October Colors Paper Pack Freebie

I just finished a new paper pack! It's been a while, I just wasn't feeling very creative. But when I wanted new backgrounds for the blog, I got inspired.

You can get it here
at Luckybug Digital Scrapbooking. :-)

Photo Hunt 56

This week's theme is Childhood.


I don't know where the disk is with my baby pictures. Plus I think it'd be a floppy disk, LMAO!

So it's back to my favorite scrapbooking subject. :-)

Yippie Skippie!

My Scrapbook Freebie is up at Luckybug!



Get it here.

You can get other freebies there too. I'm partial to Pillowgirl. :-)



click & comment monday

Scrapbook Page

Made with photos we took on Our Day Out.
Thanks to Ruby for generously sharing her template as a freebie.
Papers are from Lindsay Jane's I Love Chocolate Kit.

I did another layout

I love Jaana's Templates! They are so creative and pretty. I'm sure I didn't do it justice, but whatever.

The template is by Janna, and the papers are Ocean Shades by ESNQueen? I got them from Brandi's blog.

I did another scrap set

This one is MUCH better than the first one, IMHO. I remembered to keep it all 5x7 and in proportion to that instead of just resizing it to fit on my screen, LOL.



Anyway, if you want it, you can get it HERE

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I made a paperclip.

LOL!

I'm sure that sounds strange.

Anyway, I was making another scrapbook set and I didn't want to use other people's paperclips, I wanted to make my own. There are too many reasons to go into.

So I started looking for a Preset Shape that looked like a paperclip. Preset shapes are things that you can use to make a circle or whatever but you can put it in your colors or patterns right from the start.

There were none.

So I had to make my own.

So I did. I made a perfect paperclip. But I had saved it in the wrong format. :-( So I couldn't save it as a preset shape.

Then I had to read HOW TO MAKE CUSTOM PRESET SHAPES online. Found out that I had to use Vector shapes, not Raster shapes. I hate vector shapes, LOL.

But anyway, I first made the paperclip with 3000 vector lines. I saved it as a preset.

Then I loaded it and used it.

OMG! I hadn't realized that the preset shape tool would show every line I made. It was ugly, LOL. I mean, in the end it still looked like a paperclip (or as close as I could get...) but I was not satisfied with all the different vector layers.

Then I got the bright idea to make a paperclip out of letters.

Did you know a paperclip is basically U, J, and I? Well it is.

So I made the paperclip out of those shapes. I got it as smooth as I could.

The problem with vector layers is that you can't delete/erase just a part of it. If you try, it deletes the whole vector. That's why I hate vector layers.

Raster layers you can delete a pixel or 99% of the thing. It's more freedom.

But anyway, I got as close to a paperclip as I could. When I use it, I will turn it into a raster layer and smooth it out. But this is close enough for government work!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I didn't even realize I've been doing this shit for 3 hours, LOL.

I'm proud of my ugly paperclip!

I AM the shit!

Something I made

I finally decided to USE all the damned scrapbook kits I've collected, LOL. Since I don't really keep a regular scrapbook or photo album (I just take pictures, get them developed and never look at them again) maybe digital scrapbooking will inspire me to do more. :-)

Well

I tried creating a mini kit at 300 dpi. But it took WAAAAAAAAAAAY too long. So I switched to 200 dpi. But then I got kinda crazy with the sizing of the elements, LOL.

I don't use scrapbook sets for actual scrapbooking. So they're way too large for my screen and I don't know the size of anything. Like I made the polaroid frame as 5x7 but I don't know if it's still that size. It may be 80% of that size...

Here's a preview. It's reduced to 33% so the actual stuff is much larger.


Download it HERE.

This has been edited because the first scrap kit I offered was really embarassing. It has been deleted from the face of the earth. That is all.

Crazy about scrapbooking

Hoarding, actually.

I've made a few tags with the scrapbooking sets that I've collected. Now I want to make my own.

It's hard.

I mean it's easy to get inspired to make something. The execution is what I have problems with. Plus I'm such a perfectionist that It takes me forfreakingever to make 1 paper that I'm happy with and then when I make it, it doesn't look good on tags or ribbons or whatever.

Maybe I should get really good with one element and then try making a whole kit.

I've tried making mini kits, but I get so involved in making it I end up having 30 pieces to the "mini kit".

Plus I just found out yesterday I've only been using 72dpi and the standard is 300.

*Sigh*

If I get a decent looking set I will post it...

That's all.