PAISLEE PRESS GIVEAWAY!

Liz Tamanaha of Paislee Press is giving away a poster-sized calendar template this month!  Check out her blog for your chance to win :)

http://paisleepress.blogspot.com/  (look at her Jan 6th post)

-- klb

paislee press: Patisserie: sneak peek + a giveaway

paislee press: Patisserie: sneak peek + a giveaway: "I am really really really excited about this one. It's a collaboration with the one and only, the amazing Nicole Seitler of Sugarplum Pa..."

2 New LOs

"Precious Amelia"

This LO was suggested by "Ann6" - a fellow "sprague-mate" from the Jessica Sprague website/community.  I was itching to make a new LO, but didn't know what I wanted my subject to be -- Ann asked me to make one based upon my avatar, which is the focal photo here in this LO.

CREDITS

Paper: my own design
Brush: Swirls by affaleen/Brusheezy.com
Glass Beads: Kitty Designs, "Freshilicious" /Oscraps.com
Word Art: KittyDesigns, "MagicWords02" /Oscraps.com
Fonts: Century Gothic (journaling) & CK_Ali's_Handwriting_Official

Photos taken July 6, 2010; journaling written Aug 30, 2010

"Kisses from a Unca"

I created this layout because of the amazing photo, which is one of my current favorites and was taken by me - I was holding Amelia with my left arm and took the pic with my right hand (I'm a lefty), w/o using view finder or the LCD screen! What's so amazing is that this image is "SOTC" -- straight out of the camera -- and other than minor spot-healing and using the sketch tenchique, nothing else was done to it (no cropping).  Also, I love the expression on Mia's face as her "Unca J" lays a smooch on her baby cheek :)

CREDITS

Photo Mask: Anna Aspnes, FotoBlendz No 7 - designerdigitals.com
Corner Brushes: Anna Aspnes, Hipster Plumes Korners N Edgers No 2 - designerdigitals.com
Edge Brushes: Nancie Rowe Janitz, NRJ_DDK - Jessica's BrushAbilities class
Fonts: iNked god (title); ParmaPetitOutline (caption)

~ klb

3rd LO?!

I had all three LOs and captions in my previous post, but this last image and the caption that went with it didn't show up for some reason...

Mmm!

Credits -- Paper: my own design Borders: Andrea Victoria "adfree_111906"/Designer Digitals Font: CK Curly Photo: taken by me. My DD bakes cupcakes and this one is from a variety of 6 different kinds she made for a Father's Day celebration held at our church this year.

Mmm!

Credits --

Paper: my own design
Borders: Andrea Victoria "adfree_111906"/Designer Digitals
Font: CK Curly
Photo: taken by me. My DD bakes cupcakes and this one is from a variety of 6 different kinds she made for a Father's Day celebration held at our church this year.

~ klb

3 New LOs to share...

This week's challenge @ jessicasprague.com is, "Embracing the Inner M" -- the rules are to use just a single photo, have some "white space" on the LO and one of the words in the title has to start with "M."  The following pages (all 12x12 digital) are shown in the order I made them.

McKinley

Had fun "embracing my inner M" :) Hubby and I took a train trip last month up to Denali National Park to celebrate our wedding anniversary. I took this photo on the ride up from Anchorage. Credits -- Photo mask: Anna Aspnes/Designer Digitals Stitches: Katie Pertiet/Designer Digitals Brushes: Unknown (Brusheezy, maybe?) Fonts: Dali & Century Gothic

McKinley

Had fun "embracing my inner M" :) Hubby and I took a train trip last month up to Denali National Park to celebrate our wedding anniversary. I took this photo on the ride up from Anchorage.

Credits --
Photo mask: Anna Aspnes/Designer Digitals
Stitches: Katie Pertiet/Designer Digitals
Brushes: Unknown (Brusheezy, maybe?)
Fonts: Dali & Century Gothic

My MIA

Our granddaughter's name is actually Amelia, but "Mia" is my own personal nickname for her :) I took this photo of Mia July 16; she was 10 months, 11 days old at the time (she'll be a year old on Sept 7). CREDITS -- Paper: my own design; lowered opacity to about 60% Sketch Technique: by "Anita;" Homework #63 @ kimikreations.blogspot.com Hearts & Glitter: Kitty Designs "Loveable" kit/Oscraps Fonts: CK Curly & Century Gothic

My MIA

Our granddaughter's name is actually Amelia, but "Mia" is my own personal nickname for her :) I took this photo of Mia July 16; she was 10 months, 11 days old at the time (she'll be a year old on Sept 7).

CREDITS --
Paper: my own design; lowered opacity to about 60%
Sketch Technique: by "Anita;" Homework #63 @ kimikreations.blogspot.com
Hearts & Glitter: Kitty Designs "Loveable" kit/Oscraps
Fonts: CK Curly & Century Gothic

Mmm!

Credits -- Paper: my own design Borders: Andrea Victoria "adfree_111906"/Designer Digitals Font: CK Curly Photo: taken by me. My DD bakes cupcakes and this one is from a variety of 6 different kinds she made for a Father's Day celebration held at our church this year.

Mmm!

Credits --

Paper: my own design
Borders: Andrea Victoria "adfree_111906"/Designer Digitals
Font: CK Curly
Photo: taken by me. My DD bakes cupcakes and this one is from a variety of 6 different kinds she made for a Father's Day celebration held at our church this year.

~ klb

Spraground Weekly Challenge ~ July 2, 2010

This 12x12 digital LO is my entry for this week's challenge. We were to create a page using the colors purple (hex code #4d1842), green (#c7d35c), gray (#f0e5b0) & tan (#5d5656). We were also to make the title "creative" with the colors.  Mine isn't all that creative (just two separate layers in green and tan), but I like the way it turned out :)  The photo is one of dozens I took on June 30th in downtown Anchorage; I thought the color of these tulips went perfectly with the purple in the challenge!

Credits --

Template (altered slightly): "Template # 57" by Timounette (blog)

Brushes: Anna Aspnes (corner, borders)/Designer Digitals; Nancie Rowe Janitz (used with burn tool on green paper); Mouritsa (butterfly)/supplied in Brush*a*Bilities class; "Swirls by xO_Kaffaleen"/Brusheezy


Fonts: Beyond Wonderland ("garden"); Century Gothic (quote); CK_Ali's_Hand (on photo)


Quote found at Two Peas in a Bucket {dot} com (PeaSoup)

It might be hard to tell, but I used the tan color for the corner and border brushes (reduced opacity to 70%); for the butterflies; for the background layer of "garden" and for the quote.
 
~ klb

ENTER to WIN!!!

Digi-scrap artist Nicole Seitler of Sugarplum Paperie is having a contest over at her FaceBook page!  There is a $20.00 gift card to her Sugarplum Shop going out to one lucky winner tomorrow, July 2, 2010 -- check it out and enter to win!

http://www.facebook.com/sugarplumpaperie

~klb