Introducing Diamond

I am a stay at home mom with a great husband, yet to be named on this blog, and two children, the Princess Pea and the Little Gunner.

This is my blog to show off my newest hobby. Digital Scrapbooking. Most likely there will also be posts about my family, my other favourite hobby-knitting, and eating gluten free. I have galleries in a few of the digital scrapbook stores, but this will be a place to share my thoughts on my pages. Please note that I will be blacking out names and the faces of my children's friends from the scrapbook pages I post here.

My earliest photo editing attempts began in 2005. I began using the Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2 that came with our digital camera, bought in 2002.

A sampling of Halloween
an amusing sequence
and a year-end collage
of the Princess Pea for her pages in the "Grandchildren's Calender" for my Mother in Law.

Not very impressive. I had to paintbucket a colour behind the pictures or cover all the space with pictures, otherwise there was nothingness and I didn't know how to handle that.

Except the next year, I did it anyway.
I didn't want to overload the page with pictures, and I didn't want to overlap too much of the pictures. I also found the cool button that shaped the text like a fish. And so I chose nothingness behind everything.

I started Digi-Scrapping in February of 2007. I was so excited to learn about digital background paper. Suddenly it wasn't nothingness or a blah colour.

Sadly, I was distracted by extractions and didn't know how to do them well.I'm happy to say I became better rather quickly. I began to use more of what I call the "scrapbook look." I learned about drop shadows, adding a whole new dimension to my pages.

And the rest you will see as my blog continues.

I apologise to the designers of the four kits used for the layouts I posted today. I did not keep records of the designers when I started, so do not know who to give credit for on these. This is what happens when you don't understand how the community works. I never thought others might want to see my pages, or that I would want to share my pages with others. I was simply making a brag book for the Princess Pea.