Wow! Another year has passed....what more is there to say? Like most of you, the holiday season is always busy busy busy. From shopping, to baking, to cooking, entertaining, visiting with family and friends --- honestly, it tends to wear me out but I Love every minute of it! Today though, I'm not doing anything but relaxing (and I think I'll probably find some time to pull out some paper and glue and put together a project or two. Imagine that!) Just to spark up my blog a bit (it's looking a little text heavy), I thought it good time to share my completed digital scrapbook from 2008. I had 4 copies of the book printed and gave it out at Christmas. It was definately a big hit! As I've said before, while I had a lot of fun putting this together, for me, digital scraping will never replace the traditional approach. While you can do some really cool things digitally - I guess it's just not tactile enough for me. Nonetheless, have a peak inside my book and see how it all came together.
I hope you all had a safe and happy New Year's Celebration, and I wish you all a prosperous 2009!1/01/2009
5/11/2008
Happy Mother's Day and a Quick Share
Since Mother's Day is over (almost) and the gifts have been given, I thought I would share the gift I made for my mom. I've not posted art in some time now, but that has been in part because much of my free time was spent creating this -- a Tribute book about my grandparents.
When my grandmother passed away, I scooped up a box of old photos with the intention of putting them into a scrapbook. More than 10 years has passed now, and I've finally done it, although not quite the way I intended. Simply seeing the Tribute template on Shutterfly however was enough to spur my into action. I had 2 copies of the book printed, one for my mom and the other for my aunt. They were both thrilled and extremely surprised. The added bonus of this project is that the photos are now digitized, with no fear of further degradation.
The book was really easy to put together using a template on Shutterfly, and the quality of the printed material is just awesome! If you haven't tried this service I highly recommend it -- the service is wonderful, and delivery fast. I ordered the book on the 30th of April and it arrived here on May 8 -- excellent turnaround for an international order. Have a peak and let me know what you think!
{Note: If you actually take the time to read any of the text, you'll see a bunch of xx's where dates and places should be. I've done this intentionally on my shareable version for privacy reasons.}
