Family Heritage

We had a wonderful vacation in March visiting family. You'll be seeing alot of layouts with our grandsons! Meanwhile, here are a couple using Red Ivy Design's kits. My mom was excited about finding an OLD family photo online of the Mincemoyer Clan (my gramma around 3yo & Great Gram & beyond!). She also had a framed oldie of my Great Gram and all her kids (my Gramma before she married & my great aunts & uncles). This inspired my 1st real "vintage" scrapbook layout.

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Gramma & Great Gram

  credits: Blue Eyes AddOn & PhotoMask Vol3 by Red Ivy Designs

font - CK True Type

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And then, our morning out at Big Red to watch the sunrise. Still a bit nippy, but spring is in the air!! Thought it was kinda cool how we ended up matching the lighthouse. I've had tons of fun using the panorama (auto-stitching!!) feature in my new Sony Cybershot HX5V & really liked the results of the harbor. Got a great one of the sunrise (not shown here).

Holland MI - Big Red

 credits: Cheery kit by Alice at Red Ivy Designs

font - TypoUpright BT 

 

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Catching Up 5 - SCHOOL DAYS

English Tea by Alice (Red Ivy Designs) was all I needed to scrap my school days from K-college, with the final being a "then vs now" page :-)

 Elementary 1969

 Junior High 1972

 Senior High 1975

 College 1977

 Then vs Now

credits: English Tea kit by Red Ivy Designs, font - Giddyup Std

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We homeschooled our 3 boys from K-12. Here are a couple fun layouts preserving those memories.

Science Project 1991 - HAMSTERS!!!

credits: Back to Class / Hooray for Homeschoolers kit by Circle of Life Scraps, font - Agency FB

 

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 Pioneer Days

credits: Back to School (Shabby) by Scrappers Guide, font - CK Bowlarama

 

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Then, a fun layout of my brother & I for the year we attended a private school, uniforms ... bus rides... and all.

Private School

credits: Back to School kit by Eirene Designs, font - Amazone BT

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Catching Up 4 - Alice

More of the treasured OLD slides yielded these wonderful finds. My Great Gram's birthday celebration! Apparently I got to help "prep" the candles :-)

I have warm, cuddly memories of my Great Gram... she loved doing cross-word puzzles and spent many hours sitting next to the window in the dining room with book & pencil in hand. An enjoyably repeated task was the daily brushing of her hair and putting it up in "pin-curls"... I don't remember my arms ever getting tired (like they do now!). Ah... the memories! Alice's "Let's Celebrate" kit was perfect for preserving & showcasing this particular event.

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Great Gram's Birthday!

credits: Let's Celebrate kit by Alice at Red Ivy Designs

font - Amazone BT

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Catching Up 1 - challenges

Challenges from Oct-Dec 2010

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I'm not Sleepy!

  Isn't our grandson, Jaden, simply adorable?? We sure think so!!

 credits: Dream A Little Dream kit from Scrapper's Guide

font - SU Little Lamb

 

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 credits: WA challenge at theStudio

kits by MagsGraphics - Jack & Sunshine Beach

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 credits: WA challenge at theStudio

kits by MagsGraphics - Zoo Spirit, Sunflower Patch & Summer Garden Seeds

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 credits: WA challenge at theStudio

Good Times kit by Red Ivy Designs

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VERY BUSY WEEK for nieces!!

Great Nephews

Our nieces were quite busy the last week of May resulting in 3 precious great-nephews!! A truly scrapable occassion...

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credits: 

Ami kit by Red Ivy Designs, fonts - CK True Type Distressed & CK Shannon,

photomasks by janieinMN

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Abigail Marie

Abigail 1 - birth

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This layout speaks for itself. Abigail is the daughter of a young dear friend of ours.

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credits: "Grungy Love" kit by Red Ivy Designs, font - Tristan

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Another WordArt Challenge

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with shadows

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The Studio has done it again -- this is the 2nd month in a new challenge called Decorate your Wordart. Kimberkatt provides awesome tutorials and tips. Last month was "how to color fill and add stroke for sticker effect". This month it was "how to clip paper to wordart" (similar to masking). SO MUCH FUN!!

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credits: "Cocktail Dress" kit by Red Ivy Design, 
Kimberkatt's WA challenge & Heart Brushes by Hawksmont

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Valentine Inspiration

Afternoon Romance

What better inspiration than Valentine's Day approaching, desire to make special "card" for hubby and memories of our trips to the MN North Shore (Lake Superior) with its many waterfalls & lighthouses. This layout is obviously about the waterfalls :-)

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I joined a challenge over at SAS (Stone Accents Studio, newly named "Digital Scrapbooking Studio"... "theStudio" for short). It was a new WordArt challenge that provided the text/font stuff and gave tutorial (step-by-step instructions) on how to turn it into WA. This challenge began with learning how to turn it into a "sticker"... by using the stroke feature under editing. It was SO exciting to learn something new that did so much! Better yet, to be able to "remember" it and use it again in this layout with the alphabet title and the little hearts used as photo anchors.

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Well -- the card never got made... BUT, I completed 4 layouts in only 2 days! (two of them were double-pg spreads). Techniques used included: stroke, masking, layering, drop shadows (another NEW thing for me -- SO fun!!! makes those elements pop off the page, giving it a 3D look), designed an overlay!, varying opacity, etc.

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Not only did I have my sweetheart & Valentine's for inspiration, but I was working with some absolutely AWESOME kits from Alice. Then there was a very special layout of memories with the boys & video games. It was TONS of fun searching for those pictures of the "then" ... and of course, even though I had "recently" seen some... there were some key pics that couldn't be found this time around. But, you can see a distinctive difference between the video games of the past and the Wii games of now. When the layout was done, it was still crying out for something... I just wasn't sure whether it would make it too busy or not. So, I went for it -- calling my youngest son who was the game guru (saved his money to buy his 1st game machine, and the next, and the one after that... )... ended up getting a memory refresher on the names of our favorite games from both him & my honey. And off to the screen & PSE5 I went (the next day) to make a "game name overlay" which I then placed on the background layers. It added just the right touch for dimension AND personalized it. I'll show you the before & after pics.

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But, before I show you more layouts, here's the kit I used for the MN North Shore above:

 

credits: Afternoon Romance kit by Alice at Red Ivy Designs and font: SF-Alexa

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 Happy Valentine's

 

 This is my "card" to my hubby—as you can see, the card turned into a full digi-SB layout. And my 2nd attempt (the MN North Shore) ended up being a "double-page" layout! Oh well!!

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This Valentine themed kit was the color challenge over at "theStudio"—"Sending Love" kit by Monika Digital Designs. other credits: font - SF-Alexa & poem written by janieinMN.

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And here's the fun "then versus now" about video games. . .

Video-Wii?—Then vs Now!

 

and here's it before adding my "game name overlay"

and here's the SUPER FUN kit I used—"Game On" by MagsGraphics 

 other credits: game name Overlay by janieinMN & font: SU Pittipat

The links shown for both Alice & Mags will take you to their blogs—there you'll find the links to their stores!

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New Discovery!

Wishing for Summer

With more snow on the way, I couldn't help but think of summer... especially as I was organizing some photos we'd taken during our day trip to Banning & Moose Lake State Parks from July last year. So, I grabbed the photos I wanted to highlight (along with a "snow" pic) and began the layout "wishing for summer".

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I had perfect material to work with having just discovered another digi-SB designer, Alice at Red Ivy Designs. I fell in love with ALL her kits... hunted down her blog... and ended up using her kit "Thankful" for this layout. I used one of my own designs for the photomask (from a couple days of "experimental" designing -- i LOVE photomasks! and decided to try to make my own... came up with a set of 4). The font is SU Steel Script.

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Thankful kit by Red Ivy Designs

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