Happy 4th of July! We’re celebrating in Connecticut today with friends, and we hope you all have time with your friends and family too. We did the sparkler thing last night with the kids, and tried some long exposure photos – watch for those soon!
Today we want to say “Thank You” to all our readers with a free kit! (If you’re a crop regular, pat yourself on the back, you already HAVE this kit! If you’re not a crop regular… well – join us! We give away good stuff and have fun doing it!)
Greetings from beautiful Upstate NY! We’re enjoying the cool, rainy weather way more than the locals, but will be ready to be home again soon.
We had a great day taking photos at this beautiful house that is now the administration building for the local community college. I got some great images I plan to turn into a kit someday!
And even though we’re away, we’re still Feeling Scrappy! Tomorrow night (Thursday, July 2) at 10pm Eastern (9 Central) I’ll be in the chatroom at P4D. Join us for a relaxing hour of scrap talk, games and whatnot. Bring a link and show us what you’ve done this week!
Since I’m kinda tied up here at the moment, y’all can help me rally the troops by spreading the word. If you Twitter, FaceBook or just post at various places, do let everyone know we’re chatting this week! I’ll try to do my usual stuff, but may not have time to get to it all. And the party’s ALWAYS more fun when y’all are there!
I tend to be a multi-photo scrapper, which means LOTS of layers! And often most of those layers need the same shadow – same depth, opacity, and direction. And there’s a quick and easy way to do that!
I’ll pick one layer, and apply the shadow the way I like it, then copy it.
In PS: with the layer that has the style selected, right-click and choose Copy Layer Style. In PSE: Go to the Layer menu and choose Layer Style, then choose Copy Layer Style.
But here’s the best part – you can paste to more than one layer! Go ahead and select all the other layers you want that same shadow on (I tend to hold the CTRL key and click on layers in the palette) then in PS right-click again and choose Paste Layer Style, or in PSE go back to the Layer menu and choose Layer Style, then Paste Layer Style.
Since I usually wait until I’m all done with the layout to add shadows, this is a quick and easy way to make sure everything matches just right!
If you’re a multi-photo scrapper like me, I’ll bet you get a lot of use out of this tip, and your layouts will look better for it. Happy Scrapping!
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, keep them dogies rollin’…
Well, we made it! Depsite all odds, we managed to get off on time for our great road trip family adventure. Pulling out of Tennessee in the dark, with one kid bouncing around in his seat with excitement, a sullen sleep-deprived teenager, and the youngest wearing a strange combination of regular clothes and jammies, we were hunkered down for THE GREAT LONG HAUL ROAD TRIP! With no traffic, we made it to Virginia in record time!
It was perfect driving weather, and unless you count the scenic bypass we took when we missed the turn onto I84 in Scranton, we arrived in NY 16 hours later without event.
First stop, Oma’s house! Oma has great entertainment for the kids, from burning the paper trash to hanging in the hot tub! Today everybody got a chance to drive the golf cart Oma keeps to drive to the street for the mail – the oldest looked scarily comfortable in the driver’s seat!
This afternoon we’re off to DiFillippi’s Bakery for cannolli and black and white cookies, then back home to cook out! It’s only in the 70’s, so while they feel like it’s a hot day, we’re feeling cooool and fruity!
We’re going to have LOTS of good scrapping material when this week is over, and I think I’ll just have to work on a new kit for it!
Hope y’all are enjoying your weekend – don’t forget to take pictures!!
Since we were on the road on Friday, we know this is a little late! Better late than never, right?
Eastman Kodak, my old employer, just announced that they are discontinuing the production of one of their flagship products Kodachrome. Produced for the last 74 years, it was the first commercially successful color film that amateurs and professionals alike could use and was known for it fabulous, bright color and accuracy. Most of the world’s most stunning pictures were captured on Kodachrome and continued to be so even with the advent of Kodak’s Ektachrome film and Fuji’s Velvia films. Sadly though, Kodakchrome has been losing market share, along with most other film, and now represents a fraction of 1% of Kodak film sales. The process to manufacture and process it is very complex (there is only one lab in the US that still processes it), and so it’s gone.
The film is so famous Paul Simon immortalized it in a song:
What I remember best are boxes or trays of old slides – often on Kodachrome. The stability of the film allows it to preserve those memories from long ago. Jenn’s dad has great pictures (and Kodachrome movies) of them at Disneyworld when it opened and of when Jenn was a child. And that’s the legacy this once great film brings to digiscrappers – preserving those memories to scrap.
Do you have any old boxes of slides laying around? Are they Kodachrome? What are you going to do with them?
Today we want to say “Thank You” to all our readers with a free kit! (If you’re a crop regular, pat yourself on the back, you already HAVE this kit! If you’re not a crop regular… well – join us! We give away good stuff and have fun doing it!)
Greetings from beautiful Upstate NY! We’re enjoying the cool, rainy weather way more than the locals, but will be ready to be home again soon.
Since we were on the road on Friday, we know this is a little late! Better late than never, right? 
