scrapbooking – Long Island Chick

No Photo Is Better Left Untouched!

Kathleen — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:22:14 +0000

Most photographs, even professional ones, can benefit from some retouching. Some need to be put through a thorough workflow to correct white balance, exposure issues or some may just need little tweaks here and there. Lightroom and Photoshop offer a myriad of ways to correct problems and allow photographers to be creative with their photos. I enjoy working with MCP Actions for Photoshop – I recently picked up Jodi’s Fusion and Eye Doctor Actions and played around with them a bit.

I decided to try something subtle on this picture of my son Ryan from his first trip to Disney World at the age of 18 months:

The tweaks enhanced his eyes and the catch lights, while smoothing his skin and making it more creamy.

I’ll be playing around with these actions to see what other recipes I can come up with to enhance my photos!

Everyday Digital Scrapbooking: How to Create a Simple Gift that is Sure to Impress: Digital Tutorial

Kathleen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:14:00 +0000

Everyday Digital Scrapbooking: How to Create a Simple Gift that is Sure to Impress: Digital Tutorial

Scrapbook calling cards are such a cool gift to make! They are a definite necessity in this day and age and can be tailored to the recipient’s personality. How many times has someone asked you for your contact info – cell number, email address etc and you had to scribble it on the back of some miscellaneous piece of scrap paper floating around in the recesses of your bag? Makes a great gift for kids to give their friends – can become a trading card for kids too! The possibilities are endless!

Scrapping Disney

Kathleen — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:52:00 +0000

So I got my creative juices flowing today and decided to scrap some more of our Disney 2006 vacation (especially since Disney ’07 is right around the corner!). Scrapping Disney takes alot of energy because it is such an enormous project. I, of course, took a ton of pictures and they have to be edited etc. Thank God I wrote a synopsis of our vacation on the plane trip home. I am amazed at how much I forgot. Thats why it is so important to keep a journal – you have to write down the little things otherwise they tend to be lost forever.

So while the boys were downstairs trying to beat Scooby Doo on Xbox (well really Danny with Ryan heckling him – poor Danny!), I sat down, set up my little laptop table, hooked up my portable hard drives and went to work. I managed to bang out two pages – a Monsters Inc. page and a Face Painting Page. I used alot of new material I purchased from the Funky Playground and from Gina Miller (my favorite Long Island digiscrap designer).

I especially loved scrapping Monsters Inc. This was Matty’s favorite movie when he was 2 1/2 – right around the time Ryan was born. We watched this movie over and over again. I knew this movie by heart and Matty will still request it, on occasion, when we have a “camp out”.

The other big highlight of our Disney trip was the Star Wars aspect. This was definately the sleeper hit – Matty got picked twice for the Jedi Training Academy and so forever Star Wars dominated our vacation. He saw the face paining kiosk right after the Training Academy at MGM and we managed to get back there towards the end of the vacation so he could get his face painted like his favorite Sith Lord – Darth Maul. If only he had his Force FX double bladed Darth Maul lightsaber – he would have been complete.

So I didn’t quite put a dent in the project, but atleast I made a start!

Spring Is In The Air!

Kathleen — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:16:00 +0000

Today, it felt like Spring was in the air and boy did that feel good! I am definately one of those people who are affected by the weather. Late winter kills me – all I want to do is hibernate. Today I felt alive and I actually wanted to leave the house LOL. Went to the gym this morning and had a fantastic workout with Jerri. Not only is she a fantastic trainer, she is hilarious! At the end of the session, we always do a pretty intense ab workout on a fitness ball. So while I am bent over this thing, I noticed I had some old man’s ass hanging in my face. Of course, as I am going through the repetitions, Jerri is whispering to me how the old man is probably farting and it must smell like cat food (YUCK!!!!). Very motivating, isn’t it? I just tried to find a happy place! Today I actually felt like working out and it was good.

I went over to Oceanside to the Sands Mall (fantastic spot – Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Express to name a few- and all have terrific stock because this strip mall is a hidden gem). Shopped at Gap and Children’s Place for the boys, picked up Flushed Away and Uncle Buck at F.Y.E. and met my sister in law for coffee at Starbucks to talk about our upcoming family vacation at Disney (year 5 for us) among other things. I definately needed Uncle Buck with this family’s new infatuation with bowling. I also picked up the new SSX snowboarding game for Wii – SWEET DUDE!!! It was a peaceful afternoon – I didn’t have any appointments and it is nice to take a break from the fast pace we had in the office up to the end of the year. The rat race will start up again this Spring as people’s thoughts start to turn to house buying – atleast we all hope so!

So I bought out the store over at Gina Miller’s shop. Got a nice email from her today thanking me. See courtesy is still alive and kicking – especially in the digiscrapping world. I love her designs – especially these adorable felt circles and felt hearts I picked up, amongst other things. Please visit her shop, you definately won’t leave empty handed. I am definately going to scraplift some of her layouts – I have her gallery linked on my blog under Scrapinspiration.