Starting to go Digital??

Today I've been playing with Digital Scrapbooking. I signed up to do Jessica Sprague's Up and Running with Photoshop quite some time ago but then decided I wasn't interested in doing digital layouts. Over the past few weeks I've been playing around a bit and decided it was quite interesting, much quicker, less messy and perhaps, in the long run, cheaper. So, I went back to Up and Running and this afternoon I've been playing - a lot! I'm finding it quite interesting but am still not 100% sure that it'll be the way I go. My main problem with it is printing out the pages. I don't have a printer that could do 12x12 pages so I would either have to go 8.5x11, 8x8 or smaller.

This layout was the assignment from week 1.

Week 2's class layout. And finally, Week 2's layout that we had to design and complete ourselves. I wasn't sure how I would get on with this but I'm quite pleased with the end result. However, when I tried to print it onto photo paper at 8x8, the colours were very wishy washy and I'm not as happy with it any more. (Kit:Promise by Shabby Princess, stamp:Stamped Moments by Katie Pertiet, white paper:White Tighties by Amy Teets and Alphabet:Snow Kissed Christmas by Betsy Tuma which I've changed to fit in with the colours in the paper)

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If anyone else has recently gone digital, I would be interested to hear what you think of the whole process and whether you're happy with your layouts once they're printed out.

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JYC Day 5

Day 5 complete. I was going to leave it till tomorrow but thought if I started doing that I might be on a slippery slope and I wouldn't finish the album. So, while watching X Factor tonight ;o), I cut and stuck and got the layout finished (almost!). The bottom left patterned paper will have a photo on it - once I find the advent calendar I was talking about. We obviously put it somewhere safe when we packed up the decorations last Christmas and we haven't found it again yet.

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The bottom photo isn't quite right but given the lighting it was taken in, it will do for now.

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Have a great weekend.

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We've made a start!

Emily wanted the tree up this weekend, and up it's gone!

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JYC Day 4

I've completed my layout for today early as I'm going out in an hour and then have some things planned for this afternoon so wasn't sure when I would get it finished. Hope to be back later to add to the blog ;o)

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