So I was on one of my digiscrapping freebie blogs tonight

http://handpickedfreebies.blogspot.com/

And I clicked on one of the freebies and it led me to Jen Martakis Designs. I loved what I saw SOOO much and thought it was worth blogging about. Look at some of these things!!!

http://jenniferann75.blogspot.com/

First Official "Craft"

Yay! I finally made something. And it was free! DH took DS golfing and I stayed behind to clean. Well, while I was cleaning, I came across an old board book of DeVon's that was torn into pieces and all chewed on. I had been holding off throwing it away because it was his favorite book from about the time he was 6 months to 18 months, or so. I decided it was just time to cut the head off so I grabbed the one piece of it I had found and headed to the trash can. I stop cold as I realized I could make something out of it. I LOVE board book transformations. I went to look through the photos we have of DS, but there were no recent ones worth displaying. Being a digital scrapper, I turned to photoshop. I had a picture of him I liked, but I didn't like the distracting background. So, I cropped him out, put a background paper behind him (elegent mess paperpack by Joyce Paul Designs) and decided on wings as embellishment (Baby Kit from Newlife Dreams Designs). With a boy, I never use wings on my scrapbook pages so this was the perfect opportunity. We have no color ink, so I had no choice but to grayscale, but i'm a sucker for b&w. I just printed it out on my computer on regular paper with regular ink. I mod podged the picture onto the backside of the book page so the title of the book would be on the back. Gotta preserve those memories! I used a hard plastic calculator cover to smooth air bubbles and it worked perfectly. Filed the edges and VOILA! Now I gotta figure out what I want to do with it. Since we're pretty much nomads, it might have to be sent to Grandma to display at her house.

Shoulda cropped the picture closer. Since I turned it to black and white, you can't tell he's wearing his auntie's cowboy boots and he looks bow-legged! oh well...

Linking to:

Scrapbook Page and New Blog Backgrounds

When my old external hard drive crashed, I lost several scrapbook pages so I've been attempting to recreate them. Here's one of them. It's one of my all time favorite pages, too.

Here's a couple backgrounds I made recently for my sister and a friend:

More Blog Backgrounds

New Blog Header

click on the 'blog' key above and see the new header I made for my blog!

And don't forget to visit my SITE

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One Year Older from The Scrapping Sisters

Worn Alfa by PapierStudio

Plain ol' Chipboard Alpha by kandy kane creations

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Quickpage from Digital Scrap Cafe

School Girl Crush Alpha by Ziggle Designs

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Love Flair - Timeless Mini Kit by Cinzia Designs

Speech Bubble - Comics and Bubbles add-on by Cardamome and Pouyou

Flair Button Template by Gunhild

Stitches - Happy Place from Two Little Pixels

Papers - My Last Romance by Nathan Designs

Red Bracket - Falling For You by Chriscrap

Daily Ritual and Daddy's Shoes

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BG paper - Fall Festival Blog Train by Always be Neighbors Designs

Frame - Hot In Here add-on by AnnaBV Designs

Ocean Breeze Alphabet from Digi Rosa

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green stitch - Spring Breeze from Shabby Princess

"really cute" word art - Damayanti Studio

border stitch - Bring In The New Year the "mini kit" from Digi-designs by Nicole

white w/ green circles paper - Ivy's Inspirations

green and black papers - Sunshine Studio Scraps "Shamrock" blog train

Journal Strip Paper - Blog Train Sampler by Athena @PDW

green date tab - Toothpast Drama by MK Designs

linking to:

Scrapbook Pages

I know right now I don't have much to show on here, but hopefully after the summer I will be in craft heaven. Don't want to make any crafts during the summer since we'll be moving and I don't want to worry about anything getting smashed or ruined. There should be plenty of scrapbook pages though. Here are some of my most recent ones.

I can't decide if my header above looks okay... I'll probably be tinkering with it - when i have time

*sorry, I don't have the credits for these. I'll have to start keeping track again now that I'm posting them.

I've linked to:

Keeping it Simple
Made it Monday at Persimmon Perch
It's So Very Cheri