Digi Picks 5/9/08

I'm so Happy ;-)
I'm so happy today for so many reasons.  Not only is it Friday, but there is a water main break at the Metropark Center, which is where I USED to work.  Today it is not my problem and I am beyond grateful!!!!!  Another reason to be happy is that tomorrow Memories Expo comes to New Jersey.  Krista and I will be there when the doors open and we will be hooking up with Robin.  The Vendor list appears to primarily be scrap stores from nearby states and direct marketing companies like Creative Memories and my favorite Top Line Creations repped by my buddy Judy.   I'm really hoping someone is going to demo the Slice and maybe have a show special on it for when its ready to ship in June.  After the show we are heading back to my house for a little cropping time and my scrapping buddy Patti is going to join us.  Patti has recently gone digi so we'll get to spend some time  giving her some tips and tricks.  So I am one very, very happy girl today!!!!

Paper Pack of the Day
Anyone who has seen my paper scrapping knows I have developed a love of sanding and inking.  I sand everything including my pictures, embellishments, stickers..whatever I can sand, I sand it ;-)  I try sometimes when doing my digi work to create the sanded effect, but it's not as much fun as it is in real life.  So I was super excited when I saw the debut of Jacque Larsen's Sanded Papers .  The sanding effects on the papers looks very realistic and I like that she didn't just do the same exact effect on each paper so if you use them together it will look very organic.

Layout of the Day

I love it when I get really cool ideas from other scrappers.  Mamanan's Beginning of a Fairy Tale is both a gorgeous layout and a great idea.  I love what she said in her description about starting a fairy tale book for her daughter.  I really think I would like to try that.  Then I could upload it to Shutterfly or I could print it out and make a cool chipboard book with all kinds of charms and ribbons!   Beautiful work on this layout.  Just stunning!