I am still learning, but here's 3 FREE coordinated matching buttons for ya.
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Here's the page I used these buttons on that I made using PSP without any elements per se, just the word art!


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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/jan20062.html

Okay, this is my very first attempt at a quick page!!! Please be kind, LOL.
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Here's what I did with it. My sweet boy was only 10 months old in this picture! Awww...


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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/july042.html

This is my newest WordArt Freebie, "Brotherly Love".
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Here's a page I made using this, my boys!!! I used a QuickPage.


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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/feb043.html

Since my SD just graduated High School and I was working on a page, I thought this was appropriate!

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This is the page I made using this Word Art. I used background papers and elements coming from 4 different graduation kits I have, I even changed their colors to match my SD's gown, LOL. I think the page came out cute!

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june08.html

It's only fair that I gave equal time to GRANDMAs here! To download this FREE WordArt, click below:

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Here's a page I made using this WordArt... sweet or what? It's my mom with my niece last year when I went to Italy to visit during my parent's 50th Anniversary! I used a quickpage and I added some elements to it as well.

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug2007.html

Here's a page I made using the Word Art I created. The great thing about the word 'grandpas' being 'grey' is that you can use the hue/saturation feature in PSP or Photoshop and change the color of it to fit your page's needs. Cool or what? I made this page with photos of my dad playing with my son Nicky. Very cute! I used a background page with just a couple of elements, I mainly used a mask to create the effect around the photos.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/dec20012.html


This second image is a vintage picture of my dad when he was 23 years old! Oh... the handsome devil! I used a quickpage for this one.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/apr1953.html

These new pages today I did with Nicky's help! He picked the QuickPage and the pictures to use.

The first one was a trick we saw on the Scrapbook Memories TV show, he watched it and wanted me to do it, LOL.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/feb042.html


The second one Nicky just decided to do a page from old Camp pictures, so, voila'.

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june05.html

I talked to mom yesterday and she keeps wowing about these pages, so that entices me to keep it up. I've been thinking how to approach this. I guess what I need to do is go back to ALL my photos that I have lying around. My 11 year old told me he would help me :-). I will start by making piles of photos by decade. I will then tackle the oldest photos and scrap those the old fashioned way, BUT, the best ones I will scan and digiscrap. Once I have a certain amount of pages I will start scrapping either by person or, more likely, by year, or both I guess! I will start in July when we come back from CAMP. It should be a HUGE undertaking. I already scrapped all my baby pictures, but Nicky's... I stopped scrapping for lack of time in 1998, so I have 10 years worth of pictures that are just 'everywhere'. I feel bad about it, but at least I am starting now!

This first page... awww... it's some of my favorite pics. Connor was just a peanut. A quickpage from somewhere. Wish I knew where! Sorry!
BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/nov4.html

Second page is my peanut once again, a few months later. Another QP...

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/jul04.html

If this page would have a title, I would call it 'The last time I saw you'.
Paola was one of my best friends growing up. While I did not meet her until my teen years, we became fast friends. We had so much in common it was scary. We liked the same music, liked the same guys, we watched the same shows (CHiPs was our 'drug' of choice, kind of ironic, since I just bought season 2 on DVD today! I waited 30 years for this!) and I could go on. She was the niece of a fellow DJ at the local radio station in Italy where I used to do the 'dedication' show on Sundays. Yes, I was a DJ, did I ever mention that? It was eons ago. After I moved to the US we use to write each other every week for years and years.

At any rate... Christmas 2001 was the last time I saw her on one of my trips to Italy. About a year later she went to the doctor because she could not get rid of her headaches. The doctors found a malignant tumor in her brain, and she died on February 29th, 2004, about a year after her diagnose, just a few months shy of her 39th birthday. Heartbreaking? I can't describe, really. If it would not have been a 'leap' year, she would have died March 1st, which is my Alex's anniversary of his birth/death. What about her daughter? Yes, the little girl in the picture, the one that took her 8 years to have after infertilty treatments and two IVFs that didn't work? Her little girl is being raised by her husband's parents, which is also ironic, since she herself was raised by her grandparents after her mother abandoned her.

While admittedly we weren't very close in her last years, I will never forget her sweet smile and how she brightened my life. I will miss you forever PAOLA!!!

Page was made from a kit called "Floral Frenzy" by Linda Walton of 3Scrapateers.com. Her BLOG is here:
http://bonscrapatitdesigns.blogspot.com/. I did use a couple of other elements (the alpha set and the tripleframe) from other unknown sources.

BIGGER VERSION of this page is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/dec01.html

After a while without doing anything, I got the bug today. I have mucho things to do, but no gauze so I have some extra time.

FIRST ONE!

This is my grandma, or, as I call her, NONNA Rina. This photo was taken in 1978 I believe, she was 75 years old. She lived to be 101!

Used a quickpage for this one, no time to do it in a more creative way today.
BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1970s/1978.html

SECOND ONE!

My mom Laura on her honeymoon in Venice with the pidgeons! Love this one. Another quickpage...
BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/aug57.html

THIRD ONE!

Greg and I in Italy this past summer. My mommy actually took this photo, I love it! Yet another quickpage. So many ideas... so little time, what can I say?

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug072.html

Two more pages tonight. Not that I had time to do them, but I feel so crappy... I've had this sore throat now for a month. I am ready to go to the doctor!

This first page is my BEAUTIFUL Mom Laura. This was just before she got pregnant with me! Summer 1963. This is a quickpage by SnowsMoons Designs.
Bigger version here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1960s/summer63.html


This second page was a LOT of fun to make. First, I ran across to this 'Great Guy Spotted' frame by Cherswitz... so cute... and so true! Greg is the love of my life hands down. I knew it from the first time I saw him on a November day in 1984. I always felt he was MINE. My only regret is that it took so darn long for us to get together! We only got married in 2002, but, as far as I am concerned, it was meant to me. For us to survive divorces, kids and to find each other and be as strong as we are... it's nothing short of remarkable. Nothing will ever pull us apart. This fall will mark the 10 year anniversary of us re-starting our relationship after a 14 year hiatus.
I put this page together using a kit from Shabby Princess (Urban Kiwi Kit).

Bigger version here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june022.html

I am in the middle of doing these cute royal dollies, but I needed 2 minutes to relax, so here's the page I whipped out. Of course, a quickpage! Nicky and Connor, too darn cute in this pic, were 9 and nearly 2 here. Awww... brotherly love!

Bigger version here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug05.html

Awww... my sweet boy! Connor here is almost 4 months old. Too cute!!! Cute Scrap kit courtesy of Lisa at http://ronimasil.blogspot.com/

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http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/dec2003.html

Sometimes I should never steer away from the computer. Just when I think my life is good, something happens that reminds me of the past and the 15 years I wasted rowing a sinking boat... but that's another story for another day. This new page is lesson 32 in my Winni Scrap lessons. It was meant to show how to use frames. Pretty cool. I learned a lot from these lessons. I am almost done and then I will learn how to actually MAKE digital scrapbooking elements. How cool. I can't wait.

Bigger version is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/lesson32.html
The kids at camp... so cute!!! Connor was 2!

Someday my Ship will come...

I saw this layout on the August 2007 issue of Digital Scrapbooking magazine, the one I took to Italy with us. On one of the advertisements there was the back of this little boy, maybe 2 years old, looking at the school bus and the layout simply stated 'someday *my* bus will come'. I thought it was cute and thought nothing of it until one of our days in Venice, when we were having dinner by the Rialto bridge and Connor just stood there for a while, looking at the boats go by and though of doing a page of him waiting for a ship the moment I snapped this pics! So... all this time later, there they are!

Bigger version of this page is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug07.html

The papers and elements I used to make this page are from Elisa's Bits

Another day, and I am more sick than before. So sick that I had to stay home from work... that never happens.

I love how this page came out... yep, another page inspired by a layout in Digital Scrapbooking magazine! The elements come from Rambling Rose and the bigger version of this page can be found here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/june02.html

I could not go workout today because I am sooo sick! My voice is shot. Nicky is also home and shortly I will go eat dinner and change his gauze, but first I had to do this page! Isn't it adorable? BIGGER version is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/jan2006.html

I got the inspiration from the Digital Scrapbooking magazine. I finally can look at these layouts thinking... YES! I can do this!!!! I got the new issue yesterday and I bookmarked the pages that I want to do and this was the first one. I think mine came out even cuter than the example, but I am biased! I love having these inpirations, I could never come out with these ideas on my own...

I used scrapbooking elements from this gal over here. Very talented!!

The bigger image for this page can be seen here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug04.html

This is a very simple page I made out today with a sample kit from June Hill aka Tink © Andika Designs at http://andikadesigns.blogspot.com

Connor was almost 1 year old and he was SO DARN CUTE in these pictures, which were taken in late August 2004. The water was pretty cold but he was happy to be cooling off in a very hot day. I took about 20 pictures of so of him in his little pool but only these 3 came out half way decent! That's why I love digital pictures!!! I could have never caught the main darling shot with a regular camera, I would have given up by then!!!

BIGGER version of this page can be seen here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/apr08.html

I got Nicky's spring pictures from school yesterday, so I looked up my pre-made layouts so I could show everyone! Nicky looks SO CUTE in this pic my heart melts. This pic was taken a few days after his dental surgery when the dentist removed 7 baby teeth! He's my trooper and always will. Hard to believe he's 11.5 years old. Where does time go? Where's my baby?

As a quick update on his EB... so far so stable. He's been sick so he's had a lot more mucus to deal with than normal, so he's been pretty miserable. Nicky has allergies that get better or worse depending on the time of the year. We think it has to do with pollen or whatever. Anytime we go anywhere like Arizona they disappear. We can't test him because allergies test need to be done on the skin... so...

Nicky is now in 6th grade and doing okay. This has been a TOUGH year schoolwise for him, but he's developed a liking for the Lemony Snickets books, he's also read the books from the movies Chronicles of Narnia, Spiderwick Chronicles & Mr. Magorium Magic Emporium. He's looking forward to CAMP as usual, which we'll go to toward the end of June. Next year he'll officially be in Middle School, I am really worried because the other middle school was horrible, so we'll have to move him to another mid-high nearby, which might be okay because all his friends from his elementary school days go there so he'll already have friends!!!

Keep your fingers crossed for my angel!

.. until next time!
hugs, Silvia

Here's a cute one I did today of Nicky. These pictures were taken in 2002 and for some reason they were lost in a disc for a few years, I only found them when we moved in the new house and I got a new computer. At the time we had a digital camera (that Connor destroyed by taking it and putting it in a sink full of water-aargh... but that's a whole other story) that took mini-discs.

At any rate... Nicky is usually pretty afraid of animals in general, but he really liked this particular kitty that his stepsister got for a birthday gift. Of course he only liked the kitty while he was young, once he grew that was that and he would scream anytime it got a couple of feet away!!! LOL. Ahhh... my little Nicky looks so darn cute in these photos!!! I actually cheated once again and used a pre-made quick page made by Rita.