Paperclipping Roundtable - God Bless Ikea

I'm a big fan of the Paperclipping Roundtable. By far today's show was my favorite. Second was the show with Tim Holtz, "How Vintage Are You?" For me, the shows go hand in hand. The discussion about family and genealogy and family stories are part of being vintage, at least in my process.

Ali Edwards was on the show and she discussed her Big Picture Scrapbooking class. I took Yesterday/Today at the end of 2009 and decided to revisit the projects I created for that class. The class let me really think about my personal stories and the idea of  scrapping MYSELF. Who would have thunk it. It allowed me to be reflective and really pay attention to myself. Considering I started this hobby when I had my son, this was a concept that was foreign to me until I took this class. It was FREEING

There was a lot of discussion on the show about the importance of telling the story, even without photos.

Finally, there are other ways to scrap where it's really just about the feelings the photos conjure up for you.

I highly recommend the class if you are ready to think outside the box.

Picture of the Week

Wedding "Mini" Album

I'm currently working on a not so mini Mini Album. The chip board base is pretty big. I am creating a wedding album for my cousin's first wedding anniversary. They had a really nice wedding, but because they didn't have a professional photography studio do their wedding, I borrowed the cd-rom with the photos and took advantage of a Snapfish sale....99 prints for 99 cents. Perfect. I am mixing it up a bit by adding some 8x8 layouts that came with the AdornIt.com chipboard album. Here is sneak peak.

So Sophie from My Mind's Eye

        

Digital Pages

Ms. Kimberly Lund of Miss Kim Designs and Document Life Now blog asked me to be a guest team member for the month of August. I hope she likes my work and decides to use it. But just in case, I thought I would post my digital layouts using her grab bag and garden kits.

Simple Stories Ele.men.tary Line

Hi everyone,
Well Simple Stories has done it again. They have launched their 2nd line in the simple stories series. Check it out.

Pictures of the Week

This weekend I hosted my Sorority Sisters from SUNY Albany. It poured at one point, but we made the best of it and enjoyed each other's company and eht beautiful babies.

a little digi scrappin

   

As you can see from these four layouts, I like to dabble a little in digital scrapbooking. I also really enjoy altering photos in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. My favorite technique is turning the photo black and white with the exception of one section of the photo to bring out contrast and to allow the focus on the subject.

Red Hook Waterfront, Brooklyn

I love this picture. But there wasn't a great way to take a photo of my son looking at Lady Liberty without the Statue looking as far away as it really was. I added a graffiti-style font to the banister in the same color as the statue using the dropper tool - Liberty, Hope - to bring out a little of the NYC look to photo. Then, I desaturated everything in the photo EXCEPT my son's torso, the words I added and Lady Liberty. VOILA!

This next photo is my dog immediately after some overkill on his haircut from the groomer. Usually you can't really see his red leash. So I again desaturated the entire photo except his collar to create the contrast. Here you see the before and after.

Before

After

Loving Lush

I just love My Mind's Eye new LUSH Line. I have no words. I'll just show you.

Memory Works Blog Hop - Christmas in July Winner

Thank you to everyone who participated in my blog hop. Congratulations to Mrs. Woodard for winning the random drawing using random.org's true random number generator. She followed my blog AND left a comment with her email address. The brag books will be in the mail soon. Please email me at rosann517@gmail.com with your mailing address and put blog hop winner in the subject to ensure you don't get lost in my email world. Thanks again.
Rosann

Pictures of the Week

City Island Marina

Ethan and his BFF, my mom.

It was a gorgeous day and the sunset was just a bonus.

The couple of honor.

Stuck!?!

Do you ever get scrapper's block? Well have I got the blog for you. I learned about stuck sketches blog from the timelessdaydreams.com site. Here's my version of the sketch challenge.

My son is getting goofier and goofier by the minute. LOL

The journaling reads: 

Ethan, you are such a jokester. Your persoality is just growin each day into that of an extrover-so much FUN to be around! You told me to take a picture of you and when I pointed the camera you purposely made these SILLY, GOOFY facial expressions! and then immediately asked to see the photos. July 2010.