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My First {digital} Page!

Okay, I decided to be brave and try a digital page. It took forever. Not because the software wasn't easy to work with- it's actually really fun to work with. I just haven't done much scrapbooking to begin with, and it always seems to take me forever when I am working with photos. I'm always worried about creating something perfect so that the photos really stand out. What I came up with so far is actually a very plain, simple layout, but I may edit it and play around with it some more. What I would like to do is print it out and add some flowers or something to embellish it a little more.
I will say that I really LOVE being able to change the size of the punches, like I did with the curly label punch to frame around Nicole's picture.
I chose to do an 8x8 page, because I like working in the square format but wanted to be able to print it out at home.

I suppose it would have gone faster if I had planned out what I wanted to work on, but really I just opened up the program with the intention of playing around and seeing what I could do. I would have fixed up the photos a little, but I haven't re downloaded GIMP since the computer crashed, and that is the program I have been using to edit my photos.


(click the pic for a better view)

This is my cousin Nicole at her nursing pinning ceremony, along with her husband and her two youngest daughters, Olivia and Sophia. (Sophia is my goddaughter, and she calls me her "fairy godmother". It's so cute!). I have some really great pictures of her sister and her daughter Brittany from the ceremony also, so I guess I will have to do a second page with those photos on it. I'm really anxious to try a blog header, too.

If David remembers to bring the camera home form work tomorrow, I'll have some pics of my club projects to post this week as well.

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura Albertson ♥

Small things can make you smile

I'm so happy. I just made a discovery. Remember I said recently that our computer crashed? Well, we were unable to fix it, but were were really lucky that my best friend Deb was able to retrieve our photos and document files before we erased everything. Just about everything else was lost, though, including all the links in my favorites.
I just got a little bit of happy news when I went to bookmark something a few minutes ago. All of my Google bookmarks are still there! I originally thought they might be, since they are saved online, but then someone told me they probably wouldn't be since they are accessed through my computer and saved that way.

Well anyway- they are still there! The big bummer is that the large majority of my favorites were saved to my computer, not Google. Guess what I'll be using from now on? (not to mention backing up my photos and files from now on. Yep, that is a big Duh, but it seems I usually have to learn the hard way.)

SO... since Debbie was able to rescue all of my photos, I'll have a picture for you tomorrow. I don't have anything recent uploaded yet, so I'll look for something I haven't yet posted. Maybe I'll be brave and attempt a digital scrapbook page!

Playing with My Digital Studio

This is so much fun! No way this would ever replace traditional hands on stamping or scrap booking for me, but I am having a ball playing with my new toy software.
Look what I did today:

Look familiar?
This was so easy to do. All I did was was make a copy of the card I made yesterday by clicking "save as" under the File menu in MDS. Then I opened the copy (keeping my original nice & safe in it's file). I then edited the copy by deleting the sentiment rub-on, adding the picture of Tippy, fussed with the Not Quite Navy layer behind the photo of Tippy for about a second or two so that it fit behind the photo better, and moved the snowflakes around a little. I deleted one of the original snowflakes, and then made a copy of the smaller one by right clicking it and then choosing copy from the drop down box.

At this point I could have been done, but I decided I wanted to change the red color on my card from the original Riding Hood Red to the brighter Real Red. For the scallop square layer all I had to do was click on it and then change the color. For the ribbon, the ribbon knot, and the brads, I did have to delete them off the card and then re-choose the embellishments in Real Red, but it went really fast. Especially since I had already created the same design, I knew exactly what I wanted to add, and where I wanted to add it, so it only took another minute or two.

I am particularly tickled about the fact that I can create a card, and then go back and change it up just a little without having to re-create an entirely new card.
** I do want to mention that I did not lock anything in on my original card, and if I had, I'm not sure if I would have been able to do this. I am still learning, but as I do, I will share with you what I learn.

Have a great day!

hugs,

Laura

My Digital Studio

My first card made with Stampin' Up!s awesome new digital stamping and scrap booking program, My Digital Studio (click the pic for a better view):


Nothing fabulous, to be sure, but I had fun playing around & creating it. Honestly, I was so excited to finally be able to play with this program that I just jumped right in & started creating without really learning about the program first. I was just too impatient to wait any longer- our computer crashed the day before my MDS arrived, so here I was with a fun new program and couldn't play with it. :(
I guess it's a good thing that it is so easy to use, but going forward I plan to actually learn something about the program so I don't mess anything up. Especially before I send an album off to be printed. (such as the background paper that is messed up on this card- yep, I saw that, but decided not to try to fix it as I really had no idea how it got like that-lol).
I definitely plan to get certified if SU! offers the certification again. I wasn't able to do it this time due to the computer crash, but I intend to become thoroughly familiar with this program very quickly so I can answer any questions you may have about it.

So, I'm sure you'll be seeing a new blog header before long- just as soon as I figure out how to create one in MDS!

BTW, I wanted to mention that the snowflakes and sentiment on the front of this card are rub-ons! how cool is that? It was really very simple to resize them and make them what color I wanted- so much fun!

Now that the computer is up & running, I'll be back soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

Holiday Extravaganza

Stampin' Up is having a HUGE holiday sale!!

Be sure to click the "SHOP NOW" button on my stampin up website to view the details.

Blog under Construction

Hi everyone. I have been dealing with yet another family crisis for the past 2 months, but things are starting to settle down. I am in the process this week of restructuring my blog so that it is in compliance with Stampin' Up!'s new policies for demonstrators. Once I have fixed it up, I will be posting again.

In the meantime, check out my website for SU!'s current DEAL OF THE WEEK, which actually runs until 11 am on Oct. 12.

This week's deal is $4 -$5 off 3 of our large punches:

5-Petal Flower punch (109041 sale price $10.95) - Trio Flower punch (109183 sale price 410.95) - My Way (arrows) punch (110709 sale price $11.95 )

E-mail me to find out about an additional discount offer from me if you order by Friday October 9th. (inkerbel@hotmail.com)
See you soon!

Laura Albertson