Early Spring

This layout was meant to be quick - I created it to use quite a few of the prima-like digital flowers, as I was today writing up an article on these, and where you can find them - to be published this week on UKScrappers, before appearing on this blog. However, despite the ease of design, it took me all afternoon as normal.

Published: Scrapbook Bytes Tidbytes March 2006 (In the Sketch section, as I’d used Pattie Knox’s design)

 Credits

•  Design Layout: Pattie Knox provided this design scheme within the SBB Tidbytes Feb 06 edition. I’ve mailed her to tell her thanks.
• All papers from the Tidbytes freebie downloads for the month also - papers by Early Spring kit by Sabrina Preville. The kit name gave me my theme, but I chose it immediately as the papers suited my photographs I’d had in mind for ages.
  
• Prima flowers (and pin brads) - the reason for the article in the first place - I used a large range from the following designers, all available at SBB again - Kim Christensen, Gina Miller and Ali Folendore.
  
• Font - French Script MT
  

Easter Egg Hunt (Left)

Wow, a layout! Created on the day the photos were taken, no less. Suffering from virtual memory PC problems, this reasonably simple double digital layout took several hours rather than the two it should have.

Credits:

• The background paper, bunny, ribbon and eggs by Kelly Sauvage were perfect for these photographs. This is Kelly’s Cottontail Trail kit available from KathrynBalint.com. I made the eggs into charms at the top, and threaded with some bits of silver chain. The ribbon has been warped and grunged up also, to help with the effect.
  
• There are two little charms on the ribbon - the egg basket and lettuce, which (along with the bottom egg ribbon) come from Mo Jackson - her latest April kit has these in there.
  

Easter Egg Hunt (Right)

Frank

Every year, I dedicate one layout to document the household cats. This is Frank’s one, caught napping in newly grown spring grass. The rest of us weren’t allowed to walk on that grass at all.

Credits:

• Paper Backgrounds - Anna Aspnes (Grasshopper Kit)
• Two Metal Arrows - Corina Neilson (blog freebie)
• Tab - Barbara Chewning

Giddy Happy

Maya from Scrapbook Graphics advertised this new kit, called Oh Happy Day, only yesterday - she said it was to brighten up everyone’s day. It did. I needed it.

Hoolahoop

Created from portrait photos and trying out the storyboard format of layouts. And using journaling, as a challenge accepted from myself.

Credits :

• Blue and pink papers - Carrie Stephens
  
• Round splotted circle elements - Terry Maruca
• October wordart with numbers - Kristy Nerness
• October Datestamp - Deb Fisher
• Fonts used - 1942 and Typewriter
• Hoo la Hoop words painted using a pen tablet.
  

I Was There

The second of my June 2006 holiday snapshots, created to the theme to suit a challenge from the scrapblog of the week - Everyone is Speshal.  A kit free layout. Perhaps a little too simple, but I like the simplicity this time around.

Credits: 

• Fonts: Papyrus and FG Adam

I Was There Remake

I couldn’t leave this one alone. It feels like I’m doing something out of a scrapbooking magazine - here’s iteration 2, with more stuff on it.

Menorca Wish

The first of my June 2006 holiday snapshots, created to the theme to suit a challenge from the scrapblog of the week - Everyone is Speshal.  I was wondering how on earth to scrap these particular snapshots.

Credits: 

• Fonts: Brush Script MT, Black Widow, Century Gothic, Karen Hunt Funky Doodles
• Alphas - Transparent alpha by Karen Hunt (coloured in with a below-layer application of airbrushing) ;Surpise Inside Alpha by Carrie Stephens
  
• Arrows, frames - simple techniques in Paintshop Pro.
  

Competition Layout - Michelle

The concept for this new layout comes from an ATC card I was playing with a couple of weeks ago. I’ve basically gone out and changed everything anyway, and run with the theme. The Pacific Blues moku on my chin harkens back to my partial New Zealand origins.

Pacific Promise

I fell in love with this kit when I saw it previewed and knew I just had to use it. The blues and greens are so spot on from my memories of New Zealand.

Credits-

• Pacific Paradise kit from Lauren Bavin ( a fellow kiwi), available from DSP
• Font - LDJ Greekography
  

Princess

My daughter was invited to a Princess Party in April of this year. I held onto the photos for some time, wondering how to deal with them, then just chose today, one photo only.

Credits:

• Background papers - light blue and pink - Michelle Coleman; dark blue paint - Kim Crothers
• Textured Fabric Mat - JoDe Lawrence (www.alteredscrapping.cm)
• Stitches (including straight stitch, blanket stitch and handsewn daisies) - Mo Jackson
• Note journaling - Michelle Coleman

Journaling Reads:

Why is it that no matter how beautiful and sweet a little girl may be…she will still search for more prettiness by “needing” to dress up as a fairy princess? 

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Ultimate Digitalscrapper Competition, digiscrappin.biz. Round 1 Entry

R is for Rhinoceros

Credits:

• Photo Editor - Paint Shop Pro

• All elements and backgrounds from the Oak Park Kit from Digital Designs for Scrapbooking by Renee Pearson. The template used was a simple scheme from this book also (8 1/2 x 11 inch template cut down to 8x8 square).

I designed this layout as an example for a review of the book written for UKScrappers.  

Tired Self

Created for the Scrap Yourself challenge running currently through the UK, and internationally. This photo was taken on the day of learning of the challenge - March 15th. I realised how real the photo was, and how much it indicates my state of being lately - tired. So tired. I used the personal journaling to talk about my fight with endometritis, the dehibilitating pain, the constanst surgery, doctors who don’t or won’t make decisions to help me, and feeling sick every day of the month but having to pretend everything is alright. Reality scrapping at it’s most raw, I guess. I’m not sure that was what was envisioned with the Scrap Yourself challenge - but I use my own photos often here on my website - normally to slightly ridicule myself. This is truer to myself than any of that.

Credts:

• Paper tear by Digital Paper Tearing
• Datestamp by Deb Fisher. 

Valentine for Our Poser

Think Pink - the first of a series? Not sure, but I like it anyway.

Credits -

• One bottom swirl and wordart "You make my world go round" by Carrie Stephens (You Make My World kit)
• The rest - lots of brushwork, including 1Greeneye brushes called Porceleine Swirl

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My third valentines layout using Pret-A-Portrait photos. This one means a lot to me - I call my daughter, "Sweetie" as a term of endearment, and the long phrase is "Sweetie Pie, Hunny Bun" and additionally my husband have one of those songs in common - "Sugar, oh honey, honey" sung by Archie originally.

Credits: -

All backgrounds and elements by Deb F - she gave away a kit called My Candy from her blog last weekend - full of lots of papers, elements, alphas - the theme was spot on with what I wanted. Thank you Debbie Fisher.

Perfume & Hayfever

Doodle template in total is by Becky Fleck, provided in the Aug/Sept edition of Scrapbook Answers Magazine. I simply inserted colour and a photograph.This is an incredibly quick way to produce a digital layout using someone else’s doodles - so thanks, Becky.
 

These photos have been sitting around for some time, taken of our daughter posed in the rape seed oil plants which flower in Spring throughout the Fenlands district. The perfume is intense, and so is the hayfever symptoms many thousands of locals suffer from. But the fields of intense yellow are wonderful to drive through at that time of the year.

Bert

• Font - Rockwell Condensed
• Papers - Iron Orchid Designs, Coastal Erosion - a freebie from the Digital Scrapbooking Magazine, Summer 2006 edition.
• Design - Becky Fleck, doodle templates provided in the Aug/Sept Edition of the Scrapbook Answers magazine Disk.

Dads Day 2006

• Backgrounds: (1) Digital Bits - Handsome; (2) Dawn Stocstill, SBB Tidbytes Download, July 05 (a few of these) - all are blended together using various layer blends.
• Dad Tag Element - Tonya Renz
• Pondering Wordart and Curly Overlay - Fhung Lie
• Some chain, brads, staples, and dog-tags by Misty Cato (Hidden Treasure Kit)
• Looped Chain - Francine Haman (Heritage Postcard Kit)

Holiday Scene 1 - A Menorcan Holiday

Credits:

• Backgrounds : Meredith Fenwick, Urban Colors - Spring Collection and Striped Background by Summer Simmons - AquaChess Kit
• Swizzlesticks and Flowers - Debbie Fisher (blog freebie)
• Ricrac - Summer Simmons (Aquachess Kit)
• Holiday Stitched Alpha - Summer Simmons (Ladybug Picnic Kit)
  

Holiday Scene 3 - Ice Cream

Credits:

• Inked overlays and borders - AmyJo Smith and Christine Smith
• Background - Summer Simmons, Mo Jackson
• Ice-Cream accents - Kathryn Balint (Last of the Summer Kit)
• Chipboard alphas - Mo Jackson
• Blue and white textured mats - JoDe Lawrence
• Stiches - DebF
• Stains - Terry Maruca Ink and Dani B Digital Graffiti Splatters
• Font  - FG Vilma

Holiday Scene 2 - I WILL Do It

Credits:

• Background - Meredith Fenwick (Urban Colors Spring)
• Painted effects - Meredith Fenwick, Digi Supply Closet
• Grunge Overlays - AmyJo Smith
• Pink paint frame - Doris Castle
• Swirl - Shabby Princess
• Alphas and flowers - Mo Jackson (ribbon flowers, ransom and chipboard alphas)
• Kiss accent and lips - JoDe Lawrence.

Holiday Scene 4 - Swimgirl

Credits:

• Papers and elements - Mo Jackson
• Chipboard alpha - Mo Jackson
• Font - FG Vilma
  
• Handmade circle frame, border frame (wonky aren’t they?) and two individual beach babes - Me
  

Holiday Scene 5 - Talk

Credit:

• Background papers - Summer Simmons, Meredith Fenwick, Mo Jackson and Checked quadrant - created by me with the papers mentioned.
• Frames, and alphas - Mo Jackson Moodles
  

Holiday Scene 6 - Wet Hair

Credits:

• Cartoon elements and backgrounds- Jan Crowley - Cartoon Junkie kit
• Background Paper - Meredith Fenwick
  
• Cartoon frames and border frame - my own creations (wonky, aren’t they?)
• Font - Comic Talk
  

Relaxing in Menorca

A simple and quick layout, because I used a layered template. This is one of the few times I’ve remained using everything from a kit also, rather than throwing on lots of other pieces. Mainly the intention here was to get a layout done quickly with a photo which has been hanging around - calling to be scrapped.

 Credits:

• Layered Template - Victoria Feemster
• Alpha - Michelle Pearson
• Papers, gerberas, photo hinge - Debbie Pearson (Fracacas Kit) 

Pony Ride

Photos from today. Very quick layout, using a storyboard template from Lanne (Snow White and the 7 Story Boards collection). Crackled background paper by Maya.

4 and Oh Party Flyer

Created as a flyer to be posted along with the invites to the children’s party. Created quite easily as I used a template. 

Credits:

• Template - Scrap Girls Scrap Simple Curvy Template
• Mark the Date - Tina Chambers
• Birthday Cupcake - Kathryn Balint
• Wine - Debbie Pearson
• Champagne - Peggy Brutcher
• Papers - various

Whipsnade Zoo

Credits:

• Storyboard template - Lanne Beattie (Garden Wall Art Pack)
• Animals - Fee Jardine (The Wild Ones)