A few layouts and a freebie

I found this cool template challenge at Scrapbook Elements so decided to give it a whirl.  You have to use one of their kits in order to receive the posting bonus so I found a patriotic kit (never can have enough of those LOL).  I used Americana by Christina Bartholomew and scrapped some of my son’s pictures from Iraq.  The pictures are from his first tour back in 2005.  He is there now on his 2nd tour but he hasn’t sent any pictures yet so far.  (Hint, hint Travis)

 

I go to a Bible Study class on Tuesday at the home of my Pastor & his wife.  They have a painting on their wall that I just love.  The background is just a swirl of black and red and a part of 1Corinthians 13:13 is written out in gold lettering.  So of course I had to try to recreate it as a scrapbook page, and I think it came out pretty good.  This is my youngest granddaughter Randy and our dog Sam.  She will tell you in no uncertain terms that Sammy loves her.

 

I liked it so much I decided to make a QP for you and here it is.

 

You can download here.  I hope you enjoy it and have a God-filled day.

Freebie Template #1

I have been rather silent here lately as I have been working on my shutterfly tribute to my sister and brother.  I lost my brother in Jan 2008 and my sister in Sep 2009 and I wanted to do something special for them.  Last month was the second anniversary of my brother’s passing and his 53rd birthday and this week was my sister’s 58th birthday. I gave my brother’s book to my SIL and my sister’s book to my niece.  Here are a few layouts from the books.

These were the front title pages for each of their books and were quickpages by Victorian Rose at Heritage Scrap found here and here.

   

 

This is my brother’s birth page.  I used Double Template #52 from Midnight Scrapping (you can find that template here). She has the most wonderful templates and I used several in making these books. The kit is Baby Love by Jean Daugherty at Heritage Scrap (found here).

   

 

For my sister’s birth pages, I used Lynn Griffin’s Baby Robin Pagekit found here at Heritage Scrap.

 

I designed the layout and then made a template.  I was so inspired by Midnight Scrapping’s templates, that I decided to have a go at it.  Here is the preview.

 

You can download it here (MediaFire) or here (4Shared).  Hope you enjoy it and have a God-filled day.

 

Valentine’s Day Freebie

Valentine’s Day is not really my favorite holiday.  But I have four young granddaughters so I bought them little stuffed animals and a box of chocolates.  So my two daughters and I took three of them (one had to go out of town), along with my sister’s only granddaughter to lunch and then the mall.  We had an all-girls day.  Except that my 10-year old great-nephew decided to go too.  He liked the idea of the lunch, but then got stuck with the mall.

So one of the stores we went into was Bath & Body Works, an absolutely fantastic store.  And they had all kinds of coupons and sales, so we loaded up.  One of the items we bought was a marvelous room air freshener you plugged in.  Before throwing the instructions away, I glanced at them and was amazed at what they said.

“If you are using the unit for the first time, remove from box.”  SAY WHAT?  I can’t plug it in while it is still in the box?  I am glad they told me that, because I would have never been able to get it to work.  Makes you wonder if they had to put that in their instructions because someone didn’t know to take it out of the box first.

My youngest granddaughter had to go to the eye doctor because her teacher said you couldn’t see the blackboard.  So now she has to wear glasses.  When she came home with the glasses the first day, she tried to get a complete list of where she didn’t have to wear them.  After a long discussion with her mother, she was left with not having to wear them to bed.  It is tough being a six-year old.

Here is Randy with her new glasses.

I made the frame to show off her picture and this is your freebie, along with a stripped paper and two Valentine overlays. 

You can download here.  Hope you enjoy it and have a God-filled day.

Moon and stars inspiration & Freebie

Inspiration can come to you in many different ways.  For example, my post from yesterday received a comment from Kathi at All Things Digital Scrapbooking that she was posting my freebie at her site.  Now this was a new one for me so I had to go look of course and was very pleasantly surprised.  She only posts about 45-50 freebies that she personally finds on various different blogs without using a computer-generated list.  (You can find her HERE.)

So I had a few minutes this morning while I was waiting for the kids to get ready for church and I found a lovely paper with the moon and stars on it so went to that blog and downloaded it.  Then I went to church and one of the songs our worship team sang was Cannons by Phil Wickham.  I was singing along and really enjoying myself when it dawned on me that the lyrics said “the moon and the stars declare who you are.”  That’s when I got distracted (shame on me!) and starting thinking about putting the lyrics on the moon and stars paper I had just downloaded.  Here’s what it looks like.

I can’t give you the paper but you can download it from Pixel Scrapbooking HERE.  I can, however, give you the lyrics that I put together.  Here’s the preview for that.

I am giving you the psd file so you can change the verse color as well as the extra words.  You can download HERE.  Hope you enjoy it and have a God-filled day.

Wintr’y Wonder Add-On Freebie

We have a dog Sam who is mostly Lab and does not realize that he is a big dog.  He thinks he is Randy’s playmate.  He also thinks my recliner is his and does not appreciate it when I make him move.  When the kids go outside, he has to be with them or he stands at the door and barks.  When they are jumping on the trampoline, we put him on his lead so he can be outside, but all he does is bark because he can’t actually be next to the kids.  And when Randy sleeps on the couch, this is where Sam sleeps. 

What caused us to get the camera was that Sam had his head laying on Randy’s head and his left paw on her face.  But by the time we got back with the camera he had moved.  He likes being where she is.

I decided it was time to take down my Christmas blog layout and replace it with a different one.  I like the color palette of the Wintr’y Wonder Kit I did earlier this month so decided to use that.  We are still having lots of cold weather here, so the colors suit.  When I got to the header, I needed more elements, so I created more to add to the kit.  So then I decided to let you have the additional elements as an Add-on to the kit. 

You can download here.  Enjoy and have a God-filled day.

Wintr’y Wonder Freebie

I do not have a creative bone in my body.  But God, in his infinite wisdom (or should I say humor), gave me the talent to do creative things.  So consequently, I can do, I just can’t think of things to do.  When I was a teenager, I started oil painting and was fairly decent.  There are still family members who have some of those paintings hanging on their walls still.  But I had to have a teacher or a picture to do it from.  Then years later, when I had teenagers of my own, I got into painting ceramics.  But again, I had to have a picture or a teacher to tell me what colors to paint it.  I couldn’t “see” it in color.  My daughter Brandi could do that.  She would look at a piece of white bisque and see it in color so would know what it would look like if she painted it those colors.  I would look at it and see just a white piece of bisque.  Very frustrating.

Well, now my creative side is into digital scrapbooking.  And again, I have that creative problem.  I love creating new things and would love to design new kits, but for the life of me, have no idea what to put into them other than papers, frames and bows.  Every time I look at a kit, I think “Wow, that’s cool.  Wish I had thought of that.”  But I didn’t and I can’t.

Over at Hummie’s World, I am part of a Designing Class, which has been quite fun.  She has started the class of with teaching about blogs and how to start one, creating Terms of Use, kit previews and zipping, etc, etc.  You learn something new with every class she teaches.   Anyway, occasionally she also does a color challenge and this month I decided to participate in that.  So here is my kit of….papers, frames and bows.  And I added a Quick Page too.  There are 10 papers, 3 frames, 5 bows, 3 ribbons, one tag and one scripture.

Here is the free Quick Page included in the zip file

         Download the papers

         Download the elements

Hope you enjoy the kit and have a God-filled day.