Colby and Erin 1992

This has got to be my favorite of all the costumes that Colby wore. Here he is with his best friend Erin getting ready for the start of the Halloween Parade through downtown Portsmouth. You can read how I created this digital page over on Scrapbooking.com

• Digital kits: The Invisible World (New Life Dreams), Matahati Designs, Scrapity-doo-dah, ScrapOutside the Box, Suzy-Q Scraps
• Elements: Filmed Overlays (K Periet)
• Font: Morpeus
• Paper: Glossy photo paper
• Software: Photoshop CS3 (Adobe)

Bocci by the Sea

The new issue of The Daily Scrapper is ready to check out. This issue is packed full of tutorials, interviews, articles and I have a hybrid-digi layout in it's pages. fun! Check out my tutorial here on how I create this page.

Every summer my family has a reunion at my parents house at the beach. Usually we will play volley ball in the sand, but this year we decided to try our hands at Bocci in the sand. That's me showing off my form.

Caught in the Act

Poor kid. LOL Here's my son 23 years ago...holy smokes does time fly! yup, 23 years ago. He has now graduated from college and has started off on his career in finance. I am so proud of him. Love {kisses} and hugs Colby.
This layout originates from the challenge June Color Play contest on DigiShopTalk We are challenged to use some very fabulous colors along with one of their many prompts. As soon as I saw the prompt for National Potty Training Awareness Month I knew exactly which photo I was going to scrap.


I decided to title the page, 'Caught in the Act' and then put the photo into the layout as if it's 'caught' behind the wire. An added benefit to the wire was that it covered up his boy parts. The page is all digital except for the twine on the tag. Can you believe it!?
The was a free kit called ~ Bee My Honey from Andrea Dickinson.
Thanks for popping in,
Michelle

The Daily Scrapper Issue 10

Here's the hybrid-digi project I did for The Daily Scrapper's Birthday issue using Cinzia Loosemore’s Celebrate digital kit.


You can find the complete instructions here

I'm still not feeling great...only been 10 days, so I have quite a few more recoup days ahead of me.

thanks for stopping by,
Michelle

kisses

Can you beat that picture :-) This is has always been one of my favorite pictures of Ciara and Liyah. Then I came across this quote and the 2 just needed to be scrapped together. Lucky for me, I just got a Quickutz Silhouette! I was able to write out the quote in Photoshop then copy and paste it into the Silhouette software which in turn cuts out the letters for me. Lesson learned is to use a font that does not have such skinny lines.


The flower was made from part of the batch that I had bought from Overstock. I think they went quite well with the ribbon paper from American Crafts. I also added some dew drops, lace and velvet ribbon.

The word kiss was cut out twice, layered, glued onto the page then I put a coat of crystal effects for more dimension.
oh ~ and ps, this is mostly digital...can you tell?

2004 and counting

Here are a couple of pages that I made highlighting Ciara's delight in a 'photo shoot' These were taken quite a few years ago, so I am very glad I still had them hoarded away on my computer.
The first picture was taken in our back yard by my garden of tulips, in the spring of 2004. The layout is a freebie frame set that I added quite a bit of glitter to. Yup, I added all that stuff by hand!


The next picture is the one we used for her Senior picture. They grow up way too fast.


Again, more glitter plus primas and pearls.

free..yup free digital stamp

I decided to give digital stamping a try, and boy oh boy..how many hobbies can one person have?
This is another one of those addicting projects that I just can't get enough of.
I drew the butterfly, scanned it into my computer then colored it using Photoshop. Totally cool stuff.



I'd love to share the butterfly with you and see what you come up with. Just send me an email and I'll forward on the file to you.
Is this considered blog candy?

Beautiful Bella

Aren't these flowers gorgeous? I wish I had kept the wrapper for the box they came in. I can tell you that the middle of the flower is made from a button that I bought at JoAnn's. Did you know there was a tool to cut the shank off buttons? Amazing!


On to Beautiful Bella ~ she is my sweet kitty that my husband gave me for Christmas. She will be a year on Saturday but still acts like she is a kitten. I scrapped her playing under my curtains. She will entertain herself with practically everything.


thanks for stopping in. Isn't she the cutest?

Big Brother

This was a fun layout using a freebie kit from Digital Scrapbooking The page is all digital except for the half pearls, the heart charm and the butterfly.


Didn't the butterfly come out great? I printed out the butterfly from the kit, cut it out, pop dotted it on then put on some jewels. It's amazing what you can do when you think out of the box a bit.
Thanks for stopping in,
Michelle

Sweet Baby

Today's scrap pages are brought to you by Ciara, who requested I work on her album. I guess I should get rolling since she's 22 now and in these pages she's a newborn. Gosh, 22 years...that's along time ago!
The papers are all from Stampin' Ups Bella Rose collection, the rub-ons from Heidi Grace and the Sweet Baby from Thickers. I've also added some photo corners, half pearls, ribbon and some vellum punched out with the eyelet punch from Stampin' Up.


The black and white picture is me and was taken exactly 52 years ago...yes, exactly ~ It's my birthday today :-) What do you think? Does Ciara look anything like her mama?
thanks for stopping in,
Michelle

One more hybrid layout

Here's my last digi-hybrid for a few weeks. I've been hired to do some card making so it's time to get rolling on that.


Again, isn't it hard to tell which is real and which is digital!? I love it!!

Thanks for stopping in,
Michelle

Scrapping Michelle

I've been out of the card making loop and have been working on my scrapbooking. Not your ordinary scrapbooking but 'hybrid' scrap booking.

I am so addicted! Hybrid is doing your scrapping on the computer (which would be called digital) but then adding some dimensionals after printing out your page. Most of these pages have crystal effects or pearls on them. It's amazing how real looking these pages have turned out. See if you can figure out what is digital on the pages and what is real.




I hope you have enjoyed peeking at my layouts. Let me know what you think.
hugs,
Michelle

Digi-scrap book two page

Here are the next two pages of my hybrid-digi scrapbook.
Again I'm continuing with Carrie Stephen's wonderful paper and elements.

After printing the pages on my printer, I added some primas, half pearls, corner punches, glitter and crystal effects. I love how easy this is and how gorgeous the pages turn out. The text on the first page, is a copy of my actual birth certificate. I have left some blank space, on the second page to add some journaling.

Let me know what you think :-)
thanks,
Michelle
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Hybrid-digi

We are up to Nine Ladies Dancing on the 12 Days of Christmas challenge over on Paper Craft Planet. Today's take on the verse, was to make a card (or paper craft) that has a girl on it. I decided I would change it up a bit by throwing in my hybrid-digi page that I have been working on. There's a girl on it, right?
My page was created using the brilliant designs from Carrie Stephens. I then printed it out and added some flowers, glitter and crystal effects. You must click on the pictures to see them close up. You won't be dissapointed ~ I must say, I LOVE how it came out!

Thanks for stopping by! Leave me a nice comment :-)