Birth Announcement

One of our friends just had a baby and sent pictures via e-mail. So what did photoshop-addict Stephanie do? I made a birth announcement. I made it "smiley" and "X"ed out their names for their privacy, but I was really happy with the announcement and wanted to share it.
Heart brad from Atomic Cupcake.

Birthday Layouts

Jaxon's Fourth Birthday at Ready, Set, Play! This is the Swirl Template from Princess Pamela available here. Her stuff is great! Papers and elements in these birthday layouts are from Miss Mint's Party Pants kit @ Peppermint Creative.



Here's a "Busy" birthday layout...


And here was his birthday invite and my first attempt at digital scrapping. It's not great, but it shows me how far I've come too. I was going for the comic book/superhero look, but fell a little flat. I also edited out the personal info so there are blank spots where the phone numbers, address and website were listed. :) The papers and elements are from Joy Crowley's Comic Junkie kit available at Oscraps.

Jaxon's First Soccer Lesson

Jaxon was so excited to start soccer lessons and I was ready with camera in hand to catch him in action... or so I thought. The lighting at the indoor arena was bad and I didn't have it on the setting for that, so all the pics blurred. I still wanted to commemorate the day, so here a slightly blurred LO.

Template- Soccer Superstars by Rachel at Scrapleaps. Papers from Calico Designs.

Celebrations and Holidays

This is a 2 page LO from our fourth of July. Hopefully the journaling shows on the computer... it is so much easier to read in print than on a screen. They also look so much better side-by-side... oh well!

Blue papers, overlay, fibers and brads from Celebrate at Shabby Princess. Red paper from Happy Birthday by Tia Bennett at 2Peas. Paper stars from SimplyCleanDigiScraps.

Jaxon and his Family

Brian hates this picture of him, but I love the moment it captured, so I made an LO out of it.
Template by Friske available here. Paper and elements from In Dreams add-on kit at Oscraps.

This one was of Jaxon and his Aunt Lindsay in the backyard at our house goofing off (hard to believe, huh? Ha ha!)
Journaling box and swirl overlay from Festival kit at Shabby Princess.

Go Longhorns!!!

Enough said!

Paper from Vintage Football by Tia Bennett at 2Peas. Journaling piece from Leah Riordan's Funky Floral add-on kit at Oscraps.

Jaxon and His Friends

This is Jaxon and his "Best Buddy" Joshua from school.
Papers and elements from Vintage Dreams Retro kit by Little Dreamers Designs.

And this is Jaxon's "Best girl" Megan who lives next door but sadly moves this month :( I made this page for them so they'd always remember each other.
Papers and elements from festival kit at Shabby Princess. Doodle from April's Free Pea Kit by Rhonna Farrer at 2Peas.

Baby Pictures

Here's one of my favorite pictures of Marley. She was just two months old and such a cutie pie! The journaling is a little hard to read on the computer, but it says "The princess sleeps...You were two months old and loved sleeping in mama's arms. I was able to slip out and take a picture before you woke up."
Papers and elements from Festival kit at Shabby Princess.

Brian and Steph

Pictures of Brian and I come so few and far between that I have to take old pictures, scan them in and make LOs with them. Here's one of Brian and I from Christmas in 2000.

Papers and elements from the No Name Kit and Journaling piece from Funky Floral add-on kit, both by Leah Riordan and available at Oscraps.

My first LOs of my kids

Of course, part of the reason I got into Photoshop was because I wanted to make scrapbooks for my kids, but I'm not "crafty" so digiscrap made tons of sense to me. I was more worried about getting the page done than having an idea or theme in mind, so these are both a little generic, but again, I was (and still am) learning. I also didn't have a grasp of many of the new effects (like drop shadows) so they seem a a little flat too.
Papers and elements from Joy Crowley's kit Orbital. Frame from Leah Riordan's Funky Floral add-on kit. Both available at Oscraps.



Papers and elements from Blue River Madness kit by TaniaJPS at Oscraps Flower from Princess Pamela's Digitreats blog. Tag from NinaScraps TagIt kit at Oscraps.