Winter Engagement Photos Ashlee and Darrin

I had the pleasure of photographing a wonderful couple for their engagement photos.  Ashlee and Darrin were so much fun to work with.  Despite the fact that temperatures were in the teens, this couple never complained once about the cold.  They wanted a mix of head shots and some full body shots to show off Ashlee's growing belly.  They are very excited to become parents in just a few more weeks.  Congrats Darrin and Ashlee! Here's a look at a few of their photos taken near a local park.

Love Me by Flipp Design

Right now there is an awesome kit called Love Me on sale at godigitalscrapbooking.com.  You can pick this kit up today for only $2.93.

Love Me includes 72 fun elements, 11 beautiful papers, and one QP gift. The colors are just beautiful with all sorts of shades of pinks.  There are also a few papers that look like bokeh lights..one of my favs.  Make sure you check it out!!

http://www.godigitalscrapbooking.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_dnld_info&cPath=29_171&products_id=8114)

My Winter Cocoa Dream Kit

My Winter Cocoa dream is a warm fuzzy Digital Scrap kit with some sparkly elements, rich gold, and 10 12x12 JPG papers @ 300 DPI. Kit designed by SweetMade. http://www.godigitalscrapbooking.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_dnld_info&cPath=29_172&products_id=8044

Some LO's just for me

This page is in honor of my brother.  When I saw this really funny FREE WA over at Ginger"s House , I instantly thought of my brother.  http://gingershouse.blogspot.com/ 

Credits for my LO found here: http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/326267/view/3058859/-1/1.html

Credits for my LO can be found here: http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/326267/view/3064753/-1/1.html

January Collab Kit "Winter's Frost"

Winter's Frost comes to you full of frosty wintery fun! It's loaded with all the elements and papers to create the perfect winter's day layout! Love wordart and glitter? Included is a fantastic set of coordinating glitter from Andrea Gold as well as beautiful & meaningful wordart from Jab's Digital Designs!

There are over 290 megs that include the following: •27 Papers (12 x 12) •68 Elements •8 Piece Glitter Style set •6 coordinating WordArt pieces •2 Alphas.  The kit can be found here:
http://www.godigitalscrapbooking.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_dnld_info&products_id=8084

Check out these wonderful LO's made with the kit

Last day of 2010.

Introducing ... Project: Love, Me ...

Project Love me is a project 52 with weekly prompts designed to help you share your personal journey … 52 messages & stories from you to future generations … a collection for your loved ones … signed, “Love, Me.”

Project: Love, Me is much more than an “All About Me” album. It is about you, of course — but not a laundry list of facts or answers to simple questions, or even a chronological history. It’s an adventure of self-discovery as we focus on specific themes and delve deep with prompts to help you get to the heart of who you are and share that with others.

Here is the opening page of my album.

Kami, from Project Love Me, sums it up much better than I can about why I would want to do this.

Here is what she says: "I think about my parents when they were my age and I wonder who they were. I knew them as parents, but not as a people- what they dreamed, what brought them joy or what they feared the most?

I think about my grandparents and realize how little I really know about them at all. I know their names and where they lived. I have a general idea of how their lives were shaped. But I have no idea who they were, what obstacles they faced and how they faced them, what they thought about their world and how they lived in it.

I then look ahead 30 years from now and realize one day my daughter will be me- sitting here wondering who her mother really was when she was 35 and looking at me from a whole new perspective. I look ahead 60 years from now and wonder how much my grandchildren will know about me as a person and the world I lived in.

We are all individuals with our own likes and dislikes, struggles and successes. Life truly is a journey and along the way we learn all kinds of lessons. This project is about leaving our story for future generations, showing them who we are and what life has taught us- up to this point in our lives, so that when our children and grandchildren are ready to know us, we will be there for them. It’s a project you can start at any point in your life and it’s a project that you can repeat throughout your life to see how your perspective has changed and grown since the last time you completed the project."

If you are interested, you can find out more here:  http://projectlovemescrapbook.com/about-project/

Christmas Bokeh Photos

Merry Christmas! Ok, I am a huge fan of Bokeh type photos and I was hoping that my new camera the NEX 3 by Sony could be adjusted to give me some of those awesome shots.  I placed the camera in M mode and moved the settings to 0.5"  and F5.   I really wish that I could set the F stop a little lower but just couldn't find a way to do it. Overall, I was satisfied with the results.

To get those beautiful, blurry Christmas lights, use your lens with the lowest aperture.  Place your subject as far away from the tree as possible and get as close to the subject as possible.

Forever Yours

Forever Yours is rich in color and texture. Includes 18 solid and patterned 12x12 papers created at 300 dpi. Sixteen of the papers are in .jpg format, 2 are in .png format.

Elements include a bead spill, single beads, pearled butterflies, vintage buttons, a clip, flourishes, fabric flowers, frames, jeweled hearts, a diamond overlay, journaling pieces, a vintage key, a pearl, a rose, a snap, twine, and various ribbons.

The included alpha is stamp-inspired and includes Uppercase, Lowercase and Numbers, plus a blank stamp set for you to add text to coordinate for your layouts.


Here's a LO made with this beautiful kit.