Great new kit!

I found a fun challenge over at GottaPixel today.  The challenge was to design a signature or "siggie" as they call it from a given template.  I did it using a new kit from scrapN2Nspire, available over at DigiSisters.  Here's a preview of the kit:

And here's my siggie for the challenge.

You can find the kit at the DigiSisters store here.   The "scrabble" tiles are not part of the kit; they were a freebie at computerscrapbook.com

Fun Challenge!

I've really got to scoot or I'll be late for a work.  But I found a fun challenge that I had to post here.  Its a recipe card challenge.  They provide the kit (the first month you participate the kit costs you $1.50.  Every month after that, the kit is free as long as you participated the month before!), you provide the recipe.  At the end of the month, everyone who participated gets print files of everyone's entries.  Instant Cookbook!  This month's theme is fruit recipes and has the cutest kit.  I'm going to start participating right now.  The link to the site.  As I said, I've got to scoot!  More later. 

What're them camera things for again?

I am the world’s most unusual scrapper, I’m afraid.  I don’t even OWN a camera.  I scrap the family pictures to go with the genealogy I’m working on.  I do scrap pictures of my daughter and family, but they are all old pictures.  My camera broke a few years ago and I haven’t taken the time to replace it.  The last pictures I remember taking were of our cat when we first got him about six or seven years ago.   Of course, you know what this means.  I’m running out of pictures to scrap.  I’m going through all of the old negatives and slides my parents and grandparents took and kept looking for good pictures to scrap.  I have a pretty good photo scanner and I just scan them into my computer.  Now, however, I’ve got all of these old pictures, but some of them are not worth taking the time to clean up.  A lot are out of focus or too small or uninteresting.  But I’m trying to rescue as many as I can.  Soon, I’m going to be reduced to begging my family for pictures. Or else, I’m going to have to break down and buy a new camera. 

What am I doing here?

I have two loves, family history and digital scrapbooking.  OK, make that three--my daughter, too.  I've been scrapping digitally for about a year and a half now and I've noticed something.  Most really rabid scrapbookers are also rabid photographers.  But I'm not.  I'm not a photographer at all.  I've tried, heaven knows.  I bought my first SLR camera clear back in the 70s.  Took a photography class, read books, subscribed to magazines, and went broke buying film.  To no avail.  I don't even own a camera now.  I am just NOT a photographer.

However, I AM the keeper of the photos in my family and family historian.  And that explains my passion for scrapbooking.  I feel an urgent need to scrap and record the family history before I kick off.  Hopefully, there are many years before that happens, but you never know. As the oldest child in our family I can remember our parents when they were still in their 20s.  I kind of feel like the keeper of the memories.

So, I guess the purpose of this blog is to record the journey of scrapping for history's sake.