Digi Scrapbooking

I have been bitten by the digi bug! I am really enjoying doing some digital layouts. It is something fun and different. However, I must say that I still enjoy traditional scrapbooking more. I love the textures and layers/height you get with "real" elements. LOAD is going good for me, I am trying new things and experimenting with things that I have been wanting to do just never made the time to do. However, with this LOAD community that I am in right now has saved me time and given me resources for some of these new things I have been wanting to try. But, I must say that I want to get back to the task at hand, and the main reason I signed up for LOAD. To finish up some of the older items I have been working on so I can move on to my newer items. I want to get some of that stash used up!

The All I want for Christmas LO I used a template from ScrapinBarb(a lady that is doing the LOAD challenge with me) and I also found this amazing site called Shabby Princess - where I downloaded most of my page elements from.It is a fun site where you can download some free kits to use. She is a wonderful designer and I can see myself visiting her site many times for digi items. The second photo is the full two page layout.

The Happy New Year LO I found some fun free elements/items off of the Two Peas in a Bucket website. The design is mine (didn't use a template) but the "paper" and "embellishments" are from Brandy Buffington's Holiday Party collection. The Happy New Year overlay is from Rhonna Farrer's New Year Kit. I am really having way to much fun with this digi stuff. These photos are some I took New Years Eve - Owen was in a goofy mood that night. I am really pleased with how this layout turned out. I hope you like it too.

LOAD - Day 7

Got another kit used up from CKC! I love that I am getting so much done and used up. I thought that this layout turned out really cute!

Still organizing my scrapbook room and I finally feel like I am getting some where with it. I think one more good night in it I should be finished. Will post the final photos once I get them taken.

LOAD - Day 4 and 5

A little behind on the posting here - sorry about that. Here are my layouts for day's four and five of LOAD. The first one is from a kit, Heartstrings Designs - as mentioned in earlier postings I am trying to get caught up on Charlie and my book. This page is some of our professional engagement photos. Simple layout but great colors and something a little different.

The next layout is from CKC this year, I took a class called "The Latest and Greatest with Basic Grey" taught by Shelby from Embellish It. I switched up things a bit to fit my photos but overall the design is from the class kit. The paper is Create Paper - the 2009 holiday collection which I just love. These photos are so much fun too. We were taking a photo for Nana for the holidays. The kids have matching outfits, and my favorite part is Owen's hat. This was a fun day and I am really happy how the layout turned out.

I am really enjoying the LOAD challenge and so far so good with keeping up. Hopefully the rest of the month will prove to be as positive as it is now.

LOAD - Day 6

Today's prompt was to try digital scrapbookng with a template that one of the LOAD gals (Barb) designed. I have been hesitant to do any digital scrapbooking, since I feel that is what I kind of do on a day to day basis at work. More time on the computer just didn't appeal to me. However, I thought I had would see what this is all about, since more and more people are talking about it. So, I downloaded the file and started the layout. I also did some online research to see what other digi scrapbookers are doing and I was surprised with what I found out. Several people are using both digital and traditional scrapbooking together to create their pages! What is funny about this, I am already doing that!! Who knew!?!?

For this layout I did all digital as it was working well to do it this way. However I am excited to try more of this and experiment with some other fun digital scrapbooking items. I want to keep combining the two, the possibilities seem endless. And what I really found out, it isn't anything like work. :)

LOAD - Day 3

Forgot to post this yesterday. This is another layout for Charlie and my book. This was the night of our engagement. Charlie proposed with a fortune cookie message - hence the Chinese food stickers. I got the first page from a kit at CKC a few years back and then designed the second page with elements from the first page. Kind of fun, simple but overall just glad that I am finally finished with it!

I am really enjoying LOAD - it is making me work on projects that I had long forgotten about or just haven't made the time to work on. It is working well with my New Year's Resolution of finishing up some older books.

And it goes on an on...

So Tuesday night I got a chance to get back into my scrapbook room and do some more "organizing" and "cleaning". OMG! I am not sure what I have done. I will let the pictures tell the story for me.







And of course I had my helper again. That could be part of the problem!



I do have to say that I do have 4 boxes full of garage sale items, so I am getting rid of things which is the goal. I am hoping that by Monday I will be able to post photos of a clean and organized scrapbook room.

LOAD - Day 2

This is my layout for day two of the LOAD challenge. I have a book that is just a recap of every year that Charlie and I have been together. This layout recaps the year 2003. The layouts in this book are pretty simple as I always have so many photos to get on the page. But Charlie and I enjoy looking at this book from time to time so I thought I had better work on getting it finished. I am planning on doing a few other layouts for this book during the LOAD challenge.

LOAD - Day One

Last night my friend Mimi (That Scrappy Girl) and I went to Archiver's to kick off LOAD - Feb. 2010. We both had really bad days so it was a well spent evening.
This is the first layout that I have created for the challenge. I started with this layout because our daily prompt was to scrap a page of "firsts" and this was my friend Jess' first baby. I remember the day I went over to meet Lucy, Jess was so happy, never had I seen her beaming as much as I did that day. The smaller of the two photos remind me of that day. It is a fairly simple layout, and I wanted to keep it that way, as I wanted the primary focus to be on the beauty of the baby in the photo.

Now, onto day two!!! Our challenge today it to find a product or item that we haven't used in a long time. I don't think this should be a problem as I am still in the process of cleaning out my room and I have been finding some interesting items!

Friendship

I am so blessed and so honored to have the friends that I do.

Happy Birthday Becky! A day late and a dollar short, but I still hope you had a great day. Love ya!

Manic Monday

It is February 1st - I cannot believe it. January flew by and so did my weekend. Friday night I spent the night scrappin with my girls at Mimi's house. We had a great night and laughed a lot which I needed, however I didn't get much done as far as scrapbooking goes. I did figure out though that I need to plan the rest of my wedding book out so I can get it scrapbooked.

Saturday, I spent some the day with Owen and Cole as Marty (my brother-in-law) and Charlie worked on little projects around the house. I think I mentioned this before but we are preparing to put our house on the market so cleaning and repairing is the name of the game right now. Fun fun!

Sunday I cleaned some more and then Charlie and I went to a few open houses. We wanted to get a sense of what is out there and what we can get for our money. I am excited and overwhelmed all at the same time.

Well...today is the first day of LOAD and I am kind of ready. Mimi and I are going to head on over to Archivers to work on our first layout for LOAD tonight after work, so I know that I will get through day one it is after that in which I am starting to get a little stressed about!