A new passion, a new love

Two things came into my life recently: learning to do digital scrapbooking with PhotoShop Elements 4.0, and a new kitten. Both are taking inordinate chunks of my time. Both are something I really needed to spice things up around here.

Here is the page I made the night the new kitten finally came inside out of the stormy weather and a life living under my car. He had come up to the porch to eat, and once I got him with his head down in the food dish, not watching me, I snatched him up. I was wearing gardening gloves, and it was a good thing. The element of surprise was terrifying to him, and he screamed and hissed and snarled all the way into the waiting bathroom where I gave him a bath and cuddled him in a soft towel. He settled down, burrowing into the folds of the towel, and here he is, before I even had a name for him. I'd been calling him BK, short for Baby Kitty, during his stay outside, because I couldn't even be positive which "brand" he was. He never let me get that close.

The page elements were all things that I had experimented with: a piece of yarn, the paw prints, and an allover patterned paper. They are part of a new kit I'm designing called "Reigning Cats and Dogs". If you like digital scrapping, email me, and I will share some elements of this kit with you.



Not to leave the other boys out, I started scrapping pages of their antics. I had bought them a small kitty condo to give them a new sense of place while the new cat in town was sequestered in the bathroom. No sooner than I walked in the door with it, Toby and Ringo were all over it, in it, and jockeying for position. The pictures on this page were taken over the course of an hour or so of "Synchronized Sleeping". The papers are from Tami Forbes' Mystery Kit, a crop challenge.