Christine Smith Digital Design: July 2010

7.13.2010

Nickelodeon Universe

this is the other page I uploaded to Persnickety Prints. They have already shipped my order, so that's pretty cool.

credits: paper - Meadow by Numbumm, Art Attack by Christine Smith
doodles and embellishments - Rush by Amber Clegg
brushes - designer set by Amanda Rockwell

7.11.2010

I got a new laptop last weekend and seriously, Windows 7 was MY IDEA. I **love** this operating system and my laptop (thanks honey, you're the BEST). I managed to get my ACDSee database transferred over and am scrapping from a 1 TB external hard drive. It's really slick. I like to entertain the idea of going on a scrapping retreat again without lugging my desktop computer but I don't know if I will.

My biggest worry was whether my old Photoshop (CS2!!) would work. It DOES. My next biggest worry was getting ACDsee switched over - DONE. But it took a few days and some hand holding from a digi buddy. So I thought every thing was perfect in my little universe but alas, there is a little fly in my ointment...my printer. It's a beautiful wide format HP 8750 that delivers gorgeous prints but guess what? Since it's 4 years old, HP is not writing any new drivers for Windows 7 and the standard Windows 7 drivers do NOT do the borderless printers properly. Completely miscalculates the margins, blows it off one edge of the paper and chews up the bottom. I lugged the beast back upstairs and tried it again on the XP machine and no problems (except that I'm out of ink again...sigh...after all the failed attempts on the laptop). So it's definitely the OS, not the printer.

Well, as much as I like the prints I get at home, I don't like carrying it around and all that jazz so I am going to try Persnickety Prints. I have been scrapping 8.5x11 to save a bit of money but I am kind of excited about trying 12x12 again because P.Prints will do $1.99 prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper and I've even seen them go on sale for $1.49 before.

I like to do pages with multiple photos and I think I'm going to like that extra space on the page and being able to use 12x12 page borders and papers with inked edges and stuff without modifying them. With this newer, faster computer the bigger size should still be faster than the smaller ones on my old computer.

So I'm testing two 12x12 pages and getting them printed to see if I like how they turn out. I've read good reviews and am hopeful for excellent results.

Here's what I made today (everything from Shabby Princess' Festival kit)

journaling: Pictures taken for the kindness posters we make every year at Deephaven Elementary. Kids do something that is kind to or for someone else and then it goes on a poster that is hung in the hall. We clipped out expired coupons to send to military families to use at their commissaries. January 2010

thanks for reading

7.01.2010

July Blog Train

The July Blog Train is here! I missed the last round but I'm back so thanks for stopping by. Before we get to the freebie, I just want to show you a few of my newest kits at ScrapDish.

You can see my current product line HERE - be sure to have a little look - lots of dollar stuff in there right now~

And then onto the blog train freebie. Here's the preview: click on it to go to the download.

and inside is a copy of this coupon to entice you to shop with me really soon!

7.13.2010

Nickelodeon Universe

7.11.2010

I Scrapped and Printer Woes

7.01.2010

July Blog Train