tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23999727635455802402024-03-13T00:25:50.738-07:00the Meatloaf SandwichCamerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-28082224532516311882014-09-26T16:12:00.001-07:002014-09-26T16:12:44.034-07:00Merry Christmas Tree Card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Quick and easy card for you guys today. I decided to try my hand this week at the Retrosketches challenge. Funny thing is almost 4 years ago I swore as a New Years resolution that I would do more of these. Guess I'm finally getting around to it huh?</div>
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Its a 6x6 card that I started off thinking I was going to put a ribbon around, since it opens in the front. But I got a little crazy with the chipboard pieces. So the ribbon was a no go. I think it still came out cute though! </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Sorry I could not get the darn thing to stay closed for the picture. (Honestly I was just too lazy to look for some tape when taking the picture. )</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span>Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-5803918238612581132014-06-15T09:37:00.000-07:002014-06-15T09:37:03.258-07:00You say goodbye and I say HelloI call this one Purple splatter Hello Card. Long name. Little card.<div>
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It started out as a mistake. I was trying to stamp without my acrylic block and bending the stamp like I've seen people do online. Unfortunately it looked like crap. I added the dark purple paper that I knew I'd be putting my lettering on. Still wasn't doing it for me. So, I ended up drizzling some antique linen distress paint on it. Again it was still lacking something. So I decided to use some dark purple ink spray. I kinda liked it then. So I added the chipboard lettering. On impulse I just started stamping.</div>
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Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-32371075341804020072014-06-13T21:08:00.000-07:002014-06-13T21:08:19.005-07:00Gratitude CardSo summer is finally here in Cleveland, Ohio. I've had the windows open, and all this fresh air is getting my creative juices flowing. Also been on a major craft spring cleaning binge. I've been making cards, cards, and more cards.<br />
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I'm a huge fan of the paranormal genre. But this book just didn't hit it with me. Maybe I was expecting too much from all the reviews I'd read<br />
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For me, I found it very slow going. I have to admit that I hate giving up on a book, because sometimes what starts out slow takes a turn and finishes up great. I kept on reading and chugging thru, but this isn't one of those books. My recommendation- as my title states. There are so many other better books you can be reading. Don't read this one.<br />
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ShannonCamerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-60326031824008165122014-05-21T22:27:00.001-07:002014-06-15T09:38:13.694-07:00Free digital papers from SizzixJust wanted to make a quick post for all you digital scrapbook lovers out there. Sizzix is giving away six different digital papers if you sign up for their email newsletter. I'm never one to say no to "free". Here's the link to the spot.<br />
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Just enter in your email and whaaaa-laaaa the site directs you to the free paper. Have fun people.Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-52295943462631299632013-05-13T20:40:00.000-07:002013-05-13T20:40:04.944-07:00Go in The direction of Your Heart Frame for MJI work in the healthcare field by day (in case you didn't know),and my work has been "restructuring". Which basically means one of my friends (and possibly myself, I don't know yet) has lost their job. They offered her some options that just didn't work for her and her family so sadly I'm going to be saying goodbye to her on the 24th.<br />
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She's so upbeat and happy and brings much joy to me personally at work. She has an awesome voice and ADHD. Which just means she is hyper and always singing. I love music but truth be told, have a horrible voice. My fourth grade music teacher once told my mother in front of me that he didn't understand how all of her other children could carry a tune except me. Ahem, well, it never stopped me from loving music. So there Mr. Turley. </div>
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So this should sort of explain why I love hearing her sing at work. Because I don't have to hear my own voice. Although I do sing along. Anyways, my favorite past time has become getting songs stuck in her head. I know you're all out there in the blogosphere shaking your heads. Probably thinking- don't you have work to do. Have you people never watched the office? I mean come on, I shuffle papers all day and answer phones - so mind numbly boring. It is a job so I won't complain. So, I make the most of it and try to repeatedly walk behind her at the nursing station and hum or sing a snippet of a song I want to hear.( Or just annoy her by getting a stupid song stuck in her head, which is fun too) She once told me I was her muse and needed to take me with her wherever she went. I proudly took that as a compliment. </div>
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I've been very down about her leaving and wanted to let her know how much joy she brought to the office. So I made her this little frame. Ha, you thought this story was going nowhere. Fooled ya.<br />
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Then I decided it needed some butterlies. This is where the distress markers came in. I'm not a huge copic fan. Mostly because I suck at coloring with them and I like things a little more grungy and messy than a perfectly colored stamp. (although I am secretly envious of all you bitches that can do it)<br />
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<li>Theresa Collins Fabrications paper</li>
<li>Unity Itty Bitty: Direction of your heart stamp, and butterfly?</li>
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<li>Spellbinders Foliage & Bitty Blossoms shapeablilities</li>
<li>Echo Park paper</li>
<li>Stickles- crystal</li>
<li>Liquid pearls -rouge</li>
<li>See thru stone thingies from Kathy</li>
<li>Boo Bunny Jewels</li>
<li>Lace was from 2 differents sets but I'm not sure which ones.</li>
<li>AppleBarrel Light Leaf Green acrylic paint</li>
<li>Distress ink</li>
<li>Glue dots</li>
<li>Miracle tape</li>
<li>and can't forget the good ole Modge Podge.</li>
<li>Ranger distresser</li>
<li>Sanding paper</li>
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Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-54323123113973398122013-05-03T19:05:00.002-07:002013-05-03T19:07:13.712-07:00A recipe for a meatloaf sandwich and a LOSo I googled meatloaf sandwich to see what images popped. Was thinking I needed a cute meatloaf sandwich picture for my blog. I found this 6 step recipe to a good meatloaf sandwich. I pretty much agree with all of it except that I'm a purest and I don't use lettuce or cheese and no pickle is needed for me. Just white squishy bread, big hunk of meatloaf and lots of ketchup. Here's the link <a href="http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/04/17/six-steps-best-meatloaf-sandwich">http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/04/17/six-steps-best-meatloaf-sandwich</a> . Check it out and tell me what you think.<br />
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I will let you guys in on something. I make meatloaf just so I can have sandwiches the next day, because my daughter always groans when I make it. (Although she eats it, because the rule in this mama's house is that mom does not equal short order chef and if you don't want to eat what I make then you can make yourself a pbj sandwich)<br />
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But I'm digressing. I totally pledged to do more posts this year and keep up, but as know I'm a slacker. I really have a hard time at New Years resolutions. Anyways, I was feeling guilty for not posting so long. So I popped in some Fiona Apple and logged onto the new laptop (in my scrapbook nook). So yeah no excuse to not post now, huh?<br />
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OK so it took me about six months to finish this book for my friend at work who got married last year. This was one of my favorite pages. I really didn't take too many pictures except this double LO. I used a lot of Echo Park in this book. Here's what I used that I remember (I usually have a stack of note card cut in half to write down what I use as I go. But I didn't for this project, because I wasn't really planning on photographing it) So here goes: </div>
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<br />Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-73159268256030969262013-02-07T20:00:00.000-08:002013-02-07T20:02:32.763-08:00You+Me CardYes I'm a bad blogger. But I've resolved to do more posts and get more scrappy this year. Well, with that said here's a new card I've made for the weekly Crop Chocolate contest. Here's a link if you'd like to participate. <a href="https://www.cropchocolate.com/contests">https://www.cropchocolate.com/contests</a><br />
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The printed You + Me is from Echo Park as well as the grey paper from the Note to Self line. The embossed pink paper is from Carta Bella from the Alphabet Junction line. Fired brick Distress ink, and Making Memories Lovestruck ribbon. Oh yeah the embossing folder is Sizzix i believe. Everything from Crop Chocolate except the distress ink.</div>
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Pretty simple little card. It took me making a couple of cards to get into the swing of card making. I think i'm getting the hang of it though. Still having problems with the damn bows. They just never seem to look right to me. Anyways that's all for now. Over and out.</div>
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Ok so I haven't posted anything in awhile. But Dee Dee threw down a New Years top ten challenge and I thought -what the hell. I don't think I've posted a quarter of what I've done. Might not even have pic's of them. But I'll try. So here goes:<br />
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My daughter went to Disney with her Choir. This is the only thing I've gotten scrapped from it. Bad mom.<br />
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The spaceship card. I think I made this for a CC challenge. My first boyish anything I've ever made. Not that I'm the girlyest girl (that could be furthest from the truth), but when you set out to make something for a boy. It's kinda hard.<br />
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This one I won a challenge at CC with. Disclaimer- this is not me! I'm not that cute, honestly (or ahem, young) This was made for my friend, Caitlin. She took both these shots with her cell phone, can you believe it? Who knew you could print out cell phone shots and they'd be half way decent.<br />
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I shot her wedding this year. Allowing me to actually step into the digital SLR realm (so now some of my pictures of my LO's are actually nice- will be even better after I make a homemade copy stand/light box). So anyways, I made a scrapbook (or what you might think as the beginning of a scrapbook) for her wedding. She handed me the pic's 2 days before the big event, so it was a little skimpy to say the least. So after the wedding ,she handed it back to me. And, well it's still sitting in my scrap nook- I hate to admit. But this is one of the current one's I've made to finish it up. Aren't they a cute couple?<br />
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She mad a beautiful bride as well!!! I was soooo nervous. First wedding I've shot in about ten years or so. Last time was with film so this was a big adjustment. No medium format camera. No cropping negatives for the lab, and thank god for a built in diopter because I lost my brand new glasses the month before! Now I just have to master this photoshop stuff. Oy.</div>
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Camera tag that I was just fooling around with. Made for no particular reason. But I love how it came out. Stamp of course is Unity.<br />
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Ok this one was born from me playing around stamping again. I'm not a huge card maker. I still find it really hard to make them A2 size. So this one is like a 5x7 or something in that range. I find bigger cards easier for me. Maybe because I've only done 12x12 LO's for so long. </div>
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Do half finished projects count? Started cutting the cardboard for these two Halloweens ago. Embellished them this Halloween season. Maybe next year I'll decide on letters for it? BTW this is how my desk normally looks. Just kidding, I figured by posting a half finished project it will force me to finish, but who am I kidding. I'm a grade A procrastinator. </div>
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Case in point: the next few photo's I shot on my folding chair at the computer desk, right before I took the album to work. Why, because I finished the album at 2 a.m. in the morning the night before. These are just a few of my favorite pages from Maggie's album, which was made for my boss. She just had a baby the Saturday before Christmas. And boy she's a cutie. </div>
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Ok I have to explain why the paper is cut. I'm kinda embarrased, to admit. If i'm using two paper's to frame the photo I cut the middle out to conserve paper. My friend who used to sell creative memories taught me this. But when I'm making a book for a present I usually don't cut the middle out of the top paper and I got confused and cut the wrong one. OoPs. But wth she won't see it after she puts a photo down. I almost hated giving this one to her as well. I love these little houses from Basic Grey. Too stinkin cute.<br />
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I added this second photo on this one because the color was so much closer to the original. I hate it when my flash blows out the photo. This is why I need to build a copy work stand. Also the ghosts are stamps on scrap's that I fussy cut.<br />
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Is it stupid to put the size of photo that should fit in the area? I started doing it, then stopped. Because I thought it looked tacky.<br />
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and that concludes Magdalena's album. I had my friend from Poland, who ironically is named Magdalena as well, translate a few phrases in polish. I didn't get time to snap a pic of that one. My boss is originally from Poland. She said she loved it. Yeah!!! I have to do all I can to suck up with cut backs coming lol.</div>
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I'm so excited I found the memory card with my brother's photo shoot on it. In attempt to find more projects, of course. But this shoot was one of my projects, so I'm including it. I'm so happy that he found someone new who loves him and his daughter. </div>
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Here's another work in progress. My sixteen year old. She the one in the middle standing next to the boy who looks like he's standing very straight. ( I would say standing like he's got a stick up his ass, but I like him so I won't say it) This is her show choir group called "Magic" I could bore you and post a million you tube links but I won't. So glad she finally found a nice group of friends and something that she really loves- music. </div>
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Guess next year my resolution should be more projects (or at least photograph them)Thanks for coming stop again and Happy New Years! </div>
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<br />Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-478622593414734912012-08-25T17:34:00.002-07:002012-08-25T17:34:54.640-07:00Beauty & the Beast LOSo I haven't posted anything in like a billion years. So when I was cleaning off my scrappy area and found this LO that I'd done a month ago, I figured I have the time and apartment to myself tonight so why not post.<br />
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Last March, my daughter went to Disney with her school choir to sing. So I have tons of Disney pics. (Good thing I only have two people who read my blog. Because I'm sure this isn't the last post with a Disney pic in it.)<br />
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All the photo's were taken of course by my daughter and her friends with her little Nikon phd camera that has been dropped hundreds of times and is duck taped together so the batteries will stay in. But the pictures came out awesome. Not that you can really tell by this first photo. One of my friends at work was ohhhing and awwing over the colors in the pictures. Honestly I got them printed at CVS, but this is why I always recomend Nikon camera's!!! They take such awesome photo's.<br />
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I'm not sure why I always decide to take pictures of my LO's when the good light is gone. So I had to use a slightly longer shutter speed, thus the camera shake. I'm calling this LO Beauty & the Beast (Juliet being the beast, jk)<br />
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So the title Alpha's were cork and I decided that I didn't really like the light brown with white polka dots. After I had already put them on, of course. So I took my Copic R29 and colored em. You can see under the "u" where I messed up. But it doesn't bother me too much.<br />
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Some bling. I'm not much of a bling girl. But I'm trying. Also this is my first twine on a LO. Go me. I'm really digging these MME Funday wood banner's too.<br />
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and because I wasn't crazy about the long exposure time on the first shot of the LO, I did one with flash. The picture of course had a big flare from the flash, so to spare your eye's I just photo-shopped in a box.</div>
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Here's what I used on the LO:<br />
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<li>My Minds Eye-Funday wood banners, and red/brown twine,red gems collection, Chloe's Closet alpha's, So Sophie paper</li>
<li>Copic- R29</li>
<li>Echo Park- Green & brown Paradise Beach paper</li>
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over and out- ShannonCamerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-70379202151194317512011-04-25T12:26:00.000-07:002012-08-25T17:40:08.375-07:00Swimming Pool LO<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9_AmSLNjCcnEHeUNG6OdMqsLsBQhoHjDYB_SNKmnnc38vaWJ0X4In9veIkFTtZkBdEFIraxQley48DwlcXGNtcUmiglyHxQTLFpsJnfAMJI2Kw4Qy4amQxBuzVWRcVcL6wDUTpZytK0/s1600/DSCN0775.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599623336331055458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9_AmSLNjCcnEHeUNG6OdMqsLsBQhoHjDYB_SNKmnnc38vaWJ0X4In9veIkFTtZkBdEFIraxQley48DwlcXGNtcUmiglyHxQTLFpsJnfAMJI2Kw4Qy4amQxBuzVWRcVcL6wDUTpZytK0/s400/DSCN0775.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> OK. So I'm a major slacker. I know I told you that I'd you I'd post this weeks ago, but life got a little crazy. As always. Plus sometimes I swear you have to kill someone at the library to get a damn computer. (this is the third time I've come with everything in hand to write this post, now and finally there's a free computer)Here's the full Layout or LO if I'm a cool scrapper like everyone else. It's a two pager. I apologize because my apartment isn't the best place to be shooting copy work.I did open the windows and turn off the flash, but you can still really tell which side the windows were on.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH652i4eN1fP9SHHjJ5S6ggOFZa-1X4iVQvo962tJ792sKZTtdQh4hdlluALto93kd1zm1HfXGm7Xewhh4NjLIExit7eiIas6BUAvK9ODsa1kCOBUVs8mtWUCETSq5tuRemhyqOxbXhyphenhyphenE/s1600/DSCN0793.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599615414390983666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH652i4eN1fP9SHHjJ5S6ggOFZa-1X4iVQvo962tJ792sKZTtdQh4hdlluALto93kd1zm1HfXGm7Xewhh4NjLIExit7eiIas6BUAvK9ODsa1kCOBUVs8mtWUCETSq5tuRemhyqOxbXhyphenhyphenE/s400/DSCN0793.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> Plus I was doing it really quick and was hand holding it with my little point and shoot. Bad photographer. I really did go to school for photography. (If you can believe that.) I swear I did. Of course it was before computers where a photographers best friend. The only thing we used it for at school was for making our title slide's in some program like Corel Draw. Way before Photoshop. OK I'm digressing and showing my age. Anyways, that's why I took some close-up shots also. So i think that makes up for it. UMM, yeah OK. OK so close-ups. Whoo-hoo. Go me.<br />
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But before I forget let me tell you what I used in this LO. I didn't use a sketch, but I knew I wanted to do some paper ripping. So I just eyeballed it and started scrappin. I had seen someone doing the paper ripping at the crop I went to and have never really tried it with a LO. I also had this vellum that had been sitting around literally for years. I bought it and then never really had a clue what to do with it. My friend Betty gifted me a book about using vellum that she found in her bargain hunting travels. Right now I couldn't even tell you the name because I didn't think to write it down with all the other stuff I used. But while browsing through it I got this idea about using it for the title. How cool right ?<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtymbqQ847Ve5J4cHaO6vBcmIE-nBZ3XmD3ZcRRs8m0oU95HK-FqjoZiKSYaOGr_6XJoAYIN56vbAYk_umaF5Iz3ZAkYe98uit85T2O7waW4RhaeyLA6L9S4XF_RalZrcXzL3kCyaZUc/s1600/DSCN0765.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599613153245601106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtymbqQ847Ve5J4cHaO6vBcmIE-nBZ3XmD3ZcRRs8m0oU95HK-FqjoZiKSYaOGr_6XJoAYIN56vbAYk_umaF5Iz3ZAkYe98uit85T2O7waW4RhaeyLA6L9S4XF_RalZrcXzL3kCyaZUc/s400/DSCN0765.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a>The title of the piece is swimming pool so I thought the see throughness of it would work. Which it did look cool till I glued it down. This is what it looked like after I glued down the vellum.<br />
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Yuckko as Rachel Ray would say!!!<br />
I mean look at it.<br />
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I thought oh I'll wait till tomorrow and it will dry clear. Nope, didn't work that way. So the next day I ripped all the word "swimming" off, which of course ripped the brown paper underneath.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4fkXSc5Mc6F1jAELjWf0ob37qwzqWEaBBfplSN_ToeV51ByksN_0K2vDM5Wv3ryIgbDB-EMQYWhct1BnRAm8o1xPQuaeIhTFMgvXitlZ8dwFjsF-EjJ-pwxNJ-TC2E1mJA3ZEt10s814/s1600/DSCN0771.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599617012160571650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4fkXSc5Mc6F1jAELjWf0ob37qwzqWEaBBfplSN_ToeV51ByksN_0K2vDM5Wv3ryIgbDB-EMQYWhct1BnRAm8o1xPQuaeIhTFMgvXitlZ8dwFjsF-EjJ-pwxNJ-TC2E1mJA3ZEt10s814/s400/DSCN0771.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> Let me just add that at this point there were plenty of words coming out of my mouth and they were not pretty. At this point, I had to get up and walk away. Which lasted for several days because I was so mad. I keep telling myself, this is how we learn- From our mistakes. Then I would say to myself -yeah so right now I must be a freakin genius at scrapbooking. ( I wish)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMsjRINJWoqxDUkiNBzzb-25WJyxsjvPfdtdwdxUhIDpmCvuol4JmfUK0igANWOW6x8EP7EGREw5xGo7PMmaGECWg6Zdi740V10Ibn8QHQtrR93w2yMzZgR-WMh4C2ZX9u6LaeezGGjg/s1600/DSCN0785.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599618845947832850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMsjRINJWoqxDUkiNBzzb-25WJyxsjvPfdtdwdxUhIDpmCvuol4JmfUK0igANWOW6x8EP7EGREw5xGo7PMmaGECWg6Zdi740V10Ibn8QHQtrR93w2yMzZgR-WMh4C2ZX9u6LaeezGGjg/s400/DSCN0785.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a>So I ended up going with white letters to say swimming. Which helped by hiding the rips I had made. I made them from white Colorbok paper using the Fa La La font on my Slice. I stuck with the vellum which is Alabaster color and made by The Paper Company to say pool. I hadn't glued it down yet, so I used a regular glue stick to glue it to the blue patterned paper I had cut into waves. Which by the way is made by Darice and was gifted to me by my friend Betty also. It came in a book of weird home made papers with strange patterns on them and I really had no idea where I'd use them when she gave them to me, but as always they just kinda fell into place like everything else. Don't you just love how a layout just kinda comes together when you have it planned another way. The blue bracket is from a 6x6 paper kit which i didn't of course write down and can't remember the name of. Sorry, i just threw it on because the color matched.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_2JCp2571BMpTh4jqymM3_jccWtCDzs0OmHG1i5oJuEbtZFoKNWhAldi8hM3yA8gzS2uAcW9qHnKbYOzPduhhYgprNKsKQqsgqkQ5z3VBFmDru4QGNtDLoksnYqq0u_NIyU_oCcyhsA/s1600/DSCN0784.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599622201298389586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_2JCp2571BMpTh4jqymM3_jccWtCDzs0OmHG1i5oJuEbtZFoKNWhAldi8hM3yA8gzS2uAcW9qHnKbYOzPduhhYgprNKsKQqsgqkQ5z3VBFmDru4QGNtDLoksnYqq0u_NIyU_oCcyhsA/s400/DSCN0784.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> One other thing I'd like to add about the letters I made using my Slice. I find that using thick paper works well the Slice. You don't have to have fresh glue on the glass to hold the paper down every time with a thicker paper. Cutting vellum was an experience to say the least. Its very thin for those who have never used it and I had to add the sticky glue type stuff to the glass, everytime i lifted the vellum off. It has to be really sticky to cut thin paper or else the paper just moves with the blade and jumbles up. Yes thats what i said. Jumbles up. I made it up and i'm sticking to it.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuaeCt6ipde092I24NkPFHLTkyLF0F0FQ9FGBkCCwElswD6jNU_Yx1wndXpyFh1JIfQQKzuOQk2KajQaP8twACnb-hZTMTyN-1DuJO4bW2r6yW8dr7jpcUST5ZaJJ_Q44z1QpTgtBe1o/s1600/DSCN0789.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599625666268414338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuaeCt6ipde092I24NkPFHLTkyLF0F0FQ9FGBkCCwElswD6jNU_Yx1wndXpyFh1JIfQQKzuOQk2KajQaP8twACnb-hZTMTyN-1DuJO4bW2r6yW8dr7jpcUST5ZaJJ_Q44z1QpTgtBe1o/s400/DSCN0789.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> This brown polka dot paper is from the Life is Good collection from Echo Park. The blue polka-dot paper for the top part of the layout is from DCWV from one of the gigantor type paper books you can buy at Jo-Anns.<br />
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I had gotten these white "discover" and "explore" tabs from my hot chocolate that ordered from Cropchocolate.com. I added them to kinda add some more white to the project to go with the new white swimming letters. I did have a dickens of a time gluing these babies on, but in the end they worked so it made me happy :)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQcjLIQHfhB5itcrStfaDFjktrZW9xxBzg9csB3uBiqwZYDCKbsr7_sCNkreCVpJhe4BYR8MJtylNbA39xx8-mlLb5AV4btyTN7cwa60TDzag-Me9tF2tr0mu6ZryYkUJJQjAP9irzrI/s1600/DSCN0786.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599636591211087810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQcjLIQHfhB5itcrStfaDFjktrZW9xxBzg9csB3uBiqwZYDCKbsr7_sCNkreCVpJhe4BYR8MJtylNbA39xx8-mlLb5AV4btyTN7cwa60TDzag-Me9tF2tr0mu6ZryYkUJJQjAP9irzrI/s400/DSCN0786.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> Here's more of the vellum and the same blue paper I used for the waves on the title. I carefully wrote out some journal ling so i didn't smudge it. Didn't want to mess anything else up!<br />
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memory from when she was little. (Plus who can resist smiling at a naked baby. They are just so darned cute.) My mom and me sat in lawn chairs and laughed about it because she was so oblivious to the leaf on her nose. So then i decided to add the arrow to showcase the leaf a little more. The arrow is a Kelly Panacci sticker made by Sandy Lion.<br />
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As Hannibal always said, " I love it when a layout comes together" (OK<br />
so i improvised a little, but I'm sure<br />
he would agree and let me add my little artistic license to it)<br />
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over and out. Shannan.Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-23890653863785954472011-01-05T04:45:00.001-08:002011-01-05T06:00:14.455-08:00Gram LO for Sketchy ThursdaySo i thought hard about my new years resolution. One of the things i really want to try to work on is actually participating in some of the blogs i read when they have sketches or LO contests. <br /><br />Here's some secret confessions about me: I am a reeeeaaaaalllllyyyy slow scrapper. Sometimes at work when i'm bored I sketch out idea's but when i try to actually do them i just throw the sketch away because it isn't coming out like i want it too. Or sometimes i just slide the LO to the side and start something else because i get so frustrated on how to fix a LO gone sooo wrong. <br /><br />Now I know i'm not alone in all these things. Yes lots of us are slow scrappers, lots of us have half finished LO's laying around. But can you see how this would hinder my new years resolution. My thought was that by forcing myself to do someone elses sketches that it will make me a better scrapper. Also that maybe by forcing myself to do LO's based off sketches that i'll get better at it. I also think it will force me outside of my little box that i'm oh so comfortable in. <br /><br />So last night i made myself sit down and work on a Sketchy Thursday LO. The deadline was today. Cutting it close and the pics aren't great because i had no light to shoot in. (I like getting in nice and close and using natural light so no glare from flash.)<br /><br />Yes i need to work on my procrastination too. But, Ehhhhhh...maybe next year. <br /><br />It's from a blog i found and started reading cause i really like her sketches. The rules stated not to post the sketch. So i won't put it on here if your wondering why. Here's the pic's of my LO entitled "Gram".<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdh3cWfYCCUMZChq1t0KfHN6i9QHAmJhiyP6SAe1Efzx_tRBBVECW1Rt6Ud03j1AFPc3aFcWGq5KNHamv7mk6z1QskMouDEgCS7Jp4onFfPLkHOvTvujhpdsWSr0020d-mh1fBJAVRPxc/s1600/DSCN0737.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdh3cWfYCCUMZChq1t0KfHN6i9QHAmJhiyP6SAe1Efzx_tRBBVECW1Rt6Ud03j1AFPc3aFcWGq5KNHamv7mk6z1QskMouDEgCS7Jp4onFfPLkHOvTvujhpdsWSr0020d-mh1fBJAVRPxc/s400/DSCN0737.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558699105385696034" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdFWH1SxQSFtpBnytdOrSZB8ZmY1R4NJQ2JWvkjUPdA_2HfuFQQeBy2wzSExVBCM_iXN2dEJ7GBizNIcKZ0bTqgDHcEOfAzmXO0Hq2q3wctARnbHZmcHU8RxJuTj5YSvPNbxpnlFC7KY/s1600/DSCN0738.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdFWH1SxQSFtpBnytdOrSZB8ZmY1R4NJQ2JWvkjUPdA_2HfuFQQeBy2wzSExVBCM_iXN2dEJ7GBizNIcKZ0bTqgDHcEOfAzmXO0Hq2q3wctARnbHZmcHU8RxJuTj5YSvPNbxpnlFC7KY/s400/DSCN0738.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558699101973348354" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qwIoUbWeReopUyMDlOaPLcLGfMZ4lfaat2zhh-ZhlowRHGnKBxPmgeQGuq0w0EcvcuacJOzuLuIAU1AJX9KjZK7mSYC3YRe_GCGhcm5rI3xG4UC2y-BkFO00E6uZVLDIN46_YmYvv8Q/s1600/DSCN0736.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qwIoUbWeReopUyMDlOaPLcLGfMZ4lfaat2zhh-ZhlowRHGnKBxPmgeQGuq0w0EcvcuacJOzuLuIAU1AJX9KjZK7mSYC3YRe_GCGhcm5rI3xG4UC2y-BkFO00E6uZVLDIN46_YmYvv8Q/s400/DSCN0736.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558699095462960082" /></a><br /><br />See how that looks washed out on the full picture of the the LO. So i took some close ups. They look way better and show the full color and how it really looks. This is why i really need a digital SLR dammit! It sucks photographing my pages with a freakin point and shoot camera. Ok now i'm just digressing and i can hear you all now telling me to suck it up. So i'm shutting up about my camera right now.<br /><br />Here's what i used: BG Green at heart papers, CI paper, MM Glitter Clears, Archiver stock paper, and some Color Box Chalk inkpad. <br /><br />If you want to join in the fun, come check out Sketchy Thursday on FB. Now here's where i apologize if this totally doesn't make any sense because i'm typing this in between getting ready for work and i don't really wake up till around 11am. Sad i know. See thats why i was scrappin and watchin David Letterman last night. Because i'm a night person dammit! Ok time to go make the donuts. (Hehe remember that commercial)Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-8403901547708996202011-01-02T12:36:00.000-08:002012-08-25T17:42:21.183-07:00So as i sit here in my pajama's at 3:36pm watching the steelers kick the brownies asses and doing dishes on the commercials- I remembered i never posted my Christmas decorations that i did for work. Better late than never right?<br />
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Here's another view from the other side. Some idiot started hanging up Christmas cards. Which i think just made it look stupid. But i can't argue, I'm just the scheduler for the department.<br />
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I used sizzix die cuts: snowflake #2 (which i might add is a total pita because sections of it never cut right and you end up getting out your scissors and xacto blades.) I had this clear sparkly glue someone had given me and i used it to bling the snowflakes up a bit. Also i used ornament ball. the top of the ornament i use some glimmer mist on. I wanted them to look metallic, which worked out quite nice (if i do say so myself) I thought about running them thru again with an embossing folder but in the end i just used some zig markers and wrote everyone's name on the ornaments who work in the department. Everyone at work like them, so i guess that's all that matters. Here's some close ups of the ornaments and snowflake<br />
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I did these letters for a challenge weekend at CC. Yes, i know it was awhile ago. I'm a lazy blogger, so sue me! Anyways i got some close ups of each letter and i'll tell you a little about what i used.<br />
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Ok so all the papers were from Archivers stock, except the green. The green i found at Marshalls or TJ Maxx several years ago. It was a huge stack of shrink wrapped identical paper. Looked to be about 20-25 sheets. Not sure because i never counted them. So needless to say i have a ton of it! Hehe, sometimes it pays to be cheap and a bargain shopper. Oh yeah the green is called Beach Ball by WeRMemoryKeepers.<br />
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There are sparkly little spiders (spook alley brads) which i used on the bows. They are kinda hard to see because i couldn't get that close with my flash and little point and shoot. This is why i need a digital SLR dammit! Ones sparkly orange and ones sparkly purple. They are in the middle of the tulle (in case your wondering) The tulle came from my daughter, who ripped it out of her skirt. I scavenged it out of the garbage, thinking i could use it someday for a project. This is where i give a shout out to my fellow trash recyclers! whoo hoo for us junk hoarders! Totally came in handy for this project.<br />
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The bats,ghosts,spider webs & spider,boots, and witch hat are rub ons from Imaginisce. I added a little stickles to the ghosts to make them shimmer. First time i'd used stickles also. I'd read someone's posting about wonderful stickles are and how much she loved using them. Honestly they just remind me of glitter glue, just easier to use. Not sure i will use it all that much though.<br />
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This was great cause i learned alot. Like don't use to much modge podge! and don't touch when drying. I really enjoyed making these and had the stuff laying around forever. Probably still would be laying around if i hadn't made them for the challenge. So maybe i need to do more challenges huh? I did go out and buy some letters to make as Christmas presents because they were fairly easy to make and look pretty dang good. If your thinking of making some altered letters, i say go for it! I found tons of articles online and you can always send me a message if you have any questions.<br />
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Well thats it for tonight. Over and out.Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-60432073075806514972010-11-15T19:20:00.000-08:002012-08-25T17:43:02.972-07:00Lots o' pumpkins<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUS_SqL4eqzRKQEUd920D501tEXuHO4ZIr2T9Yk-g9gNsbZgTHuXqfP_dPFsd6pWQWjzbGdFwKkfJdOUg7KRxr3-HhAEFXOr1tUr0IUzfsnLvtomXiC1oMHQSmgN3hjmmB7BFzbRta4o/s1600/Shannon+002.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539987566913496994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUS_SqL4eqzRKQEUd920D501tEXuHO4ZIr2T9Yk-g9gNsbZgTHuXqfP_dPFsd6pWQWjzbGdFwKkfJdOUg7KRxr3-HhAEFXOr1tUr0IUzfsnLvtomXiC1oMHQSmgN3hjmmB7BFzbRta4o/s400/Shannon+002.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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One of my favorite haunts for scrapbooking supplies is Cropchocolate.com. I love lurking and checking out everyones projects. One of the the ladies on CC posted pitures of these cute pumpkins she had made. So of course i had to check out the link she posted on how to make them. It look fairly simple, so i figured i'd give it a shot. She used a cut branch for the stem and curly wire. I of course didn't have either of those things so i improvished and made the stem out of paper and the curly vine out of paper as well. Anyways they came out very cute and i ended up making four or five of em, because i just couldn't stop lol. They're quick,and easy so that makes them addicting to make!Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-30849148865310177562010-09-11T20:01:00.000-07:002012-08-25T17:44:31.452-07:00Name Tag Projects at work<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgzbtDJsEc9IINXGCCcRiy0kD7RBeu5YF7dvqeuo4uhVgRvhal0TFaU-IqGSALsbF4CmwipAlix88L8X3_5loDXnCRVieTuLaqfH4RhTDPkYG1yAT8jjf5p9s1CHICE-gPVzlPfe-bt0/s1600/DSCN0646.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515866694779285106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgzbtDJsEc9IINXGCCcRiy0kD7RBeu5YF7dvqeuo4uhVgRvhal0TFaU-IqGSALsbF4CmwipAlix88L8X3_5loDXnCRVieTuLaqfH4RhTDPkYG1yAT8jjf5p9s1CHICE-gPVzlPfe-bt0/s320/DSCN0646.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
So i stumbled onto this project for my peeps at work. Didn't really start out as a project, but its ended up as one. It all began with me finding these cute little monkey stickers at Jo-Ann's. Knowing that one of my co-workers is a monkey fanatic i bought em. I mean what the hell they were on sale, so why not?<br />
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When i got home i was looking at them thinking what the hell, lets make her a little something with them. So i decided to use this sizzix die i'd just gotten. The sizzix, jim holtz ornamental die. Then i had some left over quickutz dragonfly letters i'd used from my one scapbook page and i used them to put her name on it. Put the stickers on and wha-la. I thought it was cute. Of course once i took it in for her and she stuck it on her computer screen. Now everyone wants one and they're even giving me suggestions about what to use for theirs! So far i've gotten one more made. I actually took pictures of this one to post too! And i had to bring Loyda's monkey one back, it seems everyones been playing with it and the stickers are falling off. (Now i know why the monkey stickers were on sale)So now that i have that one back and fix it up a bit i'll get a pic of it also.<br />
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So for the one i'm posting today: Obviously i used stickers for her name. Sizzix die cuts for flowers and ladybugs and i was so excited to use my big bite for the first time and figure out how to use it for the grommets. I actually had to go back to Jo-Ann's and get some ribbon. First ribbon ever used in my scrapping adventures as well. So i was kinda excited doing this one. It turned out so well when i used ink on the flowers. they were a tan paper from creative memories i'd gotten awhile ago and i used this pink ink i had then i thought i'd test out this opaque pink marker on the back of the one. Until i figured out the paper was so thin you could see thru it. So i just did it to the rest of em too. I'm learning that sometimes you just gotta role with the mistakes and figure out how to incorporate them into your project. So if you notice a little swirl in the middle its from my test that i ended up using on the rest of them. It worked so what the hell. ttfn.Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399972763545580240.post-82108002015350314282010-09-04T14:15:00.001-07:002012-08-25T17:43:55.640-07:00First Post<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiT_AMokGdywTfbtDATJCj0yPAtgJBNVLf0T1Z_-g25OOKacj1GmhbwzYLUDBBQdk1xGiHi1vkwIHniPneeWbkgqaq24BWQ6q9C_KhYvKJ5oEXsk0SLeb4XNazFdEZxQA20hxLAdX1t-M/s1600/DSCN0681.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513171336866431234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiT_AMokGdywTfbtDATJCj0yPAtgJBNVLf0T1Z_-g25OOKacj1GmhbwzYLUDBBQdk1xGiHi1vkwIHniPneeWbkgqaq24BWQ6q9C_KhYvKJ5oEXsk0SLeb4XNazFdEZxQA20hxLAdX1t-M/s320/DSCN0681.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 240px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
So first post. Thought i'd try loading one of my images on here of a page i did. Keep in mind i'm not a "Master Scrapper" like some of you. But i would like to hear your critiques. Tell me what you think, what i could do better, ect.. Look forward to hearing from yins all.Camerageekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200286049208322184noreply@blogger.com0