The Spring Retreat done already!

It is hard to believe that the Spring Retreat has come and gone.  It snuck up on me pretty quick this year.  This photo was taken at 2:15am (thanks Marnie), when the last three of us die hard scrappers were heading up to our rooms.  I had a really fun weekend with everyone, and completed almost 40 pages in my album.  Not close to my record, but I am satisfied with what I accomplished.  The gift for attending the retreat this year was the Wish paper and embellishments, or the Digital Wish kit.  I used it to quickly make this 5x7 page.  It is fantastic, and I love the colours.  I want to paint Big C's room navy and green now.  More wish ideas to come soon.

Now I am looking forward to National Scrapbook Day...April 30th.

Thanks for reading!

Kelly

Big C's Party

Here is a glimpse of the party that we had last weekend.  The kids had a great time, it was nice to see all the smiles on their faces.

I created this page to match the invitation that was handed out.  I've been using some predesigned pages lately because it is quick and easy.  Just click and drag your photos into the frames and then change the background paper to whatever you like.  This page is from the Simply Black predesigned pages and then I used the Discover Make Believe paper and embellishments.  Another way of doing this is using the Click and Fill Pages.  The have no colour to them, just shades of grey.  Again you fill all the selected elements with whatever paper you want and add your embellishments.

The Storybook Plus 3.0 software is still on sale for the rest of March as a download.  Go to my website and check out the specials.

Creating Invitations

This is the birthday invitation I created this year, which I think turned out pretty cute.  I have edited it a bit from the original to post on my blog, there was a bit more info on it and it didn't look as blank.  We had a Pirate Mayhem theme party, so the Creative Memories Make Believe Addition has some great paper and embellishments to use.  I printed them as 5x7 prints and they fit in an envelope and were ready to hand out.  The party was a lot of fun, more pics to come.  Thanks to all the friends that came out!

If you ever want to host a pirate party let me know I've got some great ideas...and wait until you see the cake, it was amazing!

How to use the 3D filter

I copied this page from Consultant Heather Maas.  This is the first time I have played with the 3D Edge filter, which I think is a really great enhancement now that I know how to use it.  To learn how to create this page go to the digital tab at the top of the blog.  You can also go to Heather's blog to see how she created the template.

We have been sick at our house for the last couple of weeks, flu, sinus infection, double ear infection and non stop coughing!  I hope everyone else is making out better then we are!  For those of you going away have a fantastic March Break.  I can't believe it is here already...just looking forward to some warmer weather soon.  I can start posting something other than snow pics!