I Love Scrapbooking

Today I realized how much I miss scrapbooking.

I kept on looking at scrapbook pages online

and my hands were itching to start playing with paper :)

So as soon as I had some time to relax

I started working on this digital layout of my nephew.

I've in the process of cleaning my art/scrapbook table

 I seriously want to go back to do some traditional scrapbooking

maybe make some videos of my scrapbook process

together with some art techniques since I want to mix

scrapbooking and art. 

I love making my own backgrounds,

so that will be fun :)

Don't you think so?

Have you mixed scrapbooking and art?

Please let me know in your comments so I can go take a look at your pages,

Thanks

Clemencia

My Take On A Sketch Challenge

I miss traditional scrapbooking

but while I am getting my things organized 

I decided to make a digital layout

of my daughter in a petting farm

at the South Florida Fair

Participating in Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge

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Acceptance #WOIW With A Little Secret...

Wow!!! What a word!
Kraaft Shack has WOIW which means: "Word Of Inspiration Wednesday" and this is the word for this week: ACCEPTANCE

Boy!!! that word got stuck on my head :)

I'm going to let you in a secret of mine... for me the hardest thing through out my life has been to accept myself :/
that's right! believe it or not, that has been my reality for many years. Until, thanks to my husband that taught me that I have to take care of myself and be who I truly am.

For years now I've been on the search of...

who am I really?

what do I like?

what would I do if...?

By reading lots of self help and self esteem books I have learned to accept who I am, to accept myself and now... I am SO HAPPY!!!

I keep on reading self help books just because I always like Psychology.
I like the idea of self grow; I love to learn and I think I always will.

Anyways... for about a year now I've been watching people how they do art journaling and for a few months now I started exploring it myself.

Even though I like a lot, I could even say I love it, I love playing with the colors and techniques and experimenting with different things I realized that I miss Scrapbooking which I got into since my older daughter (now 20) was a baby.

As always life takes place and you do what you like less and less, I took the route of doing digital scrapbooking for a while there, since I moved and couldn't get to my scrapbook supplies, but now that I have ALMOST everything in place I want to go back to it.

It seems like traditional scrapbooking is dying but I miss it and I am going to do it!
You see, that word comes to my head again... ACCEPTANCE

I have to accept that I am not an expert art journaler like I would like to be.
I have to accept that I want to keep on scrapbooking and I LOVE IT! even though technology is taking over.
I have to accept that I LOVE mixed media also even though I don't do it as often as I want to.

ACCEPTANCE  is really going to take me farther than what I thought!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting this word out, is like it was meant to be for me. At the same time that my prayers are asking for clarity in my life and some other things that I am trying out :)

I am a Cosmetologist.
I am a Preschool Teacher.
I am an Artist in my own way.
I am a Mother.
I am a Wife.
I am a learner.
I am a Writer (sorry this is long)
I am a Daughter.
I am a lot more things...

I am who I am, this is my ACCEPTANCE :)

How I Feel Today...

After my morning meditation

I started playing around with my image program

and thought it would be nice to make something 

that remind us all that we are LOVED

Deeply Loved, nurtured, cared for :)

Choose to Focus...

I love to read and I want to share what I learn as I read them.

This is one of the things I learned today,

I hope you like the way I made it

I love playing with my PSPX2 program :)

With Love,

Soup and Salad Layout

I made this QP layout for Monday Challenge

This is my daughter eating her favorite... Soup and Salad at Olive Garden :)

Digital Layout Color Challenge

This challenge is about using Black, White and another main accent color of your choice at ScrapGirls and here is my layout.

By the way if you know of any other digital scrapbooking challenges please let me know, I love them, specially when you can win something :)

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Pinterest Inspired Scrapbook Layout

I am so happy I worked on another layout. This one is inspired by Pinterest 

Here is my digital layout,

and this is what I used for inspiration

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Fall Fun Digital Layout

I've been thinking for a while that I want to go back to scrapbooking, traditional that is.

But since I haven't organize my supplies I figure I can start by doing a digital scrapbook layout

I made this one last night using my PSPX2 program.

I hope it encourages and inspires somebody out there :)

This layout can be done easily in a traditional way also :)

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Digital Layout

Last year my daughter was in love with

green and blue colors.

 

So here I decided to make a layout

showing when she received her school awards :)

 

 

I hope it inspires you in any way :)

 

 

 

 

Challenge Day 16 & 17 Digital Scrapbooking

Is really hard for me to use the computer during the weekends

so here I am today with my challenges from saturday and sunday

trying to be creative in a different way

I have play with my pictures creating a digital scrapbook :)

 

I work with PSPX2

 

for this picture I only added 2 diffent frames

but I colorized them with her favorite colors

 

 

This one has a charcoal effect

 

 

Pencil Effect choosing a pink color 

 

 

Pencil Effect with a white color 

 

Brush Stroke effect

 

For this picture I darken the background and

used a mask as a frame





 

 

 This picture took me a lot of time,

as I had to remove all the background from the picture

make it a tube and then make the rest of the frame

using borders and inner bevels

 

 

 And for this one I didn't remove the background

just added some borders

and decorate them with patterns to make it

stand out a little bit

 

Well, that was my creativitiy for the weekend,

let's see how do I get creative today

and hopefully post it tonight :)

 

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Challenge Day 6 Applique and Digital signature

For my challenge today I have this super cute owl purse

that my teenage daughter made for me :)

She drew the owl herself

cut the pieces and glued to the purse

which she designed the pattern for also :)

 

 

So my work here was to saw by hand

around the edges of the owl

just in case whenever I have to wash the purse

my cute little owl doesn't come out :)

 

Isn't this adorable :)

 

And I also made my signature gift box

by following a PSP lesson through a yahoo group :)

 

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