Speed Scrapping

Oh my gosh... I just had the most fun doing a speed scrapbooking challenge over at Go Digital Scrapbooking. I've never done anything on their site, but since they have daily freebies I tried to visit just the blog daily to see if there was anything I could get to build up some supply. So today this challenge was posted on the blog and I thought I'd explore new waters. (Oh - and you got a freebie for doing it). It typically takes me hours - if not days - to complete a layout. Mostly because I still have no clue what I'm doing, but partly because I obsess over where things should be placed, should I change the color, etc. I'm about as Type A as you can get. So every ten minutes she posted something different that you had to do to create your layout. After the instructions were presented, you were given one hour to pull it all together and post to the gallery. Here's what I came up with. I love how we were all given the same instructions but came up with such different ideas! I used the Shabby Princess Shabby Mom collection for the striped paper and the Marie Mini-kit from Verena Karolyi for the ribbon flowers.

PIXEL FAIRY PRINCESS ROCKS!

I am sooo excited! I won a subscription to a Digital Scrapbooking magazine after posting on Pixel Fairy Princess' blog. If you haven't already checked out her blog, it is a MUST SEE. I'm constantly in awe at her layouts and photos. Her blog is actually what inspired me to start blogging and to jump back into scrapbooking. As a result, I've completed more digiscrap pages since starting this blog than I have traditional scrapbook pages in the past few years! She also does photo shoots, so if you're in Georgia or a neighboring area, check her blog out. If we lived there I'd already have her booked for a family photo shoot. If I remember correctly, her fees were very reasonable. THANK YOU Pixel Fairy Princess... you're AWESOME!

My Baby Went to Camp

Princess Tom-Girl is off at her first camp this week. It's a week-long camp with the church and one that I pressured her into going to... hopefully she's doing okay and having lots of fun with the 500+ other kids!!! She's there with a couple of friends so that should help, but she's my melancholy child and that means she can be down in the dumps before you blink an eye. I can't believe how difficult that first day was sending her off. I was fine until I pulled her aside to pray with her and the tears started flowing. I'm sure she thought I was losing it and didn't quite understand. The only time she's seen me cry is on adoption videos and she's just fascinated by that. Anyway we are half way thru it as of today. The next two days I'll be at a training for using a homeschool curriculum we're going to try out this year so that'll help me to take my mind of her being gone. I'm excited to hear how it went.

My Diversion While Princess Tom-Girl Is At Camp

Been working on these two pages for a while but I forgot how to use the layers function on PSE6. His Royal Highness came to the rescue and showed me last night. I'm needing to do something to get my mind off Princess Tom-Girl heading to camp this week. I think I got a small foretaste of what it will be like when college rolls around and I'm not sure I like it. I used Verena Karolyi's Marie Mini-kit for the "Gobble Gobble" page as well as Earwig Factory and Lucida Handwriting fonts from PSE6.