So it's been a long time...

As you can tell from this layout my family has been through some changes this summer. We took Zach out to Colorado Springs at the end of June to the Air Force Adademy. He went through Cadet Basic training over the summer and started classes in August. He seems to like it so far. We miss him very much. I finally decided to do some digital scrapbooking again. I had to make the Air Force Academy embellishment. It's a simple layout but it was good to get my feet wet again.

A New Year Has Come

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So Christmas and the start of another year has come and gone. The Christmas decorations are all put away and most of the goodies are gone. Now it's time to start eating better and making time for exercise. There is snow on the ground and the kids had a snow day today. We are expecting more snow over the weekend. I did another digital layout to enter for a chance to win a gift certificate to a local LSS on one of my message boards. The challenge was to use inked edges and the provided a link to instructions. This way worked much better than what I had done before.

paper-Shabby Princess Holiday Sampler 2006 & Jessica Sprague Home Away From Home
alpha-Shabby Princess Mommy Kit
elements-Shabby Princess Holiday Sampler 2006

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is only about 3 weeks away so I started my decorating and baking this week. I have some of my shopping finished too. I still have a long way to go. I also have some projects to make for gifts that I can't talk about yet. We plan on getting our tree this Saturday. We have been getting a live cut tree for several years now. We tried one with the root ball but they are too heavy and after we planted it it died anyway. Tomorrow is another baking day so I'm signing off.

Thanksgiving

Well, we have another Thanksgiving under our belt (a notch bigger I might add) as a result of not one but TWO delicious Thanksgiving dinners. We went to PA to spend the holiday with our parents and siblings families and had a nice time. Plenty of turkey and pumpkin pie and lots of card playing with my mom and dad. We have a lot to be thankful for that's for sure. We ended our visit with a movie...Madagascar 2. We came home Saturday night and today I have been doing mountains of laundry and a little decorating for Christmas. I have no pictures to share because I forgot to take my camera...can you believe it?

I Did It Again!

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I worked on learning another technique today. I learned how to use brushes as a mask. This is really cool! I can't wait to learn more. This is a photo of my family that I took myself (with the timer). This time next year Zach will be off to college or the academy so I figured that I had better get some shots of the family together.
patterned paper is Jessica Sprague Naturally Free & Home Away From Home
hearts &"love" are Corina Nielson Wordart ??

Another Digi Layout

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So I was playing with Photoshop again today and came up with this layout of most of my family...my older sister is MIA. I tried to learn how to "tear" paper and as you can see I didn't accomplish that. I was also unsuccessful in learning how to put text in a circle...oh well I'll keep trying. I did "load" some brushes and used one to make the poloroid. That was fun. I had to stamp it on a white backround first then put the pic on it, then move the whole thing to the red backround paper. I find this really interesting and will keep plugging away.

All of the paper & elements are from Shabby Princess-Dinner Party

Playing with Digital

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I have been learning about digital scrapbooking from some magazine articles. I made this layout today and I had a lot of fun. Although I really enjoy digital I don't have any plans yet to hang up my paper cutter yet.

pattern paper & embellishments are from computerscrapobook.com-J Baechtold-Fall Frolic

flower is from scraprebellion.blogspot.com-Fall is here

word art-all I have on this is wordart for SS