A Few of my Favorite Things....

This is a page from my scrapbook from our trip to Oregon. The background "paper" is a photograph I took specifically to use as background paper. This is a technique I use that gives me some free and fun options for "paper" in my digital scrapbooking.

I have to brag just a little!!!

Okay...so the brag is really for the program because I'm the loser kindergarten mom that totally put off this project that I did for my daughter instead of with her...

Do I get Brownie points because it will be something she will treasure for YEARS to come??

I have SO been wanting to make her an ABC book for the last, oh, year and a half, and just never had time...

Well, with the motivation of her needing a "family project" to share with her kindergarten class and my FABULOUS new scrapbooking software I made a 24 page brag book (8x8) in about an hour and a half...printed it off on my computer...trimmed, loaded into the album I had bought to do this project a YEAR ago...and I have the totally cutest project ever!!

I used a preloaded book that you can finagle and play with a little and I dragged and dropped pictures into it and LOOK WHAT I DID!! I'm so excited about it I couldn't wait to share it even though it took longer to load it than it did to make it in the first place!!

It's missing some letters of the alphabet and some obviously important people like the Nations because I didn't have pictures of them on my laptop and didn't have time to fight the dinosaur to pull them off the old PC but I can update that over our two week break, take some posed pictures to fill in the odd letters (q for quilt maybe?? Maybe a picture with the queen?? Maybe a picture dressed up AS a queen...that might work) and whallaaaah!!

What I couldn't get done in a year is now done in a couple of hours and some photo paper. I LOVE DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING!!!!!