What did you do for summer vacation?

Summer is over and school is back in session! We spent our last week of vacation swimming for six (or more) hours every day! Enjoy the layouts---they sum-up our entire month of August!

Supplies used: Summer Driggs Easy Breezy Papers & Embellishments

Supplies Used: Crystal Wilkerson's August 2009 Paper Pack, Alphabe Cards, and Jumbo Alphabets

Same supplies used here. I removed some personal information (on the blank pink square and underneath Victoria's pics.)

I hope your summer was just as good as ours!

Brushes! Woo Hoo!

Did you know that brushes rock? Well, they do. And guess what else? I learned how to make my own brushes! So enjoy my first attempt at a brush set. They simple date stamps. Inside the zipped folder is the brush file (abr.) and a jpeg of the brush set. If you use them, I'd love to see your work :)

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Just a few...

This was my last assignment in my Digi: In Deep Class. It was fun! I have seriously never used so many layers in my life!

The bonus challenge was to create a second page to the layout. So there you go :)

And a cutie little boy eating corn on the cob. Enjoy!

A Weekend Full of Digi-Scrap

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I LOVE digital scrapbooking! Seriously. When I think about it, I sometimes do a little happy dance. But enough gushing. Here are the layouts that I finished this weekend: (I'm still working on my overall design, and some I like better than others...)

Yes, that really was the first day of school picture for Victoria (she was tired of me taking photos!)

Turning 3 was the last assignment in my Now We're Rockin' Class

Then & Now was Assignment 2 from my Digi: In Deep Class

Backwards Birthday was my first assignment in Digi: In Deep

(**Don't forget to download the new template in the post below. And since I've posted it, I thought of a few things to mention: Any layer with a "+" sign is one that should be used as a clipping mask. I used a gray color for my title, but you should change it to whatever color works for your layout. And now I'm drawing a blank...hopefully that was everything I wanted to tell you...)

Long Weekend = More Photoshop!

Happy Pioneer Day everyone! We went up to the cabin again. There is no phone, no internet, and very few TV channels---this makes it easy to focus on other things (ie. Photoshop! Not that it's hard to talk me into doing photoshop...) Anyhoo, I made another template just for you!

I got super fancy and put a curled corners drop shadow on the journaling tag. (In my layout I used some graph paper by livE Designs, but I can't share that with you so I made a creamish-colored tag for you to use.) I added a label for my date, and put a grungy frame underneath my photo mat. Oh, I also stamped a spider web brush in the upper left corner to help direct the eye towards my focal photo and title. Have fun and let me know what you do with it!

Download Template No. 4 here

(and for those of you who are counting, I'm still working on No. 3!)

I used a handful of different papers from different designers, and I didn't keep track of who did what. Oops! But I used Shabby Princess Moody Blues Paper, Summer Driggs Happy Father's Day Paper, a random free set of blue/green papers, Crystal's Neutral Paper Pack, Spiderweb brushes by Alwin, and Alfredo font.

For personal use only (and someone, please use one and show me your handi-work!)

Another Template!

So, I was completing an assignment from my Jessica Sprague online course and made another template in the process. Lucky you! My assignment challenge was to use non-rectangle/square shapes on my layout, and to scrapbook around the theme "nerdy little secrets." I centered my layout around a few of my quirks, but I think this layout would work really well for events that have lots of random photos but a unified theme (like baby's firsts, or a summer BBQ, etc.) Get creative! And I'd love to see what you do!

Download Template No. 2

Supplies I used: Crystal's 2009 Neutral Paper Pack, Sweet Shoppe Designs Carnival Papers and Elements, CS-retro circles Brushes, and Adler Font.

For personal use only :)

A few more layouts :)

Did I mention how much I love digital scrapbooking? Yep. Love it. Enjoy the new layouts, and hopefully I'll have another template coming soon :)