Spring Scrapbook Page

This was a page I have entered in Kim Crothers "spring fever" contest. Her kit was a free download and came with several flower elements and background "papers". Contests are interesting because you see so many different ways to use the same art. Go to www.creativesnaps.com and view these entries after April 1st.

Ready for Summer!

These were taken in summer 04. We are getting excited for summer 06 already and kids are counting down the days left of school. These graphics were from 2 different kits by Kim Crothers (www.creativesnaps.com). She has vibrant art which I really like. It is fun to mix and match...I had to find a kit with blues and yellows to match the slip and slide.

Baseball Layout! Yes, baseball is in the air!

My 3 boys all play baseball....so what do we do with these photos? Use their uniform colors, add some texture, stitching, baseballs, grass, etc. and just go for it. It is so difficult to get the perfect action shots, unless you have a telephoto lens, so dugout photos like this one are cute and shots with their teammates after the game are great, too. Be creative!

Another Snow Page

The snowflakes were shapes in Photoshop Elements which I then applied the "chrome" filter too. The background was scanned in scrapbook paper that I had torn a part of it and layered the darker paper under it on the scanner. This paper matched the lavender and yellow/green of her winter coat.

Winter Designs

Digital "hand colorization" of Photos

This photo was very cute...but was a little bright for the soft color palet of pink and brown I was using. The photo was first opened in Photoshop Elements, size was adjusted to fit my page and was cropped a bit. Then the Hue/Saturation box was opened...Control U...and I took and moved the Saturation level to the left until it was removed of the brighter colors. Another way is to keep file as is, bring into your scrapbook page, duplicated it and totally desaturate the upper duplicate layer and the "erase" away certain points using a lower opacity level for eraser...erase the colored areas you want to reveal...cheeks. lips, some hair, a toy if they are holding one, eyes..etc... a good way to make a photo match and enhance the layout colors.

Easter Scrapbook Page

This idea came from a "traditional" page done by Julie Mims from a new magazine called "Traditional Meets Digital" by Teri Fode and Heidi Zsupnik (sisters who have the site www.scrappinsassy.com) I used similar elements, but mine were done all using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

More Ducks!

Since this kit from Cottagearts.net came with so many elements....there were many possibilities, in digital "scrapping" you can cut and paste as in traditional, but never destroying anything. The original is always safe and sound. I always open original, then drag into my page file and then close it selecting "don't save changes".

Rubber Ducky Kit

Ellie happens to love ducks and after a few searches on my favorite sites...I couldn't believe my eyes when I came across this one by Michelle Scheveland designer of Cottagearts.net. This was going to be a surprise for her birthday album...but darn it, it was too cute not to post.....Exactly what I was looking for! This was purchased for around $4 then downloaded at high speed. I believe this included 32 megabytes of creative ducky designs...