Morning at the Market

Here are all 3 of the photos that I had taken put together on a digital scrapbook page.  The paper and bird that I used was from a freebie "A Town of Memories" kit designed by Darleen Araujo.

Learning New Things

I followed a tutorial for Paintshop Pro that taught me how to turn a colored photograph into a vintage style photo, then to isolate certain parts of that photograph and colorize only those parts.  My first attempt at it turned out fairly well.

The actual scrapbook page was another amazing "free to use" find. It's called a "quickpage" because it's already made for you and all you have to do is slip your own photo into the transparent space.  This is how all of my digital scrapbook pages were put together.  Thanks to all the amazing artist's that off their items to those of us who are not so artistic, much appreciated.  I do believe that I got this particular one from Linda-ohwhatfun.blogspot.com

A few more

and here is sweet baby Alice...

One of these days, I am going to learn how to make my own scrapbook papers like these! The ladies that designed these are simply amazing and although I cannot remember who they are, I thank them all.

One of my commenters advised me that I could drag images into images.google.com and find out the originating artist info, so I did and discovered that the top page was made by http://www.scrapbooking101.net/articles/how-to-create-a-baby-album.html and the gorgeous middle page was another one by linda-ohwhatfun.blogspot.com.  I'm happy to find some info on these wonderful artists.

Scrapbook is Done!!

Yay! my first digital Scrapbook is done and the couple that it was made for has a new addition to their family - baby Alice Marie Beliles has made her grand entrance.  There are so many pages to the album, that I just can't show them all, but here is a nice sampling.

This Quick Page is from http://miriams-scrap.blogspot.com/2012/03/ms-aged-wedding-qp-3.html

I'm not sure if this is actually where I downloaded this quickpage or not, but I'm almost positive that she is artist http://matsscrapbooking.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html

Check here also for this one http://matsscrapbooking.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html

Megan designed this one http://www.designsbymeganturnidge.com/blog/

Another day, another page!

I didn't use any cool techniques on this page, but it isn't a "quick page" either.  I love the colors that were supplied with the kit and I really need to write down where I get these kits and stuff from, I would like to give credit to the artist.  Anyway, I thought the tassel hanging from the top right of the journal card is so cute.

Paintshop Pro X4 - WHOOHOO!!!

I finally upgraded my Paintshop X to Paintshop Pro X4 and WHAT A DIFFERENCE! There are so many amazing things that can be done. I've been scouring the internet for tutorials, forums and tips/tricks to help me out with it. I thought I would share my very rudimentary beginnings on some of these special effects. I know that I probably could have done the same things in PSP X, but it would have been much more time consuming.
Now, don't laugh.... I did say "rudimentary beginnings" !

The Alter Ego actually was time consuming and probably would not have been if I were more experienced at doing this. I had to first remove the entire background, then extract just his head and neck. Then I did the rest of the effects. It was really fun to do.

The Skulls were actually sitting on a TV tray with a pencil in the mouth to hold the jaws open. I had to erase the background and remove the pencil. I used a "fur" effect for the red background. I might go back and add some shadows to give it the depth that it needs.

My lovely sister and brother-in-law had their photo taken while they were sitting at a table with a backdrop of a Harley Motorcycle (they were at a bikers shin-ding) I decided to put them inside a Limestone Cave for St. Paddy's Day - gee it looks like they had alot of fun!

All this started because I wanted to learn how to make more realistic shadows so that my digital objects (especially flowers) would look like a "real" scrapbook page.

Baby Shower Page

Denae opened the Exploding Box Card that I made her.  The expression on her face was priceless.

     I'm trying my hand at digital scrapbooking and thought I would show you guys the pages that I've done.  This was done with Paint Shop Pro.  It's actually a lot fun but just at time consuming as "real" scrapbooking LOL