Another FREE class from Jessica Sprague

To celebrate 6 years running, Jessica Sprague and team have posted a free class to get you hooked!! Photo Editing: Frame Ups & Special Effects 1. And you will be hooked! I adore her teaching style!! Her classes are filled with an incredible amount of information and tons of free digital STUFF!!! I highly recommend the classes found here for beginners & advanced users both.

New Year, New House, New State, New Everything

What a time our family had in 2012! 

We have since moved from my beloved home state of Texas to the gorgeous North Carolina. WOW. Luckily, we have documented most of our move & shenanigans with iphone photos & Instagrams, so I am looking forward to creating some memory pages! In the mean time, I wanted to update some of my freebies.

I have fallen in love with the Smash Book way of life & ideas by K&Co. I love the art journaling aspect of all of it! And I have come to sincerely appreciate Becky Higgins Project Life. So excited about her & Jessica Sprague doing a Digital Project Life class! Fun!!  This is a perfect class for beginning digital scrappers!! Using templates & ready made backgrounds, Jessica Sprague leads the absolute beginner in Photoshop Elements or one of the PS Creative Suites to creating some fast, easy & fabulous memory pages!

So, since the craziness of last year & not being able to produce digital designs, (instead it was all real life stuff!) I will be repackaging & redesigning & revamping my existing kits for a digital project life kit & posting here ...most of them for free for you! Because I really want to see these designs used.  Check back toward the end of the month of February for links to download my freebies.

From the Pen Tablet Basics Class

This is me in Hawaii! Everything is from the Pen Tablet Basics for Scrapbookers class supplies except for the flower in the tag. :) I drew the plumeria to match the one in my hair. Ha! This was an awesome class, in fact, one of my favorites!

PonyRides & Longhorns

Josey and I having a blast in Texas! Pony rides were only a few bucks at the Rodeo, but we stood in line for a few turns because she was set on riding the white one. :) Ok. 

The other pics are during the bull run parade. She wondered why the big cow wasn't going anywhere! Dude. That's my girl!!

This layout is one of the templates that I designed in our Digi: In Deep class. Again, it is the older version of the class. The supplies used were from the class materials plus Jessica Sprague's Stitched Chip & Yellow Paisley paper from 'Strawberry Lemonade'.

1st Lesson from Jessica Sprague

Since I had already tried learning Photoshop on my own, with lots of free tutorials & books, etc. I began my classes with JS at the intermediate level with the Now We're Rockin' class.  I can't begin to tell you how much I learned in just the few short lessons from this class. Absolutely wonderful! This was when I finally started to realize that anything is possible with this crazy software!  Keep in mind that this layout was from an earlier version of the class and she has added loads of new content, but similar. Also, she has added different supplies from other designers that are now part of her store or some from other digi relationships. :) I think the new stuff looks just as fabulous and keeps everything fresh and up to what is trending now in the Scrapbooking World. Anyway, just wanted to share a few of the neat layouts.

Daisy Chains Journaling reads: We took a trip with Grandma and Grandpa Cobb to see their home state of Michigan in the summer of 1999. The Cobb Family was having a reunion...Aunt Esther’s home in Sandusky, MI.  Sandusky was such a beautiful place. The pond at Aunt Esther’s was serene and relaxing. Miriam loved the grass. It was so soft and luxurious, no stickers. Cousin Kimi made...daisy chain crowns. Always remember your delight that day playing barefoot outside, pretending to be fairies and princesses...& daisies.

As you can see here, the class supplies are just awesome!

Some of the supplies from this class include:

So Much to be Thankful For Album Kit, She is Me album Kit, Notes to Self Album Kit,  Home Away from Home Kit, and various other papers and elements by J.Sprague

Jason Gaylor's Valentastic Valentine's brush

• Brown kraft paper: Being kit by Jen Wilson (JWD)
• Background Overlay: Bella Backdrops by Nancie Rowe Janitz (SA)
• Flourishes: On The Edge Flourishes No. 2 by Katie Pertiet (DD)

an exclusive for the class Potluck Kit by SweetShoppeDesigns

DesignerDigitals.com and Katie Pertiet for loads of lesson #2 supplies

• Red paper: from the Cotton Easter kit
• Striped paper: from the King Me kit
• Graph paper: from the Grace kit
• Overlay from the Graphic Sun Prints Overlays set
• Pin tag: from the Botanist No. 11 kit

Botanical brush: from Sun Prints No. 2 set by Katie Pertiet

• Striped paper: from Peachy Keen kit by Rhonna Farrer (2Peas)
• Blue paper: from Enlighten Paper Add-on by Jen Wilson (JWD)
• Scalloped paper mask: from Border Templates set by Katie Pertiet (DD)
• Scalloped border: from Festival Kit by Shabby Princess (SP)
• Grungy frame: from Split Pea kit by Rhonna Farrer (2peas)
• Negatives frame: from Storyboard Negatives set by Katie Pertiet (DD)
• Aged alpha: from Botanist Notebook vol 1 kit by Katie Pertiet (DD)
• Circle Date brush set: Digital Dates Vol. 4 set by Katie Pertiet (DD)
• Brown paper: from the Fairy Dreamer kit by Katie Pertiet
• Polka-dot paper: from the Botanist No. 7 kit by Katie Pertiet
• Flourish frame: From On the Edge Flourish No. 3 brush set by Katie Pertiet
• Flourish brush: From On the Edge Flourish No 2 brush set by Katie Pertiet
• Negative frame: From Snap Frame set by Katie Pertiet
• Title lines: from Jack-n-me alphabet by Katie Pertiet
• Swirl brush from A La Mode brush set by MaryAnn Wise
• Blue paper: from the Delightful kit by Michelle Coleman
• Pink paper: from Beautiful Journey paper pack by Michelle Coleman
• Scalloped mask: from the Serendipity Element Pack by Michelle Coleman
• Flourish brush (brown): from the Boho Flourish Brush set by Michelle Coleman
• Swirl brush (white): from the Delightful kit by Michelle Coleman
• Oval tag: from the Apron Strings 2 kit by Leora Sanford
• Twill ribbon: from the Twilled Phrases set by Jackie Eckles
•  Brown paper: From the Everyday: Secret Garden paper pack by Meredith Fenwick
• Red paper: From the Be Mine page package by Jen Wilson
• Blue paper and text paper (made into an overlay): From the Fancy Free Paper pack by Jen Wilson
• File folder: from the Catalogued Kit by Katie Pertiet
• Love cardboard circl: from the One Haute Momma kit by Jen Wilson

More from the older version of Now We're Rockin'

She has the cutest smile!!

Text: Finally I'm Finished! Way to go, Josey! Joselyn wanted to 'do school' with her big sisters. Every day, Josey would ask, 'Mom, can we do my cutting school now?' She was so proud when she completed her workbook

Josey loved using this workbook by Kumon. It was what she called 'her cutting school' and it was a wonderful way to use her time while mom was helping her big sisters with their school work.

All of the supplies used were from the class supplies of Now We're Rockin' from Jessica Sprague.

Capture the Flag!

This layout comes from the Now We're Rockin' class by Jessica Sprague. It was from an earlier version of the class & I think the new class looks fantastic!!

Here's what it says!

Capture the Flag Two Teams. Two Flags. Over 250 Water Balloons. Purple Against Orange. Separated by more than 100 yards of Wooded Cover. When you can't seem to score or get your sister's flag... ...send in the 4 yr old! Circle Text: In war there is no substitute for victory. Gen. MacArthur There is at least one thing worse than fighting with Allies-And that is to fight without them. Sir Winston Churchill I gave them fair warning. Pres. Geo W Bush

All of the supplies used were from the class materials except for the splatter brush.

This was an awesome day of fun! We just played and played...of course this was after filling the hundreds of water balloons. :) I love my family!

Art of Digital Design 2

We are in the final week of this 5 week class taught by Carina Gardner. The Art of Digital Design II is another Jessica Sprague class specifically meant for aspiring DigiGoddesses... Ha! ...or just regular daydreamers like me. It has certainly been eye-opening, to say the least! Loads of new ideas to further your time and effort with digital items. She teaches a different thought process to use when designing. There were several lessons that really helped me get a grasp on just the workflow aspect of creating digital designs. Fabulous and well worth it! Now, on to designing.

New Blog Design...

Ok. I am going to attempt to get caught up on posting. 

First things first...

This cute little layout is part of a wonderful class, 

Blog Design Basics for Blogger, by designer Crystal Wilkerson at JessicaSprague.com. I heart that place!! Soon I will be able to design my own Blog Template, but for the time being, this suits me perfectly.  I adore the colors, quirky and fun images, and the font is awesome. Go check it out if you are looking for a kick to give your blog.

Inspiration Everywhere! Free Class

Just one more reason to love Jessica Sprague! She is offering another free class starting November 29th called Inspiration Everywhere. You do need to register to receive all the incredible goodies, though. Calling all designers! Scrappers, Quilters, Painters, Musicians, etc & etc again. Read all about the details here...Go Be Inspired!

Silly Willy Nilly old Bear

This was the project completed in Week 4 of the Pen Tablet Basics for Scrapbookers. This was an AWESOME class! It had an incredible amount of information about using your Pen Tablet (i.e. even my old little Bamboo Fun tablet...mine is an older version that was about half of this price) with digital scrapbooking. The video lessons were so easy to follow! And we mostly used templates by Jessica or one of her contributing designers which made making the project easy while learning new techniques with the pen! More later!!

Sprague Classes

In December 09, I started looking at more online classes that could teach not only the fundamentals of the software program Adobe CS3 but also, the quick and easy IMPORTANT stuff for digital scrapbooking. I had been a huge fan of Jessica Sprague & her blog because of all the sincere help & tutorials and her evident desire for people to understand how much fun scrapbooking can be.  There are always free kits and free tutorials available at her website.  But her classes!!! WOW! Fantastic! So in depth, so much detail, yet everything is so organized and planned out and ...here is the main part... taught at an everyman's level. These classes could be taught to someone that is just loading the software on their machine to someone who has been using it for years...there really is that much great, well executed information taught clearly. And, she thinks you're awesome. :) Bonus.  The work I've been doing in her classes have made me sign up for more & more! Simply because I have been able to advance so quickly in my understanding, the ease of the program now is a dream...and I have soooo much more to learn. So go check it out!
I can't wait to post all the great layouts created with the course materials from Jessica's classes.