QUICK Vid on doing a Xmas card using Photoelf

Lau and I did this a while ago and I meant to get it up on here..Enjoy! If you need clearer directions.. let us know! Head on over to Photoelf and check out the program

AND THE WINNER IS..........

Straight from the magic hat comes........RHONDA at bumblebee creations. Thank you Andrew for pulling the name for us! Congrats Rhonda.. Get your addy over to Laurie and she'll mail you your awesome prize! We want to thank Rick and Dana Kuntz for their generosity! For everybody else who participated in the challenge.....THANKS!! It was fun, and for those who liked what they saw these past two weeks, Please visit PhotoELF Secure Purchase to get yourself a copy of PhotoElf at a great discount this weekend!

OOOPs.. I didn't get a chance last night to post Janet's project that she got in under the gun for contest last night... It's awesome..Go on over and check it out on her blog! Awesome job LadyLuvBug: Massachusetts Winter

PHENOMINAL PHOTOS WEEK 2 - Day 2

Good Morning, two more days till Thanksgiving! I can't wait. Big year in our house, our oldest is playing in his first football game on Thanksgiving! We are so excited. Now on to scrap business. I have a fun project that I did to share. We went to a Boston Bruins game with a bunch of friends for my girlfriend's birthday. I wanted to give her something home made and I thought I will do a layout of of the night! I of course used Photoelf to get the amount of pictures I wanted on the page.

The Bigger photo is 5x7, the smaller is 3x3 and the photo strip is 3 pictures grouped, the pics are 2x2. I figured if I used the ticket from the game it has the date, and the event right on it. I also bought the Tim Holtz Ticket book. I inked the edges of the tickets with Quick Quotes Chalk Ink








I bought a 12x12 frame at Michaels, it was orginally $40, and I paid $16.00 for it. So excited I was!!

Here is the page in the frame.








Another view of the frame. I think she will really like it. She loves this kind of stuff!! And I love giving homemade things.

I may enter this in a contest over at My Creative Time. They are looking for homemade projects. I cut Happy Birthday on the Cricut, I am sorry I can't remember which cartridge I used.

PHENOMINAL PHOTO WEEK 2 - Day 1

Good morning everyone!! First of all today is Kelly's birthday!!! Happy, happy Birthday Kel. I can't believe you are finally 21!! Have a wonderful day!!

We have received two challenges (PhotoElf prize) Kel and I are so excited. Please read Kel's post from yesterday, 11/21 and see all the awards and prizes that we posted yesterday, lots going on here!

This first challenge is from Jean over at
Jean's Crafty Corner



The next challenge comes from Rhonda over at

bumblebee creations Thanks so much ladies for your AWESOME Layouts. They came out great!!We knew you had it in you! Remember the deadline for the challenge is this Saturday, November 27th! This is an awesome, aweseome, prize!

HAPPY SATURDAY BLOGGERS!

I'd like to welcome our new follower Berenice! at Karber Weekly Challenge It's nice to have you! Here a few reminders of whats going on around here!

1. We are now at 69 followers.. so at 70..we reveal Laurie's "70th follower" prize and then I'll reveal who out of "1-69 follower" will win the prize I picked! I saw a peek of Lau's I'm pretty sure I saw the words "cuttlebug" hehheheh! Mine is still a secret, but it's a goodie too!

2. Don't forget to get in on our PHOTOELF challenge that started last week and will run for a bit longer. HERE IS A CHANCE TO WIN A fun..easy...photo editing program! See our post of last week to see what this program can do!. Check out our 11/15/10 post for challenge deets! We've received a few entries.... we'll post next week!

3. I have the Tim Holtz Adage Ticket booklet for one of our lucky commenters from this past week. Laurie and I are picking a name tonight..Tune in tomorrow to find out if you won! !

4. Have a great day..have fun!.. and Scrap it forward if you get the chance!

PHENOMINAL PHOTO WEEK, Day 3

Here's a 2pg. layout I did of my son's graduation. I just snapped away when I took pics. It's really hard to get up close and take the time to get the shots you really need because at events like this, it moves fast and it's sooo packed! So, I just kind of pointed and clicked.. LOL I knew I would be doing a lot of cropping and playing around with them in PhotoElf so I wasn't too worried. If I had to sit in Walgreens or CVS and manipulate these photos, I woulda been there all night. Further, these pics are at crazy measurements, not standard
which I love! This is pretty much a "stash" page.. LOL. I stamped.
I did some rub ons..I cornered some tags..I even stitched..stapled..lol Lil bit of it all folks..lol

PHENOMINAL PHOTO WEEK - Day 1

Good morning all! I hope you had a great weekend. I do have to say I did spend quite a bit of time down in the scrap cave creating! So it was a good weekend for me. I did this karate page over the weekend. Kel and I wanted to you show you how AWESOME Photo Elf is.

Both of these pictures are printed using photo elf. The bigger picture of the entire greeen/red belt class was cropped to 5 x 7. We wanted to show you how close you can crop a picture. My son is in the front row of the class, I used the same picture and zoomed into my son's face and was able to crop only his face at 4x4. You can crop photo's to any size you want. It is so easy!!!







Here is the close up of the 4x4 photo.

I used the Sports Mania cart to cut the title at 1 3/4 then shadowed, page 58. I cut the karate dude at 1 3/4 on page 58 as well. The red paper is StampinUP. The green is from my stash. The patterned paper is from DCWV and K&Company both are from PhotoMat packs, so they are already 4x6. And the little buttons are StampinUP! as well.

THE MOMENT WE ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR....

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Kel and are absolutely beside ourselves that we received our very first sponsor. This is a product that Kel, Dawn, Pa and I can't live without (yes I made Pa buy it and he LOVES it). We use this all the time. Without further ado, we would like to give a big thanks to Rick over at PhotoElf! We contacted Rick to see if he would be willing to give us a copy of his awesome software program and within 10 minutes emailed us back with a big YES! We have had the software for about a week now!! Thanks again Rick! !! Ladies please go on over to Rick's website and check it out for yourselves, www.photoelf.com. This software is amazing, it allows you to edit your pictures, add special affects, crop your pictures and the BEST feature ever is the printing. It allows you to arrange your pictures on the paper so you don't waste any paper!! We love it!!



This program is worth $40.00!! So we thought we should make this a true challenge! So Kel and I have come up with the following challenge:

1) This is going to be a 12 x 12 layout and you have to use 3 photos on the layout. We thought it would be easier if we gave you a few themes to work from so we chose the following: Sights of Summer, Fall Frolic and Winter Wonders. This way if you have any pics from the summer, fall or winter you want to get done here is your chance.

2) You have to be a follower

3) You have to post our awesome blog candy on your blog (of course if you have one, if you don't no worries).

4) Deadline for the project is November 27th by 9:00 est.


5) Of course HAVE FUN!!!


Kel and I will pick the winner out of our very famous hat and thought this is such a huge prize we would video tape it and have some fun with it (can you tell we are excited about our sponsor??)