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I wrote about my experience on my personal blog.

Emotions and Color Challenge

My presentation for the group was on Emotions and Color. I have uploaded it to my site and you can find the pdf document on this page.

I printed out this presentation and made a booklet for each scrapper as a hands-on reference tool.



Melissa with (site) Scrappin My Buns Off made this awesome kit for those attending! She sent it to me a bit too late and I hope to be e-mailing everyone a link to the kit. I believe she was the only one to make something especially for the gathering with a St. Louis theme! I loved using it!

I did not get a chance to do the challenge, so I took the opportunity to do it with the group photo using Melissa's kit which, to my surprise, was the perfect color! The ladies attending will recall that I mentioned that I utilized the orange and teal colors for room decorations to convey the emotions of joyfullness, playfullness, socialability, happiness, and creativity. When I opened up Melissa's kit tonight I was pleasantly surprised to see the same colors! It was perfect to convey the same emotions in my layout.

Please join me in the forum by utilizing the tutorial on Emotions and Color in your own layout as the ladies at the gathering did as a challenge. Choose your photos and decide what emotions you want to convey. Thereafter, choose the color that conveys those emotions and scrap!

I found inspiration for this layout in an old scraplift challenge in my forum too! You are welcome to join it also.

St. Louis Digi-gathering Twitter Peeps

Several of us convinced some others to join Twitter!

I thought I would make a list of those attending who have jointed Twitter. Let me know if I'm missing you so that I can add you to this list.

Hummie http://twitter.com/hummieisme
Deb http://twitter.com/scrappincop
Angie http://twitter.com/angiepedersen
Brandi http://twitter.com/brandiw2003
Jen http://twitter.com/masterscrapper
Virginia http://twitter.com/ladyvdzine
Penny http://twitter.com/BuzybeeDesigns

Also, I just found this twit from Heather Manning:
RT @HeatherM74: #digigathering - Here's something from me. http://digiscrapping.net/ code - StLouisGathering - 40% off - Ex 4/30

Also, here's a tweet from Brandi!
Free stuff for those who attended/wanted to attend the StLouis #digigathering - HURRY - removing this in 24h - http://tinyurl.com/d4ps4k

Hybrid Scrapbook Album - Digi + Traditional

While hanging out in Hummie's room last night, we took the opportunity to look through each other's digital scrapbook albums. It was really neat (and inspiring) to see in person how other digi-scrappers had done their layouts, and arranged them in albums, whether printed on home printers, at photo labs, or sending out to be printed as photo books.

Photobook printing options used were Shutterfly, Winkflash, and Artscow.

I shared another option - a hybrid scrapbook I made for my daughter. I created 8x8 digital layouts in PSE, then reduced the image size to 4x4. I created a blank 4x6 file, then dragged each 4x4 layout onto it, and had the 4x6 images printed at WalMart. Once printed, I cropped off the extra 2" of white photo paper, leaving just the 4x4 layout. I painted a plain 5x5 board book with acrylic paint, then adhered the layouts to each page. Voila! A hybrid scrapbook album!

I put together a video of the album last year, so I'll post it here, to help you visualize the result. (be sure to watch till the end for a quick little message from my daughter - she's so cute!)



The other digi-gatherers seemed to like the idea of this album. It's great for gift albums!

Layouts & Photos

Join the Flickr Group where we will be sharing our layouts during the gathering. If you cannot attend, we still welcome you to follow along with us and comment on layouts.

The Day After

We awoke to snow! Imagine that! It's almost April! It was only on the vehicle tops and grass and not the roads.



Time to relax the next day! The pool was wonderful!



But the hot tub was even better!

Group Photo!

There are still more photos coming into the Flickr group, be sure to catch them!



Back Row: Amber (Stolen Moments), Deb (ScrappinCop), Brandi (DigiBrandi), Ann (roocmc)
Middle Row: Hummie, Penny, Virginia (Ladyvdzine), Tammy (Bunchie), Angie
Front row: Becky (rherrin4), Nicole (Digi-designs by Nicole), Heather, Natlie
Missing: Jen went home early

What us scrapping!

Here we are creating our scrapbook pages.

Remember, you can visit our Flickr group to see so much more!

Lunctime

We had a great time getting to know one another over lunch in the hotel's restaurant. They didn't have enough room to seat us all together, but we made the most of it in our two groups...

Links Shared at the St Louis Digi Gathering

These are a sampling of links shared in various discussions during the event.

• ideabooks4u.com
• Scrap Kit Challenge
• myscrapshop.com
• digishoptalk.com
• atomiccupcake.com
• Kansas/Sassy Mouth Designs
• Standardized Terms of Use Initiative
• creativecommons.org
• blushbutter.com
• http://flergalicious.blogspot.com/
• primopdf.com - for secure, non-editable PDFs for TOUs
• openoffice.org
• My1Stop Printing Services - for bulk printing of calendars
• ArtsCow - for printing photobooks and playing cards