National Scrapbooking Day!!!

Hello Everyone,

Mark you calendar for a fun day of crafting and sharing good times!

Date: Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Time: 7am to 4PM

Cost: $20 (lunch, goodie bag, prizes etc.)

Location: Beaverton, Oregon (I can email you the details and directions if interested)

Linzy and I have teamed up to give you a good time and some great goodie bags! Please join us and don't forget to RSVP me!

Hope to see you there,

Jen

My First Digital Album

This is one of my current projects. I am working on my first digital albums. I am using Storybook Creator Plus by Creative Memories, and am beginning to fall in love with yet another avenue of displaying the past. This album is about my two little girls (What else would it be about!?). The above image is the title page. I didn't think I would like using the computer to "scrapbook", but once again trying something new has turned into a great thing. I am still learning the program, but once I am more familiar with it I think this will be a much faster way for me to scrapbook.

Hannah's Album

This is my first major album that I have completed. I made this album for my firstborn, Hannah. It highlights all the major things she did within her first year of life. Hannah was born October 27, 2007. I completed this album when she was 17 months old. Now I am working on an album for my 7 month old baby girl, Amelia. Let's see if I will get done within the next 10 months. Do you think I can do it? Below are a bunch of my favorite layouts, within Hannah's album.

Creative Memories

I am proud to announce that I am now an Independent Consultant for Creative Memories! I am very excited and am looking forward to having a lot of fun with this new business venture. One of my goals is to host a monthly scrap night. No sales pressure. Just a night for ladies to get out and use their creativity for some fun. I will be sharing my latest projects as well as dates and times for scrapbooking events on here. Contact me if you would like to be apart of my newsletter so you can keep up with all the events and new products Creative Memories has to offer!

My up-line, Linzy Wilson, has a blog of her own as well. You can find her at linzywilson.blogspot.com.

Challenge 180: My Favorite Color

Instead of literally drawing with my favorite color, I choose to draw something of my favorite color. Green... what better green object is there in this world but a plant. I think plants share the truest form of green possible. I am pleased with my small houseplant sketch. 

Challenge 179: Onion

Here is my response to EDM's challenge 179 (draw an onion). I tried to keep this sketch lose, but I think I got a little uptight in areas such as the shadows.  There are too many different line values that aren't consistent through the whole drawing. This inconsistency causes the drawing to look unfinished or perhaps even a bit unbalanced. Maybe I am being to critical... you tell me.

Hannah's Favorite Toys

And so I begin to share current works of art.

Here is a small sketch of my baby girl's favorite toys. Very simple... Curious George and some links. This little set up was fun and very relaxing to study. Nothing to complex, just fun.