The Whirlwind

Well, it has subsided. The whirlwind of a week is now entering the calm of the weekend - only to regain strength in the coming days, I'm sure.

I enjoyed a CTMH party with some friends of mine last night and we had a blast scrapbooking and hanging out.

I'll be sure to post some of the new layouts I've been working on, along with some of my favorite new sites that I have run across in my quest to learn new techniques.

I'm not sure I'm ready to give up on paper scrapbooking entirely -- I'll still make gifts and altered items for myself and friends.

I am going to send my first layout to one of those places where they will print it and let you see the quality. Once I see that, it will tell the tale of whether I will go all digital or not. I'll update once I have the prints in hand.

Ciao ~

Wednesday musings

Sitting here making my grocery list, I remember that I have too much to do in the next 72 hours to even think about scrapping. Yet, the allure of my computer beckons me to "try out" a few techniques or to visit a few sites.

I'm looking for a good tutorial on digital paper tearing and want to work on adding texture to color for that "bazzill" look.

Anyway, I've got tons to do and not enough time for it all.
So, I'm off ~

Second Half

So, here's the right-hand side of the aforementioned first digital layout. I worked on it some last night and got it to the place where I thought it was passable. But isn't that the great thing about digital!?!?!? If I hate it in three weeks, I can take it all apart and start from scratch.

To me, that is the single most liberating aspect of digital scrapbooking - and I've only been digital for less than a week. I can't imagine how I'll feel after I become a little more proficient!!

I'm looking into printing options now and I have a friend that owns a printing company. I'm going to see what he can crank them out for and I'll see about how that stacks up with the other sites for printing 12x12 layouts.

I'm actually even considering a new business venture for all the techie scrapbookers out there. Who knows? Maybe it will work out and be cool enough to stand the test of time. We'll see ~

Digital Kit Used:
same as above

Launching out ...

OK ... so, I'm FINALLY getting a clue! I've been fighting it for awhile now and decided to give in - only to find I am three hours into the process and addicted already. What, you ask, am I talking about??

Digital Scrapbooking, that's what!

I've been a traditional scrapper on and off for about 10 years now and it never really "clicked" for me. I'm too much of a "perfectionist" for that. (I put that in quotes because I use it loosely -- I am only a perfectionist to a point -- ie. things I call my own, computer stuff, etc.)

Anyway, I downloaded some free kits -- many thanks to all the great new sites I am discovering. Who knew there was this clandestine world lurking under the surface of the more "traditional" scrapbook genre?!?! Certainly not me! I mean, I've heard rumors about it and had even scratched the surface with a few downloaded "printables" -- but this ... this was a full-fledged, well-developed digital scrapbooking world - a new frontier, as it were.

I made my first layout in PSE today and it is quite rudimentary to say the least but I think I'm gonna dig this way more than my half-hearted attempts at paper scrapbooking. After all, I think I am more digital by nature ~

Here's my first layout ever -- digitally anyway!


Kits used:
Spring Fever by Kim Crothers