Merry and Bright

These two layouts I created for Digital Scrap Ink today uses Snips and Snails Designs, Merry and Bright Collection.  This collection is fabulous for all your Christmas photos!  I had a great time playing with this collection today!

These two layouts below use Snips and Snails Yummy Yummy Collection. How bright and fruity this collection is! I had so much fun using it for so many layouts. 

Boo On You Layout

Here are my two layouts using Boo On You Mini-Collection from Christina Poolie at Digital Scrap Ink website.   This collection is perfect for all Halloween photos!

The Things You Say Layouts for Four Little Pixels Designs

Here are my two layouts I created using Four Little Pixels Designs "The Things You Say" and "The Things You Say Add-On Kit" at Digital Scrap Ink.  These two kits have wonderful blues, whites, greens, and browns.  Very gentle and sophisticated, great for all your digital scrapbooking needs! I felt so inspired just using the papers itself.  Thank you for looking! Have a wonderful week!

Autumn Artistry and Callie's Room

 Autumn Artistry October 2010 Designer Team Collab Kit at Digital Scrap Ink.  Those Eyes Layout uses Autumn Artistry Collection.

Love Layout also uses Autumn Artistry Collection.

Love Every Inch Layout uses Callie's Room by Sweet Sunshine Designs and Drifting by Ella.

Angel Layout uses Callie's Room by Sweet Sunshine Designs and Craft-tastrophic Designs

Craft-Templates Playing With Papers. 

All Girl Layout

This layout is for Digital Scrap Ink.  I used Angela Drummond's Dynamic Brush: Stitches,  Angela Drummond's Styles: Stitch and Holes.  I also used Just The Basic Collection by Ohh and Ahhh Designs and Happiness Happens DSI Collobrative Collection and Drifiting by Ella.

I am also now doing the newsletters for Digital Scrap Ink! I hope I make them proud!

Digital Scrap Ink

Good Morning! I am excited to say that I was aked to be on Digital Scrap Ink's creative team and now I get to work with alot of wonderful ladies designing and digital scrapping!  I am truly thrilled to be able to help them!  Here is my first layout I worked on using Ohhh and Ahhh's Just The Basic Collection by Kathi B.  I also used FoxyDesigns Weeds and Company Wordart.  I had so much fun creating this layout.  I blended two of Just The Basic papers to get the background paper you see behind the photo of my darling husband and beautiful daughter!  They had so much fun dressing up and going to the Girl Scout Father Daughter dance.  I am so blessed to have them in my life!

This second layout is again from Just The Basics Collection from Ohh and Ahh Designs, Kathi B. on sale at Digital Scrap Ink.  I wanted my magnolia bloom to stand on its own without any distraction.  I made a little tag using the image again and using luminosity blending tool and 50 percent opacity.  I added text that says My Garden and to emphasize the horizontal lines of the photo I used stitches and ric-rac ribbon.  To give it some vertical height I added three black flowers.  Thank you for looking!

Hybrid Happy!

Hybrid Happy!

I have been on a kick the last week of buying some dollar notebooks and dressing them up with my scrapbooking goodies.  The butterfly journal has twill ribbon, a circular metal paper clip, square tag, lots of butterflies that I colored and glittered and at the bottom I have tape that says summer days on it, and finally I had to add in some bling-bling to the top of my butterfly frame for extra sparkle!

The flower notebook has green ribbon, pink dotted ribbon bow, purple safety pin, square tag, foiled flowers with some felt flowers added to it for height and of course I had to add in some butterflies and rhinestones for sparkle. I love my sparkles! 

My frog notebook has a ton of ribbon and I added in round colorful beads and a felt flower and went crazy with my sparkly markers!!! Love my frog notebook so much!!!

Here I made my own magnet/marker frames.
The first one is for my daughter Elizabeth. I added  beads all over the frames.  Once the glue dried, I colored the beads. I added in a drape of colorful beads across the top. Then added in foam stickers with her name and a heart.  The magnets are handmade as well.  My friends at Hopie Jo did the bottlecaps for choker necklaces. The ballerina magnets where made by me and daughter.  

The second frame is handmade by me for my office. It is a canvas frame (I bought the canvas frame from Walmart). I used watercolors to paint the canvas, once dry, I added ribbon, metal wordart, felt flower magnets. LOL!   

Easter Layout

This is a layout of my niece Chloe Grace. She was born on June 29, 2009. I am amazed how fast she is growing up. Her mommy and her came to visit us one day and she hammed it up for the cameras. She make a ton of cute faces and blew us bubbles. She was also talking alot to us even though we didn't understand baby talk, we still knew she wanted the cameras on her being the young diva she is in all. LOL!  Such a cutie!


Software: PSE 5 and Bamboo Craft Pen Tablet
 Scrapgirls.com products:
DCA_LoveSoSoft_Paper_LovingFloral KME SS DLO Album template minicluster 1 DCA_LoveSoSoft_Paper_Painterly MRE SS Emb Template - Threaded ASO Glitter Sparks Styles MRE AYO Beads DCA_LoveSoSoft_Paper_Dawn

Colors That Evoke Emotion

Being creative either by working with my art mediums or on my computer, I have always used colors to convey emotions of my artwork, photos, or scrapbooking works.  Colors help tell your story.  I have kept a diary from over the years and thought I would share my writings with all of you. 


Red: Love, Anger, Power, Excitement, Danger, Action, Intensity, Attitude, Passion, Drama, Heat, Speed, Emphasis, Maturity, Femininity.
Orange: Tropics, Sunny Days, Strength, Safety, Energy, Honor, Gluttony, Opposition
Yellow: Light, Cheeriness, Hope, Prosperity, Sensationalism, Caution
Green: Nature, Serenity, Freshness, Rejuvenation, Money, Youth, Balance, Luck
Blue:Clarity, Loyalty, Discipline, Tranquility, Strategy, Sadness, Universe, Winning, Coldness, Divinity
Purple: Royalty, Distinction, Pretension, Bravery, Mourning, Forgiveness, Unexpected

If you have any additions to my list, please let me know...I would love it! Thanks!

Easter Pictures

The bunny had fun at our home! My mom, brother, and dad came by to say Hi on Easter Sunday.  Elizabeth decided to get my mom to do endless egg hunts and well...you can see from the pics below....LOL!  She got my mom on her trampoline!!!!  I got a ton of great pics of all of us together.  What a great day!

Hoppy Easter!

Well it is spring again here at the Aguiar household! The sun is shining and the birds are chirping! The butterflies are dancing and so am I (not literally, being careful with my back LOL!) I am so happy about this weekend. I am so ready to see my family at Easter.  They both are having lunch events on Sunday, so that will make for interesting trip. :P

My daughter's birthday is coming up on the 12th, but we are having it early next weekend because her birthday is on a week day. BJ and I went ahead and give her one of her gifts early, the Justin Bieber CD and DVD combo pack.  OH MY GOODNESS!!! This about to be 9 year old is shaking her hips and singing like I have NEVER seen her do before! She screams at the top of her lungs that she is in "love" with him.  She says she has "Bieber Fever".   I know BJ are old now because we both scratch our heads and say WHO...that is when I realized that I am now like my mom when she would say the same thing to me about someone I just loved when I was younger.  So FUNNY! She has played these things 24-7 now all weekend outside with her neighborhood friends. I watch them from the window just sit on the trampoline singing for hours. Soooo cute!  I now know who Bieber is from online stuff and I can sing you ANY of his songs from hearing them all weekend! :P

I am so excited for Elizabeth's birthday party. We are having a gymnastic party and I had my friends at Hopie-Jo make custom bottle cap charm necklaces for the goodie bags.  The girls are going to just love them. They are fantastic! Thank you so much Hope and Jo!!!!! You ladies are the best!!!  

We also dyed our eggs earlier today. We had so much fun together. Elizabeth made tie-dyed eggs. They ended up beautiful! I took a bunch of cute pics! I will post later on for you all to see.  Can't wait to read your Easter Weekend blogs! Take care...your friend, Missy

Hopie Jo Banner Draft

Here is a draft banner for my friend Hope over at Hopie-Jo's. They make wonderful bottle cap charm necklaces and bows for your little ones!

Girls Rule

This was a fun spring layout I did tonight of my daughter with a sassy grin on her face.  I used all www.scrapgirls.com products.  They were Amanda Sok's Hannah Collection, Amanda Sok's Sassy Pants Collection, Syndee Nuckles SS Paper Templates "Get The Edge 2", Syndee Nuckles Embossed Spring Style.  On Syndee's "Get The Edge 2" paper templates, I applied her Embossed Spring style.  I then made it look like I took sandpaper to the paper template by adding in white highlights, outer/inner glows with a down bevel. 

On my daughter's picture, I applied color fillers of pink, yellow and purple.To get the look of my daughter being printed out on the pink embossed paper - I first took a copy of my daughter and clipped it to the paper template.  Then, I took a copy of the same paper template, and applied the Embossed Spring style to it.

I made sure that my picture paper template, and my embossed spring paper template where in exact matching location on my layout. 

I then went back to my clipped picture, and erased out the background from around my daughter.  Changed the opacity to allow the pink embossed spring paper template to show through.

Finally, I used Amanda Sok's Hannah Print embellishment, and changed the opacity around 15%.  I layered it around my daughter's face and erased any part of the print that went off the pink embossed paper. I used a wordart and some bling/bling to show that Girls Rule. LOL :)

Thanks for looking!

Then and Now

 THEN AND NOW

This layout was for a January Swap Crop at Scrapgirls.com.  It was a round robin challenge.  I received two pictures from Laurel Lakey. The "Then" photo was when she was three years old, and she loved coloring.  The "Now" picture is a great photo of her at her current age of 26.  She sent me some journaling to add to the layout as well describing how she loves to be creative. The challenge gave us about a month to work on the layout.  Well...I hope Laurel likes how my layout turned out because I really enjoyed working on this challenge. I took her love to color and ran with it. LOL! I decided that I had to invoke the modern artist, Andy Warhol for this layout.  Everyone knows how colorful Warhol was in his day, right? LOL! I also played around with several different software programs and used a ton of design elements to come up with the layout you see now.  Hope you like it Laurel! :)  I had a blast!

Software Used:
PSE 5/Corel Paint Shop Pro X/Virtual Studio and Virtual Photographer
Bamboo Fun Pen Tablet
Scrapgirls.com Products:
PWR Ansertry Paper Black
SBA Cyan Botanticals Blue Polka Dot Paper
SNU EMB Photo Brackets6- Photo Strip
I designed my own long tab behind photo collage
BMU Back Porch Word Art Bracket Memories
VRA Camp Scrap Bracket (added ASO Stucco Style)
VRA Decorate Journal To Do (recolored), Journal Card, Paint Brush, Drywall Mesh (deconstructed)
ASO Take Wing Word Art - Art and Create
VRA Altered State Defined Embmini Butterfly (recolored)
SNU Emb Templt Flowers (recolored)
SNU Isnt It Romantic Jeweled Red (recolored green, blue as well)
AMC School Time Alpha 3 blank red
SNU Note Worthy Word Art - Then and Now
BMU Back Porch Alpha #2 and #6 (redesigned with ASO Frosted Glass Style)
AMC Jake and Emma Bead Charms, Swirl Charm
ASO Take Wing Alpha #3
ASO Opal Glass Style
ASO Glitter Sparks Style
AWI Freehand Painting Style
ASO Label Maker Style
STI News Style
The Scrapping Cop products: Graph style and Coloring style