Mudluscious!

Credits:
Thank you to CS for lending me pictures of Isaac!
Background papers and filmstrip from 'Star Man' by Chris Greiser
Tags from 'Orange Crush' by Wendy Page

Another Sunshine Challenge

Credit: 'A Day in the Garden' by Sunshine Studio Scraps

Sunshine Studio Scraps Challenge #6

This one was a journal challenge - definitely a little more difficult for me since I don't journal a lot on my scrap pages. We had to journal something to do with spring cleaning. I took a little liberty with the theme.

~Credits~
photos are from my 2005 trip to China
background papers, frame, flower elements from 'A Day in the Garden' by the Sunshine Studio Scraps group
ring frames around the photos from 'Asian Fusion' by Ziggle Designs

Sunshine Challenge #5

Criteria for Sunshine Studio Scraps challenge #5 is that the layout must include one heart-shaped photo. Here's my layout featuring our niece.

Papers and elements from Shauna Burke-Smith's 'Preppy' collection

Cattitude

This was a template challenge from Sunshine Studio Scraps - take the template, make a layout and post. Here's my 'Cattitude' layout.
background paper, paper behind the 'meow,' and swirl paper from Shauna Burke-Smith
'Cattitudes' text and paper in upper square from Epson.com CreativeZone

Documentary v. Interpretive Photos

I am taking a photography class called Art That Happens to be Your Life. For this week's lesson we are developing our critical eye and focusing on documentary photos versus interpretive photos. Usually I would try to watch the lesson video and read through the handouts over the weekend to have some time to work on my assignment, but since the flu hit me this weekend, I used M.'s game time to work on this week. Our assignment was to post two photos of the same subject: one documentary and one interpretive. Since I don't have a lot of subjects to work with around here - M. and a couple cats, I decided to look through photos I've already taken and selected two of a little girl I used to babysit for. So I give you Olivia - documentary and interpretive.

Since I lack an array of subjects at home maybe I will need to start taking my camera to work and doing some assignments there? That happens to be a big chunk of my life... Perhaps a few well-meaning coworkers will raise their hands and volunteer? I know you're out there... Stop by my office and tell me you'd love for me to photograph you! M. - you are going to have not be camera shy!!

Frame Challenge From Sunshine Studio Scraps

Sunshine Studio Scraps is holding another challenge. Criteria is to use three different frames. So I did the following featuring my nephew Fisher.

Credits:

• background paper is blue sky by Moon Scraps
• frames, snowflakes, tassel, and tag by Jeanie Baechtold (from her "Brisk" set available at ComputerScrapbook.com)
• index card by Shauna Burke-Smith of Pineapple Plantation
• fonts used: St. Nicholas and Arial Rounded MT Bold
  

Also, I was chosen as one of the winners of the previous color challenge!

Sunshine Challenge #2

STILL no winner announcement in that contest I entered. So, I decided to enter a different contest on another digital scrapbooking website - Sunshine Studio Scraps. This was their second challenge (I didn't do the first) and the goal was to utilize a predetermined color palette (shown below). Here's my entry featuring Clyde!

Digi-Scrap Masquerade

Okay, still no winner announcement in that contest I entered. But their site is finally up so I was able to grab my layout images to post on my blog. There were six challenges and we had one week to create a layout based on the challenge and get it posted to the challenge gallery (except for the 1st challenge, we had two weeks for that one). The contest was hosted by Digital Candy. If you're interested, you can get the lowdown on the contest here. And the gallery designated for the contest is here.

My Monday Snark

I recently entered a digital scrapbooking contest. I don't do a lot of scrapbooking, per se, but thought it would be fun. I had planned to do my last March post as a photo listing of my contest layouts. The contest was a masquerade and no one knew who did which layouts (not a problem for me since I'd never posted anything to the website anyway). So I was waiting for the winner announcement before I put any of my layouts on my blog. And today is the day the winners are supposed to be announced.

I have been trying to take a look at the site since I got up this morning and ventured out of the bedroom (6:40am). But this is what the site has looked like all day:

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable
to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit.
Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at digitalcandy.ca Port
80

Blah!

Another Quickie

Just a quick list to stay in the NaBloPoMo running for March lists! Here are the crafty blogs I enjoy and keep track of in my Google Reader:

1. Digital Candy
2. fertilepress
3. Laughing Lion Design
4. Pineapple Plantation
5. Racketty Scrappety
6. Scrap Big
7. SpragueLab
8. Sugarplum Paperie

BPS

Some time in late 2006 or early 2007 I discovered a website called Big Picture Scrapbooking. Here you can take a variety of online courses centering on scrapbooking. So for my NaBloPoMo list for today, here's a list of classes I have taken, am currently taking or am registered to take:

1. Art of Becoming More
2. Art That Happens to be Your Life
3. Get Organized and be Inspired
4. Handmade Book Club (monthly)
5. A Year to Remember
6. Brushworks
7. Deliciously Digital
8. Doing It Digi

These keep my weekends fairly full right now and the first two on my list haven't even started! The last three courses got me into digital scrapbooking and using PhotoShop. Here, for your viewing pleasure is a photo of a friend in Vietnam that I altered in PhotoShop.


credit for the bamboo: Shauna of Pineapple Plantation