Bruges Nov 23 2008

Pictures from our day trip to Bruges, Belgium.
We missed the Christmas market by just 6 days, but in exchange we got a lot of snow :)

Resources:

SO Multiple by Designs by Sine
Santa Baby (Dec Mystery Mega) by Scrap Orchard Designers

30th Birthday

For my birthday my hubby and friends took me out to our favorite Japanese restaurant - Osaka's.
I had such a great time and the food was marvelous!

Resources:

Block O'brad by Designs by Sine
Attic Antiquities Page Kit by Irene Alexeeva
Sushi Bar by Irene Alexeeva

Oktoberfest 2008

A couple of pictures from our very own Oktoberfest on Base here in Belgium


Resources:

SO Framed by Designs by Sine
Weeklendar by Irene Alexeeva
Venetian Charm by Irene Alexeeva
Playing with Denim by Irene Alexeeva

Birthday Girl Rebecca

We had a great birthday dinner for our friend Rebecca at my favorite Greek restaurant - including a bottle of fancy wine and a yummy yummy dessert!

I used 2 8.5x11 templates by Sine and dragged them onto an 17x11 canvas for a double page.
I adjusted the size of some of the elements and duplicated one of the frames twice to make space for all the pictures.Just love how easy it is to play with Sine's templates and to make them my own with so little effort!

Resources:

SO Angled by Designs by Sine(Template 2+3)
Can Can by Irene
Alexeeva
Versailles by Irene Alexeeva
Cabernet Punch by Irene Alexeeva

Bachelorette Outing

Some of my girls back from my school days took me out the night before my wedding.

We didn't party, but went and had cocktails chatted and overall had a relaxing and great time.

Layout inspired by:

Mermaid Weddingby Cathiemarie

Resources:

Cranberry Night Freebie by Nicole Young
Windy Day by Nicole Young
Zoobaloo by Nicole Young
Life's A Circus by Nicole Young
Tangerine Dream by Rene Bross
Into the Blue (Club Digital June 08) by Lauren Bavin
Wordart Freebie by Tina Chambers

Halloween 2008

Some of the costumes from the Halloween Party we attended.

Resources:

Template Pack #3 (Double Spread) by Duchess Designs
Spooksville by Melissa Bennett and Amanda Dykan

Previews:

April 1980

I ran across this picture of my mom, out in town with me while being pregnant with my little brother and just had to scrap it.

Resources:Time for Templates - Challenge 5 Template from GetDigiWithIt
Passages by Colleen Lynch

Preview:

Weeds are Flowers too

My husband and my best friend....
Weeds to others, the most beautiful flowers to me.
Different, but beautiful

Resources:
SO Angled too 2A by Designs by Sine
Just so Minikit by Irene Alexeeva
Wordart by ALP

Preview:

I love my Mom!

Recent events have shown me how fast and unexpected I could lose the one person who has always supported me, always backed me up, and always believed in me.
I love my mom, and I vowed to tell her until she gets sick of it <3

Text:

"We only have One Mom,
One Mommy,
One Mother in this World,
this One life.
Don't wait for the Tomorrow's
to tell Mom, you love her. "

Text behind the picture:

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon
us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with
us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she
cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the
clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving"

The background is a blend out of the two lined papers in the kit, and I added the white border with a brush.
I played with the layer style to get the gel like look to the frame.

Resources:

June Bugs : Mixed Fruit Mega by Scrap Orchard Designers
Actions to fix up pictures by Kubota

Too Cute to Spook 2007

My friend Airynne and me on last years Halloween Party.


Resources:

Brown Town Blues by Designs by Sassy
Antiqued Memories by Connie Prince
All Hallows Eve Freebie by KJ Conners Design

Believe in Magic ATC

This ATC is all sbout me :)


It has a wordart about books (since you will never find me without one, wherever I go), a wizards hat (for my love of fantasy and magical tales), a cell phone, a cup cake, a kitty, stars, my fav carebear, snow, rain, and chocolate.
It is blue, purple and green, all colors I love.


Resources:

Quirky Kind Of Christmas by Nicole Young (hat, recolored)
Freedom Kit by Yardbunny (stars)
Cupcake Sampler by Princess Lala
Carebears kit by Unkown (if you know who's this is, let me know!)
Wonderful by Michelle Coleman (glitter splatter recolored)
Frosted by Michelle Coleman (background recolored)
Hot Chick by Irene V. Alexeeva (cell phone recolored)
Get Kitty by Irene V. Alexeeva (kitty)
Dripping Wet by Kim Liddiard (rain drops)
Magic Wordart by Tina Chambers
Yummy Chocolate by Melothria (chocolate wordart)

Pretty on Canvas

I had a sadly way to grainy picture of my friend Airynne and me...
I changed the blending mode to darken and partially erased the background. I then created a path around the picture and painted on it with a brush to create the frame.
The ribbon is three parts from the original, blending mode set to darken again.


Resources:

Miss Marple by BooLandDesigns
Life Unexpected by R. Fritschmann (pin)

Fonts:

Queensland
ParkAvenue BT

Airynne

My friend Airynne showing off a pink wench costume on a girls night in with me and Danna.

Resources:

Template by PixelPalette
Lula Belle by Sara Ellis and DigiDesignz

Operation Beautiful Day

Hubby and I were watching Burn Notice on Dvd when theLogo screen suddenly inspired me to use the technique for a LO.

So here it is

No kit used at all, but I did use a great action from Kubota's Artitic Actions Vol II and adjusted it to get the glowy effect over b/w after I duplicate the picture way too many times to go from a landscape to a portrait sized picture (meaning: top and bottom third are duplicates from the middle).

Font:

BankGothic Md BT

Ella Riding

Journaling:
"Danna brought Ella and her 4- Wheeler over to our house because our yard is way big.
She had such a great time riding in circles, while Danna tried to keep her out of our rose bush :) "

Resources:

Little Girl Sayings by Design Originals
Digital Templates - Scallop in Style by Glitz Design
Taking a Day off! by Kristy Krouse

Previews:

Anne - You're a Peach!

My friend Anne on my Graduation Day in May 2008.

Resources:

You're a Peach by Ziggle Designs & Kami Leonard

(partly recolored)
Template Challenge 4 by Designs by Sine (adjusted for 8.5x11)

Bend and Change

This picture of my friend Airynne was sepia toned when I scanned it in, so I spent some time to selectively tint it and then flatten it
After copying it to the layout, I set the layer to lighten and masked unwanted parts. then I duplicated and set it to darken, again masking unwanted parts and adjusted opacity to my liking.


I then used one of the gorgeous papery from the Passages kit as the background. I copied the part of it that contained the butterfly and blended it in on top.
I also used the swirly frame behind the picture to highlight it some more.


Text:

"Butterflies bend with the wind, it's true.
Still they get where they want to go.
They arrive by persistence through their own insistence...
A lesson more people should know."

Font:

Missi BT

Resources:

Passages by Colleen Lynch

Preview:

First Birthday

My friends daughter celebrated her first birthday last month - with a butterfly theme!
All her little friends came to party and play, there was oodles of food and loads of presents, but nothing as important as the birthday girl and her parents!

Made this for a challenge at Scraporchard, but sadly did not make it into Round 2 :)

Resources:

June Bugs : Mixed Fruit Mega by ScrapOrchard Designers
Actions to fix up pictures by Kubota

Font:

DSP Jodie Freebie

Christmas 1979

In Loving Memory of my maternal Grandparents.

And yes, the little one in red, that's me :)

Resources:

Wednesday Wordart - Week 20 by Elegant Wordart by Bethany (changed with color and styles)
Venetian Charm by Irene Alexeeva
Cabernet Punch by Irene Alexeeva

Font:

DSP Grandmas Handwriting Freebie

Flower Grenade

Bouquet Toss / Flower Grenade on my Wedding Day - Aug 27 2008.

Journaling:

"Tossing the Flower Grenade is the one Fun tradition in which the Bride gets to torture all her single female Friends.
In this case all my Girls conveniently side stepped, jumped away or ducked like someone had screamed
“INCOMING!”.
All besides Britta, my Bridesmaid, who got stuck with the Bouquet "

I changed the rotated, resized and adjusted the photomats of the template to fit my pictures and enlarged the cluster on the right page to emphasize my favorite picture a bit more.
The background is a blend of 2 papers. One for the texture, and another for the color.
The tabs got a solid color and a faded pattern that came with PS CS 3.
I also added a white stroke to the bouquet element to make it look like a paper ornament.

Resources:

Photo Gazeuse Templates by Designs by Sine
White at Heart and Ivory Chic by Irene Alexeeva (parts now to be found in Wedding Day Page Kit)
French Flirt by Irene Alexeeva
Summer Wedding by Bon Scrapatit Designs
Wedding Wordart Frame by SimplySarah