digital scrapbooking

I chose to work with Kiki Halbert's new kit Retro Jungle this week and I think I got a pretty interesting result. I had the hardest time figuring out what photo I wanted to scrap with this kit, so I just started scrapping without a photo in mind.

This past weekend we had tickets to see The Avett Brothers in Northampton, MA and since my cousin Tom doesn't live too far from there we went down and spent the weekend hanging out with him and his daughter, taking lots of pictures which I've turned around and scrapped with some Flutter Expressions products!

I have three pieces of exciting scrap related news!

One, I was accepted to Flutter Expressions CT team. Katherine, the mastermind behind Flutter Expressions is a talented new designer selling at Been There Scrapped That. I've already been quite busy creating some layouts for her!

My new parts arrived last Wednesday. Matt disassembled my machine and then put both mine and my dad's together. We took my dad's over to their house on Thursday, but promptly forgot to bring an Ubuntu disk with us and downloading anything at their house is painfully slow... so we went back on Friday to finish up the job. Results, a computer my dad is happy with! Yay!

I've sorta slowed a bit with the making layouts, but here are the most recent ones I've done.

Kresta - TDC Sketch July 1
Mandy Mystiques - Don't Feed the Daisies

Tragedy Scrappin Anne's - Cen's Stuff CT Collab Kit Templates
Kiki Halbert - Twinkle Toes

I've done a few more layouts lately other than the RAKed ones, and I figure it's about time to show off.

Midnight Scrapping - Template
Claudi Designs - Hearts
Colie's Corner - All That Glitters

I must be having a streak of good luck this week! I was RAKed again, this time by Boyerville Scraps with her new kit, Affirmation which is currently available at the Benevolent Boutique.

We kicked off the holiday weekend in style going out to dinner at Z with our friend Kyle.... and promptly missed the fireworks that we had intended to go see. Not that I'm surprised. For the past two years, we've spent several holidays that traditionally have fireworks with Kyle and every single time, we have missed the fireworks. We tentatively made plans to try again tomorrow. We'll see if that happens.

I guess I've totally been on a roll with this scrapbooking thing this weekend... I think I need to take a time out to knit!

For the Font Jaunt Challenge at Elemental Scraps which was to used a dingbat font in the layout. I used WC Sold Out B BTA.

Credits:
Kaciia - Babycafe Summer Megakit Collab 2008

Since my life is still infinitesimally boring, I bring you more scrapbooking!

I finally figured out this week why The GIMP kept crashing. I knew all along that it had something to do with memory, but I couldn't quite put my figure on what... All I knew was that when I was running out of available memory, 90% of the time The GIMP would not handle it gracefully. My computer would lock up or The GIMP would just randomly quit.