Beep Beep

Dylan & his friends having fun yesterday "driving" pretend vehicles at the mall. Lucky us they are still young enough they find these fun to just climb in & out of - not begging us to load them with quarters just yet. :)

Supplies: Deena Rutter's d-365 Layered Templates Vol 8 and Rocketman kit; Miss Mint's Traffic Jam elements & papers; Karen Funk's One Year Older solids.

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Shoot and Edit: Red, White & Blue

A little glimpse of Monday's party fun. The umbrella & fun straw in my margarita. :)

ISO 360, ss 1/125, f5.6

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holiday weekend

We had a very full weekend - visiting family, taking Dylan to his first movie (we made it halfway through Cars 2!), getting a lot of "to do's" checked off around the house, and watching fireworks. We wrapped it all up yesterday celebrating with friends:

Supplies: Kate Teague Just the Photos 5 template; Deena Rutter's d-365 Starter Kit 2010; Miss Mint's Stitched Felt Alpha - Cherry; Sara Schmutz's Star Spangled kit (bottle cap - recolored); Karen Funk Designs' All American elements.

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Shoot and Edit: Sunrise edit

Simple, quick edit. I confess, I used two actions and that was it.

• Ashley's Nice & Easy - tweaked the layers & merged
• The CoffeeShop Blog's Little Perk - again, tweaked and merged

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play

Thursday = release day at Design House Digitals and new releases are 30% (I love a sale!). Today that includes Sara Schmutz's Star Spangled kit. The kit contains 24 papers, 2 alphabets, 12 bottle cap elements and 13 tag elements.

I had fun using it to scrap these photos of Dylan playing last August:

The orange title letters are one of the alphabets included in the kit. I used the 'stroke' command in Photoshop to add a 50px white border around the letters. Then added a shadow to help create the look of stickers.

For more inspiration, check out Sara's page here.

Supplies: Simply Tiffany's 52 Thursday Templates No. 13; Sara Schmutz's Star Spangled kit; Myriad Pro font.

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Shoot and Edit: Sunrise

A look at the sky this morning just after 7am ...

ISO 100, ss 1/250, f8.0

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stylin'

A couple weeks ago I stepped out of the room long enough to put something in the kitchen (in our small house the living/dining/kitchen form an 'L' so I was just out of eye sight) and when I returned I found Dylan brushing his cousin's hair. It was so precious. Completely his own idea. He found his brush after I walked away. I was worried what the silence could mean but it was just the two of them having fun. As the pictures show, Lily was all grins and enjoying the attention.

Supplies: Simply Tiffany Studio's 52 Thursday Templates No 17 (photo placement flipped); Miss Mint's New Do kit; Karen Funk's Claire Alpha Collection; Myriad Pro font; CoffeeShop Blog's Vintage action.

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first cone

Dylan had his first ice cream cone a couple weeks ago. He was a little confused when Trent handed it to him, but mastered it quickly. He had a happy, messy grin when he finished it. :)

Supplies: Jennifer Valencia's Blueprint template for the DHD June Blueprint Challenge; Sara Schmutz's Sweet Shoppe, Summer Picnic and A B C kits and Back to Basics White Frames; Karla Dudley's Digi Essentials 2 kit; Giddyup Std, Maiandra GD and Pooh fonts.

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Shoot and Edit: Father's Day edit

I really liked my SOOC shot this week and kept my edit very simple. Funny thing about it, I realized while writing this post that I pretty much did the exact same edit on another photo of the two of them for the Family theme.

• Ran Ashley's Nice & Easy action. Adjusted layers to suit.
• Merged all layers.
• Ran Vintage action from The CoffeeShop Blog. Adjusted the tint and color layers.
• Used clone tool to remove sippy cup handle.
• Cropped image.

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First Swim

One of the downsides to digital scrapping? Sometimes I close Photoshop and forget when I return that I was working on a layout! Case in point, I found this page about Dylan's first time swimming in progress and finally finished it this week.

Supplies: Carina Gardner & Crystal Wilkerson's Oh Boy - The ABCs kit; Karen Funk's One Year Older solid papers; DHD Fall Digi Blog Hop kit (paper 3 by Karla Dudley); Erica Hernandez's Isabella mini kit; Katie Pertiet's Ad Challenge Tabbed Journaler; 2peas Island Style font.

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