I Go to Extremes

Those who know me well, know once I get into something I have to dig in deep.  I wrote my last post and went back to play at the Kuhler website.  If you want to see how it works watch their short video.  I uploaded some photos I’ve taken and created color schemes from them.  Here are a few screen shots.

You can use various color schemes, too.  A few examples are analogous, complementary, triad, and monochromatic.  Lisa and Ann wouldn’t this have been a great tool to play with during color class?  OK,  I need to control myself or I will be creating color schemes for hours.

First Attempt

It appears I’m getting worse and worse about posting.  I have some quilt related projects that are almost ready to post, but not quite yet.  I’ve still been playing with the digital scrapbooking, but I had a major setback a couple of weeks ago.  I’ve spent hours organizing the various kits and papers I’ve downloaded.  I had a folder on my external hard drive for Digital Scrapbooking and was working in it.  All of a sudden the whole folder was gone.  I wasn’t concerned because you can just get deleted stuff back from the recycle bin, right?  Wrong!  In this case there was more data in the folder than there was space available on the computer hard drive so it bypassed the recycle bin.  Did I have a back up?  Of course not.  I went searching for undelete software on the web.  Most sights have a free version that one can use to scan their drive and if it sees your files you then pay for the full version to undelete.  It took hours to scan that 250GB drive, but sure enough I could see the files.  So I shelled out the $$ to buy the full version.  Several hours later there are files on my computer that have the same names as those I lost.  HOWEVER, the undelete software does not recover all the data from Photoshop files so the files were absolutely useless.  Of course the software company does not offer a money back guarantee. So I’m out months of work, all my original scrapbook pages that were print quality and the money for the undelete software. 

Lisa asked me if I even thought any swear words during this debacle.  Fortunately, they aren’t really part of my vocabulary so the answer was no.  There was a great deal of frustration and beating myself up for not having a backup.  So I’ve been spending my spare moments redownloading whatever I can.

During all this scrapbooking, I’ve been wanting to try making my own papers and element.  So today I took a stab at some paper.  I’m uploading a zip file of the paper in the download box on the right.  If it looks appealing feel free to use it any any way you choose.  Here is a preview:

I used a palette by Carle from Kuhler.  If you haven’t seen that web site before it is worth a look.  I can see using the palettes for quilts, clothes, home dec, etc.