Travel the world; come back home for love

This page was a lot of fun to create! I used lots of "this and that" from various kits to put it together. It all started with the awesome notebook-type PNG. I love when I find really cool, realistic looking book pages to start a page! This came from CIlenia Curtis' January 2012 Follow Your Art Book Pages kit available at www.scrapartstudio.com

Materials used:

Cilenia Curtis Follow Your Art January 2012 papers, stitches, book pages, transfers & fasteners

Mye De Leon Digi Basics Neutral Smears

Katie Pertiet Defined Clippings No. 6 (travel definition)

Anna Aspnes Art Play Palette Transfer

Simply Tiffany Studios Tear Set 1

Audacious Designs Flight Path Elements

Basic Grey Clippings (green ticket)

Celeste Knight Noted Elements (envelope)

High School Registration | Guide To Shadowing Class at Scrapaneers

I'm playing in Photoshop tonight. I'm taking Tiffany Tillman's Digi Scrap School Guide to Shadowing class at Scrapaneers. Click here if you want to check out the class. What fun! While I felt like I knew a fair bit of the ins and outs of shadowing ... this week's lessons were really packed with things I hadn't thought of and hadn't done before. I love learning new things in Photoshop! Yup, I might be kind of a computer geek! (And I'm proud of it! LOL!)

Materials used:

Get Schooled by Mommyish

Happiness Lies Within Smear by Mye De Leon

Chalkboard Journal Cards by Karen Funk

Template by Simply Tiffany Studios for her Guide to Shadowing Class at Scrapaneers

Project Life | Week 19 + a graduation party

I had lots of photos from this week. Correction, I didn't have many photos of the "regular" week, but I had a ton of photos from the weekend and a big family graduation party we went to. When we have big family events I like to include additional pages in my project life album so that I can have more family photos I can look at and reminisce over over the years. So, for this week I've got two 2-page spreads.

Want to check out the video of the polar plunge? You can click here.

Materials used:

Project Life | Week 19

Just Jaimee |  May 2013 Storyteller Collection

Project Life | Week 19 | Graduation Party

Wishing Well Creations | Happy Days

Jennifer Valencia Photography | Photo Journal Cards Zen

Karla Dudley Design | Pause Sentiment Cards

So very close ... back album cover to 2013 family album

I'm getting SO.VERY.CLOSE! I wanted to share the back cover image I created for my 2013 family album. It's  really similar to the front cover I created a month or so ago because I want it all to coordinate!

I used (all products available at Pixels & Company)

Adore You collaboration by Gennifer Bursett & Jennifer Labre; Stitched Down Vol. 3 templates by Laura Passage/Wishing Well Creations; Noted alpha by Celeste Knight/Sweet Caroline Studios

Beautiful Music

Yay ... I finally had a chance to play with the iNSD collab kit from Pixels & Company!

Materials used:

Bermuda Triangle a collaboration by Pixels & Company designers and Stitched Down Vol. 3 by Wishing Well Creations

I also used bits and pieces from the following: Painted Overlays by Mary Ann Wise and music wordart from Start the Music by Julia Makotinsky

Snapshot of a Moment in Time | Inspired Images Class

This was another fun page to put together! I created this page using techniques I learned in Jana Morton's Inspired Images class.

Materials used:

Katie Pertiet | Bracketed Sentiments (snapshot wordart)

Katie Pertiet | A Bit of Grunge 2 (papers)

Karla Dudley | Lime You (I adore you tag)

Jana Morton | Painters Pack (background paper)

Michelle Coleman | Metal Brads

Anna Aspnes | Sketchy LoopDaLoop

MScraps | Happy Birthday kit (dotty paint)

Inspired Images | RipStik Chick

I made this fun page for this week's lesson in Jana Morton's Inspired Images class. I made my photos into sketches, used lots of filters and textures and blending. It was lots of fun! I love digi!

Materials Used:

paper: Shabby Princess Harvest

polaroid: Splendid Fiins Evidence

Project Life | Week 18

I'm really enjoying Mye De Leon's Frolic collection. I tend to change up the kits I use for my project life pages every week, but this week I felt compelled to use Frolic again. It's just so darn fun!

Materials used:
Mye De Leon's Frolic Collection

FREEBIES ANYONE?! Pixels & Company iNSD CT Blog Hop!

Happy International Scrapbooking Day/Weekend everyone and welcome to my blog! It's a big weekend in the scrapping community! The first thing I want to share with you is my Pixels & Company CT Blog Hop freebie and information on how to grab the rest of the CT's freebies! I've got lots of other fun stuff to share with you today as well so grab a cup of coffee, click some links for freebies and games, and have some fun!

CT Blog Hop FREEBIES!

I've got the good fortune of being on the creative team at the amazing Pixels & Company and in honor of iNSD I've created two FREEBIE journaling cards (horizontal and vertical format cards) that I'd like to share with you. My cards coordinate with P&Co.'s free iNSD Bermuda Triangle kit.

Many of us on the P&Co. CT have created freebies for you that coordinate with the Bermuda Triangle kit, so definitely check it out and follow along on our blog hop! You can download my cards by clicking HERE (or you can click on my preview image).

Here are links to the CT blog hop:

1.   P&Co Blog

2.   Lynnette

3.   Amy

4.   Jenn

5.   Linda

6.   Laura

7.   Barbara <--- YOU ARE HERE!

8.   Anna

9.   Kelly

10. Mandi

11. Jen H.

12. Erin

13. Jennifer E.

14. Carey

15. Kat

16. Rachel

17. Nettie

18. Becca
19. Final Stop: P&Co. Forum

You'll want to follow along in order so you don't miss anything, so your next stop is Anna's blog HERE. 

Quick personal note ... the CT blog hop doesn't officially start until 8:00 MST. I'm posting a little early for you because I'm heading out for a volleyball tournament to cheer on my daughter and her team and there's no internet access for me all day long! (Better to get you the info early than late, right?!)

After you've downloaded all the goodies on the CT blog hop, there is LOTS more going on at P&Co. for iNSD that I still want to share with you … 

Freebie Kit (Bermuda Triangle) |P&Co. Designer Blog Hop

If you haven't nabbed the Bermuda Triangle kit yet, be sure to follow along the P&Co. designer blog hop to get the code to nab it. It's free. It's cute. So why not?! Click HERE to go to the P&Co. blog and read all about it and start the hop!  If you've got the code already and haven't downloaded the kit yet, click HERE to download the kit.

Here's a preview image of the Bermuda Triangle kit. Isn't it pretty?!

More iNSD fun at P&Co.!

So … do you have some time this weekend to play? In addition to the CT and Designer blog hops, there is TONS happening at Pixels & Company! Here's a brief overview of some of the fun stuff going on:

• There's a site-wide sale and you can earn as much as 50% off!
• The Big Payoff contest (they're refunding one random order daily!) is running daily Thursday through Sunday
• The Dream Cart contest runs Thursday through Sunday (1 winner)
• Speed Scraps (Saturday at noon and Saturday at 8pm - MDT)
• There are chats, games and challenges going on all weekend long in the DigiTalk forum with lots of prizes!

Here is a LINK to a forum post that will link you up to EVERYTHING going on at P&Co. this weekend!

Facebook | Barbara's Digital Designs

Want to see more? I've got a Facebook page (Barbara's Digital Designs) where I share all my digi creations along with lots of stuff I find out in digi land about digi & photography tutorials, great sales, things going on in the digi community, etc! Click HERE if you want to visit me on Facebook and click LIKE if you want to follow me!

And finally, the most important thing about iNSD is to be sure to HAVE FUN and get those creative juices flowing!

I hope you have an awesome weekend!

Barbara

Time for a volleyball page!

Gotta love sports pages, right? I love the bright colors of this sports themed kit and in the kit there's a whole pack of journal cards with sports themed quotes. Great touch!

Materials used:

Audacious Designs | Sports Fanatic

iNSD New Releases at P&Co.: (Mother/Daughter Mall of America & December Recap pages)

Pixels & Company released a bunch of gorgeous new kits today for International Scrapbooking Day. I want to share with you a couple of pages I made using some of the new kits.

I used Scotty Girl Design's incredibly fun Snapshot kit for both of the pages. I'm in love with any kit that includes cameras/photography-type stuff! With the bright colors, fun embellishments and journal cards AND of course the camera/photography stuff, I'm sure to use it a lot! For my first page: Mall of America | A Mother Daughter Kinda Day I also used a new template set from Simply Tiffany Studios.

Materials Used:

Scotty Girl Designs | Snapshots Kit

Simply Tiffany Studios | Superficial Templates Pack One

Mommyish & Just Jaimee Collab | Candid (Alpha)

Robyn Meierotto | In Stitches Neutral Basics

Wishing Well Creations | Aflutter elements (string)

Like I mentioned, I also used Scotty Girl Design's Snapshots kit for these pages. FYI, this is my last monthly "random snapshots" pages! I'm doing a happy dance! :)

Materials Used:

Scotty Girl Designs | Snapshots Kits

Scotty Girl Designs | This Year 2014 Washi Tapes

Creashens | Pocketful No. 1

Celebrating family & friends | Christmas Cards

Yes. It is the end of April and you are seeing a Christmas page. You'll be seeing my last couple pages from 2013 popping up now!

Look closely ... if you sent us a Christmas card, you'll see it on our wall (unless of course you sent it after I snapped the photo!)! LOL!

Materials Used:

Mommyish

Hipster Holidays

Retro Rockin Christmas

Schooled (tape)

Julia Makotinsky

Life in Color (stitching)

Documenting the Great Bathroom Remodel ...

Nothing fancy ... just telling the story of months of a bit of chaos & big changes on the home front ... 

and check it out ... in these images you can see three of the painted digital canvases I created recently! :)

Materials Used:

Lori Whitlock | Office Oriented Paper

Patti Knox | Home Sweet Home Epoxy

Celeste Knight | Noted Elements (Noted Epoxy)

Anita Designs | Picture This (Camera Expoxy)

You Are Loved | Inspired Images class by Jana Morton

I'm in the 2nd week of Jana Morton's 5 week Inspired Images class. OMG. It is so much fun!

Materials used:

Nancie Rowe Janitz - Mixed Media Backgrounds (paper)

Nancie Rowe Janitz - Mixed 3 Summer Afternoon (paper)

Jana Morton - Heart Strokes 1 Painted Clusters (You are Loved)

Cilenia Curtis - Follow Your Art January 2012 Stitches, Papers & Transfers

Katie Pertiet - Stacked Vintage Frame Hearts

Katie Pertiet - Ring Binder Botanicals Books No. 1

Gennifer Bursett - Indian Summer (flower)

Mye De Leon - Off We Go (beaded plant)

Anna Aspnes - Art Play Palette Snapshot Transfer

Erica Zwart - Mix of Masks No. 2

Jodie Lee - French Market Papers (blended overlay)

Carina Gardner - La Petite Paperie (tickets)

Project Life | Week 17 (Mye De Leon's Frolic Collection)

Have you checked out Mye De Leon's monthly "I Create Memories" collections? They are truly fabulous ... and absolutely HUGE! For this week's pages I used her Frolic collection.

Mye De Leon's ICM Frolic Collection

(patterned papers, solid papers, rubber alpha, embellishments, 2x2 project life cards, 4x4 project life cards, 4x6 project life cards, 3x4 project life cards, assorted tags, word art, rubber frames)