Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Deco-Pages Newsletter hit the stands today......

JEAAAAAY!!
The News Letter is out! Finally!
There's still time for the challenges, but you'll have to hurry!

Go check it out ......
It may take a little bit to download, I hadn't figured out how to flatten, merge and optimize untill I was almost done........

Have fun, go check out the website at http://www.deco-pages.com/


Remember, Point in Time challenge at "The Studio" runs thru the 15th of the month, because I was so late putting it up. HOWEVER....... The October Challenge will go up more or less on time this month :-)


Ivy Scraps will have a new Collab, so watch here and in The CT Gallery for inspiration


If you're in to challenges of the fun kind....
Digi Designs Resort  has some really neat ones.


has REALLY nice things for scrapping that family tree stuff!
and till the end ofseptember, they're having a sale as well.
I hadn't been there a while, but I remembered what I liked about the site, and the products.

They also have 2 chats a week for any one interested in family tree and preserving family memories.
Mondays is the "Life Book" chat. Here, over the course of 6 months, you'll build a book of someones life, including front and back cover. It's all in the Forum
Tuesdays, is more for the research on how to GET the information to put in the book, or just plain find information for the tree :-)
Go check it out, both chats start at 9PM Eastern Time.

Soo... I think I'v bent your ear enough for one day........
See ya soon :-)

Friday, September 24, 2010

First ever....

This was my first introduction to speed-scrapping.........
PFEW!
I've never done a page in under 4 hours until today!
I LOVED IT! I would have loved it even more if I had my old dependable I-Scrapbook, but I think I did alright with PhotoShop.... I'm learning in a hurry, but the best part is, when you get stuck, there's atleast 4 people ready to help..... It's fun!

The picture seams too bright compared to the rest of the page, but I don't know how to fade it, so, I think I'll keep it :-)

DigiDesignResort has another SpeedScrap on October 22nd, and I have EVERY intention of being there!


The kit used is the collab "Sand in my Toes" from DigiDesignResort. 
The mask is by Carena.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Thanks for stopping by....

Hiya!

Thanks for stopping by!
This is SUCH a weird month, and I have the sneaky suspicion that it's not over yet......

Here are the updates on my favorite scrap sites.....
THE STUDIO, is still having a birthday bash going... till the end of the month, they have challenges, random give aways, the works! Go take a look!

They also have a designer challenge going. There's some really wonderful stuff to look at, and download! Please say thanks, and vote for your favorite designer?

I finished my CT pages for  IVY SCRAPS. I'm SOOOOOO SLOW in photo-shop, but I'm learning a lot, so I guess, eventually, I'll be ahead of the game LOL. Once I figured out that on a MAC, you don't copy and past elements into the documents, but open them in another photoshop project and drag them over.... it went a lot faster, since I didn't have to clean things up before I used them.... so silly. Now if I can get a handle on the difference between merging and flattening ....... ROFL

The kit used is the Ivy Mega for September: COZY AT HOME.
The kid used is my nephew
The photo's are my sisters
The alpha is mine, created with rust-style
The program is photo-shop

Here they are: 



The kit is not necessarily fall related, but it's getting colder out, leaves are turning, and it's my favorite season, so....... fall pictures it is! The other CT's have done some wonderful things with the kit, go check it out and leave some love :-)

DECO-PAGES newsletter, is still in the works. I thought I had everything just right, and went to put the links in, and it turns out, I either missed a bunch, or picked the wrong ones all together because things started showing up, that I'd never seen before...... So, please be patient, it'll get there!

The Mega download this month is  GO TEAM GO, and it is wonderful for all pictures with sports, and family events. Whether you like to watch peewee football, or the big guys or my favorite, IOWA HAWKEYES College, it's all there, so go visit, look around, download a thing or two and have fun. Don't forget to sign up for a gallery, so we can see what you do?
Here are some of the previews of the download


That's it for me for today, I'm going to figure out what I did with the News Letter!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Deco-Pages Newsletter hit the stands today......

Hi,

The newsletter at Deco-pages got posted today. I'm not crazy, it IS the August one LOL
There were problems with the uploading computer, and since I'm still trying to fidget with the September one...... It's a new one, either way.

Here's the link: deco-pdeco-pages NL
The challenges are over, as they are shown, but there's new ones! 
Go check things out!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

I'm LATE!

I SO had every intention to get going, and have everything in place ON September 1st......

You know that road that's paved with good intentions?
I'm in the fast lane on that one! LOL   I'm late on my challenge Point In Time, I'm late on my IvyScraps CT duties, I'm late on the Deco-pages Newsletter and I'm sure I'm completely in the dark on other things that needed doing!

Chemo-brain isn't as far a thing of the past, as I thought it was, so if I lose the notepad that substitutes for my memory..... well, you get the idea. The other thing is that computers have a way with going a different direction than you want them to, or at least the program I use for all of the aboves did. I have to re-install it, and find the disk first, because with the download on the website, if you DON'T have a key, it has "trial copy" all over it RFL. Now mind you, the whole idea of downloading it, was that I can't find the program disk.... I'm wondering if it would be faster to try and get everything done in photo-shop......

YA, it's been THAT kind of week!

Hope to be back soon with an update but in the meantime, don't wait for me to tell you what's going on at my favorite scrap sites.... go take a look:

Don't forget, that The Studio  has a birthday this month!!!

Have to go hunting now, bye!