Still workshop layouts

Workshop 7 - color extraction - kit used Fiesta by Mediterranka Design. I actually won this kit in the happy section from the Digi Shop Talk forum... you should check it if you like to win free kits and templates. I decided to do something different with this template and did it on a diagonal. I think it has a lot of dynamic.

I love her smile and her dimple... well I love everything about her:) after all she is mine!!!... I took this picture at the graduation ceremony from the basic school she went too. When Alex started school in Jamaica we enrolled her in the second term in second grade in a basic school close to where we live. However after a few months when I learnt that I was getting the full time job, we decided to move her to a school closer to my work place. It is not only a better school, but knowing her close to me at all times gives me peace of mind. She learns computers, Spanish and French and she did really good in all her subjects, so I say "Hat off baby girl! I am really proud of you!"

Workshop 8 - template - kits used from Life's a Rainbow Collection by Roseytoes Designs: blue, yellow and black and white. The pictures were taken in August 2011.

Summer contest part 3

I know I didn't put part 1 and part 2 in the title post, but if you are reading this post and you like what you see and you want to see more just check the posts before and after and leave me a comment or two if you feel like it:)...

Workshop 5 - blending - kit used Memory Lane by Jen C Designs. Jen C is one of my favorite designers and I have over twenty of her kits; some I bought and some I won on her blog or Facebook page or over at Digi Shop Talk. While I like the final result, I am not all that happy with the way the title came out,but that is something easy to fix. One thing I love though is when I can use elements from the kit as accessories and make it look like part of the picture - hint: see the flower in Alex's hair :)

I took this pictures with Alex this year at the end of April when we went with some friends to church. We don't go to church every Sunday, but now and then and if there's a special occasion. This time our friends got their little baby girl blessed and we were honored to be invited and be part of their special day. Of course I took my camera and took quite a few shots both with Alex and the baby. Over all it was a really nice day and no, Alex was not crying or being sad when I took the picture.

Workshop 6 - extraction - kit used By the sea by Just So Scrappy. Another one of my favorite designers and I probably have just about twenty something kits from her too... I managed to get a buy my store deal once and then hunted some coupons on Facebook as well as bought some of her kits. What I love about her kits is that they are huge! When you buy a kit from JSS you usually get over forty papers and over 100 elements and they are always very reasonably priced.

The picture was taken at the same baby blessing event and I love her expression. You might have noticed by now that I don't like very crowded layouts and I use as few elements as necessary to enhance the photos. Both layouts for workshop 5 and workshop 6 use both techniques: blending and extraction and although I don't use any of them too much, I think I did a pretty god job with these layouts. What do you think?

Still from the summer contest

Although I wanted to post two or three layouts in a post, the previous post was kinda long - I for one don't like it when I have to scroll down the page for five minutes and read the same post. Thus I decided that since some of my layouts will have a little story attached to them, not to post more than two. I hope you still go through my posts and check the layouts. Whenever possible, I will give links to the designers of the kits and the kit itself, but some of the kits I used are not available at the store I bought them from. However if you really like a kit, you can always contact the designer and ask where you could buy it from - most of them are really nice and helpful.:)

OK, so here we go again:

Workshop 3 - shadows - kit used Boys and Girls Mega kit by Megan's Creations

I love square photos and I think the stack papers used as a mat work really good in most cases. I also love to use fonts where I can use some of the papers from the kit. This photo was actually taken one morning on the way to school. Alex always know how to make the funniest faces and I think this one in particular works great with the title... 

Workshop 4 - white space - kit used Par-T-Que by Scrapable

back and forth

If you visit my blog and read through my most recent posts you will see that they are not in chronological order, but rather a mix between what is happening now with me and my life and what happened since last August. I promised to show you some layouts in this post, so I am not going to make you sleepy with too much writing.

Without too much introduction I am presenting to you my most recent layouts - well half of them - which I did for the Digi Summer Getaway 2012 at Scrapable. This was a contest I took part in two years ago so i was happy to do it again and I also needed the scrapping challenge in my life. There were ten workshops and then four challenges where we had to combined the things we learnt in the workshops plus to follow the rules.

Workshop 1-  composition - kit used Tall tales by Secret Stash and Modern June

As in most of my pictures, the main character is Alex - here at the end of the school year when she got a little book as a prize along with her test results: 100% score in all the tests.

Workshop 2 - clustering - kit used Cool Pool Party by Modern June

2011 and not only

Looking through my posts and making a little summary of 2011 for me... it might not see like a lot happened, but keeping in mind I've just moved to a new place, I think I did pretty good... anyways... here it goes:

• - wrote 79 posts on my blog
• - made over 150 quick pages for different contests and challenges
• - won several digital scrapbooking kits
• - took a couple hundreds pictures
• - enrolled Alex in the Jamaican educational system
• - got the paperwork that says Alex is a Jamaican citizen
• - got a part time job which turned into a full-time one
• - did the driving school - again - this time with the steering wheel on the right side
• - drove a van, a standard car and now an automatic one
• - learnt my way around town - only the parts I need to go
• - ordered some furniture from different carpenters
• - got a Kindle Fire which I am sharing with my little one
• - celebrated my one year anniversary since I moved to Jamaica
• - got the last of my boxes with books and clothes and toys and the rest
• - upgraded from going to work by bus to driving to work
• - learnt to appreciate some things people take for granted
• - played a lot of Monopoly - the original one with the paper money

ok, I promise next post will include some layouts I managed to scrap this year:)

August again

I've been planning posting some things on the blog even before I started my vacation and now it's the last week I am home and I have a lot of things to do before I go back to work and Alex goes back to school... so get ready for a shower of posts:)

Like I said my vacation is over, but I don't really have anything exciting to share about it. We stayed home most of the time and did some of the famous spring cleaning - well I know August it's not spring, but I live in Jamaica where is summer all the time...  I did put a couple of posts my other blog Mariance's other corner , but that happened because I had fewer things to put on there so I did it all in two evenings.

So now back to this blog. This was my first blog and I'd love to have more time to post here, but unfortunately when I am at work I don't have the time for it. So after this shower of posts, you might not hear too much from me again for a while.

So I hope you will have the patience and interest to go through my blog and look at some of the layouts I created and some of the pictures I took.

Thank you!