Under Construction

I am getting a little behind in scrapping But I didnt want to miss this release (mini kit) from Suzy Q Scraps, Under Construction.  Last year we remodeled our kitchen.  I will have to post the finished product, but here is a glimpse of the process.  Cute little mini kit to help document all the hard work.  (Also a super kit for boys!)

MOC day 11 - Template Challenge

Easy Peasy - I love templates.  The one for the challenge is from Valorie Wibbens, and I have been dying to use this safari Chic kit by Laurie Ann (see kit here). (Stitching is fro Traci Reed) What was more fun was grabbing a photo from Sammy's ipod of here and her friends out at the mall during a cheer comp near State College.

MOC Challenge day 10 (word of the year)

2 great things happened for me on this page...1. I finally got it done (running behind), and 2. I learned a new technique from one of the girls on Suzy's awesome team.  So thank you Carrie, I hope you do not mind me sharing!
The kit I used for this is OLB candid - I used this kit on day 1of the challenge,  also (scroll down to see).  It's currently 20% off and a very versitile kit.... love the little cameras.  The grunge edge is from Karen Lewis, and the Veneer Buttons are from Gina Cabrera.

(Adobe photoshop CC) First, make your custom shape. I chose Adobe's default arrow. To do this, I clicked on the custom shape tool, then from the top I selected my shape and drew it on the canvas.  Clip the paper of your choosing to the shape. 

- Next, create a seperate layer for your text (I used Cargogate font). Resize & move the text to where you want it on your shape.  Next, select the element.....to do this I left clicked on the image (to the left of the text) in the Layers palette to bring up a sub menu, then click Select Pixels to get the outline of the element (you want the marching ants around the element). Once you have them, hide the element layer (click on the eye for that layer).

- Go back to your shape....specifically the layer with the shape you made (not the paper you clipped to it). Highlight that block's layer, then from the Layers menu (up top), select Layer Mask, then Hide Selection.  There ya have it.

I love my word - It still pops up for me daily...probly because I have a lot to focus on!

MOC day 9 - scrap re-do.

Ok 2 things - 1. I am going to post a few MOC pages today because I got behind... why?  because day nine challenge was a re-do page.  I haven't been digi scrapping for that long, so I needed to find a paper page, and this whole re-doing is just not me.  I may not be 100% happy with all my pages, but done is done and move on.

here is the page I made using "You Make me Happy" kit from Just Jaimee.  Underneath it is the paper page that I re-did..(I admit, it was pretty plain....(I was in a rush to complete her book before graduation, so the page was done... enuf said :))

MOC at The Lilypad Day 8 - Tutorial & Challenge

If you haven't logged in for these challenges yet - you are missing a great time.  I am catching up on pages I have been wanting to do and learning so many tips & tricks.  Today was a great blending tutorial - see what I did with it below.  Kit is One Little Bird - Generations & the word art is from a retired OLB kit - Instinct.

Halls Of Learning - Suzy Q Scraps

In December Suzy Q posted 12 days of freebies.  Great items to add to her current kits (smart marketing too :)).  I created this layout when I applied for her team.  and thought I would give it some new life with the block collegiate style font letters.
NOTE! the tags for each grade are cut out from the tabs that she created for the kit.  Simple enough to do.  Open them, use the magic eraser to highlight the white color; shirt-ctrl-i for the inverse and delete the black out.  (sounds harder than it really is).
You can get this awesome school kit here...

In case you didn't want to mess with the word art - here is a peek what it looked like before...

MOC day 7 - word art challenge

Another day, another fun challenge.  I used another kit from Kim Jensen.  It's the colors of this kit that I adore, and the "art journaly" kinda pages.... The kit is Random Moments.