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I did it again. This time, as I was thinking about the kinds of photos I wanted to get, I remembered that my trusty doggy of 15 years, Norman, always greets me when I am arriving home.

At 15, he does it a bit more slowly, but he always seems pleased to see me.

I took a little different kind of approach on the photo. I wanted to decorate it a bit, but not put in tons of time. I like this idea of decorating just a bit. I can use my supplies, but not spend a huge chunk of time.

I think soon, I'll try just decorating the photo only. Keeping it even smaller. The beauty there is that if I want to, I can decorate photos and then add them to pages later if I want to.

So here is my little greeter. I used the following products to create my mini layout: Grunge Guru Collection Mini (http://store.scrapgirls.com/product.php?id=11568), and College Days Embs (http://store.scrapgirls.com/product.php?id=7913)

Take a photo of something from your Day

I've been looking around online and finding some amazing photography is happening in 2008. And I want to be part of it. I've seen a variety of 30 day challenges for photography, and while I'm not sure if I'll keep up with it each and every day, I like the concept.

So for the last couple of days, I've been taking random shots of the things that I see in my daily life. The first one, the fire hydrant, was seen on my way to church last night. The sun, peeping through the rain clouds was breathtaking and so I had to save it for future viewing.

I have to admit this is a real challenge for me since I typically photograph people. But there are some amazing non-people photo ops out there and I'm trying to stretch myself.

I've been especially excited about the unique persectives I've been seeing people using in their photography and so I tried here to duplicate that. I liked the randomness of this hydrant out in the middle of the desert juxtaposed with an amazing sky. I hope you're inspired to try something new and different with your camera.

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Christmas Gifts #3

You'll want to check out the holiday collection Scrap Girls is giving away this week. All you have to do is make a $10 or more purchase and you'll get this collection included in your downloads for FREE.

I made this Countdown to Christmas box using this collection and the Stamped Dates Brush Set.

To do this, I used a box from the Michael's $1 bin. I sanded it and painted it white and then I printed out patterned paper to cover the sides of the box. I used Gel Medium as my glue and painted it on with a paint brush. The top of the box was created in Photoshop and then printed out as one piece.

I added some glitter paint to the star for some extra sparkle, and then roughed up the edges a bit with sand paper. I love how real the digital ribbon looks on the top of this box.


Here are all three boxes that I made with the collections that have been available at Scrap Girls this Holiday Season. You can see how well they coordinate. If you missed one of the collections, you can still purchase them in the Scrap Girls Boutique for only $3.99. And, all the proceeds go to Food For the Poor!

Christmas Gifts #2

Scrap Girls has another free Holiday Collection for you this week if you place an order of $10 or more.

With this FREE Collection I made a box using a tutorial I found here on Etsy. For this tutorial you really only need a paper that is patterned on one-side, but I chose to tweak the tutorial by printing out two-sided paper and folding up the inside edges of the box to show the green on the inside. I used a full 12x12 sheet of light-weight cardstock and printed out the paper on my borderless, large format printer.

The box can be used to wrap Christmas gifts.

Or as a candy dish in your home over the holidays.


Or to display home decor.

If you get this holiday collection and make something with it, post a comment here with a link so we can see what you've created.