Tag: Digital Scrapbooking

Preserving Memories: Week of March 26

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 Only a couple of layouts this week! This week was incredibly busy in the evenings and I’m going away this weekend for a women’s retreat with our church so I didn’t have as much spare time this week. These are the last two “event” pages for my book! Now I just have this list to finish:
Parenting through the year – 1 page
Each of the girls pictures in every month to see how they have changed – 3 pages
Time with grandparents – 2 pages
Pets – 2 pages
Cousins – 2 pages
I can’t wait to be done! I will have one more finishing touch to add to each page. I try to find a Scripture verse for at least every other page. It’s a fun way to incorporate our faith into my memory making. I use a puzzle piece and stick it somewhere on the page. The girls enjoy looking for that part!

Preserving Memories: 2016 Family Album

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 I only have 9 more pages to go to finish my 2016 family album! I’ll have some finishing touches and proof reading to do before I actually print, but I’m very excited! My goal was to complete 2 full albums last year and I did it! Okay, so it is into March of 2017, but I still feel great about it.

Kit: Silver Bells by Chelle’s Creations (retired)

Preserving Memories: 2016 Album

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Here are a few more layouts from this past week! I’ve gotten more done while my husband and I watch the ACC tournament in the evenings. We are looking forward to more March Madness in the weeks to come! This means more scrapbooking time as well!

Kit: Chelle’s Creations – Heroes (retired)

 

 Kit: Chelle’s Creations – Military (retired) 

 Kit: Chelle’s Creations – Heroes (retired)

Kit: Britt-ish Designs Freebies

Recording Memories: 2016 album

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I only finished a couple of layouts this week, but a couple is more than none! These are from a short trip we made to South Carolina this fall for a conference my husband attended. It was great fun! I’ve been learning how to play around with the lighting in Photoshop the last several week and it is transforming my pictures! I appear to be a much better photographer. I’ve always been decent at getting a natural shot, but the light settings on my point and shoot camera remain a mystery. Below my layouts are some before and afters of photos that show how taking a minute or two to fiddle with the light settings in Photoshop can really change your image quality!

 Top –  Before
Bottom – After
 

Recording Memories: 2016 album

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 Now that my husband’s album for his 40th is finished I’m working to finish up our 2016 family album. I finished 2008 earlier this year so I’m trying to get this one done as well before having them printed to save on shipping. I have one other I’m also working on to get finished, but I do want to have these printed sooner than later so it may wait! 
I’ve been playing more around with enhancing the photos themselves in Photoshop. Most of this is using the lighting settings and sometimes the color. I’m very pleased with how these layouts have turned out! This is my one creative outlet at the moment. I love creating these fun layouts to preserve our memories.
Libby Pritchett: Live Out Loud

Libby Pritchett: Hail Mary and a few papers from A Marvelous Song
Template from Brook Magee
 
Chelle’s Creations: Teacher’s Pet (retired)

 Chelle’s Creations: Zoo Crew (Retired)

Little Rad Trio: Just Bee (Retired)

Preserving Memories

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I was finishing up my husband’s 40th birthday celebration book this week. I had a few pages I had to finish but most of my work was finishing touches, proofreading (and editing mistakes I found!), and adjusting margins for cropping during publication. It’s all set except for one more look-over for mistakes. I will wait to print until I have at least 2 more books finished, but I’m close to that! Next I’ll be finishing up my 2008 family scrapbook (almost done), the 2016 family scrapbook (Just a couple of months to go!), and an album from our 2015 trip to Disney.
 Here are a few layouts I completed.The first is for the Disney book and it features a brand new kit from Libby Pritchett! The rest are for the birthday photobook.
Libby Pritchett’s And Back Again
Libby Pritchett’s From Ear to Ear
Libby Pritchett’s A Marvelous Tune and Krafty Christmas

Libby Pritchett’s I Need a Hero
I used this kit A LOT for this album! I wanted this page to be mostly pictures, but I love the subtle color in the background paper!

Both of these layouts used the Magical Scraps Galore kit Sweet as Candy

Photo Restoration

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One of my new hobbies is researching our family history. My side of the family tree was compiled by my aunts and uncles, but my husband’s was a mystery to us. I’ve been using family information from my husband’s uncle, a second cousin, and ancestry.com. This is not an advertisement for them, but they have been a great resource! 
The other part of my research has been scanning and restoring photos from my husband’s great-grandmother as well as many photos from my family. I’ve taken a little break from digital scrapbooking as much to do this. Photoshop is an amazing thing! Here are some of the before and after results…
My husband’s family

 My Family
 

I’m certainly not an expert photo restorer, but I’m learning as I go and having so much fun doing it!