Digital Easter Cards

This year I decided to go a different route with my Easter cards. It's not the same as snail mail but for this year it worked as I was a little short on time. I emailed friends and family a digital Easter card to wish them all a Happy Easter. I snapped all the photographs that you see on the cards myself, which took a lot of time and patients, but it was worth it. I also designed all the cards myself which is a big accomplishment for me since I am just learning how to use Photoshop.

Here are the cards that went out ...

 

 

I also did a Portuguese one for my Grandma's (since they don't have email I required the assistant of my cousins to show them- I must admit this is one of the big downfalls of sending cards via the Internet) ...

 

 

 

I'm not sure if I mentioned it on here before, but one of the projects I am currently in the process of putting together is a digital project life book. Sherelle Christensen from My Crazy Life As A Farmers Wife Blog has shared with her readers five free Project Life templates. They are great if you have a basic knowledge of Photoshop. I have used them in the following posts if you want to check them out  Bubbles and Easter 2013.  You can find the templates HERE on her blog. I have started to create some of my own templates for our Project Life Book for 2013. The following is one of my layouts which will be included in our book for this year. I also created  the gingham pattern that you see in the background.

 

 





 Do you use pre-made templates or do you design your own? I personally like the flexibility that is available with creating the templates myself. However, I appreciate the pre-made templates that others have decided to share, as they speed things up. 

 

Easter 2013

We had a beautiful Easter weekend! The weather was gorgeous - high of 9^oC which is warm
considering it was the end of March and  it was nice and sunny most of the weekend. It was lovely spring weather. On Monday, however, Winter decided to return. The temperature dropped to -9^oC and there was periods of blowing snow causing whiteouts. I think it's time for winter to go away.

This year parts of the Easter weekend was spent outside enjoying the beautiful temperatures and taking in the sunshine.

Hugo had his first taste of Grandma's Folar (which is a Portuguese Easter tradition - Sweet Bread served with a boiled egg - it symbolically represents rebirth and the Resurrection). He just loved investigating it. Roxy tried to investigate too but Hugo would not let her near his folar when we were at my parents place.

 



 

[Close-up photo of Hugo's Folar - with Roxy standing in the corner]

 

 

This year Hugo had his first Easter Egg Hunt and he enjoyed all his treats and gifts the Easter Bunny brought him. He has really figured out how to unwrap gifts. 



 

On Easter Sunday we met little Pippa for the first time and she is so tiny and cute! She was so curious to see what Hugo was doing. It was her first time around a little human and she was great! 

 

Hugo also had his first taste of Oliebollen that his Godfather made. (Oliebollen is a deep-fried Dutch Doughnut traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve. In our town, they actually serve oliebollen outside the Dutch chocolate store  on the Main street on December 31). Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of him trying it.

 

We enjoyed some delicious lemon and chocolate cake Byron's cousin baked. She always makes great deserts. Hugo had some of the chocolate cake which had mint frosting and he enjoyed it immensely as you can see ... 

 

  

Before we left Hugo received some advice from his Godfather ...

 

 

 

Hugo also received a Dutch book that Aunt R brought back from the Netherlands.

Once again I used some of the free Project Life templates from Sherelle Christensen. They can be found on her Blog - My Crazy Life As A Farmers Wife. I am so happy she shared these with her readers. The templates are great if you know the basics of Photoshop. The above template can be found HERE. Thanks again Sherelle for sharing these!


We had a great Easter weekend filled with lots of treats, delicious food, family time and traditions. How was your Easter? Do you have any special Easter traditions?

13/52 - Bubbles ...

This past week Hugo had his first real interaction with bubbles and boy was he fascinated. Don't get me wrong, last summer we played with bubbles too, but he would look at them for 5 seconds and be attracted to other things real quick. Not this year though. I think we are going to have lots of fun with bubbles this summer!

It was interesting watching his reaction and observing him trying to figure them out. He was so focused ...

The above template is one of five free Project Life templates from Sherelle Christensen's  Blog - My Crazy Life As A Farmers Wife. I am so happy she shared these with her readers. She is amazing! The templates are great if you know the basics of Photoshop. The above template can be found HERE.

On a side note ... I'm super excited! My stamp has arrived and things are slowly coming together for my small business adventure. I ordered the stamp from Vistaprint and am happy with how it turned out.  I am still working on getting things sorted and organized, plus I have a couple projects on the go. However, I am happy with the progress so far. My amazing and talented Husband is doing a great job with the website and I am so lucky to have such an awesome Hubby!! I couldn't stop trying out my stamp. Here it is (photo taken with my ipod so it is a bit grainy)...

Hope everyone has an Egg-stra wonderful Easter!