Final days...

It's the last day of the free Jessica Sprague photo editing class and these are the two projects I did today. First is the Storyboard and this was so fun to play around with. It would be great to get some of these printed and framed especially when I have such beautiful little grandkids to put on display!

The last project was the photo collage. This lesson had awesome tips and made it so simple to make a collage. I used photos from Parker's fifth grade graduation. You'll probably be seeing a few more of both of these fun things! Hope you're having a great weekend!

It's My Birthday!!

Today is my birthday and it's a BIG one! Normally I wouldn't be so excited but tonight my awesome daughter Debbie posted this on Treasured Scrapbooking where we both hang out! She bought me a ticket and I'm going to Tennessee to see these cute adorable grandkids and can't wait to give them all a big hug! Love the signs they made! If you can't read them it says "See U On Aug. 5"! Thanks Debbie! You're the best and I love you to pieces!

Photo Effects

For those of us lucky enough to be taking Jessica's Spragues FREE photo editing class I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. Confession time here...I'm very challenged in PSE! There are so many cool things you can do and I want to learn but it's not easy for me. But this class makes it so awesome! Jessica's videos are step by step and I'm loving the results. Here's a few photos where I've added frames, text, did hand tinting and used some fun grunge and texture masks. I can't wait to try more grunge!

Happy July!

I'm still playing around with templates and attempting to get better at photo collages. I had this one of the boys playing in the yard finished and my computer froze up! Grrrrr!! So I started over and it was easier the second time. Went to save it and you guessed it....it froze again! Now I was mad and determined so I created it the third time (it was really easy by now!) and voila! Here it is!

I couldn't resist scrapping these cute photos of Carter eating watermelon. What kid doesn't love this juicy stuff and love those drips running down his chin and belly!

It's been such a relaxing weekend and it was so great to have an extra day off. Back to reality tomorrow but it was fun while it lasted! More later and enjoy your week!

Just a quick one tonight

Parker graduated from LMS in May and love this photo of the whole family at the ceremony. This is my daughter Debbie and her husband and four kiddos. With six people in the family it's not easy getting a good photo! I love this one. It was for Ginger's challenge over at Treasured Scrapbooking to use the number 6 in your title. Wish we lived closer and could see them more but we stay in touch by phone and of course by photos and sharing our scrapbook layouts. Sure miss them alot! I think I need to plan a trip to Tennessee!

Couple New Things

It was a beautiful weekend so no excuses about it being too hot to walk! I'm trying to walk at least 5 days a week and it's been over a month! Trying to form a good habit! Saturday Karen and I went for pedicures and brought her four year old granddaughter along. Cali had her fingers and toes painted and got two cute flowers on her big toes! Bet her mom was surprised when she got home this weekend. Got a little scrappy time in too and here's a couple I did today. I'm trying to finish up the June challenges on a couple of sites since July is right around the corner. Can you tell I've been playing around with some hybrid stuff? Made that cute Soon circle, fun colored journaling and 9 grid photo collage! Thanks Jessica Sprague for the great tutorials!

Digi Diva....Not!

OMGoodness! I decided to try a couple of Jessica Sprague's free digi tutorials and thought it would be super easy. She supplies the basic layout and all you need to do is add a photo, some journaling and voila you're done! NOT! My photo got all wonky, when I wanted to add text the font size kept changing, and my move tool has a mind of its own! I must have listened to her instructions at least twenty times before this worked for me. So here is my beginner layout and more than likely the last digi you'll see from me. Digi girls....I bow down to you! Give me paper, adhesive and some rub-on letters!