Digital Techniques for Art Journaling with Pattie Knox

I am excited to tell you that Digital Techniques for Art Journaling is now on sale at Creative Passion.  This series of courses is taught by my dear friend Pattie Knox. I took this series of courses two years ago and I'm so thrilled that Pattie has brought them back to Creative Passion.  I will just say that I had MANY "aha moments" during this series.  I LOVED these courses and they opened my eyes to so many new and fun techniques. There are two courses on sale or you can purchase them in a bundle.  These are self-paced courses and would be perfect to work on as they fit into your schedule but I can assure you that once you get started, you are not going to want to stop!

                                 

Pattie is AMAZING!  She is not only one of the kindest people that I have ever met, she is a whole lot of fun and a photoshop genius.  I'll just say that when I have photoshop questions, I go to Pattie and she always has a soloution.  I'm still pinching myself that I get to work with her. 

You can find Pattie's classes here.   There is a 10% early bird coupon for the individual classes.  It is: 10DAJwPK.  I guarantee that you are going to enjoy the material in this series of courses in addition to Pattie.  I'll be hanging out in the gallery just waiting to see the pages!

Project 2012 Update

I headed into 2012 with a new goal...to get more of my photos and more details of our lives off of the computer and into an album.  I will be honest, when I headed into this, I wasn't quite sure if I could so this.  I thought it would really help me in the long run because everything from 2012 would be in this album....simple as that.  I will say that after 5 months of this project, I am kicking myself for not doing this in previous years.  Everything is documented.  When I want to create a page for one of the kids albums, I simply open this page, pull the photos and journaling off it and start creating.  After five months, I have 97 spreads done for 2012.  My approach is very simple but it works for me.  I am completely caught up and it hasn't been a chore at all.  I really feel like it takes so much pressure off.  Here are some of the spreads for May.  I have a number of other ones that include field trips and special days at school that I didn't include because it contains other children.



The page below is all of the cards and gifts that I received from the kids for mother's day.  I loved them all.

All products are from Designer Digitals.

There are so many great pages in the gallery for Project Life and 365.  It doesn't matter which project you use.  I think it is just important to determine your goals, assess your style and go from there.  In order for this project to work for me...I need it simple and this is about as simple as it gets.

Graduation Annoucements

It is that time of year....graduation time.  Although my kids aren't even close to graduating (Thank God), each spring I find myself creating somebody's graduation announcments. This year I created these for our neighbor Brock.  I did not take the photographs but I thought they were wonderful and was excited to work with them.  As always my clean, graphic style emerged and I wanted Brock's photos to steal the show.

A few years ago, I created this announcement for Brock's sister Paige and they wanted them to be similar.

This was the inside spread and opened wide.

I love graduation time because everybody seems to pull out the old photos and reflect on how much the individual has grown.  I recognize for some people that aspect of graduation times seems incredibly stressful as they try to pool 18 years of photos into meaningful keepsakes.  I guess as an ongoing memory-keeper, I am just so incredibly thankful that I find so much joy in continous documentation of our lives.  Once our kids are in bed, it almost feels like I get to relive these moments as I create their pages and I find so much fulfillment in documenting our journey.