Digi-Scraplift Fun with Pachimac

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Saturday, December 31, 2005

The first SL for the Year!!! (Updated with layouts)

Alrighty Gals - I have LOVED seeing what you guys did with your SL's!!! Here are the submissions I have so far. If you want to play this SL still - don't worry - you can still email it to me and I'll update the blog. Make sure you send me the credits for the layouts as well!!! If I've already posted the layouts - you can still do the challenge - just send it to me and I'll add it to the bunch!!!

I didn't post my layout because I liked it so much that I am going to use it for one of my Hall of Fame entries for Creating Keepsakes magazine. Yeah I know - it's a HUGE longshot - but if I never try - I'll never know!! If you want to see mine I'd be glad to email it to you and show you! :-)

The LO we scraplifted was by Tali B. from 2 Peas, and these are the credits: Softly Shabby kit from Traci Sims, mixed with Anna Aspnes' Time kit. Walnut overlay is from Jen Wilson. Font is artistamp.

Some of the things I like about this are: the stitching - the way it looks like real paper scrapping, the little tiny tag for her age, the three circles - the color choices. I am always in awe of people who can do so much with their pages. I haven't decided if I'm going to totally SL or just take her lead, but I am going to enjoy working with this one!! Good job Tali B.!!!!!!!! If anyone's with me and wants to do this, email me at digiscraplift at yahoo .com with your 72 dpi version of your SL and I'll post them along with mine.



Here we go: The First one here is from Gina Miller. Credits:Papers: Kim Christensen's "Tattered Linens" at SBB. Stitches & digital poetry by Katie Pertiet. Little paper strips by Gina Cabrera. Deco Edge by me (Gina Miller). Fonts are Tweed, AL Uncle Charles and Susie's Hand. I absolutely LOVE the deco edge and the papers she chose. I have to find that digital poetry cuz I really love stuff like that. I am a sucker for journaling too - and I teared up reading it too!






This one is named "The Big Pink Bird" by Tracy Fox, and she used Amanda Lacey's Petalpalooza kit. I love the bold colors and the way she replicated the flower motif throughout the layout! I also like the stripes for the background!! Great Job Tracy!





This one is entitled "Lucky" and was made by Sarah. Here are the credits:Papers: Shabby Princess (Lavender Mint Tea) Stitching: Shabby Princess (Shabby stitches) Flowers: Jen Wilson (Scrapstreet Simple Florist) Ribbon: Sara Carling (Softball kit) Stamped Alphas: Brushes by Kim Lund Fonts: Avery . Again, I love the color choices for the papers. It has such a soft yet rich feel to it and I'm a sucker for chocolate brown polka dots - although I rarely choose them ... hmmm....Jen's flowers are amazing and I love the black and white pictures too. Brava Sarah!
Here we have "Christopher" by Roberta D'Achille. Credits: Photos - Ramona Vaughn Fonts - Rubber Stamp and RD SnowFlakes Page sets - Roberta's Aquamarine for twill, stamp, brad, staple, zig zag stitch Roberta's My Guy for straight stitch, whip stitch Remainder of the items including backgrounds, snowflakes, mats, and knit items from a pageset in progress - likely to be called Roberta's Frosted Aquamarine. I love the color choices here Roberta - so bold and beautiful!!! The little mittens are so cute and the beautiful snowflakes!!


This one is by Julie, and she called it "Personality". She took a different take and made it 8x10 and flipped the elements. I love the way she mixed her backgrounds and the name is just PERFECT for this layout!!!! The credits are as follows: I used Traci Sims (scrapbook-elements) Shabby Sunset kit; stitches are from Shabby Princess' Shabby Stitches and the fonts are Artist Stamp and Arial Black!





This entry is from Clare, a brand new digiscrapper!! Yay!!! She used the freebie sweet sprinkles kit from Shabby Princess and made the layout 12 x 12. I have to say that I sure do love just about anything Shabby Princess does - and this is no exception!! The kit is perfect for the pictures here and I say Clare did a bang up job on it! :-) Keep scrappin' Girl!


This rich gorgeous entry is by Alisha. Credits: Papers and Elements: Sue Jones's Amore Botanica at Digital scrapbook pages, Stitches: Kathy Smith's "In Stitches kit" also at Digitals. Oh my gosh - this layout is just so rich!! I Love the color choices for the papers and the circular journaling. I also like the effect of many photo turns!  

Here is how it goes: I pick a layout and then we all SL the same layout. When you're done, email me at digiscraplift at yahoo dot com and I'll post it at the blog with all the other SL that others have done!

I have been browsing 2 peas for about an hour and I finally found a LO that really struck my eye as something that I LOVE, and something that will take a bit of work to SL. It can be found with all it's Pea Praise here:

Tali B.'s Beauty Layout

I have finished my SL and boy do I love how it turned out!! I can't wait to share it with you guys here - but I'm going to wait until I get a few of your layouts to post right along with it!

Tell your friends!!

It's Scrap Lift Time!!!!!!!!

My New Year's Resolution is to become a better digi-scrapper tomorrow than I am today. To that aim - I am going to scraplift layouts that I think have that certain something - that spark that I want my layouts to have. I think scraplifting can help me to stretch my wings and do things I never could think of on my own and try out techniques that I have not tried before. I hope to use more brushes, more artistic doodles, the white space...you name it.

So, each day or so I will post a layout that I think is great and why - and then my scraplift of it. Maybe with some help from friends I can have a challenge or two for everyone and have you post them to me and I'll post them all together so we can see what eachother envisions. I would love it if as many of you as would like would join me in this journey!

I guess we should define what I mean by scrap-lifting. Scrap-lifting (henceforth for me known as SL) is seeing a layout that I love something about and trying to replicate it. To me, it doesn't have to be a pixel by pixel SL, nor does it need to use the same exact composition and layout - it's a springboard to a layout I like. For example - I SL'd this layout:

You would never know that it was a SL. I can't find the original right now, but it was dark brown background, a small picture of a daddy and little girl on the left bottom and a picture of a house on the right - with no journaling. If anyone recognizes this layout - please email me or comment here and I will properly credit the original poster of it. It was at scrapbook-bytes.com.

I was inspired by the big picture and the small picture and the arsty look about it...then I started to replicate the whole layout. I ended up with my Tree layout. I LOVE It - but it's not an exact copy.

There are times when I DO an exact copy of the layout and here's one of them. My Sweet and Shabby friend, Miss Jenn is a great source of inspiration for me.

Here's hers:

I loved so much about this layout. The colors - the placement of the very large picture - the layers of ribbons and papers and most of all the journaling. I am so touched by journaling lately and it's been one of my goals to get better and better at journaling. I loved this one so much that I pretty much did a total SL with a different kit of papers. Seeing them in such close proximity - I did a darn good job with the dimensions too!! LOL!!

And here's mine:



So there you have it - the beginning of a journey that I hope will lead us all to be better scrappers and have more fun and variety with our layouts!

I won't take anything down and you don't have to SL in order - or do it at all for that matter - but I do hope that my journey will help you along YOUR journey as well...

Okay...off to find the first layout of the year to scrap!!