Archive for April 3rd, 2008

Apr
03

About Me:

Posted by DeAnna Allan

My name is DeAnna Allan. I’ve been married to my wonderful husband since December, 2003, and we have one son who is currently 20 ½ months old. By training I’m a paralegal at a law firm in downtown Vancouver, BC.

I’ve been doing traditional scrapbooking for a little over a year. I was introduced to it, just after my son was born, through some new friends and our local Photo Express store in Maple Ridge. I took a class and felt exhilarated once I finished my first two-page layout. Then, in March, 2007 I attended my first crop with some friends – all I can say is WOW. It was amazing. I prepared a ton in advance and managed to get 4 layouts done! Yikes!

My husband is a total computer geek. He is an IT Operations Administrator, and has done some web training. He’s set up a family website for us (www.allanfamily.ca), and his own umpiring website (www.umpire.ca). Umpiring is a huge passion of his, which in turn means I have a ton of baseball materials and a couple of layouts already.

In October 2007, my husband and I took our first digital scrapbooking class, and I am totally hooked. My husband took it so he could be more creative with his websites, and I took it so I could learn how to do more to my photos before printing them for my traditional scrapbooking. What a surprise it was to see a layout come together so quickly and easily. So far I’ve been doing some traditional scrapbooking still (I’m preparing for the next crop in – 9 DAYS!), and some digital scrapbooking as well.

There are so many websites out there where you can find kits, embellishments, templates, Photoshop brushes, etc. I’ll show you the websites I like the most, and how to use some of the products that you can download. So, my blog will focus on general scrapbooking musings, and some tutorials, etc.

I like to do a lot of prep work to my photos using Photoshop CS3, whether I’ll be printing them out for a traditional layout or if I’m simply using them for a digital one. My first tutorial will show you how I took a Google map image of Whidbey Island in Washington state, and made it into an old wrinkled map for my layout of Kyle’s first camping trip.

I hope you’ll enjoy!

DeAnna

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