Charity Kimono Blog Hop... Get Your Freebie!!!

Hello!  So glad you can join us for our Art of Digital Design Blog Hop!  You're going to find tons of goodies along the way :D  So, What's a Blog Hop??  It's where you "hop" from blog to blog, picking up goodies!!!  They're free!

Here is a preview of the QuickPage that I created using the Kimono Kit:

Download Expired.

Earlier this year, I took an Art of Digital Design class at JessicaSprague.com.  Right before the class started was when the Tsunami hit Japan.  We agreed that after our class was done, we would create a charity kit where the proceeds would go to the American Red Cross to benefit those in Japan.  Here are the previews of the kit that we all donated to:

So, now what do you do?  Below you'll find a link to download my quickpage of our charity collaboration kit.  Go ahead and download it - it's a FREEBIE!  Take a look around at my blog...  and then visit the next designer blog  Jellybean Design.  Also, if you'd like please considering purchasing the 

Kimono Kit by visiting JessicaSprague.com.  It's on sale today for 25% off!!

To visit the previous blog hop designer:  The Digital Celt

To visit the next blog hop designer:  Jellybean Design

Enjoy!!!


Link List:
To visit the designer before me:  The Digital Celt

To visit the next designer:  Jellybean Design

My Quickpage:  Download QuickPage Here

Kimono Kit on JessicaSprague.com link Here

Are You Ready for a Blog Hop??

Are you ready for a Japanese Kimono themed Blog Hop??  Tonight at midnight Eastern time, the Art of Digital Design blog hop goes live!  There will be freebie quick pages galore, all of them created using papers and elements from the Kimono Kit (see below!), which is for sale right now at Jessica Sprague's website. 


All of the proceeds of the sales will go to the Red Cross to benefit those who suffered due to the Japan earthquakes. You are able to purchase the kit at 25% off until Sunday, June 5th, midnight eastern, after which it will be sold at full price.  So go grab yourself some digi goodness, knowing that you are doing a good thing at the same time! Happy scrapping...see you there!


Be sure to come back here - to my blog to get the Quick Page that I made with this kit!

Art of Digital Design

(Here's a preview of the mini kit that I made for my final for our AODD class.)
I've been digital scrapbooking for over 5 years.  Wow, that's a long time!  I have more layouts than I can post... which I guess is a GOOD thing!

For quite some time though - I've been wanting to learn more about designing... How do I make all those really cool things that I love to use???  Well, I have photoshop and I have illustrator.. How hard can it be??

So, a few months ago - I signed up for the Art of Digital Design class through JessicaSprague.com.  Loved the class - learned a lot!  Now.. it's what do I do with all of this knowledge that I have??  That's my biggest question.

I do know that I will be doing some designing.  I haven't decided if I'm going to apply to work with shoppes or not yet... I haven't gotten that far.  I will be posting the stuff that I worked on in class... and I have started my businesses own page that you can *like* on Facebook.  Will get all of the links for that up shortly!!!

I do know that I will be taking the knowledge that I've learned through all these classes that I've taken & this one in particular.. and do something with it.  Whether I do Scrapbook design, design layouts for photographers or photo restoration (I have a lot of knowledge in that dept. too!).. I'll be doing something!!!

Springtime is in the Air

Well we all know that there hasn't been much sunshine lately! One of those sunny days in late April or early May - we went to Bellingham to pick up a baby swing.

Days before, Rod had pulled the one we used with all of the rest of the kids, out of the attic. The circut board died - so we needed something new. Rod check craigslist and there were a ton on there for sale. If you need one - that is the place to look!

Anyway, on the way home, I needed to nurse Jevonna - so we stopped at a park to let the kids play for a bit.  Rod took a few pictures...

Anyway, one of the places that I like to get my digital scrapbook supplies from is having a scrapbook challenge. I downloaded their free template and thought I would put in an entry.

If you're interested, here's the place to find out the challenge info:

http://www.theshabbyshoppe.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/03/easy-as-pie-template-challenge-two/

Jedediah Then & Now: 5 Years

(layout - Jedediah Then & Now: 5 Years)

We were supposed to do a layout for out class about Then & Now. I chose a couple of shots of Jedediah. In shot one, he was almost 3, in shot 2, he is almost 8. It's amazing how much he has changed! I'm thinking that if I were to edit this layout, that I may change the two photos... and see if I can find photos of him from those ages that are more of my "favorite" photos. I was late & wanted to get through the tutorials! I love JS's tuts!

My favorite thing out of this layout - the cool ampersand "&" sign at the top left - I learned how to fill that letter with a paper. Y'all know how much I love fonts & I can use any font & fill it with a cool paper! Something that looks really amazing & it's super easy to do (in photoshop anyway!)

What has amazed me about this class in particular, is that i'm learning the skills to actually create these cool background elements myself. I told Rod tonight - I don't think i'll ever go back to traditional scrapbooking! It's tooo much work!

Copyright © 2009-present by Zindra Nelson, zindra@yahoo.com

Happy Birthday Spencer Layout

(layout: my layout of Spencer's birthday at C.E.Cheese)

Awhile ago, I signed up for a digital scrapbooking class at jessicasprague.com. That was before I knew I was pregnant. Well needless to say, I did not keep up with the class because I've been sick & tired. So, the last couple of nights, after the kids went to bed - I've been working on my layouts. This is one of three from this class (although there are minor projects, that i'm not sure if i'll finish or post.)

What I really like about this layout is it's design. I learned how to use a brown overlay over the group shot that really made a difference in the photo - not that you can tell. What I really don't like about taking a digiscrapping class is that they kind of tell us what the design needs to be about. I do much better if my stuff comes from the heart.

What I'm hoping to do is create templates that I can reuse over and over by changing some of the features to fit the designs. In this class I'm learning a ton about designing - Photoshop is the bomb!

I've had a quite a few friends request info on digital scrapbooking and am considering putting together a workshop to show people how to get started. In my spare time, of course :D

Zindra's to do's:

get newsletter done

get ezine done

find someone to take over newsletter

help kids with display night projects

Birthday shop for Jedediah - we're getting him a new bike

check on a couple of bills

pay our pse bill & mom's pse bill

Figure out what we'll do for Jedi's birthday~

we're thinking maybe CECheese (his request)

Decide whether or not the kids are a going to horsecamp this summer

mail property taxes

Copyright © 2009-present by Zindra Nelson, zindra@yahoo.com

Woot! Winter Quarter IS DONE!

(Rod's Photoshop Final 50/50) I am so excited! Rod was able to finish his final - final project today and he took his Photoshop Final Exam. One more quarter down! We officially have two weeks of dad/evening time!  A couple of weeks ago I was stressed about these three final projects that had to be done.

Rod worked hard & got them done & they were fabulous. He will get two, if not three A's this quarter. In InDesign he got 100%! Uh, I've never done that! His InDesign & Photoshop final projects he got 50/50. I think on his third final project he got 94/100. So all's well!

Next quarter, he'll be studying *Multimedia Design *Digital Photography and *Web Design.

I'm up at 6 in the morning - Pregnancy has a way of messing with my schedule the first trimester. Sunday, I must have slept three quarters of the day. I know it's just part of the process. I was talking to Rod about it, and for some reason, I was thinking that because I know it happens, that this time, I would be able to overcome it... right.

Still praying about what to do about Josiah's coach. Haven't heard back from the President of LL about switching him out - but I sincerely hopes it happens soon. He's supposed to have practice tomorrow!

Jedediah is signed up for LL for the first time this year. I hope it's a good experience for him. We have the first pre-practice meeting on Tues. night.

Tonight we went to Big5 and picked up cleats. Josiah is in a 10.5 cleat! (He normally wears a 10!) We got Jedediah 5's. We also got Jed his first glove & first pair of Baseball pants. The team usually provides a set of clothing, but Josiah usually wears out an extra pair of baseball pants every year - so we thought ahead and got Jed an extra pair. Josiah has lots of clothing from over the past couple of years. Couldn't go get their socks/belt because we have to wait to find out what the team colors are.