My AHA moment

I was reading a blog yesterday and had the biggest AHA moment. I have always wondered how people make these great scrapbook pages with the perfect size pictures. I want Photoshop Elements for my computer but have not purchased it yet and I figured people must have been loading their pictures and printing them smaller (and I don't print my own pictures). Then I saw this post on Paper Jewels and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Now I cannot download that Shutterfly program because I have a Mac (after all the cute commercials you would think more people would get on board with making programs that work for both PC and Macs, but that is another post entirely). But I do use Shutterfly to upload and print my pictures. I recently discovered this program on my computer called Comic Life. It is supposed to be used to make Comics (and educational ones at that) but I use it to make cute little picture layouts. I can create these layouts and upload them as a jpeg to Shutterfly and then cut them up to have the perfect sized photo. I have been wanting to make some coaster sized scrapbooks but did not have pictures that were small enough to work. DUH, I can print them smaller.

Anyone have any AHA scrapbook moments you would like to share?


Here is a sample layout I made a while ago with the Comic Life program:

Chalkboard Technique

On Wed. the tutorial on splitcoast was the Chalkboard Technique. So I made this card using that technique. I had never tried that technique before and I liked it although I did not have any swiffer cloths to wipe away my excess.



Supplies used: Garden Green, Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant and white cardstock, White craft ink, SU pastels, eggplant ribbon, and Big Flowers and Warm Words stamp sets.

I also received this card yesterday in the mail from my good friend Abbie.