My life perfectly imperfect

onsdag 6 januari 2010

måndag 4 januari 2010

my 2010 word...

for my word for this year i have chosen commit:

commit

2: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She
committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents
to a good cause" [syn: give, dedicate, devote]

i have felt decentered and unfocused for a long time now and tried my hardest to get several things done at the same time...i have had such problems with being in the moment, not letting my mind wander. thinking of the things i am doing next. so, this year i want to focus and commit myself to one thing, person or activity at the time. this is something i have been struggling with for so many years and it feels good to have it on print!

do you have a word for the year?

ps. if you don´t know what i am talking about :) you can go to ali edwards blog to get the background!

söndag 3 januari 2010

scrapbook with free digital stuff

when describing myself as a scrapbooker, i often say that i am very much a hybrid one. i love to take digital elements to my pages either by doing some of my scrapbooking in a photoediting program or by printing digital elements from a digital kit for example.

i have one favorite source of free digital goods is designer digitals if you sign up for their newsletter your inbox will be filled with 3 new freebies every sunday! and i must say that they have alot of good offers and good prices too!

sometimes i download a template that i use as is, just adding my photos.

or use a png. embellishment as a fun way to show a photo.

make elements for my blog.

i use digital elements on my photos that i print and use on a paper page.

oh, and 2peas has lots of free digital kits and templates! i often download them and even if i don´t like all the things in the kit there is always something you can use.

there you have it, another tip for you!

eta: to be able to use digital kits you will have to have a photo editingprogram of some sort installed on your computer. though, there are sometimes jpg. elements in the kits that can be used to print in a WORD document.

lördag 2 januari 2010

scrapbooking made easy with photo mosaics

when i came home fromm our trip to holland i wanted to scrapbook, but i had soo many photos (as usual), so i created different mosaics over at bighugelabs.com. and it makes for such an easy way to make a page with lots of photos. just look:

when the mosaic is loaded, i jst saved it to my computer and opened them into a WORD document and printed them out on my printer.

i then embellished my page as i wanted it and voila, lots and lots of moments scrapbooked at once!

and a way of mosiacs is to use smaller versions of photos in the same size, like so;

so, there you have alittle tip from me to ring in the new year!

fredag 1 januari 2010

a toot for me :)

I was so happy to see a peamail in my inbox today from the fabulous happeagirl telling me that she had chosen one of my layouts as an inspiration piece to one of her new years challenges :) here is one nichole did using my page as an inspiration! it is so much fun! i am going over there to play along too.