~Quality Down Time~

Over the weekend, I had to spend most of my time lying horizontal.  Long story short, I think I developed a minor spinal fluid leak as a result of a nasty fall on my tailbone a couple of weeks ago and had to lay low in hopes of it healing.  It worked by the way.

I wanted to do some digital scrapbooking and all I needed was my computer.  No need to get up and down to get forgotten supplies or pictures.  Before starting though, I decided to do a little cleaning and organizing of the photos that I have on my computer.  I take lots of pictures and it really needs alot of organizing.  I am the world's worst at keeping things organized and I don't mean just my photos!! Always have been and probably always will.

Even though scrapbooking is my most favorite hobby, I have really gotten behind.  You can read about that post here.  I decided to start with 2009 for the digital scrapbooking only because that was the year my youngest grandchild was born.  I've already got my traditional scrapbooking going for 2003 (about two thirds done) but it's upstairs in my sewing/craft room.  There's no rhyme or reason as to why I do something.  That's probably why I'm unorganized.  Ahem...anyway.

 As a side note, I keep my photos and digital scrapbooking supplies in an external hard drive.  One:  because they take up alot of memory on your computer.  Two:  In case my computer crashes, I don't lose my photos.

Once I did a little of that, I was ready and opened the My Memories Suite program, bought several on-sale kits from a few of my favorite digital scrapbooking sites...KB and Friends; and Just So Scrappy Too (they don't know me from Adam or Eve for that matter) and even some FREE ones.  I love the type of graphics they offer and they are so inexpensive.  Well worth the investment.

It took me a bit to get my mojo going, but once I got started it was so easy.  Now only about 96,472 more photos to go...more or less.  I lost count.  No, I didn't really count but it might as well be that many.  So I tackle it a few pages at a time and hope I get them done before the Lord calls me home!

Have a beautiful Autumn day today ~

~Digital Scrapbooking~

A few days ago, I shared with you my first experience at scrapbooking.  One of those was my favorites, A Day at the Farm, and I wanted to share how I took photos and elements from the scrapbooking kit to create the finished page that was shown here.

 

Shortly after we bought our 160 acres, Mr. Bill bought our first real herd of cattle.  This is shipping day!

 As this is something Mr. Bill has dreamed of doing for a really long time, I had to get out the camera!

 As so much of our family life is centered around these cows and their offspring, starting here with the scrapbooking was the ideal thing to do.  I went through each picture cropping them as necessary, getting rid of any unwanted space and then rounding the corners.

I had purchased a kit called A Day at the Farm from My Memories, the scrapbooking company that I was reviewing.  It consisted of several different backgrounds, word art, animal pictures and miscellaneous pictures.  I thought this blue "denim" paper with the lines around it was really cute and would make the pictures stand out.  Oh, I forgot to add the brick red paper that was used to create some matting behind the photos...oops!  The word phrase was perfect.  All elements are of various sizes but resizing them wasn't a problem.  I could go back and forth between any or all of them to make the changes I wanted.

Since this was my first digital scrapbooking page, I ended up going back and forth between the elements and photos, moving them around, layering them as I wanted (as in moving each one to the back or to the front).  Once I got them all in place, I was able to "lock" them in place, just in case I accidentally moved one.

This is the final result!  It wasn't really that hard and I am very pleased with it.  What do you think?



Have a wonderful Labor Day~

 




Update:  I'm participating in these blog parties:

  Metamorphosis Monday ~ Between Naps On the Porch

  Farm Photo Friday ~ Farm Chick's Kitchen

  Before and After ~ Thrifty Decor Chick