I’ve never tried a template challenge, so when I saw one at After Five Designs, I decided to have a go.  And here is my layout:

These are photos of my dear daughter, and cute/crazy tiny toy poodle girl :-).

I seem to do my Hummie’s World PSE class assignments in spurts.  Here are some of the latest layouts I made:

From L-R, Top-Bottom: Dotted Line tutorial, Feather Vignette Tutorial, Out Of Bounds Tutorial, and Color Isolation tutorial. Credits can be seen at my Gallery.

Chili Designz of Coolscrapdigital is hosting a color challenge.  We were provided with a very cute kit which included a color palette.  Here is my layout:

The photos were taken by Cindy Wimmer of Sweet Bead Studio.  Cindy makes beautiful jewelry, and also takes very nice pictures.  These are of her youngest son.  When I saw them, I knew they would be perfect for this color challenge – just look at his adorable expression blowing on the dandelion! :-).

As if I needed anything more to keep me glued to my computer.  In my visits around various blogs, I stumbled on Hummies World – a PSE on line course.  I felt that I had reached my “level of incompetance” with the assistance of a PSE guide book, and thought this would be great to take me to the next level :-).  So far it’s been very helpful.  My knowledge of PSE has many holes, and Hummies courses will hopefully fill some of them.  Here are some layouts I made thus far from the course work:

Included above are layout tutorials on tinting, slicing photos, drop down box, and gradients.

Click on any layout image, and it will take you to Hummies World Gallery where details and credits are given.

Here are the two final art journal challenges from Catscrap.  The theme was “Schemes” (or, plans):

Like that old Nike commercial “Just Do It!”

And, really what’s important:

Catscrap journal challenges for weeks 5 and 6 were “Goals”.   And here are my two journaling layouts on “Goals”:

I am constantly second guessing myself when it comes to parenting.  You would think by now, I would practice what I preach, but parenting is an ever evolving challenge…

And, as Oprah says:

Catscrap journal  challenges for weeks 3 and 4 were “Dreams”.   And here are my two journaling layouts on “Dreams”:

Do you ever dream that you can fly? It’s my favorite kind of dream 🙂

Catscrap hosted an eight week art journaling challenge that I participated in.  The theme of the challenge was Hopes, Dreams, Goals, & Schemes (Plans).  The first two weeks were “Hope”.  And here are my two journaling layouts on “Hope”:

I am really liking the concept of digital arts and journaling.