Scrap And Mac

This week Jess Gordon is our wonderful designer. She is a lady of many talents!! She does traditional, digital and hybrid scrapbooking. Her website is full of fantastic ideas that will get anyone inspired to develop as a scrapbooker! She has inspired me and I know she will inspire many many more people! Thank Jess

Name: Jessica (Jess) Gordon
Design for: Prima Hybrid, Shabby Princess, Heidi Williams of Weeds and Wildflowers, Shabby Miss Jenn
Software you use: Adobe Photoshop CS, but I won a copy of Photoshop CS3, which I plan to learn and start using soon.
Camera you use: Canon Power Shot A85
Favourite layout: Hard to choose!! For now my favorite is “L O V E”
Favourite digital kits: It’s a tie between the Bella Collection and the Olivia Collection at the Shabby Shoppe!
Favourite designers: I am SO blessed to be on the Creative Teams of all of my favorites!! Prima Hybrid, Shabby Princess, Heidi Williams of Weeds and Wildflowers and Shabby Miss Jenn!! I also really admire Christina Renee.
Favourite products you use: My favorite physical supplies are from Prima Hybrid - I am in love with so many things from that store: The Say It With Crystals, the acrylic stamps and of course the flowers!
Link to a freebie: I recently created this freebie: Hearts ‘n Doodles!
Best advice for a beginner: Look at online galleries for inspiration, you will discover so many different styles and techniques! Also, people usually provide a supplies list, so that can help you discover new scrapbooking supplies!

Have you been inspired by Jess?

Leave a comment or add your own creation inspired by Jess to our slide show!

This week in the Designer Spotlight is Shabby Miss Jenn. As I LOVE the shabby chic style and flair my absolute favourite digital designer has to be Jenn - owner and designer of Shabby Miss Jenn.

Over the last while I have learnt so much about digtial scrapbooking just by looking at Jenn’s blog. Jenn’s website is just wonderful to browse through. She has an amazing team that contributes to her idea gallery - which is great to get you inspired about your own pages

Who do you design for?: Shabby Miss Jenn Designs
What hardware do you use?: IMACS and POWERBOOKS
What software do you use?: Adobe Photoshop CS3
What camera do you use?: Canon 30d
Can you share your latest or favourite layout?: See below and also my gallery
What is your latest or favourite digital kit: Loveshack-but have a NEW fav coming soon! LOL
Link to a freebie: Here is the a freebie : Loveshack Desktop
Best advice for a beginner: PLAY! Take it slow and play. Don’t get stressed because your page doesn’t look like the other ones out there. It will in time and you will learn things by experimenting.

Then leave a comment and/or an inspired scrapbook page to share in our slide (click the more button).
Any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me

1 FREE KIT from SHABBY MISS JENNfor the best comment & scrapbooking page
To be in the running all you need to do is leave a comment and add your Shabby inspired scrapbooking page to the slide show

Ali Edwards is in our Designer Spotlight this week. She has been an inspiration to many and you may well know of her in the scrapbooking world. Author, scrapbooker and trend setter - remember her name and check out her site.

Who do you design and write for?: Creating Keepsakes Magazine (have written 3 books: A Designer’s Eye for Scrapbooking, A Designer’s Eye for Scrapbooking with Patterned Paper, and Life Artist) + maintain a blog.

What hardware do you use: Desktop is a G5, laptop is a Mac Book Pro

What software do you use: Photoshop CS3, Illustrator, iPhoto for photo management

What camera do you use?: Canon Digital Rebel

Do you have a favourite book regarding scrapbooking you could share?: Photo Freedom by Stacy Julian

Best advice for a beginner starting in paper scrapbooking: Focus simply on the story + the photos. Those are the things that really matter the most. And don’t forget to tell the everyday stories.

What is your best layout: See below

Then leave a comment and/or an inspired scrapbook page to share in our slide (click the more button).
Any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me

Today in our Scrap and Mac Designer Spotlight is Noell Hyman. She is amazingly talented and just so creative! Noell runs a website offering tutorials and how to’s with particular regard to paper scrapbooking.

What hardware do you use?: We’re all about Apple at my house. I do all my work on my MacBook Pro. My external hard-drive is a G-Tech.

What software do you use?: I use Apple’s Aperture for my photo managing and also for my simple, everyday photo editing. I love this program. I also use Adobe Photoshop for more in-depth editing and then I save those photos to Aperture. I also use Photoshop to crop and edit images of my scrapbook layouts so I can show them online.

What camera do you use?: I have a Canon Rebel and two extra lenses. I mostly use my 50mm lens but sometimes switch to a telephoto lens or the original wide-angle lens that came with the camera.

Can you share your latest layout?: The layout, Connection, is one of my favorite recent layouts. I used a Heidi Swapp mask and gesso to get the butterfly look on the page.

Any scrapbooking product you could not live with out: Absolutely patterned paper. I love it.

Best advice for a beginner starting in paper scrapbooking: Some people really struggle with digital vs. traditional scrapbooking but I like to think of them as more tools in my scrapbooking tool box. It doesn’t seem so intimidating when I consider digital and traditional products as more choices or ways to tell my stories.

HAVE YOU BEEN INSPIRED BY NOELL?

Then leave a comment and/or an inspired scrapbook page to share in our slide (click the more button).
Any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me