Susanna's Birthday Party

Today, October 22nd, we are celebrating Susanna's Boyd's birthday with a week-long challenge event that every member on the Planet can participate in!  The Super Novas got together and each made a special birthday gift for Susanna's birthday.  In honor of this momentous occasion, we invite everyone to post a birthday project or card for a chance to win some fabulous prizes! Yes, there are several chances to win some awesome paper crafting goodies just by posting a birthday themed project!  Further details can be found by clicking on The Planet Blog.  Check out where the party is and join us for a week of celebrations!

I created a three-page layout to celebrate Susanna's birthday.  I hope she likes it!

Photo Booth

Since I got my MAC, Tanner loves to play on the Photo Booth program.  This application fits his personality to the max.  Susanna has given us a great template at Paper Craft Planet to scrap a lot of photos.  When I saw it, I knew I wanted to use these pics.  This was a fast way to scrap a lot of photos that do not need journaling.  The pictures tell ALL!

I am host tomorrow at Paper Craft Planet's Scrappy Sunday.  I hope you can play along with me next week.

Scrappy Sunday Week 3: Water

This month is all about scrapping those summertime memories. When most people think of Summer, they naturally think of vacations.  Travel pages can be hard because we too many pictures to put into one page, or even double spread.

This week, at Paper Craft Planet we are creating layouts that have something to do with water.  Here are just a few you can create:

• Pools
• Lakes
• Sprinklers
• Ocean

Go through you pictures and find some where you are enjoying the water on a hot summer day.  We hang out at our pool most of the summer to get away from the heat.  My oldest, Tate loves doing tricks off the board and having us rate them from 1 to 10.  I decided to do a layout showing a couple of his tricks.  

Pool Hair

Susanna is hosting this week's Scrappy Challenge at Paper Craft Planet.  This month is all about scrapping those summertime memories.  Susanna create an awesome 4th of July page.  I looked through my pictures and didn't have any unscrapped 4th pictures, but I did find some pictures of our boys and the neighbor at our pool.

Last summer, they started a game called "pool hair styles".  All of them had longer hair for the summer, so they loved to come out of the water with funky hair styles and check their look in the window to the pool house.  Silly!  I took pictures of this game, since they played it so much and would eventually forget they did this.  Yes, blackmail photos!  LOL!  Here is the quick layout based on the template Susanna used for her 4th of July layout here.

One of my favorite parts of digi scrapping is when I have to create a layout for both Tate and Tanner.  All I have to do is change the main photos...viola!  I'm done with two layouts.  Awesome!

I have three cards to share with you this week I made for our July club meeting this Friday.  I just have to take pictures and add my watermark.  Check back later this week for them.

Scrappy Sunday - Work Smarter, Not Harder: Week 4

I am hosting again at Paper Craft Planet's Scrappy Sunday.  This is the last week of a four part series to Work Smarter, Not Harder, when you scrap.  This week I am focusing on quick pages.

I have started a digital club for some of my club members, where they buy $25.00 worth of digital products for their My Digital Studio and they receive a free layout designed by me each month.  All they have to do is drop in their pictures, add journaling and they are done.  If they feel creative, they can change the colors of the papers and embellishments too.

This is an example of one of the quick pages, my club members downloaded in this month.

If you are interested in joining our My Digital Studio club, please email me at clearlyinspired@gmail.com for details.

Thanks A Million

I wanted to thank all of you who are praying for my brother-in-law, Dwight.  He is having surgery today to remove the cancer.  Hopefully, he will recover soon and stay cancer free.  Please continue to pray for him, my sister, Connie and their children.  Thanks A Million!

Baseball season is coming to an end this season.  Tate and Tanner both have a game tonight depending on the rain.  We wanted to thank the coaches, so we got them gift certificates to Subway and I made them a quick card on My Digital Studio.  I used these colors, because they are their team colors.

This card is for the coaches and for you!

Happy Dad Day!

Happy Father's Day to my Awesome Dad and the Father of my boys!

Love ya both!

Coach Pitch

I am doing a little digi scrapping and having fun playing along with Susanna at Paper Craft Planet.  This week her theme is Work Smarter, Not Harder.  Susanna used a magazine to learn from professional Graphic Designers how page elements best work together.  She even has a free Photoshop template for those of you who work in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.  


Since I use My Digital Studio I recreated her layout in MDS.  In addition, I kept the layout the same; however, I changed mine to a 12 x 12 page.  This template is great if you have a story to tell behind your pictures.  I used this to tell the story behind Tanner's first baseball game.  I am so glad I had a way to share the story behind all the pictures I took.

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Happy Graduate

We are very proud parents of a Happy Graduate, Tanner.  He graduated from Kindergarten today.  He was so excited!  We had cake, balloons and went out to eat to celebrate.  Congratulations, Tanner!

receiving his diploma

proud big brother

Tanner's best friend, TJ

Can you believe I almost forgot to make him a card?  I woke up this morning and realized I didn't make one, so I used My Digital Studio to create.  

Happiness is: you

This is another great picture my MIL took of "my boys".  I used another designer layout in My Digital Studio.  This layout caught my eye, because the clock faces were already on it and the colors are masculine.  My FIL makes and repairs clocks as you can see by all the clocks in the background of the picture.  This layout is perfect for this shot.  I just added the title.

Hybrid Grad

I hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day!  The weather was so beautiful that we spent most of our time outside.

This is a hybrid card from My Digital Studio.  When I received the graduation invitation from Lauren (my friend, Norma Jean's daughter), I knew I wanted to use the Go Graduate Plus digital stamp brush set.  I love those feet!

The bottom half of the card except for the red grosgrain ribbon was made on My Digital Studio.  Once I printed that on my home printer, I added the grad stamp, brads and ribbon.  The grad stamp is from the retired set, Great Grad.

Shay Day

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I am so glad I belong to the My Digital Studio ning group here.  I stumbled across Rebecca Filipek's MDS scrapbook sketches.  She has done a great job at designing sketches that inspire me to keep scrapping, especially on My Digital Studio.  This Shay Day layout was inspired by one of her sketches.  You don't have to own My Digital Studio to join.  This site is inspires me in all my paper crafting.

Happy Mom Day

You know I love the sketch challenges on Paper Craft Planet.  Lori is our hostess this week and she has a good one for us.  I used it to make this Mother's Day card.

I used the new paper and stamp set that was offered in April's promotion.  The stamp set is Four Frames and the paper is Paisley Petals.  You should put these on your wish list.  They will be available in the 2011-2012 catalog.

I had a question about what stamp sets were used in the SU corporate birthday card I posted yesterday.  That card is awesome and was all created in My Digital Studio.  Here is the card with the stamp sets used from My Digital Studio.  After they printed it, they added a little bling.

Here are the items numbers for the stamp sets in My Digital Studio:

118828 - Party Hearty (This set comes with the My Digital Studio software.  You can order it for Photoshop too).

119098 - A Little Birthday Cheer

124015 - Bring on the Cake

All of these sets are available in the big catalog except for Bring on the Cake.  It was in the occasions mini.

Scrappy Sunday - Moving Lines

I am healing well from my foot surgery.  I went to the doctor today and my foot looks a lot better than I thought it would.  Of course, I took pictures...hee hee!  The incision looks great.  My foot is still swollen and now I can start to walk on it.  I am a little slow.  My mom came out to be my chauffeur, since I can't drive for another week.  It is nice to have more company while I heal.  I am going to get spoiled.  REALLY spoiled...it that is even possible...LOL!

Since I was on the couch all week with my foot up, the only opportunity to create was digital scrapbooking.  I am loving it!  I played along with Susanna again at Paper Craft Planet.  We used one of Noell's flexible templates again called Moving Lines.

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Here are the pages separately:

Enjoy the Journey

I am still having fun digital scrapbooking and following along with the Scrappy Sunday challenges at Paper Craft Planet.  This week we used the Third Lines Flexible Template by Noell Hyman at Paperclipping.  These templates are such a great way to inspire your creativity.

My layout is about Great Grandma Medsker.  She is 93 now and looks great!  I hope to reach 93 plus and want to enjoy the journey.  That is how I chose the title of my layout.

I tried to figure out how to Photoshop the glare off of Great Grandma's glasses, but couldn't figure it out.  I have that on my list to learn now.  I didn't want to get hung up on that and not scrap this layout, so I reduced the glare just a little and scrapped the pictures anyway.

Scrappy Sunday March: Week Two

I am still having fun playing along with the Scrappy Challenges at Paper Craft Planet.  This week we used Noell Hyman's Train Station Flexible Template.  These flexible templates are so easy to use.  I used the template for the second page of my double-page layout.  Here is my layout:

Double page

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This week I am holding my first My Digital Studio class.  I am inspired again to scrap my pictures and am so excited about it.

SAC Museum

I have been wanting to start scrapbooking again, since it was my first love of paper crafting.  To give me the push I need each week to make a layout, I decided to start playing along with the Scrappy Sunday challenge on Paper Craft Planet.  This month the sponsor is Paperclipping, and Noell has given us a great flexible template to inspire our creativity.  I love the idea of a flexible template, because I can be more creative with my layout.

I am so excited to use My Digital Studio to scrapbook again.  Here is the layout I created for this week's challenge:

page 1

page 2

Double layout

You can click on the layout to enlarge it.

Tate's Thank U

Tate had some friends over on Saturday to celebrate his birthday.  We had a couple of planned activities, but left them alone most of the time.  Seth and I hid in our bedroom watching tv and checking on them every so often.  I think they all had a great time.  I decided to make Tate's thank you cards during one of my times to check on them.  I used My Digital Studio and I created them in a jiffy.  Love that program!

After I made the card, I opened up my PSE program and put four on one page, so I could print four card fronts on one 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock.  Viola!  I was done.

This was a designer card available in the program.  I just changed the main image.  There are so many great designer projects you can use, when you don't have a lot of time.  Did I mention I love this program?  LOL!

He's Going to be TEN

We can't believe Tate is going to be "10" this month.  Wow!  Time flies, when you are raising kids.  Usually we just invite Grandmas and Grandpas to have cake with us for the boys' birthday, but since Tate is going into double digits I told him he could invite a couple of friends over to play and have pizza and cupcakes.  Yummy!  More cake for me...hee hee!  I love cake!

Since I never make birthday party invitations, I am taking this opportunity to make one for him.  I love how easy it was to change the birthday invite template from My Digital Studio.  This invite had an owl on the front and a tree on the inside page.  I was able to play with it and make it perfect for Tate's invite.  He loves to skateboard and he has been snowboarding this year.  It turned out perfect!  He might only be giving out a couple, but his mom got to play with her toys anyway.

I deleted the address and phone number for security reasons.

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My sister sent me these phrases.  
It is nice to know how many times I am quoting the bible.  
I need to go back to my bible study next school year.

Top 50 Most Popular Phrases From The Bible

In our modern culture, we commonly use phrases which have originated 

from the Bible without even knowing their origin.

Note- Some originate from the Bible yet have changed over time.

• 50 - "My cup runneth over" - Psalms 23:5
• 49 - "O ye, of little faith" - Luke 12:28
• 48 - "Living off the fat of the land" - Genesis 45:17-18
• 47 - "Like a lamb led to the slaughter" - Jeremiah 11:19 / Isaiah 53:7
• 46 - "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" - Matthew 26:41
• 45 - "Flesh and blood" - Matthew 16:17
• 44 - "Spare the rod and spoil the child" - Proverbs 13:24 / 23:13
• 43 - "Forbidden fruit" - Genesis 2 & 3
• 42 - "Can a leopard change his spots?" - Jeremiah 13:23
• 41 - "A man after my own heart" - Samuel 13:14 / Acts 13:22
• 40 - "Do not cast your pearls before swine" - Matthew 7:6
• 39 - "The fruit of your loins" - Genesis 35:11
• 38 - "The powers that be" - Romans 13: 1-2
• 37 - "Drop in the bucket" - Isaiah 40:15
• 36 - "Eat, drink, and be merry" - Ecclesiastes 8:15
• 35 - "Eye for an eye" - Exodus 21:24 / Leviticus 24:20 / Deuteronomy 19:21 / Matthew 5:38
• 34 - "The good Samaritan" - Luke 10:25-37
• 33 - "He that is without sin, cast the first stone" - John 8:7
• 32 - "Labor of love" - 1 Thessalonians 1:3
• 31 - "The root of the matter" - Job 19:28
• 30 - "Fight the good fight" - 1 Timothy 6.12
• 29 - "Letter of the law" - 2 Corinthians 3:6
• 28 - "Many are called, but few are chosen" - Matthew 22:14
• 27 - "Man does not live by bread alone" - Deuteronomy 8:3 / Matthew 4:4
• 26 - "Salt of the earth" - Matthew 5:13
• 25 - "No rest for the wicked" or "No rest for the weary" - Isaiah 57:21
• 24 - "Sweat of your brow" - Genesis 3:19
• 23 - "Apple of my eye" - Deuteronomy 2:10 / Zechariah 2:8
• 22 - "The love of money is the root of all evil" - 1 Timothy 6:10
• 21 - "All things must pass" or "This too shall pass" - Matthew 24:6-8
• 20 - "The truth shall make you free" John 8:32
• 19 - "There's nothing new under the sun" - Ecclesiastes 1:9
• 18 - "For everything there is a season" - Ecclesiastes 3:1
• 17 - "As old as Methuselah" - Genesis 5: 25-27
• 16 - "Ashes to ashes" - Genesis 3:19
• 15 - "Twinkling of an eye" - 1 Corinthians 15:52
• 14 - "A fly in the ointment" - Ecclesiastes 10:1
• 13 - "Faith will move mountains" - Matthew 21:21
• 12 - "Signs of the times" - Matthew 16:3
• 11 - "It is better to give than to receive" - Acts 20:35
• 10 - "My brother's keeper" - Genesis 4:9
• 9 - "Physician, heal thyself" - Luke 4:23
• 8 - "Out of the mouths of babes" - Psalm 8:2
• 7 - "How the mighty have fallen" - 2 Samuel 1:19
• 6 - "Bite the dust" - Psalms 72: 9
• 5 - "Sour grapes" - Ezekiel 18:2
• 4 - "The writing on the wall" - Daniel 5:5
• 3 - "At my wit's end" - Psalm 107:27
• 2 - "Blind leading the blind" - Matthew 15:14 / Luke 6:39
• 1 - "By the skin of our teeth" - Job 19:20

Merry Christmas

I want to wish all of you who celebrate this wonderful season a very Merry Christmas.

Jesus is the reason for the season!