I gave myself a birthday present this year – a digital scrapbooking retreat at The Chick Nest in Clear Lake, Iowa. It’s a fabulous retreat center, and the classes were taught by Linda, who is hilraious and fun to chat with and a great teacher. She co-owns a Photoshop traning company. We had a very small group for this particular retreat, which was nice. We were able to work at our own pace and choose what planned lessons to skip and which unplanned lessons to add. I learned how to do this And I got much better at turning...

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I got accepted several weeks ago to be part of a digiscrapping designer’s creative team. That means we make pages using products by Tiffany, known as Inspired by Dominic Designs, and post them to different online galleries as a way of promoting her stores. It turned out to be great timing because soon after that, my hard drive crashed and I lost all my kits. So it’s nice to have a reliable place to get free, cute stuff! She just began selling at a third store and is having a sale there. Check it out:She is making some things...

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and saw the new Grizzly Coast exhibit. The sea otters were my favorite part.

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I’ve found it’s much easier to sit down at the computer and hammer out a scrapbook page than to haul out stuff to do it the old-fashioned way. So I guess I’m officially a convert! Now I need to learn how to do fancy stuff like cutouts and get better about toning pictures and such, which used to be done in the lab when they were printed. Since my page slideshow at the bottom of this blog was getting a bit unwieldy, there are now two – one for this year and one for last year. They are in...

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Here are a couple of digital scrapbook pages from our last two weekends.

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