Hello Scrappers!
My birthday is in July so we are celebrating ALL MONTH LONG. Stay tuned for games & contests & give-a-ways happening later in the month. But right now we have the Oh Snap! Daily Download. It’s a full size kit I’m giving away a few pieces at a time. (Monday thru Saturday all month long.) My gift to you. Thanks so much for supporting Chelle’s Creations.
Download link has expired. Oh Snap! will be available in the store later in the month.
I was determined to get a few minutes to digital scrapbook this weekend. And a few minutes was all I got…at the very end of the weekend (it counts as the weekend if I haven’t gone to bed on Sunday night, right?…even if it’s actually Monday morning? LOL!)
Rarely do I trust my camera to my kids…and almost never out of my sight. But I do try to send a camera with them…especially at events like this family hike. Unfortunately my favorite photo from the trip was blurry…BADLY blurry 
There are several creative ways to include a photo like this in digital scrapbooking. This time I’m using my favorite way: make it BIG and blend it in.
I placed the photo on the right hand side of my spread and changed the blending mode to soft light. The faces weren’t as clear as I would’ve liked, so I duplicated the photo layer and erased all but the faces area, to help them stand out. Unfortunately that made my text difficult to read. I tried white text, but it looked odd on the page, so I also partially erased the photo under my text until it was easy to read.
A beaver from Forest Friends, a couple of trees & a splash from On The Water, and an embellished word art title from On the Trail word art & this spread was completed super quick.
Oh, and notice my journaling…I started my journaling as if it were a newspaper article. The headline reads: NINE CIVIL ENGINEERS BUILD DAM TO CROSS WATERWAY (Cove, Ut) — a quick & easy attention grabbing device.
Hope this inspires you in your memory keeping!
Do you have exciting plans for the summer? I love adding things like this to my trips and school memory pages and getting the kids input to the page by recording every ones 10 tens for the same trip. I made a couple of Top 10 list cards for you:
Download here
Did you see my new Military Kits? I’ve been amazed to see all the creative ways the CT is using them. Vacation photos to locations like Pearl Harbor…Air Force Museums…Stunt Shows @ Disney…Large Green Army Men…DC Monuments…Halloween costumes…just so many ways to use these fabulous kits!
I have a fun freebie to coordinate with the collection:
Military Freebie download here
I’m feeling very appreciative of all of my wonderful friends who “live in my computer” — all of you. I have a charming FREE mini for you in celebration of our friendship:
Enjoy!
Happy Mother’s Day! I have an inspiring post over at ScrapOrchard today. And besides taking a long nap this afternoon, I did a bit of scrapping. I thought about not posting these pages. They aren’t my favorite. But I decided that you should see the good, the bad, and the ugly. LOL! Not that I think these are ugly, they are just kinda mismatched…photos that I don’t really have anything spectacular to go with them. Single photos of events that I do want to remember. So here you go:
For the one on the left I used lots of greens from the Rainbow Collection. That is such a HANDY collection. The spider is from a long retired Halloween kit called Jeepers Creepers. On the right side I used Ride Skate Roll by Faith True & MLE Card. Turns out I don’t have a bike kit yet, & this one had a bright lime bike…exactly what I needed.
Woot! You can now sport a Chelle’s Creations toad-ally cool SKIN!
Hop on over to get yours!
(Select your device & scroll to find the Chelle’s Creations skin)
Currently skins are available for apple devices — Android coming soon.
I can’t wait to get mine in the mail:
Hmmm….I wonder if my DH needs this for his iPhone:
(or maybe I need an iPhone. LOL!)
Woot! I love interNational Scrapbook Day! (Well, I enjoy the whole weekend…) It’s been a busy weekend: I’m hosting a challenge at Scrap Orchard, giving away an i-skin, & today is the last day of my $1 sale at ScrapOrchard.
I did manage to finish up one double layout today. I can’t believe how rusty I am. LOL!
It reminded me of one of my favorite reasons I love digi-scrapping. I didn’t have the perfect colored papers & ribbons & alpha to “go with” my little guy’s clothing. But with a quick move of the hue-sat slider, everything went together perfectly!
Be sure you complete the challenge, enter to win the skin, & shop the sale!
You must be logged into the ScrapOrchard forum for the link to work. $14.99 per month OR $74.99 for six months = Six for the price of Five.
Hi! I'm Chelle: a 40 something mom of 7. My husband & I live in a rural community in the rocky mountains with our 4 children still at home. In the winters we enjoy sledding & snuggling by the fire. I the cool fall evenings we love relaxing around the campfire & meeting friends at the county fair. Admiring the stars 
on a clear summer night and splashing in spring mud puddles. We love making memories together. Me? I love blueberries, fresh salmon, creating, memory keeping, & above all my family & my faith.
