Started a new blog for the Photowalk

This is not the blog I am using for the 2011 photowalk.
I started a different blog for the photowalk as was suggested in the forum at Elements village .It will be better to keep these digiscraping posts separate from the photowalk.
Here is the link to my 2011 Photowalk blog:
2011 PhotoWalk
Hopefully those who signed up to follow this blog for the photowalk will notice I changed my blog for the challenge & will follow there.

365 Challenge

This already is exciting & hasn't even officially started. I've got my theme list printed out , spruced up this blog by adding a new header & BG paper,got comments from fellow challenge participants & some followers of my blog for the challenge! Wow
I went to the share site at Shutterfly for the challenge & that looks very interesting too.

My New Camera

I did it! I bought myself a new camera for Christmas. A Nikon D5000 with 18-55 & a 55-200 VR zoom lenses.
It was hard for me to buy it because I am such a pragmatic person & I have a fijifilm finepix point & shoot camera that works just fine. I've wondered about D-SLR cameras for a while & have never had one . I have no intentions of even being an amateur photographer.I just want to take nice photos of my famiy for memory keeping & for my digitalscrapbooking. I've been reassured this camera will beat the pants off my point & shoot.
I signed up for 365 Challenge at Elements Village. In 2011 a photo a day to be taken using a theme list & posted on a blog to share with other members taking the challenge. It will be a great way to learn how to use my new camera. I've spent an evening reading the manual.It will take me a long time to learn this camera.First I will use auto mode & then just experiment with the two lens,then on to scene modes & maybe down the line I will venture a try at manual mode.But that is in the future.

Family Vacations

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Making a heritage album

This Old Photo

Took an online class at Jessica Prague on how to restore vintage photos.

Happy Father's Day Brent

You can get the QP HERE

I used Papa's Workshop kit by LightningBugCreations available at DigitalScrapbookingStudio & IVY Scraps

Blue Christmas

I made a quickpage using LightningBugCreatons kit_Blue Christmas

You can get it here

Present/Past Christmas Album

I signed up for a "Holidays in Hand "class to create a Christmas album at Jessica Pragues .This project is alot harder to do than I anticipated. I have so few past Christmas photos.Oh how I wish we had digital cameras back in the old days! I have lots of neat digi pics of the grandkids but I don't want to really scrap those cause they themselves & their mama's will do that. Not only do I have few pics of my own kids & practically none(literally) of my childhhod Christmas the pics I have are very poor quality.To make things worse I am bad at journaling but I guess that would be the main way to recapture my own past holiday time.

CLICK ON PIC TO SEE LARGER VERSION

Here are a few pages done.

Littlespooky (Carmen of LightningBugCreations)

I joined her CT as a part timer! Carmen has been very kind to agree to my part time statis on her team & I am very grateful for that. It is alot of fun to be on a CT yet it is quite a committment too_ one I am not ready to do full time right now with the holidays coming up & all. But I will do my best as a part timer & hopefully it will work out.

Here is a LO I made with her kit_LittleSpooky's NewHalloweenKit available at StoneAccentsStudio.

I used lessons from my Oct.Premier ScrappersGuide membership:CornerPage curl & Creative Shape Designs by SusieRoberts & Faux Dodge & Burn by Linda Sattgast.

I have so few photos of my kids I could cry. I only have about 5 Halloween pics of them.Yet we went trick & treating every single year. It always was such an exciting time .

The black & white photo on the LO is a very bad photo to use on a LO but it is the only one I have of me with (at least one) of my kids at Halloween time & it brings back memories for me.And that is the whole purpose of digiscrapping isn't it? Preserve our memories.

Fairy Portrait Technique

This month over at ScrappersGuide one of the lessons is on fairy techniques.Here's my attempt. Bella got so excited when she saw the photo."How did I get wings?" she asked. Oh the magic of grandmothers!

Oct ScrappersGuide premier kit_SBartolini...Happy Autumn

My very own personal blinkie

I won a blinkie of choice from Littlespooky(Carmen of LightningBugCreations) over at StoneAccentsStudio where she has a blinkie/banner service in the store. She made me a blinkie for my blog using her apples kit & I think it turned out really cute.
For some dumb reason Blogspot won't let me add the image code to the post!! I want to show you my blinkie.Darn, always something with the computer.When I get it figured out I'll post the blinkie.
I can't seem to do it.Keep getting a code error.Tried to do many different ways

Amberpony over at StoneAccentStudio is in the designer contest going on over there. So go on over there & vote for her.Voting going on right now. I made a QP using her entry kit_BestBuds.You can get it here

BestBudsQuickpage

Mother

Mom will celebrate her birthday this month. She will be 93!!!

This month my premier membership at scrappersguide teaches us how to make vintage frames. I made the frames in the LO & it was fun to put on the creases, bent corner, stains & burn the edges etc. I turned the photo to sepia & painted in mom's blue eyes & rosy cheeks --but the blue eyes are not showing up in this LO .Kit is BloomonBeauty by Anja Schernau.QP by LisaBrown with my changes

If you want to see any images in a larger view just click on them

CountryGirl by Amberpony

Jessa & Brandi
went to a horse camp at Bunker Hills this summer.
They were in awe to be riding real horses & not just pony's
Seriously learning to ride properly.
They had to brush their horse, saddle it,walk ,stop, turn & trot

Amberpony over at StoneAccentsStudio has her first kit up in the store. It has two pony's in the kit that are absolutely adorable. I made two quickpages using her kit.If you would like them you can get them HERE.

Life after the closing of Cottagescrapbooks

Well I have not applied to join another CT .I am rather enjoying the break from weekly LO deadlines & posting to 4 different sites every week. My goal now is to digiscrap my heritage photos & scan in photos of my kids & restore them. These photos were taken back in the 70's when the worse film every made in the history of film types was being sold--kodak daisy ?? film. The photos are all turning red etc.
Tomorrow I will have cataract surgery. The hardest part was arranging transportation to & from the eye center for two separate procedures ( they only do one eye at a time). I just hate to bother my kids cause Brent wil loss work time & Sally has 4 kids- the one year old & 3 year old doesn't make driving in very early am too easy.They both have been great about it. The part of doing only one eye at a time is in case it doesn't go well. That is a bit scary.Possible complications can be bleeding,infection, eyesight loss & even loss of eye!!! However the procedure is common with great results so I am keeping that my focus.

CottageScrapbooks is no more

Stella was upgrading the site to get more bandwidth & something went terribly wrong.It is my understanding that GeoCity the host site ran into some problems with CottageScrapBooks during the upgrade & everything EVERYTHING was lost.Stella is heart broken & does not want to start again from scratch due to other things going on in her life.She has just relocated from Australia to Canada & settling in her new home & starting a full time job.
It is unbelievable that such a happy site is florishing one day & gone the next.It was my home the last seven months. I was on the Creative Team for CottageScrapbooks & loved making LO's for the designers . It was fun working with the other CT's on the team & seeing their work. I will miss them,the designers at the Cottage & Stella.

April Cottagescrapbooks Blog Party

You can get these RMP's HERE

I made two RMP's for the party . One I made using papers & frames from the kit Mistybelle made for this party & you can get it on her blog.See blog roll below. The 2nd LO was made using StellarificCreations beautiful kit Spring Song. The rainbow is mine.

Here's the blog roll

Stellarific Creations:http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.comScrapbooking In Australia:http://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.comCottage Scrapbooks blog:http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comThe Cottage Creatives:http://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comStella's other blog:http://creativebystella.blogspot.com/Stella's Cottage Blog ~ Meeting Place:http://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4KayC:http://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/mITSYBELLE:http://mitsybelle.blogspot.com/Jean Ann:http://jacksscraps.blogspot.com/ JobaScraps:http://joba2hut.blogspot.com/ KDesigns:http://kdesignscreations.blogspot.com/JessicasMahttp://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/Cadaceehttp://cadaceescorner.blogspot.com/
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I've kept my links open for my past quickpages so if you still want any you can still get them.

Wow the months sure go fast.January flew by.Celebrated 3 birthdays this month.Saw Elmo stage show with grandaughters. It was so cold we froze just walking a little way to get in the arena. Struggling with weightwatchers. Too cold to go grocery shopping as often as needed to get healthy fruits & veggies. I haven't joined in on blogging a photo a day like so many are doing but I sure have been thinking about it. A great way to get a album of your life to pass onto future generations.

Here is my contribution to the Feb. blog party at Cottagescrapbooks. I used Demiurgia's kit...I Heart You. Hope you enjoy it & be sure to go to the rest of the sites on the blog roll for wonderful gifts by designers & members at the cottage. Here

February Blog Roll

Stellarific Creations:http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.comScrapbooking In Australia:http://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.comCottage Scrapbooks blog:http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comThe Cottage Creatives:http://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comStella's Cottage Blog ~ Meeting Place:http://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4KayC:http://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/Jessicasma:http://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/Cadacee:http://cadaceescorner.blogspot.com/Demiurgia Designs:http://demiurgia.blogspot.com/KDesigns:http://kdesignscreations.blogspot.comWildcat Designs:http://wildcatdesigns.blogspot.commITSYBELLE:http://mitsybelle.blogspot.com/JobaScraps:http://joba2hut.blogspot.com/ozsue:http://sue-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/Jean Ann:http://jacksscraps.blogspot.com/ok, go blog!