My Digiscrapping Backlog

It's been a while and it has been absolute ages since I uploaded my layouts

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I'm Disneyland dreaming

Credits: Sahlinstudio - rejuvenate paper, enjoy the moment papers, Melancolie - a world of sweetness elements

Credits: Pink gem from The Valentines Collection, all remaining from The Mouse Collection both available from scrapbooksgonedigital

We've enjoyed such mild weather until late May, but winter has now really arrived with a very wet & cold vengeance! So started looking around and found this awesome forum MouseScrappers.com totally dedicated to Disney scrapping with a fantastic gallery and amazing challenges. Couldn't help myself and entered my 1st Challenge and look forward to receiving my participation gift shortly. I'm in the process of getting hold of my own Disneyland photos from before Colin was born back in the early 90s, so have been scrapping Lynn's ones from 2006. All going well our 2 families will go together hopefully in 3 years time, so will end up with a whole heap more to scrap.

Violets Mini-kit freebie at Christine's blog

I haven't scapped much in this colour range, but am very pleased the way this turned out. So if you like it, you better head over to her blog to grab it.
Sorry, but you won't find the stripey bookplate element in her freebie. It took me ages, but I created it using her stripey paper instead.

Credits: One of a Kind DS Violets mini kit.

Oh Joy

Looks like Christine is having a sale of 30% of her products till 31 May, so a great opportunity to go shopping! ;-)

Have been scrapping this lovely sunrise photo of Barry's, and we are so looking forward to repeating this holiday spot again next summer. Is there a way to fast forward the up coming winter months?


I hope you like this Dadjne & Chloe and that I have the year right.

Credits: Glittering Joy kit by One of a Kind Design Studio available at Ahhhscrap

Waiting...

My sister & brother in-law, while visiting Mum's earlier this month.


Credits: Any Year Date Design tool, The Valentines Collection, The Wedding Collection, Circles Template, Template T0047 all by SgD Designs available at http://www.scrapbooksgonedigital.com

Update to GIMP Tut: Text along Path

Thanks to Jo Ann (Nanascraps), who advised she was always getting a black filled layer, there was a missing piece to my tut. It dawned on me today that step 6 was missing the select Path to Selection piece of info. Sorry everyone, I'm doing my steps in auto pilot mode. So will update the tut in the next post too so that all is in order (hopefully). Remember all comments welcome.

GIMP Tut: Text along Path

It is finally here, a tutorial on how to create text along a path.


Lets start and hopefully I won't loose you.
Note: Click the image to enlarge and see more detail.









Now these steps should also work for any other shape you come across, let me know how you get on.

It's hard to believe

But this baby girl will soon be a new Mummy herself, all going well sometime late September that is. This is Laura, she's the youngest and I am the eldest of 3 girls. Was visiting my Mum last night for her birthday when we were looking through some photos of Laura trying to find her in baby outfits as Mum has still got a few of her baby clothes saved. She nolonger has this cute wee little green outfit, but the 3 that Mum has saved are now 35 years old! And still look fantastic even my Colin wore them over 13 years ago too. How fantastic that Laura's own will soon be wearing them next.

Credits: "You are my center" scraplift by Christine Holtien Schultz, One of a Kind Design Studio Sweet Pea Kit available at AhhhScrap, The Wedding Collection by ScrapbooksGoneDigital, Seriously Pink by Poppy Andrews, Sweet Baby Chic by Michelle Coleman, Touch of Func by Kim Christensen, Unconditional by Jen Wilsom.

Lets toast with Bubbles

I hope everyone had a nice Easter, we spend ours at home and had an early birthday lunch for Mum. My sister & brother in-law came over for the long weekend from Melbourne too. It will be the last of her travels back for a while as she's 14 weeks pregnant. Yes, how exciting - I am going to be an Aunty! My Mum too is thrilled, she sure enjoyed her shopping spree with Laura who is looking great.

Credits: One of a Kind Design Studio Saudade Mini Kit available at AhhhScrap

I should be asleep...

But have been right awake since 2.30ish, so got up finally just before 4am and finished this lo. While doing so, I happened to login to Facebook and found Christine (One of a Kind DS) online so we've been chatting across the seas. This is the 1st time we were both online and it felt we were closer in distance, the wonders of technology. Then something went wrong as my last chats don't think got through to her, but hopefully my lo did eventhough the connection seems slow this morning for some reason. Am starting to feel a bit more tired now, so will get some zzz's...

Credits: One of a Kind Design Studio Saudade Mini Kit available at AhhhScrap

Hello Sweet Pea

Credits: Sweet Pea Kit by One Of A Kind Design Studio available at Ahhhscrap

I can't seem to grow these yet, it's the only one surviving plant from the bunch of seeds I planted in spring. Never mind, I will give them another go again this year. Did pass some onto Lynn, hope she has a better outcome than mine. At least it looks like my dwarf beans 'Dwarf Golden Butter Beans' are taking of, I have lost count on the number of beans ripening. All growing very happily in a big pot. Just a few more days now, until we can sample our fresh garden beans. Yum!

Time just flies by

Have been very slack in posting of late I see and barely scrapping. The weather has been quite good since our holiday back from sunny Oakura Bay with the Jamiegees, now a distant memory (but such a lovely one). I find myself more watering my vegies than scrapping, but that will all change when the cooler autumn weather returns.

Credits: Songs of the Sea Mega Kit by Vivayne

Credits: Dancing with Whales Collection kit by SgD

Credits: Dancing with Whales Collection kit, The Valentines Collection by SgD

Credits: Alter Art Papers, The Valentines Collection , The Wedding Collection by SgD

Merry Christmas and a happy 2010 to all

Credits: Santa Baby kit by Just So Scrappy available here at ScrapbooksGoneDigital

Credits: Unique Worn Paper Set, Old NewsPapers, Brackets, The Wedding Collection all by ScrapbooksGoneDigital available here

Credits: The Wedding Collection by ScrapbooksGoneDigital available here

I am writing this post from Tauranga, as we are currently still holidaying here for both Christmas & New Year. This is our 1st Christmas away from home, the reason being that it also coinsided with a local squash tournament at Mt Manganui that hubby and I both entered. Unfortunately holidays must come to an end, and we head back home tomorrow. Our last day here was spend all day at Waihi Beach spent on the sand in 29C temparature, yes very hot and sunny!

GIMP Tut: Changing element's colour using Colorize Tool

How often have got a kit but you found a certain element is not the colour you are after? Well, it's just so easy changing any element's colour in GIMP and I will show you here in just a few steps.

Some simple instructions as follows:
1. With element's layer selected, select the Colize Tool from the Colors menu
2. Click and drag the Hue slider until you have changed the element's colour to your liking.
In my example the Hue was changed to 280 to achieve a nice purple element.
3. Click OK to make the colour change permanent.
That's all, nice & easy wasn't it!

Hopefully the following screenshots are easy to follow in using this colorize feature. Let me know how you find it if you like.
TIP - Click on each screenshot for closeup.




It really is that easy. Now you have no excuse for not using any element because it's the wrong colour!

Among the Vines

How perfect this kit turned out to be for our recent Picton trip photos, these ones from Forrest wines just beautifully complemented with the November daily download from ScrapbooksGoneDigital. We turned up at Forrest wines while there was already a full bus load of tourists inside so we were asked to wait outside for 10 more minutes. So we entertained ourselves with petanque and wondered around the garden and the grape vines. Both Lynn & I took a heap of photos and enjoyed a quiet moment before we were allowed into the tasting room. Well, the wait was worth it and we all enjoyed the wine talk and tasting. So much so we all ended up buying a bottle of 2,3,4 - Jamie topped that by organizing a case to be send home.

Well, howdy y'all

This was fun to scrap and turns out that SimplySusan's Lil Cowpoke kit perfectly complemented my costume I wore to Steve & Jade's Halloween party. I know, it's not a traditional Halloween theme costume but I had fun wearing it! My hubby went as a gangster and it was the first time I have seen him wear a tie - hehe and CJ found the perfect size jester outfit and wore the mask he got when we went and saw Cirque du Soleil's Varekai over 2 years ago. So we all ended up being a mismash of costumes.

Credits: Lil Cowpoke kit by SimplySusan available at ScrapbooksGoneDigital

The Dec SgD Daily Download available now

With the November Daily Download being such a success at ScrapbooksGone Digital, there is now a December one with a Christmas theme of course. So don't delay and grab this fantastic goodie on a daily basis, you must sign-in and order the new zip file each day. Here is the shop link.

And for those that missed some zip files from the November Daily Download, here is the post that will give you an opportunity to grab those missed parts by creating lo's using SgD shop products, but only until Dec 24, so don't delay!

I'm back CT-ing for One Of A Kind DS

I Got a nice surprise last week when Christine left a message asking me to CT again after her coming out of retirement, I had to jump at the opportunity and am so very pleased that things are going well for her. So keep an eye out for her new kits either on her Blog or AhhhScrap shop.

I am also just back from a short weekend getaway to Picton with hubby's squash team taking the ferry early rainy Saturday morning. In the afternoon we ventured on a wine tour to 3 vineyards, Hunters, Framingham & Forrest. The latter didn't rush our group through and we all ended up spending the most there. A rowdy and late night for some, when woken to a stunner of a Sunday morning. The majority of the group could be found watching the All Blacks game against France in the local pub and others preferred the warm sun on the pub deck with breakfast. As it was such a stunner of the day, most of us were sitting on the sun deck of the ferry heading out of Picton. But that only lasted until most of us got chased back inside with the very strong winds while heading out of Queen Charlotte Sounds.

Credits: Early Autumn Kit by One Of A Kind Design Studio available at AhhhScrap

Don't forget, SGD Daily Download available till the end of Nov

I ment to mention the other day that ScrapbooksgoneDigital have a FREE daily download available for the month of November. The contributers are SgD Designs and Vivayne, with a theme around Thanksgiving/Fall. Very beautiful and well worth it to get the remainder for this month. All you have to do is sign-in each day and re-order the next available zip file with the new daily pieces, very simple. Just click the above image it will take you to the Daily Download page at SgD.


Also noticed that the gorgeous The Wedding Collection - The Entire Collection is now $9.99 you save 33%, this is that gorgeous kit I used in my previous post double layout. It's so totally versatile, not just for your wedding layouts. Enjoy...