wrapping up a year of LO's

With all of the get togethers and holidays I fell a little behind with my LO's. Yesterday I had time to catch up and got 6 done! It helps when two of your kids are out of the house and the other is napping ; ). So what if nothing got done in my house and 3 loads of clothes are sitting on my bed waiting to be folded : /. I have complete my LO's for '08. There might be one more that includes tonight's new years eve festivities.
I have definitely set a goal for myself in my future blog posts and LO's ----SPELL CHECK. After skimming through my pages in my shutterfly album, I found MANY spelling mistakes. Now I have to go back and do some fixing. It might take a while, but it is a must. I have 97 pages in my album-yikes- that is ALOT of spell checking!
Here are my last few LO's for '08....

Photoshop Giveaway!!

Erin at Digital Photography for mom's is giving away a free copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7/Premiere Elements 7 !!! So not only can you edit your images with the newest version of Elements, but you can make movies and slideshows with Premiere! The drawing will take place Monday, Dec. 22 and you can enter on every post Erin has made in December. So get on over there and read, learn, and win! Thanks to Rita over at Coffeeshop for sending me to Erin! You girls are great!!

Challenge on DSO

Andrea is hosting her first challenge on DSO! This challenge uses a word art freebie. The word art is about friends. I created a LO using Andrea Dickinson's Heather Jean Kit. The pictures I used are of Sophie and her friend Anna. Some of us are lucky enough to have great childhood memories of when you and your best friend had matching outfits-right? Here is my LO....

LO using Holly Jolly

Here are two LO's using Rachael's Holly Jolly Kit. They are both from a Santa breakfast that we attend on Sunday. Mikey and Sophie loved chatting with Santa. My I have two favorite pictures. the one where Nate (if he could talk) would say-don;t come any closer! The other fav is the one of Sophie solo with Santa. I love her little hand on his leg, and her smile. She was so happy and had lots of questions for Santa. One question she asked him was... " Where is your sleigh?". He told her it was on the roof, and that his reindeer took a walk and were eating grass.

We look forward to this every year, then kids enjoy eating their breakfast and chatting w/ Santa.

Winter kits from Rachael

O.K. these kits by Rachael have some of the cutest elements I have EVER seen!! Both kits Holly Jolly and Winter Wonderland are available for purchase at pretty scrappy and devine digital. She also has a special 3 kits for $3 at pretty scrappy (holly jolly is in there!!). Go to her blog and get a freebie! Check them out.......

Rita at Coffee Shop has done it again!

I did a post a little while back about Rita from Coffee Shop. She is so generous. She has made available for FREE some great actions for photo shop. Rita has improved her PowderRoom action and has created PowderRoom 2.

This action softens skin, brightens and defines the eyes, removes redness from tired/allergy eyes, and whitens teeth. It works in Photo shop and Photo shop Elements and comes with step-by-step .pdf instructions and icons for PSE.

What are you waiting for go get it!! don't forget to give Rita some love!!

creating a LO using multiple pictures

I love that some scrappers can use one picture per page and make it look fabulous. Other scrappers have the nack for multiple photo's on a page. I am not sure where I fit in,but I usually have more then one photo to a page. I am not a huge fan of templates, but I do tend to use them when I have to fit lots of photos on a page. This site http://www.mandagirl.com/ has terrific templates and the best part is there are tons of free ones! I did the LO using a my variation of template #8 and Creation by Rachael's Truly Thankful Kit.