Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I'm baackkk!!

Wow, it's been well over two months since I last posted. Since that last post I have survived Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day! Now if I could just disappear until winter is over and done! Well, life has been busy and creativity at a total standstill. Yikes! actually I think I simply burned myself out finishing Meikina's photo book. I didn't want to be on the computer, and especially didn't want anything to do with scrapping or Photoshop. But this past Sunday I made up my mind that I was going to try to break thru the funk I've been in and try to scrap. So I made myself open Photoshop and ACDSee and browse through my paper stash and finally chose one pretty paper. I wanted to keep this simple so I picked out a frame and a couple of tiny flowers. So far so good. Now, how about a photo! I didn't really have one in mind, but have gigibytes of images so I just picked a folder and opened it. There was a picture of Meikina already edited and it was just sitting there begging me to put it on a page! Well, darn, the frame I chose was horizontal and this photo is vertical, so I flipped things around a bit. That didn't leave room for a title tho, so I went hunting for something to balance the layout and found some word art that was a freebie from Designer Digitals back in 2006. I placed a little embellishment behind the frame and added a glitter style to it, wrapped that gorgeous ribbon around the bottom of the frame, placed a butterfly in a couple of spots and don't forget the date... then all of a sudden it's done! Not bad considering my scrapping creativity had dried up. But in my eyes the most special thing about the page is that precious little girl smiling back at me, and all at once I realize that is what matters. I think I will skip posting this in the galleries for the moment anyway. For now I'll just leave it here in case one or two people happen to drop by. I think right now I don't want to hang out on the forums, or play the praise game in the galleries, or write a big description, or wonder if anyone will notice my indistinctive layout and leave a comment. none of that is important right now. I just want to scrap sometimes, then share my creations on this poor little neglected bloggy, and eventually print out my layouts so someday my grandchildren will see themselves as I did while they were growing up. That's what it is really all about isn't it? Maybe in a few weeks or months I can bring myself to check in at the hub of digiscrapping and see what's going on...maybe things will be fun again and the negativity and bad things will be gone. maybe. and if not, I can still scrap! My grandchildren keep growing and getting cuter every day. The new baby will be here in about 10 more weeks or so! how time flies! Then of course my camera will get a workout, and I'll happily share photos of this new little life! And spring will come!




Here is my layout! Credits: Paper by Michelle Coleman; frame, and pretty border by Katie Pertiet; flowers by Holliewood Studios; ribbon by Annie Manning; butterfly is by Rina Kroes. The photo is mine!

Blessings and hugs,
Cheryl