This and That and a lot of pink!

Lilly sporting her strawberry bikini! I found this at a childrens specialty shop before she was born and had to have it no matter what the cost! I think it was definitely worth it! This LO was created with the Blooming Colors kit from Anita (Nana's Attic) http://nanas-attic.blogspot.com/Okay, maybe I have time to answer some questions today. April and the end of quarters always drive me batty. Why I chose accounting as a way to support my lifestyle is sometimes a mystery to me! This is probably 'gonna be a long one, but you may pick up a tip or two if you read on! So grab your drink of choice and settle in for a long ramble today!
Rena asks about layering elements on your page and not having them "float". I'm guessing you are asking about using drop shadows. (Girl...shoot me an email, then I can answer your questions better, after all, I've shown you mine, now you show me yours!). I almost always use the low drop in Photoshop. The default is 21/21. A lot of the time this is way too big. Example, if I use a staple, the default makes it float, I change it to 10/10, this looks good to me. If you are stacking a lot of items, the top most (and thicker) will have the heavier shadows. Take some real paper, ribbon and a button and lay it on your desk to get a real perspective. Remember, the undo button is your best friend! Play with it till you get the hang of it, soon it will become second nature to you, I swear!
For the dear sweet ladies who still scrap in 8.5 x 11, I wish I could help you, but honestly, for all the years that I scrapped in this size, I always ended up with a double spread, this size just isn't enough room for me to get my message across. I like BIG and SQUARE! I have a large format printer, but for most of my books, I have lately started to make my pages in 12 x 12, resize to 8 x 8 and print on my regular photo printer. The Paper Studio makes terrific 8 x 8 albums. If you do not want to convert to a different size, perhaps you can still scraplift my designs and make them into 8.5 x 11. I don't mind at all. I always post the name of the kit I used, so you should be able to copy the design fairly easily.
Lori wants to know if I have any tips for non-creative people. Uh...download quick pages? Scraplift? Nah...seriously, PLAY!!!! This is supposed to be FUN! Check out some tutorials, read blogs (hint, hint!) and just keep creating! As long as you are preserving your memories and you are happy with the end result, you have accomplished something! Password is: berrycute
This is just something I started thinking about when I was playing with Kim's new kit, "An Ordinary Day". Scrap those "ordinary" moments. Everybody remembers the wedding or the graduation, but the pics of Lilly gnawing on a rib will be great to show her boyfriend when she is sixteen! ROTFLPIMP!!!
Take lots of pictures! I carry my camera with me all the time. It does come in handy, once I took pics of a drunk driver hit and run because I had my camera right beside me and he was hunted down and sent to jail because I had taken photos of him along with his vehicle at the wreck! I took a photography course in college and the professor said "Take lots of pictures, film is cheap, and you may get that once in a lifetime photo". Well, we have digital now, so there is no excuse. I may shoot 100 pics, and the only one that is worth saving is of Wyatt running to Lilly's beck and call or her putting her hand over the camera lens. Ahhh... these are the REAL moments of life.
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An Ordinary Day

As promised...a QP from a Kim Broedelet kit! This page was made with her latest offering, "An Ordinary Day". Let me tell you, this kit is anything BUT ordinary! Today you can still snap it up for the amazing price of $2.50!!! The price goes up at midnight tonight, so run and get it before it's too late and then you'll be kickin' yourself saying "Dang it, I should have listened to Bubbles"! Get it here: http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1510 I know that this LO was just posted the other day, but I don't like to post a QP without the corresponding LO, so you get to see Lilly's smiling face again! Password is: tasty As soon as I get the time to catch my breath, I will work on answering some of ya'lls questions. Until then, have fun and go scrap something! BTW, in case you missed it in the previous post, I used Kim's "Age It Quick" to make the tears in the paper. This is a really cool grungy look! Check it out while you're in her store!
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My Camo Guys

Here's a page for ya'll from Anita's newest kit "Country Elements". Love these warm colors! No big ramble today, I am just tired, and that is SO wrong, considering it is Monday! Password is: camo Good news!!! Kim Broedelet has so graciously given me permission to offer QP's from her creations! I am SOOO excited! Look for some this week!

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Texas Accent?

I had a sure enough real Depends moment when I read this!!!
Posted by MeMeJan
Apr 25, 2008 9:45:03 PM
Thank you for sharing. My daughter just recently moved to Texas and my 6-yr old granddaughter is already starting to talk like, like, well....like YOU! Hope she learns to cook Southern like you, too.
Lordy mercy...I was not aware that my accent was so heavy it even comes across when I type! Thank you so much MeMeJan for making my day! (Now I'm gonna go change!) As far as the cooking goes, I learned a lot from my Memaw and my Mom! You just absorb it! LOL!!!

These pages were made using the new kit from Kim Broedelet, "Ordinary Day". http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=1510 At $2.50 this is a steal! Get it quick! In the first LO, I used Kim's "Age It Quick" to make the torn holes in the paper. This is SO terrific! I LOVE how you can make the other paper peek through! Lilly thoroughly enjoyed gnawing on some tasty ribs, and even offered to share!
Wyatt will come anytime Lilly calls. I love the aspect of the second photo! Sometimes I get really lucky! Thought I would pass along a little tip. It may be painfully obvious, but I just discovered it a couple of months ago (after almost 2 years of digi), so here goes. While designing a page, trying to see which elements would work (or not) I would drag them into the LO, then if I didn't like the way it looked, I would delete. You know that little eyeball looking thing in your layers palette? Just click on it and you can make it disappear! When you decide you like the looks of your LO, THEN delete the layers you don't want!

Matt Daddy

Gotta tell you, I spit coffee all over the place reading the comments here and on 4shared! (And for the one lady that wondered, yes, they are ALL visible). Ya'll just crack me up! Thanks for all the too kind words you have sent my way. It really makes my day to know you are pleased with what I offer here on my blog. There have been several questions, (barbeque recipes, QP tutorial, etc...) that are too involved to go into here. If you will shoot me an email txbubbles@gmail.com I will be glad to do all I can to help. Now, here's a little food porn for you! This is a picture of my winning brisket at the Harley Davidson Cook-Off. Yes, I will take pictures of anything! ROTFL!!! The second pic is of me (center) with the other members of our team. We swept all categories this day, brisket, ribs and chicken!

Here's another "Pick on Matt" page. He just had to add is own style to the delivery room attire! This page is a conglomeration! The papers are from Tweeny Bop, dadgumit, I can't find my paper that I wrote down listing everything. I think the doodle and ribbons are from Blooming Colors. Suffice it to say, everthing is from Anita (Nana's Attic)! Password is: mattdaddy WooHoo!!! Anita has a new kit with guy type colors! I can't wait to play with it this weekend!

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All Links Up!

I do believe all links are now active again. If you find one that isn't, shoot me an email. What a PITA!!! But it was all worth it to actually be able to share with people who appreciate your work! After all the wonderful comments from all the ladies visiting from Nana's Attic yesterday, I have a large case of the big head, and we're not talking sinus headache here!!! One sweet lady has dubbed me the QP Queen! (I am now ducking my head in a modest manner)! ROTFLPIMP!!! Yep, I am so glad that you are all enjoying my pages and sharing that fact back with me that I can hardly wait to create something else for you. See, what goes around comes around! Now, to answer a couple of questions. There have been several inquiries regarding the club I have mentioned. This is an idea I had been thinking about because call me strange, but I was getting really fed up with sharing my creations with rude people. Then Anita posted the link to my blog. Lo and behold...there really are some terrific ladies out there! Every one of you that took the time to say something restored my faith in the digital scrap world! So I am shelving the club idea for now and will continue to post freely on my blog. Lori wants to know what's a Do Dat? I am on a Bar B Que team and we compete in cook-offs. (Barbeque is really big in Texas). The Do Dat Bar B Que is the big competition in Nacogdoches. Around 90 teams usually cook, so it's a pretty good size event. I have won the ribs and the brisket awards. Lilly was actually born on Do Dat weekend in 2006, so she's our little Do Dat baby!

Now ya'll can just whup me with a wet noodle, because I left the flash drive with todays QP at home plugged into my laptop. BUT...I scrounged around and found this one to share with you! I don't have the LO for this page sized to post, so use your imagination! Password is: forgot This was made from the Treasures From the Attic freebie series by Mabelle Santiago-Rubia. http://mydigistyle.com/

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To the visitors coming from Anita's blog: I had started to have the links expire after 10 days, but since ya'll are new here, I will put them back up . Just give me a little time to get it done. I will try my best to have them all up by tomorrow, so please check back! As long as everyone remembers what their Momma taught them and says thank you we'll be okay. Welcome to Bubbles Babbles!