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.

My Biggest Challenge

I am really getting into doing color challenges. This month it is one at Hummie's World. Because I am just now starting to design, the color challenges present a great way to get inspiration. And that is my biggest challenge. I have always said that I have the talent to do, but I just don't have the talent to create. In order to create, you have to have a really great imagination, of which I have none. When I used to paint ceramics, I could not "see in color". That white piece of bisque I was getting ready to paint was just that....a white piece of bisque. My daughter Brandi can look at it and "see" it in color, so she knew what she was going to paint. I knew how to paint it but I just didn't know what colors to use.

Now I am faced with the same thing in learning to design for digiscrapping. God gave me the desire to create all kinds of things, but in his infinite humor, He left out the ability to create. That I have to struggle with. So color challenges are one way to help give me that push I need. So over at Hummie's World, I decided to participate in her August color challenge. And this is what I came up with.















This kit is for personal use only and is created at 300 ppi. There are 6 papers, 4 frames, 3 ribbon wraps and one flower corner for the frames. You can download here.

July Color Challenge

This month the colors for the Color Challenge at Plain Digital Wrapper were a whole lot better than last month's very vivid colors. I must say though that I love primary bright colors alot. July's colors were more muted and very pretty. I dove right in and made up a few papers to scrap the first layout of Brandi and Cheyenne's baptism. I have been wanting to do a word art for one of the songs we sing at church and thought this would fit right in.

Here is the layout for Cheyenne and Brandi. This page will also be used for Cheyenne's scrapbook I am doing for her birthday.













And since Ella's 80th birthday is this Saturday, I am still working on her Life Book. This layout is for her book and is of Travis' family. Since Travis won't be able to be in New Braunfels this weekend, it is okay for him to see the page. Actually, he probably won't see it as he is in Kansas for another school. This one only lasts a week and he will actually be back to San Antonio Friday, but he has to stay for Drill. The closer he gets to deployment, the more important the drills are.

Anyway, here is one of his pages for his grandmother's birthday present.













And since Brandi never looks at my blog, here is one of her pages.













The first two layouts were done with the kit I designed for the July Color Challenge. I am having a lot of fun learning how to design, although they are no way as good as so many other kits out there. Anyway, here is the preview for it.













And you can download it here.

Clip Art

I really like clip art. I like the bright and colorful ones and I especially love the patriotic ones. When you walk into a scrapbooking store, it's the same as all those wonderful stickers. They all look so cute and I want to buy them all. I buy what I can, take them home and put them in these nice little piles in my room. And there they still sit. You see, I don't paper scrap. My older daughter Dana has done that for several years, and every once in awhile I go to her house and we make cards or a page. She and her husband have this big two-story, four-bedroom house and no kids. So she has her own room where she can put all her scrapping supplies and she loves it.

So I keep collecting all these cute little stickers and they have no place on my digital pages. That is until I discovered digital clip art stickers. So, true to my nature, I bought some and then set about incorporating them into my layouts. They don't really have a place in my heritage pages, but they fit right in on the pages I am doing for my youngest granddaughter Randy's scrapbook for her upcoming birthday.

So here's the newest page I did for her Kindergarten graduation picture. Can you believe the school took cap and gown pictures for graduation from Kindergarten? When she brought the pictures home from school, she was quick to point out to her mother that "those aren't real books in the picture", just in case her mother didn't know that.

This is a page I created using clip art from Country Clip Art by Tina, which is the the bus, books, blackboard and pencil frame. I created the Kindergarten word art. The little hanging buttons are from Diva's Creation - GrazyJelly Beans.

I liked it so much I decided to offer it as a freebie. Randy is in Kindergarten, but I went ahead and did the other grades in word art. In this little mini kit, you get all the grades word art, two frames (one with the bus and one without) and the background paper. Here is the preview and you can download it here. If you like it, please leave a comment.

June Color Challenge

I get lots of emails from various different digiscrapping sites that I visit. Some I buy from and some I just browse their forums and galleries. Yesterday I received an email from Plain Digital Wrapper about their June Color Challenge. I guess I had never noticed this particular challenge, or else the colors just intrigued me, or maybe it is because I have finished Ashlyn's book and now need to do Randy's. Whatever the reason, I decided to participate in this challenge.

So here is the color chart they gave us to work with.













Now it just so happened that I had a pretty good picture of Randy that was taken at Ashlyn's birthday party that would work good with these colors. But starting from scratch with my own elements and paper, etc, is a little bit harder than pulling in items from kits. So it took me awhile longer on this. With a little imput from Brandi, here is what I came up with for the layout.













The challenge said we could make a layout or a mini-kit, or both. So since I created everything to make the layout, I decided to put it all together into a mini-kit too. And I also converted my layout to a quick page. I added a few more papers to round it out. The pink flower is a template from Atomic Cupcake and the sun is a CU freebie from JosDZigns. It is not included in the kit but you can visit her blog at http://www.ccountry.net/~gmimlost/JosDZigns.html. The clip art is from Country Clip Art Graphics by Tina. Here is the preview for the kit.




This kit is for personal use only and you can get it here.

You can find the quick page here.