Tag: Digital Scrapbooking

El Nido: A Top Fave

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Credits:  Katie Pertiet Flatjacks Frolic 2; KPertiet Flatjacks Frolic-green; KPertiet Flatjacks Frolic-ribbon stripes; KPertiet Acrylic Alpha; KPertiet Sanded Overlay

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El Nido: a gateway to Palawan’s natural treasure, Bacuit Archipelago — a fantastic seascape with a collection of jagged limestone islands.  It’s clear blue waters teeming with marine life.  A top favorite.

Indeed one of my favorite getaway.  Two ways to go; in luxury or rouging it up.  I personally prefer the roughing it up route.  Love the town.  What’s not to love?  With the limestone karst hills as your backdrop, dramatic eh?  Accommodations are definitely far from luxurious but there are plenty of  great places to eat!  If you take the luxury route, you miss the town and the good food but accommodation wise, I must say is splendid.

Where we stayed:

Rouging it:  Lally and Abet Beach Cottages
Luxury:  El Nido Resorts – Lagen Island

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Fear Conquered

02.21.2004 – Canopy Walk, Cagayan de Oro

First you have to know that I have this great fear of heights.  Scared to rappel, scared of ridges (especially if it drops more than 10 feet), scared to look down the balcony of a tall building and definitely scared s**t to zip down to the first platform and walk on slippery (angled) bars and wobbly hanging walkways.  No way Jose!  But peer pressure and the thought of being left behind got the better of me and I lived to tell the tale. 😀

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Credits:  Amy Teets whitie tighties paper; Jessica Sprague Echoes of Asia dark blue solid paper, lt. blue solid paper; Jessica Sprague Echoes Ribbon – striped; Jessica Sprague Echoes frame 7×5; Katie Pertiet stamped moments-forever

So will I do it again?  Are you kidding?! 😛

Update:  Click on here for more information.  Thanks B!   😀

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Mt Pinatubo

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Credits:  Jessica Sprague’s U&R week 2 layout and alpha kit.

A stunning landscape and a beautiful lake has made this sleeping giant into a favorite hiking destination, 17 years after its eruption.  Been there twice and I am awed both times at how a horrible event managed to turn a mountain nobody seemed to care about into something so spectacular.

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All Things Beautiful

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Journal reads:

All things bright & beautiful,
All creatures great & small,
All things wise & wonderful,
The lord God made them all.

–       Cecil Frances Alexander

From the Hymn:  All Things Bright & Beautiful

Took this shot in 2006 at Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.  I just love this photo of the little birdies resting on the neck of the giraffe.  Isn’t it amazing how God created all creatures big and small to live together (albeit not always harmoniously)?   😉

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Trying My Hand at Digital Scrapbooking

Yay!  My very first digital scrapbook layout! *clap! clap! clap!*  You can view it here.  Did you like it?  I used the template Jessica Sprague generously provided on her Stories in Hand class (which by the way, was for free!). It’s pretty much just dragging and dropping but it’s my first layout nonetheless! 😀  But because it’s a template, there were a lot of elements I couldn’t change including the title (I Create) so I sort of worked around it. 😉  Did you notice?  I think it’s kinda pushing it huh?  Anyway, will change it once I’m up and running with Photoshop.  I took the Stories in Hand class just to test the waters and I might have been hooked!  Had loads of fun!  I’m giving Jessica’s self-paced Up and Running with Photoshop class a shot.  So expect to see more layouts down the road!!

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A whole new WORLD!

I only wanted to learn how to enhance my photos with Photoshop.  I went on the ‘net looking for tips and tutorials and soon discovered a new word… DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING.  What’s that, eh?  Well, it pretty much explains itself. It’s scrapbooking without having to cut and paste (literally that is). Hybrid, I believe is somewhere in between.  I had a very, very short stint at scrapbooking back in college and then life took over and before I knew it, it was over. Hehe!  So anyway, aside from that really short stint way, way back, I never really thought that I would be scrapbooking (again)… but I got curious and so I lurked around some “digiscrappers” blog sites and pretty soon I was going wow, Wow, WOW!  I can learn to do that and that to my collection of travel photos?  You got me!

To cut the story short, I got lured into an on-line (self paced) class for beginners here but even before I signed up for that, I saw that she was offering a free class for newbies and oldies (it didn’t matter, she said) and so I decided to test the waters and signed up.  How cool is that?   Class starts on the 9th and so hopefully you’ll see some of my works here.  Hopefully. 

BUT before that, I’m off to YAP tomorrow for some awesome diving. Woohoo!  I’ll post some pics and tell you all about it when I get back.

So come take this new journey with me.  I’ll be sharing my adventures with you, hopefully in a different way.

Stay tuned!

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