Am I RUNNING out of GAS??? LOL!!!

LOL!!! Don't we ALL start new things with GOOD intentions??? I know that I do, but then I am SOON reminded that I am not ALWAYS in control of my time or what comes my way from DAY-TO-DAY!!! Am I SLOWING down??? Oh, quite the CONTRARY!!! I have been VERY busy and sidetracked, but for the better!!!

It's been a FEW days and I have been working hard on layouts to catch up with my kit assignments and preparing to enter into training for my NEW position at 3Scrapateers!!! I am SO excited!

I am going to make this VERY sweet and short, as I wish to share a few layouts that I have just recently completed! WOO HOO!!! I am now able to post the layout that I created for ROUND ONE of the FUNK IT UP contest at Scrap Forums. I am SO excited as I have made it to ROUND TWO, which has us challenged to create not ONE, but TWO layouts!!! I have the ideas in my head and down on paper. All I need to do now is get them onto a canvas in my PHOTO program and make them LOOK good!!! This is MOST definitely stretching my imagination, which is a GOOD thing, and has me scrapping OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!!!

Without further ADIEU ... the layout that progressed me to ROUND TWO. It is a layout of MY HEART TH{ROB}, Robert, of course!!! I just LOVE this photo of Robert!!! Just to give you an idea of the INCREDIBLE things one can do with PHOTO software, the photo you see of Robert was from a photo that I took right at our front door with him holding a FISH up in his hand!!! He was SO proud, as was I, to have caught his VERY first fish here at Lake Tulloch!!! I REALLY liked the photo of his SWEET face, so I cut out around the outline of his body, inverted the selection and changed the distraction of the background to a PLAIN BLACK background. Whatcha think??? PRETTY cool, huh???

The other layout that I am uploading this evening is using a photo of Robert and his sisters, Del and Nani, posing for me on their father's deck here in Copperopolis!!! I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE taking photos of this EXTREMELY photogenic family!!! I created this layout using a NEW program called FX FOTO. We have formed a REVIEW TEAM at 3Scrapateers and will have the opportunity to try out NEW things and then write a REVIEW for the COMPANY. I killed MANY birds with ONE stone on this one!!! I created my VERY first layout using FX FOTO, was able to scrap a WONDERFUL photo of Robert, Del and Nani AND I completed a KIT ASSIGNMENT!!! I LOVE it!!! I hope that you ENJOY the layouts. Please feel free to leave me a comment on what you think of either one. I ALWAYS appreciate ANY feedback or CONSTRUCTIVE criticism!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a MOST wonderful tomorrow! Hope to see you soon. This will be ANOTHER very busy week for me, but I am going to try my hardest to at least post a few photos or layouts as I complete them.

Hugs ...