Daws Glacier

Unfortunately, I'm home from work today b/c of my allergies. BUT on the plus side, it means I can play around in the craft room a little. And today I worked on this layout from our Alaskan cruise. We got up close & personal with the Daws Glacier, and it did not disappoint.

Digital Supplies Used

Program: Adobe Elements 6.0; Template: JS Temp 11; Paper: SBA April '09 Kit - Queen of Quirk pp 8, mfen solid 1, mfen solid 4, mfen solid 8, awolff bg 6; Misc: Michelle Coleman - criss cross stitching; Fonts: Cracked, CK Becky

Beautiful Glaciers

Today we're looking at the opposing layout for my Juneau spread. I focused on all of the beautiful scenery; it was pretty tough to narrow it down to just 10 faves!

Program: AE 6.0; Template: JS Temp. 03; Paper: KH - beige; Scrapdish - JB postcards; SBA - Jan. 10 awolff solid 4; Apr. 09 solid 4, solid 6 & tag 3; DD - KP traveler stamps Journey; MCO - antique brad; DP - simplicity word art 1

Birdseye View of Juneau

While we didn't get to mush huskies as we'd planned due to low cloud cover in the morning, we salvaged the day by taking a sea plane tour of the glacier fields. Stunning! I had tons of pictures and wanted to maximize the number of beautiful photos I planned to preserve for our album. So I chose a template that would highlight a particularly memorable photo while allowing lots of other photos from the day.

Program: AE 6.0; Template: JS Temp. 03; Paper: KH - beige; Scrapdish - JB postcards; SBA - Jan. 10 awolff solid 4; Apr. 09 solid 4 & solid 6; DD - KP traveler stamps day 4; Fonts: Title - Cracked; Journaling - Abadi MD Condensed Light

Here, Fishie, Fishie, Fishie...

Anyone else remember that episode of Sesame Street where Bert & Ernie go fishing? Makes me laugh every time I think about it. I've worked on some more digital layouts for our Alaska album, and I'll be sharing those this week. Today's layout, we're taking a look at the guy's first fishing trip in Ketchikan. No fish hopping in the boat, but they still had a great time.

Program: Adobe Elements 6.0; Template: Designer Digitals - AAspen Template 4; Paper - Songbird Ave Dec. '09 Kit, awolff bg 7; Fonts: Title - Stencil & Franklin Gothic Medium; Journaling - Baskerville Old Face

An Album Gone Digital

As a Christmas gift, my mom scrapped the pictures from our recent family vacation to Alaska. We went with my parents and my brother & sister-in-law, so there were lots of fabulous pictures to choose from for the album. So many, in fact, that it still leaves me plenty of pictures to scrap on my own. And that's why I decided to scrap the trip completely digitally.

I'm very much a novice at digital scrapbooking. I've done a few layouts here & there, but I found the process to be even more time-consuming than the traditional paper layouts, if that's even possible (for me, that is). That is until recently when I discovered the wonder of digital templates. Oh my. These toys have to be the best invention ever. What makes them especially nice for someone like me is that you're not "stuck" with the layout as-is. Assuming you've downloaded a layered template, you have the option to delete & add & move around, which makes them totally customizable. Now, don't get me wrong, I still love working with paper as much as the next die-hard traditional scrapper. But I have to say that I'm now hooked on the possibilities that lie in wait in the digital realm.

This is the cover layout I made for our Alaska book using a template by Jessica Sprague.

Supplies used: Program - Adobe PS Elements 6; Template - Jessica Sprague 04; Font - LDJ Miss Me (title), Trebuchet MS (journaling); Paper - Angie Briggs Tom Boy Kit lt. green & grey cardstock, Songbird Avenue April '09 Kit solid 6 cardstock; Ribbon - Anita Stergiou The Floriade Collection ribbon 04; Rub-on - House of 3 WordArt (relax)