You don’t realize how short our summer is in Edmonton until it is the Labour Day long weekend. I noticed more leaves falling off my trees today and I am a bit apprehensive about greeting another cold, long winter. To fight off these thoughts about snow, we went to the Devonian Botanic Gardens to spend some time in the warm sunshine and wear out the kids. It was the perfect way to spend the last long weekend of the summer.
I was stuck for a scrapbook subject for this weeks Project 52 page. So I took a picture this morning of my two little helpers while breakfast was cooking and planned on doing a page of Saturday morning activities. When I looked at the photos I had from the past few weeks I realized I had a bunch of cute random photos that needed to be used and the one I took this morning would fit right in. I titled it “Random Goofy Moments” and it truly reflects that. We have a lot of goofy moments in this house, but they are usually over before the camera is turned on. I think it is important to remember all the different moments in a year, not just the ones where you are dressed up! With that thought, I am going to try to do a page in the near future on the bad, noisy moments that give me a headache just so I can remember in ten years what it was like to have a one and three year old!!
Leah
The new computer has arrived and is finally set up. Jason and I spent the last two days transferring all my scrapbook files over and thankfully everything works great! Along with the computer, Jason surprised me with Photoshop Elements 9!! I was not expecting that at all! I can’t wait to get it going and learn how to do some cool photo techniques, although I may take a course instead of trying to figure it out myself.
Now that I am able to scrapbook again, I am also busy shopping for new designer kits to use in the photobooks. I have been looking at so many talented designers and today I bought a kit from Paislee Press called Adorned. I love it because it is a Christmas kit that isn’t traditional and can be used for so many other occassions. The page I have posted today is using this kit and my photos are definitely not of the Christmas spirit!
I will be using “Adorned” for a few Christmas projects, so check back to see more of this kit.
Leah
Pearls, staples, border stamp from Stampin' Up, papers, flowers, ribbon from Paislee Press
I am waiting on a new computer, so I don’t want to do too much photobook work until it arrives. I have just been playing around with some more Project 52 pages and had to share this photo of Casey. Just when you think your baby is getting to be so big, you gain some perspective and realize that he is still a little boy!
Leah
All products used from Stampin' Up.
In January I started a scrapbook challenge called Project 52 which invloves creating a scrapbook page every week for a year. I have been faithfully doing this for the last seven months and I thought I would start sharing the pages here.
This week we went to this cool dinosaur park just outside of Edmonton called Jurassic Forest. It was perfect for our little kids: not too scary, and a beautiful nature walk. I would highly recommend it!
Leah
Flower, button, tape from The Shabby Princess, everything else Stampin Up.
I am offiicially in business! Well on paper anyway! I now have my business license and Birdwing Paper Designs is a reality. I still have a lot of work to get done before I can actually start taking orders for personal photobooks and I will let you know when that happens.
For now, I will leave you with the unveiling of my logo and watermark.
Leah
Could you believe that a girl who once hated computers is actually writing her first blog and trying to understand the digital world? There is no one more surprised about this than me. I don’t think I would even be attempting this feat if it weren’t for my husband who understands computers and works with them all day long. He has had to explain a lot of things to me!!
What got me interested in this foreign world was a Christmas gift I received from my husband two years ago. I had asked for the digital scrapbooking software “My Digital Studio” by Stampin’ Up to see what it was like. I loved it as soon as I started and I was soon hooked on scrapbooking. It was so easy to use and there was nothing to clean up afterward, just shut down! My first pages were pretty simple and as I wanted to learn more about the program, I was forced to learn more about computers. I had no idea what the difference was between a jpeg and a png file, and I didn’t really care. I know what it is now, but there is still so much to learn. I will try to figure it out, one step at a time! For today, I am learning how to create my blog and do my first post.
So I thought I would show my favorite scrapbook page of mine which I made for Valentine’s Day featuring my two babies.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you come back to see what new tricks I have discovered in My Digital Studio and also to check out the photobook samples I will post later on.
Leah
Stampin’ Up: Love Letter and Love Impressions designer series paper, Lots of Love stamp, Valentine Defined stamp, Medallion stamp
Birdwing Paper Designs 