Busy, busy

Well in between all things life, I've been spending a lot of time learning more about using Photoshop to achieve the digital designs I love.  I'm taking two, well, three classes at this time to achieve this result so scrapping has been put on the back burner somewhat.  I'm enjoying my time learning and wish I had more time to devote to it.  I'm starting to get more and more ideas for digital scrapbooking kits and am currently working on a few at the moment.  Here's a little preview of one I hope turns out:

Feedback welcome!

I've been a little busy...

I have been a little busy, in a very wonderful way.  We welcomed home our son at the end of December and went overboard into the holiday season.  I've found little time for digital scrapbooking with tired eyes and, well, just less time for it!  Looks like I'm starting to find some here and there so I'm excited to share the page I created today using several grunge style brushes and having lots of fun with photo masking!

A contest! Please help me win the prize bag!

I find a lot of great things on Penscrappers.com and often enter the contest just for the fun of it, but this time around I'd love, love, love to win the prize bag.  If you have found your way here, can you please help me out and vote for my design?  I would greatly appreciate it!  Just click on the picture of the page I submitted to cast your vote!

Give Thanks

Ever since my husband and I began hosting Thanksgiving,  I have just been in love with this holiday.  I enjoy the relaxing day with family while the turkey cooks.  The house gets warm, we have lots of fun, and then we top it off with a very filling meal.  It's always a great time to just hang out inside and stay toasty.

And I love how all those feelings come back to me when I set out to scrapbook the day!  When I paper scrapbook, I always plan out two page spreads together.  I lay them physically next to eachother and make sure the design on both pages is complimentary.  However, when I went digital, I left this concept behind.  Sure I still think about doing coordinating pages but I don't often ensure cohesive design between the two.  It can be difficult to navigate such a large layout in Photoshop but I think the result can really be worth it with the right design.  So, I sorted through my pictures from Thanksgiving and decided to try the two-page again.  I'm happy I did, as I think it's a nice page the compliments some of the better photos from the day.

Gobble, gobble!

Oh Joy of all Joys!!

Today is a great day!  For on this day I have recieved and loaded Adobe Creative Suite 5 onto my computer, or CS5!  I will now retire from Photoshop Elements 7.0 and move onto the real deal.  It's a pretty exciting day.  And that's not all!  I now have a slew of awesome Adobe products, like Illustrator.  I took a course in Illustrator a few weeks ago and it was hard but I want to keep learning.

Today I opened up Photoshop, and, well, it is a bit different but I'm sure after a bit more time I will get the hang of it and be on my way to enjoying all the cool new features I now have.  I know, how nerdy, but I'm pretty happy. :)