I'm coming along learning the world of being a CT. What a wonderful world the digital scrapbooking community is!
This layout uses StellarificCreations kit AngelHeart.

well I have been working hard on my CT membership at StellarificDesigns. I have signed up at five other sites and what an experience.I received so many friendly welcomes and wonderful comments on my layouts I posted! The digital scrapbooking community is really a very special group of people.
Here's a LO with CottageStella's kit called SnowflakeBlues

I'm a CT for CottageStella

Stella asked me to join her creative team for her StellarificDesigns creations.How could I refuse? I love her work. What an opportunity to grow and expand my horizons!This is a first time experience for me. I will learn as I go.
My first task I need to do is sign up for more scrapbooking sites to post my layouts made with Stella's kits. I want to get her CT blinkie in my signatures too.
Here is my first layout using her kit HeartAngel

Life History Challenge at SAS

I won this months life history challenge at StoneAccentsStudio for this layout.
It is an honor I appreciate:)

I joined Scrappersguide premier subscription and absolutely love it.I have received my first newsletter and have already learned so much. I am going to appreciate having photoshop elements6 for just this very reason. I loved my PaintShop Prox1 but it was so hard finding tutorials for this version to learn to scrapbook the newest and lastest techniques others are doing. I haven't even downloaded PSP on my new computer yet. I am sure I will since it does things Elements doesn't like mask work.But for now I want to get a handle on Elements6.It is like starting from the beginning since the programs are very different how they do things.

My New Dell Computer

It came Dec. 6th-St. Nicholas Day.It is a whooper of a computer.
XPS with quad core processor,500HD,3 ram, and 8800Gt video card.
22 inch monitor
Also came with Photoshop package of three programs-elements ,video and sound programs.
Roxio burner software ,antivirus etc

PhotoShopElements6

Learning Vista and photoshop elements at the same time was/is challenging.I thought I would be able to transfer more of my knowledge of PSP to Elements.The programs may do alot of the same things ---but in very different ways. Lots of trial and error. I am abit overwhelmed where to start in elements.There are so my subscriptions to purchase to learn it.The Ivillage photoshop elements site/forum has lots of free tuts but they are random not like the PSP user site that has self learning tuts in progressive technique-basics,beginners etc.Seems like if you want to learn Elements with out all the headache and time of trial and error you need to buy subscriptions -even for basics online classes like how to use your browser and layers at $20 a pop.The Photoshop elements techniques newsletter subscription seems to be highly recommended and also a premier subscription to ScrapperGuide. My concern is time committment. I don't want to get overwhelmed with all the tutorials to learn and apply .Knowing me if I pay for something then I will want to do every darn challenge and tut. I fell like I need both subscriptions.Maybe I should just start with one . I still participate at SASY and do all their challengess.

CanDesigns

Candee is one of the designers on SAS. On her blog she had a challenge to offer her ideas for a Christmas kit to make.I didn't win but she used my suggestions to make a fun freebie on her blog for theholidays and she sent me a coupon for $5.00 off any of her kits. I bought her
Crystal Palace. It is a winter/Christmas kit using nontradional colors and it is beautiful. Here is my furst Lo I using the kit

SASSY Inspiration Challenge

I just got an email fron Pillowgirl (Sasy designer and leader of the inspiration challenges) informing me I won this months challenge.Besides the posting gift I get a coupon for $5.oo dollars off anyone of her kits! This will be hard to use cause I already bought some of my favorites from her designs but I am sure I can find something:) Perhaps a Christmas kit? I am off to her store to shop.Whoopie

STONEACCENTSSTUDIO

Oh how I love this site.I won the newsletter challenge ( fall colors) in Nov for my four Oct.entrants using Sasy designer kits. .Got a $5.00 dollar certificate to buy something in the gallery:)

http://www.stoneaccentsstudio.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3650&ppuser=918

My New Computer

Well I finally purchased my new computer. There were a lot of specials out there for Thanksgiving and black friday. And if I was just looking to do digital scrapbooking a few of them would have been just fine.But...I am also a gamer( mmorpg,Oblivion,World of Warcraft,Adventure games,London's hellfire) and that was the problem. I needed a GOOD graphics card. And there was none to be found in any specials or store including BestBuy,CircuitCity, or Costco and Office Max. So I ended up custom building it at Dell. Estimated shipping date is Dec. 6th--St. Nicolas Day! My son helped me alot to know what to get, esp. the graphics card.He sent me to Tom'sHardware.com to see how important a decent graphics card is and how they were rated by tiers from best on down.!! I haven't been able to play Oblivion because my present graphic card is so bad and I am looking forward to that.

My PSPug Work

Scrapbooking & Old Photos

I will be so happy when I get my new computer.It is almost impossible to do 12x12 layouts.That hourglass just doesn't want to stop running.I have discovered if I scrap at 8x8 which is the size I print I can scrapbook most things .Boy, it will be unbelievable to be able to scrap fast! Brent is going to help me buy my computer since he is looking for a new one too.I have one in mind at Dell already.Waiting to see if any specials come out or if Costco etc. have what I need.No hurry cause this computer working- just too slow for digiscrapping.

Most of the photos of my kids were taken in the 70's .Photos's taken in 60's & 70's are the worse quality in history of photography.Something to do with type of film etc used at that time. My photos reflect this.They are unclear and fading . I understand one technique to use with these poor photos is to take just part of the photo to use.(Can put on elements,use as background paper , etc.

I need a new computer

I don't know why I am so hesitant to just go and get one.I think it is because it is so much work to get hooked up to ISP ,redo addressbook & favorites etc that once running you have for years.But that is not it either.I just want to get one that will be up to par for several years and that means no specials or deals are available.This one working good just too slow for my digital scrapbooking.And of course my video card is not good enough for the lastest high end gaming.Therefore upgrading ram and video card not cost effective.

Happy Halloween

I made this pumpkin from scratch and it wasn't easy!

The tutorial I used was an older version then my program

and alot of the instructions did not work.I wish corel would get with it on their user site and update the tutorials for the newer versions.Sally says she is going to get me photoshop elements for Christmas.After wasting so much time trying to do this tutorial it might not be a bad idea since there are so many more tuts for photoshop. I did read on scrapgirls web site a comment by Ro the founder of the site that the new photoshop elements version 6 is out but has removed some actions dig.scrapbookers use a lot and if this is the case PSP in the future may be up in sales. I gotta tell Sally to get version 5 if she still thinks she wants to buy me this for Christmas. I am conflicted about changing programs because of the learning curve and I feel loyal to PSPug site.

Stone Accents Studio - Heritage Layout - Weddings

Stone Accents Studio - Heritage Layout - Weddings: " Heritage Layout - Weddings Hi, I'm happy to tell you that your Wedding LO had the most comments! You are the winner of the Heritage LO of the Month for September. You will be recieving an email with a coupon good for $5 off of any of Pillowgirl's kits. Thanks for joining the challenge and Congratulations! __________________ Hugs, JanW.

SLP at PSPug

SLP is a self learning program at the PSP users group web site. I have spent hours doing the tutorials and learning alot. I started with learning layers ,text, making background papers,elements.frames,airbrushing,gradients,selections,vectors,masks and more. If only I could remember how to do everything!
Now I am doing photo enhancement work .Learned how to fix photos using layers ,brightness/contrast,curves.As far as I have gotten but more lessons up to do.I had some photos I took this summer that turned out too dark and auto or smart fix did not improve them very much.I thought the photos were a lost cause.Then with this SLP lesson I was able to get a pretty decent result using curves! I was delighted.
I have a second web page with comcast just for for my PSPug work.

PaintShopPhoto x1

This is the program I use . My understanding is this program does about 95% of what AdobePhotoshop does.Adobe Photoshop Elements is a lighter version for home users . Most tutorials for digital scrapbooking are written for these programs since Adobe is the standard.

Photoshsop elements is more limited than PSP. There are many sites and tutorials for PSP users. Many tutorials for Adobe can be converted to PSP use. Paint ShopPro Users Group is the best place to learn PSP with many tutorials to learn the program . I am active on this site.
http://www.pspug.org/

StoneAccentsStudio

This site just started about 3 months ago by JulieO and I happened to come across it at almost the begining -which is a rich experience to see a site grow from infancy to maturity. Two weeks ago Julie had the grand opening of the store.It was a fun day with lots of free gifts and games to play. It is so neat to get to know the designers and visit their blogs and websites. That is why I have again visited my blog which I have not written in for a few years.Glad to see it was still active. I did have some trouble retrieving the password etc. but did manage somehow to get back on. I saw one of my layouts for a challenge( on SAS) on Terrell's blog! ( one of the SAS-y designers) which was astonishing to see! I have been doing a few of the challenges on the site. I check the site everyday.I am spending way too much time on the computer.

Been A Long Time since Last Post

Gosh it has been so long since I used this site.
I have gotten into the world of digital scrapbooking.
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