Happy Birthday Mscraps!
27 January 12
If you’ve been following my blog lately for my Project Life posts, I’ll be back with that later. I had printing issues this week & so that put me off schedule. At least I know where everything is going :D I also have a few questions to answer so that’ll go with that post too.
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But TODAY! This is Mscraps 2nd Birthday Bash!! (And even though I’ve been a lazy designer the last couple months I’ve still been working on some amazing Mscraps store collabs that you definitely want to get during this party!!)
A Bash wouldn’t be a Bash without a good sale, so check out my store while everything is 30% OFF!!
A Bash also wouldn’t be a Bash without an AMAZING Blog/Facebook hop for you!! For this train, the store CT & Designers have again decided to work with the same color scheme so that at the end you will have collected a beautiful coordinated HUGE full kit with our Birthday Bash theme!
Here is what I created for you, (of course a couple Project Life sized cards thrown in too!):
You can download it HERE or just click the image above!
You should have found your way here from the talented DitaB’s blog & your next stop will be to one of my favorite French scrappers Ella! If you get lost along the way then find your way back to the beginning!
Keep in mind we are all on different time zones so if not all freebies are up yet, please be patient and check back later. The train officially takes off at 6PM GMT today & I’m a little early to board!
Enjoy all the freebies & remember that everyone who provided one for the Mscraps Blog/FB Train has invested a lot of time in making them, so please leave them a little thank you note if you can!
HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!!
posted by: Elisa Hubbard
Project Life - Jan 9th-15th
18 January 12
Hello Week 2 Project Life! (my week 7!!)
This week was another simple one. Stressful things came up, but mostly it was a smooth uneventful thing. I DID get my scrapping mojo back though with the 12 photos on the 12 stuff. So LOTS of scrapping was happening which meant I KNEW I wanted to use the Becky Higgins Design E page protectors to put a few of those there. I won’t include many digi layouts unless they pertain just to that day. I print my digital layouts in a random collection of 200 page books, so I don’t want too much redundancy of the exact same page.
I’m hoping that THIS week (backside of the one I’m showing) I’ll have some photos I really love & just do 6×6 prints of them. That’s my little goal. So far, and it’s Wednesday, I don’t have any I really want to see blown up, so hopefully I get my PHOTOness on & take something better. *noted! hehe
SO!!! Here is my simple spread for last week & another no insert kind of week.
For this week I changed the location where I photograph my album. I’ve been photographing them at night on my “Project Life” desk, (post coming later), but I was having an awful time with glare & wasn’t liking them so I brought it to work with me today. Still some glare, but maybe a little better? Eh!
I also had a little epiphany this week on why I’m liking this method of scrapbooking even though I’m a digi girl… When I was little as soon as I used up a roll of film I immediately took it for 1hr processing then brought them home & completely rearranged and added them into my albums. I would spend hours with the photos and putting them in the right spot, taking them out, switching them up. Always adding the new stuff. (Sadly the photos didn’t stay in the albums since the albums themselves were always changing to suit my tastes.) But it was the physical, tactile-ness, of the process that I enjoyed, (and this time my album gets to stay together!).
Anywho!! Highlights from this week are more photographs for my sister, meals out with the family a couple times before Gayle went back to school, my OLW for 2012, 12 pictures from the 12, I got a typewriter! (aka borrowing it), studio session with the dogs (every 6 weeks project), working at my Mom’s condo for faster the internet (and boring Charlie to sleep), my book for the week “The Happiness Project”, & dinner out at The Mellow Mushroom with my mom.
(I also have more stuff added to my stash that I used here but I’ll update about those things later too. I don’t think I can keep up with physical credits with each spread on the blog, but if you have questions about something that was used just ask!)
Since I brought my album to work today I decided to rephotograph each spread and inserts & start a gallery with just those on my flickr account, (also working on adding all of my digital layouts there too so I can have a complete gallery & backup of credits & stuff). If you want to see all the rephotographed spreads at flickr then you can go here, but here is a quick screenshot of each of them in Lightroom too. LOVE how this project is coming together!!!
This time I’ll leave you with a quote I found on Pinterest last week & that’s:
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – So do it!
I hope this encourages you in your memory keeping adventures!!
(Project Life is a system created by Becky Higgins to take the stress out of scrapbooking.)
posted by: Elisa Hubbard
Holiday Tempates 2011: 6-10
14 January 12
My digital scrapping has been off for a couple months, & I think it could be because I’ve been designing lots of books for work & haven’t been in Photoshop for ME lately. This means I’m still behind on my most recent class from Tiffany Tillman for Holiday Templates.
It’s silly, but I LOVE my goals when taking her classes. I LOVE the challenge of using her templates twice, they PUSH me. So I really want to catch up on all of these before January ends. 10 templates down (20 Layouts), 14 to go (28 Layouts)!
Hence! Scrappy Saturday!
Each image shows side-by-side the pages that utilize the same template to start. 1 Holiday related (for the class!) & 1 anything else I want to scrap. I also look at templates as a fun way too to use & play with other kits in my stash that I might have forgotten about, or revisit old favorites.
In previous classes I’d scrap template 1, template 2, template 3, etc… & then go back & scrap them each again. This time I did most of them back to back instead to try to push myself more to make them different, template 1, template 1, template 2, template 2, etc…
This time around I also was trying to keep some of the multiphotos as multiphotos. I’m not strong in that area, but the templates in this class were heavily weighted that way & I like a challenge!
I guess the point of these class posts is to show that using the same templates can give completely different results even when scrapped by the same person. Endless possibilities to stretch, move, rotate, add, delete, flip.
Endless possibilities to help get memories & moments scrapped.
Here’s the link to Templates 1-5
Happy Scrappy Saturday!
posted by: Elisa Hubbard
Hello: One Little Word 2012
13 January 12
Keeping it simple today.
Hello is my One Little Word this year. The word I want to focus on. For me this is more of a “gateway” word to more of my resolutions for the year & Live. Saying Hello to more things & embracing more things.
Made with: “Scholarly Art Play Palette” by Anna Aspnes (recolored), “Mixtape” by Paislee Press
(Used the same paper/color since I’ll be printing this for my Project Life this week & pairing it with my 12 on 12 in 2012 layout.)
Also, trying to stay inspired & thinking on my word with Pinterest.
Happy Friday The 13th!!! Sending all my luck & wishes to you!
posted by: Elisa Hubbard
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