Day 20

I used a quick page by Iseree for JM Designs
and scrapped this photo of Punkin in her
Brownie vest in 2007. I printed it out
and added the journaling and title but
I didn't get a photo of that part -only
the digitally scrapped layout.

It has been a very long day so see you
tomorrow!

XoXoX
Csmoferret

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Thanks to all of the visitors!

Day 19 -still going digital

I don't know what it is but the paper
layouts I've added to the LOAD Flickr
account just don't garner the comments
that a digital quick page someone else
created and I just added photos to. It
is kind of frustrating, actually. I mean,
it is wonderful that these beautiful quick
pages are recognized -that is why I chose to
use them after all. I just wish my own
creations were as well received.

Ah well, the challenge marches on
and I got it done between taking the
twins to Gymnastics this evening.

This page is a combination of a digital
quick page freebie by cardamome
and scanned photos of Punkin & Buddy
at 9 months of age in 2001. The only thing
I added to the title was the 'x2'.

It feels good to get some of these
older photos scrapped for the first time.

See you tomorrow!
xoxox
Csmoferret

Day 18 - back to digital

Well, I spent this afternoon and
evening trying to get a bit of the
garage straightened out and didn't
get the paper layout put together
that I had in my head so it will have
to wait until tomorrow after the kids
get to school.

So, I used another digital quick page
for my LOAD today. This photo is of
the twins after they celebrated Thanksgiving
at school in 1st grade, 11/2006.



This quick page is by Jaye from Monica's CT on
Mglscraps CT. and the Autumn
word art is by Kathy Winters Designs

I have been finding these quick pages using links from
Scrapping with IkeaGoddess' blog. She does a fabulous job of
listing all the freebies she finds on the web. She is an
awesome resource! Definitely check out her blog and then
the links she posts - but beware- you will lose lots of
time to the fun pages and kits you find listed on her
site. (Remember-the key word is "Freebie".)

It's interesting how many photos from 2006 I've scrapped
this month because of the quick digital pages. I haven't had
to print a photo, find stuff to go with it, come up with a
page layout, write and rewrite the journaling, etc. I've just
picked a digital page, picked a photo and mooshed them together.
(So technical, I know.)

Well, it has been a long day of cleaning and reorganizing
the garage and I'm only 1/4 done. So it's off to bed to
rest up for more cleaning tomorrow.

Goodnight!
xoxox
Csmoferret

Day 17 - finishing up the TKD 2pg layout...

Okay, on Day 11 I started making a 2 page layout
about Buddy's Tae Kwon Do experience and got the
first page of the 2 done. Then I couldn't find
the rest of my photos and it got put on the back
burner for a while as I tried out digi-scrappin'
and taking the easy way out of getting my layouts
done each night.

Well, last night while digging in the iPhoto
library I found the TKD photos I took. So, I
created a photo grid in Photoshop CS4 and
printed it out on regular letter sized photo
paper.

Then this afternoon I dug out the second
half of the TKD page kit stuff and rearranged
some of the elements that I had already stuck
down and added the photo grid. Wrote some
quick note journaling on the photos themselves,
took a photo of it and uploaded to Flickr.

Done and done! It feels good to cross off two
items on the 'To Do' list simultaneously!

We attended an Archery Class this morning
hosted by the American Heritage Girls troop in
town today with Buddy's Bear Cub Scout den
and I will have some photos of that up later.

Enjoy!
xoxox
Csmoferret

Day 16-Gettin' Digi' with it!

The prompt today was to make a digi-scrapped page
and I hunted around in my downloads until I found a
quick page I liked, scrolled through the baby photos
on iPhoto for a picture that would fit it and viola...



This is a quick page by Véro for Choubinette Designs

This is a photo of Punkin one morning in July of 2001 as Daddy entered
the room saying "Good Morning Sunshine!" she waved to him sitting in
her pile of rearranged sheets and smiling. She was enjoying the extra
space in the round crib since Buddy had moved to his own rectangular
crib.

I printed this out and will be adding the journaling to it before I add
the page to my album. In fact, I have printed out every digital page I
have made this month. I love to have them in my albums so they can be
flipped through and enjoyed.

Well, off to do something else for a while!
xoxox
Csmoferret

Day 15...

This is a quick page by GM Designs. I added a photo of
the Punkin in her favorite hat from July 2001 and called
it good.

See you tomorrow!
xoxox
Csmoferret

Day 13 & 14

Time got away from me last night and I forgot to post my
LOAD layout to my blog so I am posting both yesterday's
and today's layouts ...

Here is Day 13...
I printed out the photos as 2x2 squares and didn't realize that my
readjusting of print info caused the order of the photos to change
but one of the small photos of the kids should be in the center of the
top row -I just noticed that it didn't print the way I had it planned.
This is photos of the twins in August 2006 when we had tall cotton
and many of our neighbors had none. It was a strange year. Almost
as strange as this one.


Now Day 14 is a hybrid layout...
I used this 'JennCk Spinky Dink Future Star Quick Page' by JennCk Designs
added a photo of The Buddy from August 2004 and printed it out on my
wide format printer. (Man is that printer getting used a lot this month!)
Then I added the title with letter stickers and hand wrote the journaling
under the bottom edge of the circle. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!
The journaling says "8/2004 My one and only favoritest Buddy in the
whole world! I 'golden hugs' love you! Love Mommy!"

Golden hugs are his way of saying he's giving you the best hug in the
world and it is more powerful than magic hugs -better protection from
nightmares, stronger healing powers, etc. Golden Hugs are a Buddy
Specialty!

Well, it's late so I'll see you tomorrow!
xoxox
Csmoferret