My Memories Suite Give Away Winner!

The time has come. I´ve made a list and I´ve checked it more than twice. ;)
Today some lucky winner will get a copy of the fabulous My Memories Suite v3, the digital scrapbooking software.
First I wrote all the comments´ authors. Thank you so very much for your kind words. They mean a lot to me and I feel all warm & fuzzy inside when I see people coming back and turning into friends.
As a second step I added a second chance for those who are followers.

I used Random.org to generate the number for the winner.

And the winner is #2!

Who has got the lucky number? 

Carol from "A creative Harbor"

Enjoy playing with it Carol! You may find an easy Get Started Video here. :)

PPF #1 v.2

A year and a week of Paint Party Fridays. :D I´m having another go at "using stamp pads as stamps for backgrounds" like last week for PPF#52. 

On top of that I painted an old pink (in Spanish it is called "rosa viejo" it has a faded brownish tint, does it have a proper name in English?) acrylic wash with a dusty green for the borders. I love Mariza´s faces, with the dark green/blue colouring. I still don´t dare going too dark but I quite like the end result for a first version. :) I used watercolour pencils over white gesso.

This is my first double spread for a journal that was originally called "This much I know" and has become something like "Tips for living". Lol! The first one is "One thing at a time" aka "Do what is in front of you". I tend to be a scatter brain.

I sound like I have what my friend Mel calls:  A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I head towards the garage, I notice post on the porch table that I picked up from the postman earlier.
I decide to go through it before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the recycling first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take out the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table and notice that there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques are in the desk in my study, so I go into the house to my desk where I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup.
As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - the flowers need water.
I put the coffee on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
The car isn't washed
The bills aren't paid
There is a cold cup of coffee sitting on the kitchen work-surface
The flowers don't have enough water
There is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book
I can't find the remote
I can't find my glasses
And I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all bloody day and I'm really tired.
I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.....

I know everyone coming from Paint Party Friday is a painter but I also know that many of us dabble into other materials. I´ve been trying out the digi world lately.
When Liz from My Memories contacted me to review My Memories Suite v.3 the words "without" and "complicated" together totally got my attention. This is a software to create digital scrapbooks, photobooks, cards, calendars and other art pieces. I downloaded the software really easily. Very clear instructions all along and smooth streaming. 

Here´s my templates review from this week when I also chose some free embellies from the site, just for the fun of it.

Today I decided to try the personal design aspect. There were so many options to choose from that I started by participating in one of the speed scrap challenges at My Memories Facebook page. For a newbie it is great to explore the software with a guided exercise.

Do you want to try it too? ONE lucky winner will get a copy of the My Memories Suite v.3!

Leave me a comment here and I´ll add you to the draw. Are you a follower of my blog? I´ll add a second chance for you as a Thank You! Want another chance? Tell me which is your favourite theme to work with.

Week 10

As every Sunday this year (at least so far and hopefully for the rest of the year too) I will post my weekly summary for Creative Every Day. For third time in a row I have undertaken an "a picture a day" project, here´s Week 10. You can click on each picture to make it bigger. Every pic has been resized for  the web.

This week is aka "Can you believe?"

March 4th (64/64): Sunday lunch is a family affair at my in laws. Can you believe this is actually the first pic of the four cousins together? Our niece V is 2 1/2yo, Tati is 12 1/2, our nephew T is 3mo and Mati 16. Hubbie holding T.

 Monday 5th (65/65): torrential rain. Can you believe it is only half past three? Looks almost like after sunset.

 Tuesday 6th (66/66): one of Mati´s books. Can you believe the price? $167 is about 40 dollars. Don´t worry, it´s written on the shrink plastic that protects the book.

 Wednesday 7th (67/67): getting ready for this month´s full moon board. Can you believe I´ve been doing this for three years now? Thank you Jamie for the inspiration and the support!

 Thursday 8th (68/68): my Full Moon Board. Can you believe that the same things keep coming up again and again?

 Friday 9th (69/69): Can you believe this is my first acrylic painting of  this year? More about it in my Paint Party Friday #52 post. 

 Saturday 10th (70/70): Can you believe I´ve been stucked in Level 55 for over a week? Arrrrgggghhhhh!

More creative endeavours. I´m delighted to be able to show you this: 

Yay! Acrylics, watercolour pencils, brushes, inks and my beloved paperdryer (never use it for hair ;) ). And a WIP on the table too! I´ll show it to you next Friday for Paint Party Friday. :)

And also this: 

When Liz from My Memories contacted me to review My Memories Suite v.3 the words "without" and "complicated" together totally got my attention. This is a software to create digital scrapbooks, photobooks, cards, calendars and gifts. As my word for 2012 is "expand", an opportunity to expand my techniques was certainly welcomed as I had never tried the digi world.

To begin with, let me tell you that the process to download the software is really easy. Very clear instructions all along and smooth streaming.

When you start creating you may choose one of the templates provided (yumminess galore!) or making your own design. Today I will tell you about the templates that are provided which are plentiful and you can also add more from the My Memories site (there are many free ones too!) or any other one.

I had a look at all the pages of the album and chose my pictures accordingly. As I wanted to add more pics I used the option to add pages which can be used as a mirror for balance too. I was surprised by how smart the programme is to fit the pictures into the frames, placing the heads in the best possible position. The adding of text was very easy too, with cute little buttons with drawings that explain what they do. I even dared adding some embellishments!

All in all a fun experience ... and a completed album! My mom will be soooooo happy! :D

Here´s my first ever digital scrapbook page.

Do you want to try it too? ONE lucky winner will get a copy of the My Memories Suite v.3!

Leave me a comment here and I´ll add you to the draw. Are you a follower of my blog? I´ll add a second chance for you as a Thank You! Want another chance? Tell me which is your favourite theme to work with.

Paint Party Friday #52

It all started with Carolyn Dube from A Colourful Journey´s video. She had this green/blue/stencil/ink thing going on. Woooow! I thought. Preeeeetty! Want. Now.

From the beginning our paths differed because ... I couldn´t get things right. The seamlessly applied ink on her page was a chequered look in mine.  And the ink through stencil didn´t work either, so I turned the stencil and used it as a stamp (no, I wasn´t letting that ink going to waste ;) ).

Color blocking is in fashion for clothes and seems to be entering the apinting world too. I put my aquarelle pencils to work.  

On the other side I used the ink pad as a shape stamp. Aquarelle doodles. Got bored because ... it was not going as I had envisioned.

Time for a drastic measure. Butter acrylic applied with brayer. Too much acrylic made some peaks. Called it "good texture" and moved on.

Applied two greens with brush around the corner. 

 Have I told you it´s Paint Party Friday´s first birthday? Go and say Happy birthday to Kristin and Eva! If you´ve known me for a while, you know what is coming next! Yes! Multi projects! No acrylic is left behind.

Second layer. I´ve been watching Donna Downey´s Inspiration Wednesdays and she is doing a lot of circles at the moment.  Do I like my take? No, not really. I covered it up with corn acrylic which gave the page a golden light but didn´t cover the circles. More on that one next week. 

Some fingerprints on side B. I quite like the irl version and might call it done. On the other hand this is all about experimenting with layers so I might keep going.

These are my actual paper paintings but I´ve also been working on digital things these days. I have started using My Memories products and next week I will be reviewing the My Memories Suite v.3 software. Very intuitive and versatile. I will reviewing it this weekend and next week I will be giving away one copy of the software!

To participate in the give away leave me a comment from today on, telling me which your favourite My Memories kit is. Are you a follower of my blog? I´ll pop another paper with your name on it for a second chance as a thank you. :)

Week 8

For Creative Every Day, this is my summary for week 8 of my 365: a storyteller with a camera 2012 project.

Week 8! 2012 will be over before we know it, so I´ll better get going. :D

Jan 19th (): hubbie with his first vision board. I´ve been participating in Jamie Ridler´s Full Moon boards for three years now and I´ve been talking about them so much he was willing to try them. 

 Jan 20th (): This could be an art changer for me, which in turn as all artists know can be a life changer: my first My Memories Suite tutorial by Lisa Jurrens.

 Jan 21st (): this was a four day weekend for us due to the Carnival festivities and we went for a drive to San Isidro to vist the Cathedral, the craft fair and the train station shown here.

 Jan 22nd (): I´m reading this book again. I had a HUGE resistance the first time around (which is my new way of saying I didn´t like it). It´s better this time but I´m getting rid of it after I´m done anyway. I guess you can say it is not my favourite. ;)

 Jan 23rd (): my first My Memories Suite album!
When Liz contacted me suggesting the My Memories Suite v3 for a review, the words "without" and "complicated" together in the same sentence got my immediate attention, lol. I had been chickening out from digital scrapbooking as "too difficult" and this software is proving me wrong. Soooo easy to navigate and use! More on this later, including a cool give away: your very own copy of My Memories Suite v3! . Check this spot next week for details.

 Jan 24th (): more digital stuff. Mati´s friend T came home for the day and brought his own laptop.

 Jan 25th (): night out. Our friends Pato and Juli who have been living in Chile for the past few years came to Buenos Aires to present their new baby boy. Fun night out with old friends.