Holiday Season

I've neglected my personal blog for months now and hope in the new year to revitalize it again. I've been busy with my photography biz (weddings and portraits) while carving out lots of time to digi scrap. I've created almost 200 pages this year. It helps to be on CT teams and be required to create with their new kits. It's a win-win situation. I get lots of digi stuff for free while creating lots of pages for myself. I've pretty much given up on paper scrapping except for the odd card here and there. It's hard to let go of all my supplies and I love my scrap room so I may keep just a portion of the supplies to justify keeping the room setup and gathering my scrap friends for a few crops here and there. I'm scrambling now to get all the holiday prep done (I seem to do this every year lol). But...it always come together by the time Christmas rolls around. I've been eating low carb for most of this year and need to see what veggie dishes I can contribute to Xmas dinner that I can eat with the turkey. I need to go peruse pinterest for ideas. If you want to follow me on pinterest, you can find me here
my pinterest board
Here's a few pages I've created lately, if you'd like to see some of my work.

Update on Life and Digi Stuff

I've been MIA for a bit. Got busy with the wedding photography biz and digi-wise, have been busy as a CT member for Little Rad Trio and LaurieAnnHGD.  Plus, I have been a guest CT member over at mscraps so have been scrapping my little heart out! This year my digi scrapping has just taken off! I now have 100+ pages completed this year (you can see them on my pinterest board). In August I will be a guest CT member for The Lilypad store. I will be scrapping like crazy! Plus I have 3 weddings to shoot in August. So, it will be a fun, crazy busy month ahead but oh so much fun! Here's a layout I created for Dunia over at mscraps (Kraft Alpha, Addicted to Paper and Do You Remember Kit).

A Few Recent Layouts

I've taken a few minutes here and there to create some layouts. I'm having fun playing more with clustering and photo/background blending. I often start a layout, then walk away from it for a few hrs or a day or so until I can find a few more minutes to work on it. That's the beauty of digital, no mess, no clean-up and, if I remember to save as a psd file then I can come back and change the design as often as I like. I do tend to put my layouts together quickly. I'm a quick scrapper and don't usually make my layouts very element heavy and usually have a fair amount of empty space on my page.

My LO For The One Word Challenge "Fun"

Credits: LaurieAnnHGB - TakeMyHand Alpha and SimpleLife Kit
The parade goes right by our trailer so we always have a front row seat. I'm glad I finally got a chance to scrap a page about this.

From A Photo Walk With Sue

Credits: TLP store - Laurie Ann HGD - BloomBabyBloom and MaBelle kits
Used this photo I took from my photo walk with my scrap buddy, Sue, last yr. I'm starting to pull out some images from the last few years to scrap finally. We must have spent at least an hour at the duck pond at Granville Island snapping pics of the wildlife there. I never get tired of visiting the island and always find so much beauty there to capture on camera.|

OF NOTE:  this LO was featured today on Kate Hadfield's Gallery Standouts. WOOT WOOT!
Kate Hadfield's Gallery Standouts

New Collab by Ninigoesdigi and Pink Reptile Designs

 I knew as soon as I saw this collab from TLP that I would love it. 

New Release Today from LaurieAnn at The Lilypad

This year, orange has become a fave color of mine to scrap with. Standouts in this kit for me were the orange flowers, the canning jar, the banner and the butterfly. I will use this kit over and over for all the fun little bits in it. If you want to see the kit, head over to The Lilypad store; it's 20% off this wkend and comes with a free alpha too.
Heart and Hand Kit