Digital Scrapping

*Gasp* I know with my room full of paper scrapbook supplies how can I even mention digital scrapping? But really, life is getting busier and I'm falling behind on archiving my photos. I need to get that journaling down on paper (or computer in this case) before I forget all the little tidbits of the story. So this is how it all began......

A friend of mine had a Creative Memories party where I was able to see what a digital scrap program can do. Unfortunately or fortunately in my case; CM doesn't make a version for the Mac at the moment (will they ever? that's a whole other post since my mac already does what their photo organizing software says is new and exciting). So I went home disappointed I couldn't at least try it. Now I love research, so I dug in and had one of those eureka moments, the software that I design the stamps I make on will also work for digital scrapping. Now I want simple. I love all those quick pages you can find all over the internet (a ton for free too!)  In the last couple of days I've journaled, titled, dragged, dropped and cropped and have completed 6 pages. It will go even quicker now that I've got the hang of it. Just have to have them printed and if I die next week I'll know the memories were archived for my family.

Don't get me wrong I will still paper scrap when I have time, I just don't know when that will be!

Some quick Bzz

I'm a Bzz Agent over at bzzagent.com and I'm here to tell you that I love the Glad expressions spray cotton & italian mandarin, it smells great is not overpowering and the most important, does not give me a headache. I found it at Walmart, bottom shelf after already checking Target with no luck.

Beach Chair Mini Album

I love how this album turned out. The Sand is real sand mixed with Mod Podge. The chair is cut from Life's Beach Cricut Cartridge.

More pictures are here at Flikr.

Stamp Giveaway

Imagine Stamps will give away 5 personalized stamps (stamp to be given away Barcode name) to 5 lucky winners who sign up for the Imagine stamps newsletter via www.imaginestamps.com The newsletter will be emailed when there are new stamps sets added to the site or if there is sale, coupon or other exciting offer.

All you need to do is go to www.imaginestamps.com in the left column is ‘subscribe to our mailing list’ follow the steps and you will be signed up for this offer.

I will randomly select 5 winners on September 30 2011.

Teacher Appreciation

I forgot I took these photos of the gifts my kids gave their teachers for Teacher appreciation week.
The pot was painted by my oldest and then we sharpened all the pencils. We punched and layered flowers and used a thumb tack to attach the flowers to the erasers on the pencils. I added some glass floral pebbles in the bottom and tossed in a simple silk flower bunch and viola, a pencil bouquet. Teachers loved it and since they were running short on pencils the perfect gift!

exciting news!

I am finally able to reveal that I have some exciting news coming soon! I know such a tease. Hint: Imagine Stamps is growing, getting bigger and better. That's all I can say for now. Stay tuned!

Freebie time

Okay so i bought the McGill 3 ticket punch and designed some stamps to coordinate. I thought I'd make one set into digi stamps to share for free on my blog; so HERE you go. So if you don't have this punch, I'm providing a free .svg cut file HERE for you to use, you will have to resize everything to fit your needs.
So print and cut away!