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DigiScrap Geek has moved! Please click here to see the new blog if you aren't automatically redirected!

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I met my sweet little niece last Saturday. I managed to get some photos of her with my kid... and there was one that just made my heart melt. It's not as sharp and clear as the other photos that day, but it oozes the moment. I went to town with the chance to scrap a baby girl. Since I used such bold patterns, I kept the design simple and almost symmetrical: Credits: Jenn Barette: Ain't

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My family is spread out all over the place, so I keep up with their lives on Facebook. My sister is really great at taking photos of my parents, since she upgraded to an iPhone, and I just don't have enough photos of them. On Mother's Day, she shared this photo of them after their Mother's Day brunch. (I've blurred out the identifiers... and my sisters name is pronounced Ray-kah, not Rick-ee)

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In case you've been wondering, Debbie made this really awesome tour video of everything Get It Scrapped offers. I'm sharing with you today because I talk about GIS a lot on this blog (mostly because it changed my ever scrapping life): Try the free membership, say hello to the peeps, chat about design, tips and trick and push buttons, see if GIS is right for you ...OR... Dive right in to a

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For some reason, I decided that all my deadlines and obligations needed to be met by yesterday. It was a gorgeous week spent at my computer, and I also planned it so when I was done I would have to build an ark. (rain, rain, and more weekend rain).... There's a new Real Life in Pockets out today. It's perfect for those of us who have kids who are anti-mamarazi. On this page, I'm talking about

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My latest page for the Get It Scrapped blog is rockin' a linocut look. It's not something I'd ever considered until the assignment, but I found myself loving it. You can see the article, which features all sorts of tips and approaches to the technique, HERE. Linocut is a handmade, carved stamp that artists use for quick production. You can search Pinterest for a better idea or just read the

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I'm lucky enough to have an awesome mom and an awesome mother-in-law. I don't have enough photos of either. It's not from lack of trying. My mother has always had an aversion to the camera. She told me once someone said she looked like a monkey in a photo and she's carried that with her since. That's the power of words. Thanks to that jerk, I only have a small handful of photos of my mother over

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Hello Sunshines! Up on the GIS blog today is one of my favorite motifs: Modern Nautical. For my page, I used two of my favorite beach photos of my kiddo when he was small. It was his first introduction to surf and sand shortly after we moved here. I've scrapped the bigger photo before, but not the little one. I used Pixlr-o-matic to process the photos- one warm, one cold to match my page.

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Over at Get It Scrapped, we're doing a chilled challenge called A Page a Day in May. The goal is to create 31 pages this month, but how you get there is up to you. While some of pages are assignments and can't be shared yet, I do have one to share. I used the May BYOC to create the page. I kept it simple, with the journaling being the locations of the photos. And yes, that's my hubby giving

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I hope everyone is enjoying their iNSD! I sure am. Remember, you can always join me at the live GIS crop. Just register and follow the instructions to get into the meeting room. I say every month that I this month's Storyteller Collection is my favorite, but I'm saying it again. This month is my favorite ever! Don't forget to checkout the idea magazine as well. It's gorgeous to look at and

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Emily Pitts shared a page in her Masterful Scrapbook Design interview that we all went ga-ga over. It had this great shelf of gold sequins in a transparent bag that the paper scrappers in the group that were raring to lift. I said I was going to ask Jaimee if she could make something similar for digi. I did ask Jaimee, who said she'd take a stab at it. Well, her stab turned out to be amazing.

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I am getting pretty excited about all that's going on in May: iNSD:  The fun really started today over at The (dash) Lilypad. You can head over to their official iNSD forum to join in. There will be lots of releases, including the Build Your Own Collab (aka the BYOC) and a 30% off store wide sale on older releases. Saturday, May 3rd, Get It Scrapped is having a live crop from 8am to 11pm.

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One of the great lessons of adulthood is that your realize all the cliches are true. For the digital world, I think an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Let's talk about prevention. If your using your computer in your scrap process, you probably need to make these seriously boring habits a part of your routine. I know I do. I'm gonna share what I do each month to

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I haven't had much time for making pages that aren't assigned. It's been a whirlwind two months. I thank the stars for my CT work because I'm not sure carving out for scrapping would happen. Sunday night I decided to grab a kit, dig in and play because nothing! Because I wanted to! I went a little crazy. I'm happy with the result and glad I got this story down while it's fresh. I used this

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Hello Interwebz! Yesterday was Easter. We didn't have much ado over it as my in-laws are currently in Haiti (lucky devils). It was just us, but we still had a happy day. Saturday we dyed eggs. My husband came up with these two gems while I wasn't paying attention: I made the traditional Easter Snaik egg: This page, which I created a few years ago, tells the story of the Easter

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Do you love the 1980s? Or do do you at least remember the 1980s? I was a kid during that decade. A very neon and pastel loving, awkward, chubby kid. I had the Mary Lou Retton crop meets Charlie's Angels feathered hair. I hated that my mom didn't allow me to grow my hair out. Granted, I did refuse to wash it most of the time, but as a kid, you don't think like that. This photo is from a summer

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I have two pages up on the Get It Scrapped blog this month and they both happen to be on the same theme. I didn't plan it this way, it's just how it worked out. Both are about dealing with unexpected problems. The first is about our printer. We don't get along with our printer. I don't think I've ever owned a printer that worked well. One day a few months ago, I woke up to to what looked like

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Monday, I thought I was going to post about how to scrap from an authentic place during hard times and not making viewers want to slit their wrist after looking at your page. Monday was also my son's 13th birthday, which prompted my brilliant topic. After all, autistic kids have a whole set of struggles that at first glance don't feel scrap worthy, but if you look deeper you can find rich,

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My dad raised me as sort of ice cream connoisseur.  I grew up across the street from the family that owned Hovermale's Taste Best, whose frozen custard is probably the best in the country and very close to the Danish version based on my extensive sampling. Vanilla is my absolute favorite flavor. I can tell real vanilla from artificial vanilla, cream from milk, frozen dairy product from ice

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It's almost April and there's still snow on the ground, my allergies are in full swing- I can literally feel the pollen coating my body- and we're all getting over a nasty cold. My hubby brought home germs from the hospital. He has bronchitis and I suspect my kid's lingering cough may be a mild case of it, too. I got off easy with non-chest cold. This is not the best way to start spring. It

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Since last Saturday, things have been scary and wonderful and hectic. If you're just here for eye candy, might I suggest scrolling down now? I ramble. The hubby ended up in the hospital last week with severe pacreatitis. They weren't able to find a cause for the pancreatitis, which means there wasn't much in the form of treatment. I didn't think much of it at the time, but when your pancreas is

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I am thrilled to announce that I'm now part of the Jenni Bowlin Studio Digital creative team!! I fell in love with JBS paper products after getting to know the paper design team. The products are just so unique and innovative. The opportunity to work with that digitally was simply irresistible. I couldn't believe that I was able to get this photo of heart shaped snow. I always admire

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Yes. It's true. I love them. In the physical world back when I painted, no medium frustrated me more than watercolor. I just couldn't get the stuff to do what I wanted it to do. Oil and acrylic yes. Watercolor no. (I did love watercolor paper because I loved the texture) In the digital world I absolutely love watercolor and this week I worked with digital watercolor almost exclusively. It made

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Have you ever heard of Calvinball? I hadn't until the other day when Doris Sander suggested it as a challenge over at Get It Scrapped. It's a challenge going on during March where the rules change, smack talking is a must, and you are encourage to get social and scrap everything. Join us for the fun and possible insanity. Also, there's a live crop you can get a point for joining today.

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It's been a very rough week, but there have definitely been highlights. One highlight was getting to play with the new March Storyteller, which I truly love. The other was the what I scrapped with it. This is my kid working on his Smash Book. Being that he has a lot of fine motor skill issues, this sorta journal works well for him. He writes if he wants to, but he can also glue the heck out of

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