These were so much fun and so easy to create. Using 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 cards with black and yellow cardstock scraps. I created these wonderful cards. I did use a Stampin Up punch out and CTMH ribbon for embellishments. SO EASY!!!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Preserving Photos of Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow Part 1
Preservation of Photos yesterday, today and tomorrow has many avenues. Photographs provide a graphic portrayal of our families history, but if we neglect and do not preserve our photographs, some of our history will fade away along with those images. 
The avenues that are out there range from good old traditional scrap-booking, storing photos on our computers or hard drives, digital photo frames and online book bound scrapbooks. I have to admit that scrap-booking has been more of a challenge for me spite the unlimited the avenues available to each of us to choose for storage. Why? Well today we have digital storage that is enormous instead of a roll of 35mm film that has to be developed and printed. We take hundreds of pictures that if not downloaded, categorized, edited, backed up, filed appropriately and stored in a safe place we fall behind and accessing those memories is a task only TIME can heal. How many can agree with me here?
For our family the old fashion scrapbook
is a treasure and stored in a safe and accessible place so we can take them out and view history and memories when we have family gatherings. I also have to admit I still have shoe boxes full prior to the digital age of photos that are still left to be scrap-booked. However it is my mission in my empty nest days to scrapbook my families memories and then to properly store these treasures so if a tragedy or natural disaster should hit we have back ups for all our families photos, history and memories. I have been scrap-booking for almost a quarter of century...25 years that is a long time and have to also admit I don't have it all done. My years of scrap-booking has had its own seasons of plenty and want. During the days of my children's younger years 35mm photos were the only means of taking photos and preserving our families history and memories. Then came along digital and in the year 2000 our life changed in the way we took pictures and stored them. In 2001 my digital library was huge. I have a natural love of photography and the new digital age gave me unlimited and free photo takes which resulted an overwhelming digital library that has continued to today. TIME... is needed in everyones life to go through these enormous libraries and sort, catalog, file in folders and of course label and date each one. Then on to the truth, most of us don't have that much time in today's world. I still fall behind but here are a few tips to get you started on a road of organized photo history.
1. Begin today.
2. Start with your most recent photos and work to the older photos as time allows.
3. Download to computer and label the folders individually. If this is all the time you have then get this part done first and be sure to label the file with date and event.
4. As time allows even if its 30 minutes to an hour one dreary afternoon. Begin to dissect each file folder, I know there are the blurry photos, they really need to be discarded first. You only have 120 photos or more of the "Blue Bonnet" takes. So you have now reduced it to 110 takes of the same shoot. If you have 20 shots of the same pose you need to place them in order of best to worst shot and discard duplicates of those. One by one you have gradually reduced hopefully your batch of photos taken and they are now in order of Best to OK.
5. Next would be to upload the BEST photos to your nearest photo printing business. Most offer free storage and of course as time allow you can always go back and create a bound photo scrapbook, print pictures for your own scrap-booking days or even utilize these photo printing businesses to share your albums with family members without the use of the post office. By uploading your edited album, you have also created one back up for those precious memories should the hard drive crash or natural disaster occur at home. Remember to not store all your treasures in one basket either. Select 2-3 reliable printing companies in order to avoid the loss of memories due to unfortunate disasters in the business world.
6. From here TIME is another factor. Sharing, displaying and working with your photos is the next step to decide on. From here they are organized on the computer and one back up has been created. HOWEVER, will they ever be viewed from here? How many of us have memories of our camping trip that we actually access the file from our computer to share with others? In my family, if the photos have not been printed and placed in a temporary archival photo album later to be scraped, or a bound scrapbook created on line they will remain on my computer and not viewed because well most of my family members are not going to stand around my computer to view our pictures. There are other options available and each person needs to decide how they will utilize technology or TIME to store and create a way of sharing those memories with others around them.
7. As you complete and edit each file folder on your computer, uploaded to a reliable source then the next step is to yet again back up your photos and for my families history I have learned the hard way. Its best to choose a couple of methods. Flash drives
are larger and larger these days and can store quiet a bit. I use these but I also use a external hard drive
that is kept in a fire proof box when not in use. A specific hard drive for only photo archival is the choice I have made. There is always a chance of failure with any of our technology today so it is worth the time and effort to have at least 3 places for your stored treasures.
In this Part 1 series you have EDITED, LABELED and FILED your photos from your camera on to one source your computer. You have created an online source of BACK UP for later use in scrap-booking and sharing your memories and have BACKED UP to at least 2 other sources. These steps are very important to your families history and memories. Your now set to move on to the next step that will be covered in Part 2 of this series. Don't put this part off or the unexpected will hit, technology does have its fall back and some of us have learned the hard way and lost a great deal of treasured memories to this technology. Your now set to move on to the next step that will be covered in Part 2 of this series. Downloading, edited, labeling, filing, and backing up is the way of todays photo memories IT IS A MUST!!!
The avenues that are out there range from good old traditional scrap-booking, storing photos on our computers or hard drives, digital photo frames and online book bound scrapbooks. I have to admit that scrap-booking has been more of a challenge for me spite the unlimited the avenues available to each of us to choose for storage. Why? Well today we have digital storage that is enormous instead of a roll of 35mm film that has to be developed and printed. We take hundreds of pictures that if not downloaded, categorized, edited, backed up, filed appropriately and stored in a safe place we fall behind and accessing those memories is a task only TIME can heal. How many can agree with me here?
For our family the old fashion scrapbook
is a treasure and stored in a safe and accessible place so we can take them out and view history and memories when we have family gatherings. I also have to admit I still have shoe boxes full prior to the digital age of photos that are still left to be scrap-booked. However it is my mission in my empty nest days to scrapbook my families memories and then to properly store these treasures so if a tragedy or natural disaster should hit we have back ups for all our families photos, history and memories. I have been scrap-booking for almost a quarter of century...25 years that is a long time and have to also admit I don't have it all done. My years of scrap-booking has had its own seasons of plenty and want. During the days of my children's younger years 35mm photos were the only means of taking photos and preserving our families history and memories. Then came along digital and in the year 2000 our life changed in the way we took pictures and stored them. In 2001 my digital library was huge. I have a natural love of photography and the new digital age gave me unlimited and free photo takes which resulted an overwhelming digital library that has continued to today. TIME... is needed in everyones life to go through these enormous libraries and sort, catalog, file in folders and of course label and date each one. Then on to the truth, most of us don't have that much time in today's world. I still fall behind but here are a few tips to get you started on a road of organized photo history.1. Begin today.
2. Start with your most recent photos and work to the older photos as time allows.
3. Download to computer and label the folders individually. If this is all the time you have then get this part done first and be sure to label the file with date and event.
4. As time allows even if its 30 minutes to an hour one dreary afternoon. Begin to dissect each file folder, I know there are the blurry photos, they really need to be discarded first. You only have 120 photos or more of the "Blue Bonnet" takes. So you have now reduced it to 110 takes of the same shoot. If you have 20 shots of the same pose you need to place them in order of best to worst shot and discard duplicates of those. One by one you have gradually reduced hopefully your batch of photos taken and they are now in order of Best to OK.
5. Next would be to upload the BEST photos to your nearest photo printing business. Most offer free storage and of course as time allow you can always go back and create a bound photo scrapbook, print pictures for your own scrap-booking days or even utilize these photo printing businesses to share your albums with family members without the use of the post office. By uploading your edited album, you have also created one back up for those precious memories should the hard drive crash or natural disaster occur at home. Remember to not store all your treasures in one basket either. Select 2-3 reliable printing companies in order to avoid the loss of memories due to unfortunate disasters in the business world.
6. From here TIME is another factor. Sharing, displaying and working with your photos is the next step to decide on. From here they are organized on the computer and one back up has been created. HOWEVER, will they ever be viewed from here? How many of us have memories of our camping trip that we actually access the file from our computer to share with others? In my family, if the photos have not been printed and placed in a temporary archival photo album later to be scraped, or a bound scrapbook created on line they will remain on my computer and not viewed because well most of my family members are not going to stand around my computer to view our pictures. There are other options available and each person needs to decide how they will utilize technology or TIME to store and create a way of sharing those memories with others around them.
7. As you complete and edit each file folder on your computer, uploaded to a reliable source then the next step is to yet again back up your photos and for my families history I have learned the hard way. Its best to choose a couple of methods. Flash drives
are larger and larger these days and can store quiet a bit. I use these but I also use a external hard drive that is kept in a fire proof box when not in use. A specific hard drive for only photo archival is the choice I have made. There is always a chance of failure with any of our technology today so it is worth the time and effort to have at least 3 places for your stored treasures. In this Part 1 series you have EDITED, LABELED and FILED your photos from your camera on to one source your computer. You have created an online source of BACK UP for later use in scrap-booking and sharing your memories and have BACKED UP to at least 2 other sources. These steps are very important to your families history and memories. Your now set to move on to the next step that will be covered in Part 2 of this series. Don't put this part off or the unexpected will hit, technology does have its fall back and some of us have learned the hard way and lost a great deal of treasured memories to this technology. Your now set to move on to the next step that will be covered in Part 2 of this series. Downloading, edited, labeling, filing, and backing up is the way of todays photo memories IT IS A MUST!!!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Special Offer March & April CTMH
Try our Upcoming Specials and The Stamp of the Month still available through March 31, 2012. I am offering a 20% discount, the same CTMH discount I receive Today & Tomorrow March 25th, by email only and credit card payments. Orders will be shipped directly to your door. Email your phone number with order and I will call to get CC information for payment on orders.
April 2012 Campaign
Get Ready for some amazing new layouts with the papers featured with this special. You will HAVE to have this special the colors are amazing!!!!!
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Scrapbook Layout with CTMH Roxie Paper Packet
CTMH Products:
Roxie Lv. 2 Paper Packet & Colonial White Cardstock as base, Color Ready Kraft Borders, Coordinating Stamp Pads Black & Desert Sand & Ribbon, Liquid Glass & Liquid Stardust Glitz Gel, Spray Pen using 2 drops black re-inker, Cricut for Letters using Black cardstock.
The Layout is featured on pg. 23 in the 2011 Autumn/Winter Idea Book with a few modifications. I used the Reflections Program Layout cutting guide featured on pg 54 in the Program Guide (Main Frame-Vertical Window). I used my Cricut Cutter to cut out in Black cardstock the letters for my layout and using the Liquid Glass and Glitz to give a little "Bling". The base page was antiqued with black and using the Spray pen with Black reinker, I gave the page a spritz to add dimension. This layout was labor intensive and took 2 hours to complete. Considerable time was given to all the detail of the layout, be looking for more layouts and hope you enjoy.
The Layout is featured on pg. 23 in the 2011 Autumn/Winter Idea Book with a few modifications. I used the Reflections Program Layout cutting guide featured on pg 54 in the Program Guide (Main Frame-Vertical Window). I used my Cricut Cutter to cut out in Black cardstock the letters for my layout and using the Liquid Glass and Glitz to give a little "Bling". The base page was antiqued with black and using the Spray pen with Black reinker, I gave the page a spritz to add dimension. This layout was labor intensive and took 2 hours to complete. Considerable time was given to all the detail of the layout, be looking for more layouts and hope you enjoy.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Scrapin' & Stampin': Featured Projects
CTMH Typeset Paper Packets
Using Typeset Paper Packets and coordinating card-stock from CTMH you can make these adorable layouts with your own embellishments. I used one of the Stamp Sets with hearts and used the clear detail embossing powder to bring out the colors. I also incorporated some layouts from the Magic layouts book to include more photos in the layouts. I used a "Stampin Up" punch for the branch embellishments and some ribbon from their line but the layout was made using 99% CTMH products.
This was so much fun putting together and just love the Typeset Paper Packet. I was able to create roughly 16 pages with 1 paper packet, 1 cardstock combo packet and a few additional Desert Sand Cardstock. All thats left is to journal a few spots and I'm done. What a delight the CTMH products are. Be looking for the Roxio Paper Packets in the next featured projects. If interested in the designs or layouts used please email me at ldjohnson65@yahoo.com and I will get you the layouts featured. Happy Scrapin'!!!!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
2011 "New Beginnings"
Here we are in the New Year of 2011. Life has been a world wind, running around in the busy of life. Raising kids, keeping them on the right path, directing their paths, capturing the joys they bring. The days are flying by I think faster than the speed of light.
I am on the down hill slide of letting go of yet another child and letting them venture out into the world of the unknown. In May my second daughter, Kelsi, will Graduate from High School and my heart is breaking that my nest is growing empty. My daughter of almost 18 years on the 23rd of this month will soon graduate and I am already shedding tears of joy and sadness that this chapter in my life is closing and yet opening to new adventures with her. The days are being numbered and leave little room to set and relish in these last days with her at home. We are scurrying around to Basketball games, Project Graduation meetings, fundraisers, filling out FAFSA forms and submitting School applications. There is little time to even sleep. LOL The drama of High School, Kelsi is quick to say she wants to leave behind. I have to agree with her. I was never one for the drama that high school seemed to always hold.
The friendship I hold with my oldest daughter of 25 years, it is so sweet and precious and she has been gone from the nest now for almost 8 years. She is a graduate of WTAMU and married to a treasure of a Man, Nathan, a joyful son Tony & I have gained. Nathan and Candi now live in Arkansas and have found their little nest to build and are so blessed to have family in the area to love them and direct them. I am at peace knowing they have found their church home and have family to hold them when times are tough and in times of joy. I am so busy still raising these kiddos at home, I sometimes feel guilty for not being their more for them. It gives me much peace knowing family is close by when I can't be.
My youngest of almost 15 years, on the10th of this month, he is my baby and yet my mirror as to which I am learning what it is like to "Pay for your Raisin'" Boys are so much different than girls, they fear less, take more risks, just overall are so much different to raise. He is the baby, and will be at home all alone for his last few years of school. I just pray I can raise him to be a Great Man someday. One of honor, respect, Godly influence, compassion, honesty, the list goes on. I can only pray and hope that there will come a day when his big arms will circle around me and hold me instead of despise me. More to come on that story in the days, months and years ahead.
Scrap booking, well there has not been much of that on my calendar. I wish there was because I want to capture the moments of joy with my family and friends. Time is a huge factor in accomplishing that and space. Seems there is not much of either on my calendar. My next project I think will be to work on something Kelsi has requested. She would like to give her friends a sentiment album of their years growing up. I think the plan will be to work with pages a little bigger than 6 x 6 so they can be bound together with clear covers. More to come on the dimensions and design I hope in the near future.
To all I wish you a Happy New Year and one of these days maybe, just maybe, I will be able to share with you a little of my passion in scrap booking or cardmaking. See ya in 2011!!!!!
I am on the down hill slide of letting go of yet another child and letting them venture out into the world of the unknown. In May my second daughter, Kelsi, will Graduate from High School and my heart is breaking that my nest is growing empty. My daughter of almost 18 years on the 23rd of this month will soon graduate and I am already shedding tears of joy and sadness that this chapter in my life is closing and yet opening to new adventures with her. The days are being numbered and leave little room to set and relish in these last days with her at home. We are scurrying around to Basketball games, Project Graduation meetings, fundraisers, filling out FAFSA forms and submitting School applications. There is little time to even sleep. LOL The drama of High School, Kelsi is quick to say she wants to leave behind. I have to agree with her. I was never one for the drama that high school seemed to always hold.
The friendship I hold with my oldest daughter of 25 years, it is so sweet and precious and she has been gone from the nest now for almost 8 years. She is a graduate of WTAMU and married to a treasure of a Man, Nathan, a joyful son Tony & I have gained. Nathan and Candi now live in Arkansas and have found their little nest to build and are so blessed to have family in the area to love them and direct them. I am at peace knowing they have found their church home and have family to hold them when times are tough and in times of joy. I am so busy still raising these kiddos at home, I sometimes feel guilty for not being their more for them. It gives me much peace knowing family is close by when I can't be.
My youngest of almost 15 years, on the10th of this month, he is my baby and yet my mirror as to which I am learning what it is like to "Pay for your Raisin'" Boys are so much different than girls, they fear less, take more risks, just overall are so much different to raise. He is the baby, and will be at home all alone for his last few years of school. I just pray I can raise him to be a Great Man someday. One of honor, respect, Godly influence, compassion, honesty, the list goes on. I can only pray and hope that there will come a day when his big arms will circle around me and hold me instead of despise me. More to come on that story in the days, months and years ahead.
Scrap booking, well there has not been much of that on my calendar. I wish there was because I want to capture the moments of joy with my family and friends. Time is a huge factor in accomplishing that and space. Seems there is not much of either on my calendar. My next project I think will be to work on something Kelsi has requested. She would like to give her friends a sentiment album of their years growing up. I think the plan will be to work with pages a little bigger than 6 x 6 so they can be bound together with clear covers. More to come on the dimensions and design I hope in the near future.
To all I wish you a Happy New Year and one of these days maybe, just maybe, I will be able to share with you a little of my passion in scrap booking or cardmaking. See ya in 2011!!!!!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
OMG
How many of us feel this way today?
I haven't figure this whole Blog thing out and haven't had much time to even try.
I am sad that I can't find the time to write my thoughts and share my passions with the world. I am also wondering if anyone really cares what my passions or thoughts are.
I will get something new posted one of these days. I have an upcoming Workship on October 2nd with a close friend and 3 of her friends, It will be so much fun.
I haven't figure this whole Blog thing out and haven't had much time to even try.
I am sad that I can't find the time to write my thoughts and share my passions with the world. I am also wondering if anyone really cares what my passions or thoughts are.
I will get something new posted one of these days. I have an upcoming Workship on October 2nd with a close friend and 3 of her friends, It will be so much fun.
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