Christmas Tree Brownies

Mud Cake Any One?

Meeting the Wiggles

Modified Nanna Photo Page

The best bit of digital scrap booking is you can add bits to pages any time you like and it is is even better when you find extra free stuff! I have modified a photo of the kids with Nanna as I found a few new embellishments!

Ice Cream

Boys

Mother and Daughter

Love this photo of Mum and Nanna, love these ladies!

Charlotte and Will 2011

Family 2010

Laughter

Hollybank

A Nanna photo!

Found this photo from 2007, and couldn't believe how young the kids looked! Just wish they would stay looking young and that they didn't need to grow up!

Creative Memories Memory Manager 3.0

Memory Manager 3.0 Software

Memory Manager 3.0 Software is an easy-to-use software program that helps you organise, categorise, personalise, and edit your photos like a professional, without having to be one. It's the answer to digital photo overload. In no time you and your photos will be ready for your next project.

Features

Effortless Organisation Automatically import and organise photos by the date they were taken. Memory Manager 3.0 Software offers a star system to easily rate your photos. And it's a snap to assign several topics to a photo so photos can be found multiple ways. It's never been easier to quickly find the right photos for your project!	Journalling Freedom Unlike any software that only lets you title an image, Memory Manager 3.0 provides journalling space so you can remember the whole story behind a photo. Plus you can mix fonts, font sizes, colours and other font attributes in the same journalling box when creating an album.
Memory Vault Store your photos safely in Memory Manager's memory Vault. its auto backup feature ensures that your photos, audio and video files will always be there when you need them. And now your star rating, journalling and folder list are saved to your photo.
Cloning Flexibility With Memory Manager 3.0 Software, you can clone (copy) from one photo to another as well as copying part of a photo and pasting it over the same photo. Use the Clone tool to remove unwanted parts of an image.	Editing Precision You won't believe how easy it is to enhance images with Memory Manager 3.0. Change the lighting, remove red-eye, rotate, crop and correct colours like a professional. Now even better with a selection of tools that allow you to easily adjust a protion of your photo.
StoryBook Starter Organise photos in Memory Manager 3.0, then transfer them to StoryBook Creator 3.0 to start your StoryBook or add them to an existing StoryBook.	PicFolio® Planner Drag and drop photos into templates that match our PicFolio® Album sleves. This software instantly resizes images to fit! Print photos and slip them right into your album.

Editing Control

Crop or change from landscape to portrait	Straighten a crooked horizon	Repair an original image that has been cropped	Repair a damaged photo
Lighten photos	Use Auto Colour Fix to bring faded photos to life	Change the hue or remove a colour
			Images shown above and left supplied by Bronwyn Hawkins

Deloraine Craft Fair

Amazing what you can find on a computer! This photo was taken in 2009! Another product I love at the moment is my Creative Memories Memory Manager. It is like a vault for my photos and movies. I can even organise into whatever folders I like and it automatically stores details like when the photo was taken etc. I will post more about the Memory Manager later.

Father and Daughter

A very simple layout using all Creative Memories kits.

I have used Discover Digital paper and embellishments and just changed the colours to suit the purpose. I also used the Digital Embellishments office supplies silver. Both came free with the Story Book Creator program.

Number 1 Hawks Fan

Amelia is a big hawks fan, but I think Hawka is the big draw card for her like of the team! However she was checking out the boys when we went and watched them train! 

StoryBook 3.0

The pages I make on this site are made using a variety of Creative Memories pages and embelishments and other things I find off the net. The software I use is Creative memories and the great thing about the Creative Memories program is that even I can manage to fuddle my way around it! All the pages I post have been made using the program which you can read more about on the Creative Memories web site 

Capture your story with a computer and a click. StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 Software makes digital scrapbooking fast and easy. The best part: there’s no cleaning up, simply save and turn off your computer. Choose from a simple, free version to create StoryBook digital photobooks or Calendars using pre-designed pages. Or purchase StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 for complete freedom to move, change, resize and recolour everything from fonts to photos and decorative elements. StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 Software also gives you the choice of creating and ordering Page Prints and Poster Prints.

Features

Photo Editing Enhance photos with easy to use tools: crop, rotate or flip; lighten, darken or sharpen; correct red-eye; switch to black-and-white, sepia tone or soft focus. Or apply an artistic filter like oil painting or frosted glass.	Auto Book Resize No need to re-do all your hard work for multiple project needs. You can easily resize your 12” x 12” to 8” x 8”! Order a large copy for yourself and a smaller version for friends and family.
Font Fun You can use any font on your PC, plus you can wrap text around images and objects, fill any shape with text and you can even draw a line, straight or curvy, and get your text to follow the line.	Two-page Spreads This 3.0 feature lets you view both pages of a two-page StoryBook spread at the same time. That allows for easier alignment and design.
Try Our Tools Including a grid-cutting tool, corner cutters and straight-cutter option that tears paper and creates blended and patterned edges. You can also turn just about any image into a rubber stamp and vary the look by changing the colour or coverage.	Digital Content Library Add a page element directly to your content library from the page you’re working on, or add any papers and embellishments directly from files on your computer rather than having to load the files into the content library first. Auto Photo Populate After selecting photos, you can choose to auto-populate your project with them – a unique smart feature that populates templates based on photo dates and times. Photo Functionality Easy access to Memory Manager 3.0 Software photos: click on Get Photos / from Memory Manager and the program will open and allow you to share your photos with any open StoryBook. Plus you can sort photos by date, remove multiple photos at once, and choose to view either All Photos, Used Photos, or Unused Photos

If your interested in  knowing more leave your name and email and I can get you in contact with a Creative Memories consultant!

First Days at School

Amelia started the year at St Gorges. This year she is in pink group and has Rose again as her teacher!

Will started school this year in Kinder and was so excited!

Part way through term 1 Will's teacher asked if I could come in and take a class photo to go in the Examiner. This was the one chosen!

Family Trip Melbourne 2011

This is a selection of pages taken from a family trip to Melbourne early in the year.

A New Blog

Well I have had a little time on my hands of late and have been enjoying using my Creative Memories software to start doing some digital scrapbooking. I have found that I love to use digital for many reasons:

1 The kids don't want to get in and make a massive mess with all my papers! Yes many times I have sat down to work and the kids have found a piece of paper that I had been keeping for a specific project that ends up getting cut up for there own project!

2. Being in the middle of a creation and then someone else wants to use the table which means everything has to be packed up and put away!!!!!

3. Once I have the papers and embellishments on the computer they can be used over and over again in many different layouts which is great!

4. And I can keep a journal that I can print and that I can save on disc in case heaven forbid we have a fire and lose everything!

This blog is going to be a place where I upload some of my work and once I get use to the software I can share some tips on getting around. It is also a place to come and check out for ideas as we are always looking for ideas.

SO enjoy!