I have enjoyed paper scrapbooking and all forms of paper
crafts for some time now. My Christmas present for Tony last year was an
"altered book, " which is a book that I collaged using the theme of
"Music." I recently joined a digital scrapbooking website where they
periodically set forth "challenges" or small themed contests. Of course
with Tony's ability in Photoshop, digital scrapbooking is a natural
transition for me. I have learned so much more about the use of
Photoshop with Tony's help. He has helped me implement so many of my
design ideas. Plans include to do an album for Mary's senior year of
high school, Melinda's wedding and our wedding. First though, I am
taking requests from all the children to "do" them.
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we had to scrap an embarrassing moment |
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Melinda and EArl's 3rd anniversary |
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At the Band with a Mission competition |
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for Brenden and Ali's wedding guest book |
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for a challenge at Scrapbook Graphics |
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this photo was taken at mt mckay |
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after a magical trip to Rossport |
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scrapped on Elias' birth date, April 26, 2007 |
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the actual gift was made up of these images printed the size of a jewel case, and then cut to fit |
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for my friend Ginnie Butler |
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Katherine and Sarah at a Sweet 16 party. |
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for my parents 50th wedding annniversary |
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lyrics from the beatles, photo by melinda in oct |
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amanda and emily photo by katherine |
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from melinda and earl's wedding album |
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I did this using tutorials which I had to adjust, I am pretty proud of this one. See the blog for other info. |
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My mother and her devotion to her grandchildren. |
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as brief as the trip was, it was as if she had never been gone |
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My friend, Melany's creations, which I assembled. |
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Using the word-art freebies I posted. |
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some digital creations which I printed and snail-mailed. |
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a layout done for my friend, Angie and her daugheter, Caroline. |
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the itinerary for the Kids Cuba trip. |
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A walk in the brisk breeze last May besides a rushing river in the middle of town, me and my girl. |
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Click on the thumbnail in order to read my journaling about Jenni. |
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the lyrics to the song Tony wrote for me and sang at our wedding. |
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silly sisters on Mary's 18th birthday |
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to celebrate Mary being able to vote, |
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for her the best gift of the day, the power of a vote |
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there was a lot of good food that day. |
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This layout was for a color challenge. |
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The kids took snow pants, stuffed them, propped them on a chair.. then with the camera set about creating some optical illusions. |
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This was done for an advertising challenge. We were given a rice cakes magazine ad and had to create a LO from it. |
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The inspiration for the challenge to the left. |
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I scrapped these photos of Emily's first time on ice skates |
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Mary's arrival and Laurel's dragonfly photo. |
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The challenge was to use the color RED.... |
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All of the kids will play "MAFIA" and Telephone and make it seem so much fun we join in also. There were 11 people playing this round of Telephone. |
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This was from an artwork challenge. I was given a soda-pop label as inspiration. The photo in the upper left corner is a replica of that label. |
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The color of Laurel's sweater matched one of the colors of this week's color challenge perfectly. |
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The challenge was to use big quotation marks. This page came together naturally. The reunion at the side door was joyous and exuberant. |
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Another font challenge ... these are the photos from the "Autumn Days" gallery. |
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My Goddaughter, Elizabeth turns 18. |
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This layout was another "Font Challenge". Tony taught me how to do the photo extraction used... where we remove the background in the top comic strip. |
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Amanda and her friend, Isaac were enjoying each other's company one day (September, 2000). Unfortunately, (or fortunately) there was only one popsicle |
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This Font Challenge was the use of "ampersands"... We already had this photo of our names written in the sand with an ampersand so it seemed perfect. |
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The theme for this challenge was "House and Home." I had been wanting to create blueprint paper in Photoshop. |
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This layout was for an "Art Challenge." We were given photo of artwork and we had to use it as inspiration. I used the colors. |
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Here is the cover of the altered book I made for Tony. It was a New York City Public School music textbook from 1945. Cost 50 cents from a thrift shop |
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I collaged several songs that were special to Tony and me. I include here the "Beatles" page...natch. |
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The music sheets used on these two pages also come from the thrift shop for $1.00. |
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