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.