Could it be? Have I actually scrapped some pages?

I'm not sure how the time always gets away from me or why I tend to do things in spurts.  I don't think I've scrapped a page in over six months before this week.  But why?  What's my excuse?  It's not like I don't have enough kits or photos.  I have so many photos, I could probably scrap for months non-stop!  So much for "completing" that vacation album from our trip last year.  Eww, still have a TON to do there.  I could go on with the excuses I suppose, but instead, I'll just share what I've been doing. 

I love challenges.  They are so motivational and inspiring.  The ones at Mousescrappers are fun and usually come with cool participation prizes, but I'm more apt to just join in the challenge than worry what I could get from it.  I also like how the Sweet Shoppe and Scrap Matters have their challenges set up, after all, who doesn't like a discount?  So, in the past couple of days I've done some template challenges.  I LOVE templates and pretty much use them for the majority of my pages.  We went to Disneyland and Tokyo this week so I've got some new inspiration and photos to use.  It also helped that we had some downtime at the hotel and I used it to scrap.

Scrap Matters Tuesday Template challenge with their Wizarding Magic Collab kit.
This photo is at the theater in Roppongi Hills

LOVE this template, it is part of a set offered at Mousescrappers.
Kit is from Scrap Matters, Island Cruising--perfect for those Disney Seas pages!



New Addition to the Electrical Parade!!!  How cool is this?  I also love Britt-ish Designs kits.  She designs with Disney in mind and has some awesome kits for your Disney adventures.  In addition to Arabian Adventures, I also used her new Baby, You're a Firework.  (Be sure to check out her blog for freebies!)



Latest trip to Disneyland.  Who would have thought that in the middle of summer, kids could get in for half price, or the park would be the least crowded of any of our trips so far?  It was such an amazing day!  Here I used another Mousescrappers Template and Just Plain Fun, by Britt-ish Designs.

OK, so I have no excuses.  I have plenty of photos and materials to scrap with.  Now to just sit down and DO IT!!!  Until next time.

Hello out there?

Hi! Look at me, I'm not only blogging again, but I'm also scrapping again! What a blast these past few weeks have been. I've been scrapping like crazy. I recently found Scrap Matters, a super cool, Disney friendly digital site. I put in a request for outdoor/travel kits for our upcoming adventure and was let to a cool kit there. Ahhh, it was love at first site! Not only did I buy the kit, Road Trip, I also joined, rather late, their annual Queen of Scrap contest. This contest went the entire month of May. When did I join, May 24. Not only did a join and do well, I finished over 60 layouts and won their Rising Star voter's choice award. How cool is that?!? I have since spent too much money on kits and too much time at the computer. But, I thought I'd share a few favorites from the contest and the kit that started it all.

Some of my favorite new pages, all with a Disney theme of course!

I'm hoping to have some more scrapping adventures to share soon. Until then, happy scrapping and crafting!

Digital Download Challenge!

The Angel Company has started releasing digital downloads each month. You have no idea how excited I am about this and I hope it's a sign of things to come. Although I have been a paper crafter forever, the last few years I have been nearly 100% digital. My scrapbook pages, cards, crafts, I was doing it all on the computer.

The flexibility that comes through digital art is probably the biggest plus to the craft, not to mention there's no mess--you don't want to see my stamp table right now. Most computers have basic photo editing software, but I happen to really like Photoshop. Photoshop Elements is very reasonable in price and quite a powerful program too. It comes with a lot of different computer hardware too, so you may even have it already. If not, Adobe does offer a free, 30 day trial.

With the current downloads, I completed three completely different projects: a card, candy wrapper and a scrapbook page.

Celebrate

For this card, I used the digital paper as is. I printed on HP Everyday Matte Photopaper. This is my crafting paper of choice when printing digital papers. It's not as thick as traditional photo paper, but not as thin as typing paper. It takes color beautifully too.

Little Cupcake R-2038

Black, White and Red cardstock

Ribbon

Black ink

Black & White Paper Download

Love

Here, I took my paper and recolored it in Photoshop using a gradient map. I then resized and cropped it to 12x12, my usual scrapping size. I also downloaded the newest Angelee™ & Natalee™ Coordinating Tags, "cut" one out in Photoshop and again recolored using the same blue as the paper. This project was a bit more challenging in that I used a double layer of the background paper, using one as my base and the second above my photo. I then erased that which was on my photo except for the swirls, which I wanted to look like had been "stamped" on my picture. To finish off the page, I used some digital staples to adhere my tag.

Sweets for My SweetThis final project was very easy. I opened my file in Photoshop and recolored the paper to orange and printed. I measured my paper to fit my candy bar, cut, folded and sealed. I then added my sentiment.

Little Cupcake

Black and White Cardstock

Black and Orange ink

Versamark

Happy Holidays

This one was fun! I used the darkest green from the Bazzill monochromatics. I wanted my digital paper to match, so I went to the Bazzill site and saved a swatch copy of the same green. Opened it in Photoshop to take a color sample from, then colored the paper with the gradient. I also printed the paper smaller than original, getting it as close to 4.25" as I could. I used my tag punch to cut the tag, then cut it smaller and stamped it with Tag Tidbits.

For those who have never tried digital it can be a bit scary, but I think once you try, you'll become just as addicted to the computer as you are to your stamps and paper! I would like to challenge you to try some hybrid projects with TAC's digital downloads. Link me up in your comments and have fun!

A Scrapping Roll

I've been so into stamping lately, that I've not scrapped any pages for some time. I am a digital scrapper. I used to scrap with paper, until my second son came along and we moved to an apartment that was just too small to get all my stuff out. It was then, about four years ago now, that I discovered digital scrapping! If you haven't tried it, I'd highly recommend giving it a shot. It is so nice to have no mess, to be able to resize photos and elements at will, and I can work at my own pace without worrying about cleaning up for dinner. One of my favorite designers is Genevieve Sass of Sweet Genevieve Designs! She sells over at Oscraps. I've "known" Genevieve since she first started designing and what a talented designer she is. I've also had the privilege to to be on her creative team now for several years too. She is definitely one of my go-to designers. Here are a couple of pages I did today with her designs.
I'm horrible at desgining my own pages, and love the use of templates. Both these pages utilized templates and made them that much faster to complete!