another limited time freebie available at her blog.

Tutorials and a Bunch of Freebies

This summer I planned to learn a couple new tricks so that maybe in August or September, I could teach another Digi class through our community ed.
Here are 5 tricks every digi scrapper should learn:
1. Cloning – removing portions of a picture’s background.
2. Importing Text from Microsoft Word to PSE
3. [...]