Aug
03

Gigi’s 90th birthday

Posted by DeAnna Allan

On December 29, 2007 we had a surprise luncheon for Rob’s grandmother’s 90th birthday. She had no idea we were throwing her a surprise party! It was a great afternoon. Rob’s sister Angela put together a memory book for Anne (aka Gigi). It was a beautiful compilation of photographs from friends and family and commemorated all the stages of Gigi’s life so far. It was wonderful to watch Gigi and her two sisters going through all the photos and reminiscing. Rob presented a slide show. Rob’s dad Brian did some reasearch and prepared a cool list of important events from 1917 and some of the major milestones during Gigi’s lifetime.

For Week 1 of Digi: In Deep, when I first looked at the layout we were doing, I knew right away I had to do Gigi’s birthday. I love the scrollwork added to the title and the hint of red in the strips on the bottom left would work perfectly with the main photo I had in mind. I know Gigi will probably hate this photo, but I love the fact that she’s hiding behind the napkin. She just has this mischievious look in her eye that really captures my attention. I really like the half-circle embellishment, it’s a great accent.

This assignment wasn’t overly difficult, but it was definitely more difficult than Now We’re Rockin’. There were more tasks to complete as well. The part that took me the longest was figuring out what to write on the accent strips and in my journaling. It’s surprising how few poems or quotes relate to someone who’s turning 90! I finally found a quote that I liked from Oprah.

The one very cool thing that I learned was how to re-colour items using the Image-Adjustments-Replace Color feature. You have to be careful using this though because it is a permanent change. So if you don’t want to change the original image, you have to make sure to either do not save the changes when you close, or create a duplicate document and then make the changes. When you are using this feature, you have a couple of ways you can make the selection for what you want to recolor. You can click in the area you want to recolor, and then use the slider to make the selection more solid (the selected area you want to re-colour changes color to white, as opposed to the “marching ants”), or you can shift+click a few times throughout the area until you get the selection you would like. Very cool.

DeAnna

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