Annual Pooja

I'm back with a double LO inspired by my late mother-in-law.  She passed away a couple of years ago and what I remember about her the most was her annual Pooja (gathering of friends and family to pray and honor Hindu Gods) at their house.  Although my father-in-law is in no condition to continue the tradition now due to his poor health, I wanted to create this double LO so that my children can have a means of remembering their Dadima and Dadaji (Hindi for grandparents from father's side). 

These pages were created using the My Memories Suite v4 software, using digital papers and embellishments (with the exception of the Om sign which I googled and converted into a .png image) I've collected throughout the year from the My Memories store.  (BTW there's still time to get the code to get a FREE My Memories Suite v4 software here, good until this Saturday).  Below are screenshots of the pages in the MMS.

the title and the journaling were done using fonts in my

library

And here are closeups of the pages after printing.  I've added 3 buttons with twine for the page on the right.

"Tradition" was done in Abbeyline, while the "Our Family" was

done in Cooper Black font.

the journaling was done using the Choppin Script font

closeup of the journaling

real buttons with twine I attached to the page using glue gun

pic of me and my kids - poojas were few of the times I got

to wear fancy Indian outfits.

my daughter still loves and remembers cuddling with

 her Dadima

 

Thanks for visiting me today.  I may not be back for a few days, especiall tomorrow since I'd be very busy with Halloween festivities at my kids' school.  If you're celebrating Halloween, have a safe and wonderful one!

Simple Digital Scrapbook pages

Happy Monday, everyone!  Scroll down or click here for the coupon code for a free My Memories Suite v4 download I posted yesterday.  Today I'm showing a couple of 12x12 pages I created recently with this software.  I just finished one of our family albums and needed a page for the end of that album and a page for the beginning of a new album ;). 

Here are screen shots of the pages on MMS. 

For this page, I created each layer from scratch, from digital papers (one layered on top of the background) and elements (alphas for the title, heart shaped bling, and faux stitching) from kits from the My Memories website.  I like to combine different kits to suit my needs so I don't normally stick with just one kit to complete a page. 

This page was super easy - done using a pre-made template.  All I needed was to drop two pictures and add the title using Creme Puff font (in my library) flood-filled in green.

I like to print my own pages - I'm lucky that my kids and hubs bought me a wide format printer almost two years ago for Mothers' Day.  I use the Epson Artisan 1430 and use only Epson paper.  I have gotten away with remanufactured ink (gotta cut cost somehow) which is really not that bad.  Below are closeups of the pages after printing.

Not much more I could do with these pages now but to stick them in 12x12 page protectors in the albums.  Thanks for looking and I'll see you in a day or two with another scrapbook page (or two). 

More Disney Trip Digital LOs

Happy Monday!  I'm finishing up scrapbook LOs from our first trip to Disneyland in 2008 (I'm really way behind in scrapbooking!).  These are just a few of the 26 digital scrapbook pages I recently completed.  I used the CM StoryBook Creator 4.0 software to create the pages and then printed out the 12 x 12 LOs in my wide format printer (which has been working overtime for me lately LOL!). 

Here are some more of the pages. 

Credits for the Disney-themed digital papers and elements.
Kellybell designs
Trixie scraps
computerscrapbook.com

Thanks for stopping by!  Have an awesome week, y'all!