Christmas

Well, its the day after Christmas and I finally have time to sit down and write something.  (Although, I did find plenty of time for scrapping during the Christmas season.)  I'm getting a little dis-satisfied with just doing the cookbook.  I have so many pictures I want to get scrapped as well.  I just did a great (my best so far, I think) layout of my daughter and her first pair of skis. She got them for Christmas several years ago.  We were at my brother's home and they got a great snowfall overnight.  She and her cousins took her skis and their toboggans over the city park and had a great time going down the little hill there all day long.  This is the layout.  I used papers and the "let it snow" stamp by Katie Pertiet of Designer Digitals.  The snowflakes and the journaling block came from the White Christmas kit by ScrapOrchard. 

I wish I could figure out how to make this blog wrap around the picture!  this is so frustrating. 

My daughter gave me a dummies book on Photoshop Elements.  That should help me get over some of the hurdles I'm running into.  I've decided I really need to learn how to make ribbons and rick-rack in photoshop.  There are some swirly brushes and stamps people use all the time that I need to figure out as well.  When I look at galleries, my layouts all seem so plain compared to theirs.  A lot of them use empty space as a design element as well.  I'm a little afraid to do that, I think.  I'll have to experiment with it. 

Well, I need to stop now.  We have library books due today and we have one gift to exchange.  (Not bad, eh?)  Until next time.   Annie