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bootcamp shadowing


So this week, my bootcamp exercise was to incorporate shadowing into my layouts. It was very difficult since I was also learning a new program in the midst and exemplifying classic ADD symptoms that accompany learning something new and exciting. I played a little too much with the photo editing and all the neat, cool stuff I could do and didn't hunker down and get my assignment done until late!!! But... I just made the deadline... so its all gravy baby. I used a couple free kits for this one and used a picture of Rowan from last year... I love these pictures of him... its amazing to see how much of a baby he was just less than a year ago... *sigh*

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Saturday Night Fever

Look at this amazing new kit created by Moonscraps and Madame wing. I love the playful color pallette and the ample use of whimsical elements perfect for all your girl's night out photos!!


















It's going for a steal at $6.00 here: ­Find it here

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My babies



Here are my two gorgeous babies... I made their first pages to their books. I'm planning on doing yearly books for each of them... some of the pages will likely overlap once I catch Rowan up to Juni... like once the book reaches the time that she was born... for now, its just taking pics and making pages like a mad woman until I catch up!!! I already owe Rowan 2 books... and we are almost gonna hit 3!!! lol...



I used Shabby daily designs off of the SYTYCD contest website... plus a couple more freebies... aren't they completely cute?!

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White Space

So... in bootcamp, we are doing this thing called "white space"... its a tutorial on using white space to draw attention to your subject... here is what I came up with:

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Beautiful baby girl


I snatched up this free mini kit today (and one day I'll start giving credit when I get more organized!) and had a picture of Juni sucking her thumb from earlier... I thought it was simply adorable... so I went ahead and scrapped it!!! I think that the page turned out cute, even though the elements weren't my favorite. I went ahead and added a few from a couple different sets I had as well... so that kind of beefed it up a little. Eventually I'll stop updating my blog at 1am and actually spend some time typing again. Tomorrow we have the air conditioning repair dudes coming over to completely replace our air condition... I can't wait! It's so friggin hot in here, my digi scrap pages are starting to wilt!!

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Today's post is dedicated both to my son and also to my digiscrapping boot camp challenge on the Gingerscraps forum. I created a clustered layout that I call "memories." I wrote the little poem for my son also on the side... melding two talents into one... Looking back over the few years he's been here, it is certainly incredible to see how he's grown. Pretty soon I need to take another beach picture to add to this one... now these shorts he's wearing go a few inches above his knees!!! How amazing!!!

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Neat!


Erin showed me this website for this new child's product called color me table and chairs. I think I might consider doing something like this for Rowan's next birthday party... it looks really cool!
http://www.colormetables.com/home.html

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Juni bean's photo shoot



Today was a pretty constructive day. I put chicken and dumplings in the crock pot this morning, cleaned the kitchen, moved laundry around, fed babies, changed babies, played with babies... once the kids were down for a nap, I got into the thick of it. I steam vac'd my carpets with the new Oxy deep steam cleaning solution. It was awesome! My carpets are gleaming white again. Yes... I moved furniture around, turned on a fan and got to it... it only took 30-40 minutes once I got going and boy does it make a difference. I then paid bills, filed paperwork and decided to do some upkeep on the group I run locally for moms who get together. Once that was done I edited some pictures, made a siggy (posted below), finished my bootcamp project and cleaned the lunch and breakfast dishes. It's amazing how I can do all that work and then look around and feel as if nothing has been done! One of these days I'll take that big black garbage bag I always talk about and go around collecting random items to just donate. I want clean. Clear. This is why I've moved towards digi scrapping. The name of the game is consolidation and streamlining my mess... at any rate, I was then asked to take over another group, so I started some work on that before the kids started getting up in waves. Tomorrow I'll attempt a momvan trip to Staples for copies and faxes and to the grocery store for some food stuffs. Yay. Then I can come home and start it all over again... one of these days... one of these lovely days... I'll be completely organized!

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Scrapping bootcamp

Currently I have joined a scrapping boot camp. The goal of this is to help me hone in on my scrapping and photo editing skills while having the option to collect great freebies along the way! Every Sunday we are given an assignment by our drill instructor and it is due the following Saturday. It's been quite a while since I've been in "school" so this is kind of fun for me. And... I always like a challenge.

Here is this week's assignment:Using a photo editing program, crop a picture and adjust it so that it looks better... be it colors or sharpness or cloning. I also chose to do another portion and did the tutorial on black and white photo editing... which you can see in my main page's large pic.

Before: RESIZED 1

After: RESIZED 3