A Little Scrapbook Therapy

Double layout using the "Love Letters" designer papers

Written by Alesha Walls on Sunday, February 12, 2012

I had to snap a bunch of photos of Rachie in her Valentine dress since she was in a mood to pose for the camera. Four years olds can be so unpredictable sometimes! I love the layout of this spread and think it will be fantastic when I print it. I just got my 5th album back this week and love it - it was the album for October, November and December 2011. I plan to have another one printed at the end of March which will have all of my layouts from Jan, Feb and March 2012. I am aiming to do one for each season of the year. Some of the albums I've printed have 150 pages and others have 30 - if just depends on how many photos I took that season and whether I was able to scrap them. I think that if I just set the goal of printing an album each season it will motivate me to keep on top of my scrapping.

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

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Something fun I like to do with Digital Scrapping

Written by Alesha Walls on Saturday, February 11, 2012

Don't you just love that layout? Something fun that I like to do with digital scrapbooking is to google search awesome scrapbook pages and completely copy them. It's such an easy way to scrapbook.... and I can change it up to fit my photos. This was a layout that I copied and it took about 6 minutes to do. If I was traditional scrapping I bet that it would have taken that long just to die cut the letters.

Recipe for this layout:
Papers: Piece of Cake CD, Twitterpated kit
Stamps: Kindred Spirits
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler designer brads, stitching
Punches: Timeless Type Junior alphabet, Hugs & Kisses punch

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

MDS Blog hop - designer templates and the smitten alphabet

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, February 10, 2012

Welcome to our Designer Template My Digital Studio Blog Hop! I stumbled upon the template below when I was looking for 8x8 templates that I could convert to 12x12 for my next book. I only changed the small print text and then inserted a photo - I love how pretty this pre-made template is. This template is included when you purchase the "smitten alphabet" punches.

Smitten Alphabet Template

This next template comes from the "Twitterpated" kit. I love it too. Now, I just have to figure out which of these I will use for my album. I love the photos a lot, but I just don't know which layouts to choose to print.

Twitterpated template

Hey Blog Hoppers -
I would like to invite you hop on over to these other wonderful blogs to check out the other projects from designer templates in My Digital Studio today. Please leave the ladies a comment - I know they'll love it. Each Friday we will be offering a new theme and I hope that you pop back weekly to check them all out.

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Rochelle Gould

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls (You're here!!)

12. Holly VanDyne

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, February 03, 2012

Number One kit $12.50

Welcome to our Valentine's Day My Digital Studio Blog Hop! Now, I made this layout a few days ago just because I had it in my head but I kept tweeking it for days. It was just one of those layouts I was stuck on. The thing that I needed to put on to finish it - the key. And honestly, I'm thinking of getting rid of it but I like the shape and direction of the image so it will stay for now. Enough rambling. I snapped these photos of my girls early this morning. I love having Friday mornings off so I can play with them before I head in to work. I knew that whatever photos I took this morning would work with the layout because they would be converted to Sepia Tone anyways... but for real, can these two beautiful girls be any more photogenic? My gosh! I just love them to bits!

Valentine Layout using the "Number One" kit

Recipe for this layout:

Papers: Number One kit

Stamp sets: Artistic Etchings, Number One kit, I {heart} hearts, Year to Remember 2012 Calendar

Hey Blog Hoppers -
I would like to invite you hop on over to these other wonderful blogs to check out the other Valentine My Digital Studio projects today. Please leave the ladies a comment - I know they'll love it. Each Friday we will be offering a new theme and I hope that you pop back weekly to check them all out.

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Rochelle Gould

7. Aly Schilling

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls (You're here!!)

12. Holly VanDyne
13. Kelly Birrell (this week's guest blog hopper!)

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Free trial of the MDS scrapbooking software!

Written by Alesha Walls on Wednesday, February 01, 2012

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Have fun creating!

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

MDS Blog hop - wintery fun

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, January 27, 2012

Welcome to our 2012 My Digital Studio Blog Hop! Our theme this week was to make something with the theme winter fun. Now, I'll be honest, I just didn't have time because I've been so busy working on finishing up my Christmas Album because I want to send it to the printer's this week. So I've decided to show off a Christmas page instead. When I send off albums to the printers, I will include most of the layouts you see on my blog but because I take SO MANY photos at big events, I will often include pages like this one that have large amounts of photos on them yet simpler embellishments on them - more bang for the buck at the printers, really.

Hey Blog Hoppers -
I would like to invite you hop on over to these other wonderful blogs to check out the other My Digital Studio projects today. They are so beautiful and so wintery! Each Friday we will be offering a new theme and I hope that you pop back weekly to check them all out.

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Rochelle Gould

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon (she's back - you should see her fantastic layout!!)

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls (You're here!!)

12. Holly VanDyne

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

MDS Blog hop - a fantastic sketch was our inspiration!

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, January 20, 2012

Mandy challenged us to do a sketch this week for the MDS blog hop. I was so massively excited to see the sketch, from one of my favourite sketch websites (www.pagemaps.com). If you want to see the sketch click here. It's the 4th sketch from the top.

When I saw the sketch I immediately saw laundry hanging on a line... and I knew that I had some photos that would fit in perfectly with that theme... so here's my layout that looks relatively nothing like the sketch, but pulls a lot of inspiration from it. Abigail was only 6 weeks old here - it's so hard to believe that this is the same little peanut that is learning to clap her hands, climb stairs and is attempting to walk. Oh man, where did this year go?

3. Mandy Grant

7. Erica Shaw

9. Alesha Walls (you're here)

10. Holly VanDyne

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Scrapbook Project 365. Games night

Written by Alesha Walls on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Games night layout using "Big Top Birthday" papers and embellishments

We had games night with Rachel, and after she lost interest Jamie and I decided to have a serious competition on the Trouble board. This was his game face - hilarious!

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

My new timeline cover for facebook

Written by Alesha Walls on Saturday, January 14, 2012

What do you think? I am in love with it!

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Project 365 for the MDS blog hop - fun new MDS download

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, January 13, 2012

My Cute Valentine $3.95

Welcome to our 2012 My Digital Studio Blog Hop! Our theme this week was to make something with a new MDS download. It's the same theme as last Friday and I'm using the same download that I did last week because I adore it! The download is called "My cute valentine" which has some cute embellishments and some cute stamps. I have the morning off so I was able to snap these photos of Abigail. She's getting so quick!

Here's today's layout - it uses designer paper from the "Pocketful of Posies" set and many of the heart stamps from the "My cute valentine" download:

My baby is crawling all over the place!

Hey Blog Hoppers -
I would like to invite you hop on over to these other wonderful blogs to check out the other My Digital Studio projects today. They are just as fun! Each Friday we will be offering a new theme and I hope that you pop back weekly to check them all out.

1. Jeanna Bohanon
2. Rochelle Gould

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon (off this week, big hugs!)

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls (You're here!!)

12. Holly VanDyne

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Scrapbook Project 365. Abigail at 9 months old. Double Layout

Written by Alesha Walls on Thursday, January 12, 2012

I'm still working on the layout for the photos that I took today, so here's a preview of the 2nd half of my layout from earlier in the week.

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Scrapbook Project 365. Abigail in her Jumperoo

Written by Alesha Walls on Monday, January 09, 2012

A quick project for today.

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Scrapbook Project 365. Walk around the block

Written by Alesha Walls on Sunday, January 08, 2012

Today, I turned the camera over to Rachel to help me with my Project 365. She's getting pretty good at focusing the camera, but some photos are still blurry. These photos were from our walk. When Rachel has a bunch of energy we like to get her out in the fresh air - she was at her friend Shylee's 5th birthday and was hopped up on cake - so we brought her out for a walk.

Recipe for the layout:
Designer Paper: Blueberry crisp
Embellishments: Downtown Grunge

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Scrapbook Project 365. Mama kitty.

Written by Alesha Walls on Saturday, January 07, 2012

Layout features the "Lap of Luxury" designer paper.

Have a wonderful day, Alesha

Project 365 for the MDS blog hop - fun new MDS download

Written by Alesha Walls on Friday, January 06, 2012

My Cute Valentine $3.95

Welcome to our first 2012 My Digital Studio Blog Hop! Our theme this week was to make something with a new MDS download. There were a few great downloads to choose from this Tuesday, and I chose the one with all of the pretty hearts called "My Cute Valentine". I love the embellishments and the stamps that came with this set - impressed!

Now, I've been working on a Scrapbook Project 365. Basically, I want to capture this year in 365 layouts so I will be posting a layout each and every day with photos that I took that day. My goal is to have a set of bound scrapbook albums for this year. Since I can put 100 layouts in an album, I thought that this would be a fun way to make a set of albums. Here's today's layout - a beautiful photo of my little ladies using a fun new download: