Hello all you Trixie Scrappers. Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada, Veterans’ Day in the US. Military service has pretty much been “the family business” for my family, with members of six consecutive generations serving Canada over ninety-eight years. So today is a day with special meaning for me and mine. My Masters Monday… Read More »

In a perfect world friendships would last into our old years, our memory would continue to function perfectly and our descendants would know our life stories with 100% accuracy. We don’t live in perfect world, however. Most friendships end at some point, most memories start to fade and most of the time we consider ourselves… Read More »

Homecoming season is coming to an end and it got me thinking. When I was in high school, October and November were big months for dances. So for today’s Masters Monday I thought I’d share just a quick tip and give you an idea for scrapping either your high school dance photos or your children’s… Read More »

Hello again, all you Trixie Scrappers! This is my eleventh Masters Monday post since I joined Trixie’s blog team April 1 of this year. I hope y’all are getting as much out of them as I have. Today I’m going to show you some tricks for customizing and manipulating your shadows in Photoshop Elements. I… Read More »

The inspiration for today’s Masters Monday came in large part from a layout our CT member Bree did a few weeks ago. I thought it’d be a great way to showcase the pictures in one of my most recent layouts and decided it was time for a tutorial on it as well. So today we’ll… Read More »

Happy Monday, y’all! Hopefully you have a great day… and why not start it out with this week’s Masters Monday tutorial? I had this photo booth photo in one of my folders and there was something about it that just didn’t ring true, given its age. The lovely lady on the right is my grand-aunt… Read More »

Wowzers… today’s the very last day of September! How did that happen? Today’s tutorial is a really simple one, but with great potential for adding some zip to your layouts. I’m going to show you how to create photographic titles! There are a few ways to make this work, but the technique is basically the… Read More »

It’s Monday – hopefully we’re all having a good one. Today I am here with a couple tips for some quick and easy journaling. Because I have half a dozen kids, I have quite a few photos that are similar – some with more than one child in it as well, and trying to journal… Read More »

So how many of you out there are addicted to your phone? Of those, who takes most of their pictures with a fun little app called Instagram? When I had an iPhone, I used Instagram for a bit. I’ve always preferred pictures taken with my actual camera, so I didn’t take many pictures on my… Read More »