CatDesignz New Contest

Hey you guys!  CatDesignz is having a contest to win her new kit, CELESTE! Wait until you see it!  It is beautiful!  Full of butterflies and flowers.  Just gorgeous!  See her blog at http://catdesignz.wordpress.com/ and be sure to "like" her Facebook page.

Luke Learns to Wave

Luke is now 9 months old.  He has two teeth and has learned to wave.  Now he waves at everything!

I used the fill feature on one of the templates that comes with the MyMemories software.  Made 61 pages in less than 3 minutes!

Wacky Wednesday

For the Wacky Wednesday Challenge!

More photos with Pop-Pop

I decided to do the journaling on this one.  Whatcha think?

Pop-Pop and Luke

My dad had not met his first Great-Grandchild yet, so right after Christmas his wife drove him up to Allentown and Aurora & I drove up from Stafford and we met with Sara & Luke. Dad was so afraid to hold him.  He was afraid he'd hurt Luke.  That didn't last long.  Luke couldn't wait to make friends with his Pop-Pop.  Never saw my dad so happy!

I want to journal that on one of the pages, but I'm no sure which.  I'm thinking maybe the first one.  What do you think?

Sunday Scrap Challenge

OK, I know it's now Thursday.  So, I'm a little late.  Every Sunday at 8PM, Lisa J of the MyMemories staff gives us a challenge to try.  This past Sunday we were to choose 2 background papers & 1 photo. Make the photo into a circle shape and mat it.  Make 2 rectangle shapes and fill them with patterned paper. Make a circle shape and fill it with a patterned paper and place it overlapping the photo. Make a cluster of embellishments in the circle shape.  Make another small cluster on the opposite side of the photo.  Add ribbon anywhere on the page.  Shadow, date, journal. Finish the page any way you want.  This is what I came up with.

Tutorials

If you see nothing else, go to: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1nXI8k7Pc

You can see one of the early commercials for the product.  The software was originally produced by Polaroid, and after a few years, they didn't want to work with it any more and sold it to their group of fans.  Pretty cool!  Now it's the folks that actually use the software that decide what the upgrades need and how to improve it.

My Memories upgraded their software about a month ago.  A couple of improvements, but basically the same software.  It's really nice to not have to learn a whole new language to work with the upgrade.  My Memories has a whole bunch of free tutorials on their page: http://www.mymemoriesblog.com/search/label/Tutorials

You don't even have to have the My Memories software to use quite a few of the tutorials.  It's a nice way to see what the software has to offer, but better, it teaches you how to create more exciting pages.  When I first bought the software, I spent hours going through tutorial after tutorial, so I could get the most out of the software.  You don't have to do that, but I really enjoyed it.  The "teacher" isn't super-professional, she sounds more like a good friend, guiding your through everything. I really like that much better than some slick presentation.

If you go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=my+memories+suite&oq=mymemories&aq=4s&aqi=g2g-s1g1g-s6&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=360l751l0l12208l3l2l0l0l0l0l413l600l0.1.4-1l2l0

You'll see some of the early tutorials for My Memories.