I'm lost today....

....After having such a wonderful weekend of crafting and a fun-filled month at Summer Card Camp - I'm feeling lost today and already missing Camp and have a new fun challenge or inspirational email sitting in my in-box every day.

   On the upside, I do know already that Jennifer and Kristina are working on the next Camp Session which is gong to be a Holiday Card Boot Camp which will run from November 7- 21!!  WOOHOO!  You can bet that I'm be signed up and it will be a ton of fun.   We were also excited to learn today that Summer Card Camp will now be an annual even and that the girls will continue to be adding lots of fantastic classes!!

 

    Another thing I have been thinking about is buying myself the latest Photoshop Elements program and also learning how to use it.  I would like to have the ability to enhance my digital skills and think having Elements will be a bonus.  It seems to be the most commonly used program for crafters and I would also like to learn how to also use digital elements in my cardmaking too!   I downloaded the Free 30 Day trial and viewed the first few tutorials today!   If you have/use Photoshop Elements, please share and also tell me HOW you learned to use the program and if you like it.  If anyone knows where I can also buy it for the very best price....I'd like to know.  It seems to start at about $70 and go up??    I am using the newest Version #9 and found some great Tutorials on Adobe TV.   I know there are probably many more on YouTube and I really want to learn this.  If you have any suggestions -- Please share!!

   With my withdrawal from Card Camp, I only manged to make one card today ----- ahhhh!!   I need to get myself back into challenge mode and hope to focus some more on that tomorrow.     Today's card was created for the Greeting Card Challenge over at The Outlawz, where this week's challenge was to create a non-square/rectangular card - in other words a 'Shaped card' which LOVE to make now that I have my Grand Calibur and a few sets of the Grand Nestie dies.  For this card I used the Grand Labels 11 set.

     This is my card and it was created all in Purple, Lavender and white....my favorites, of course!!  It's a HUG card and that is also my favorite sentiment!

  And that's it for today!!  I do hope after I spend some more time watching the Photoshop Elements Tutorials I will have even better pictures to share here too!  It's cloudy here today, which makes my pictures dark -- but our temps now down in the 70's....I don't mind a few clouds at ALL!   :)