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.

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.

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.

Blue Willow

Over at Heritage Scrap, all the designers got together and each designed a kit they call Blue Willow. Put all seven kits together and you have one whopping big kit. It is absolutely gorgeous. Well, of course, then they had to have a challenge to design a layout using one or more of these kits. There were so many things to choose from I had a hard time coming up with this one. I had to re-do it three different times. But I finally was happy with it.

This is my sweet youngest granddaughter Randy. These are her school pictures for Kindergarten. I will also use this page for her Life Book when I do it this summer for her birthday.











I liked these kits so much and the LO I created that I just had to do a quick page also. So here is the freebie.











Download here

Another Page & A Freebie

I redid the pink page I called Hugs & Kisses. I just wasn't completely happy with it. So I did this page in place of it, using the same photos. I like this one much better. Oh, and Dana, Brandi asked the same question - wanted to know when I would start her book. I hadn't planned on doing pages for my kids, just the grandkids, but maybe I will. If only to irritate Travis. I don't think he appreciates my new hobby.




As a freebie for anyone who wants it, I have done a Quick Page from this LO for you.



You can click here to download.

Fairie Page & a Freebie

I have finished another page for Kelsee's book. When she was younger, her parents had these wonderful pictures taken of her and her sister Ashlyn dressed in fairy costumes. They are so adorable. When I saw the Fairie Kisses in Blue Kit at Blushbutters, I knew that was a perfect kit for this layout. And since I will be doing Ashlyn's book next, this page can do double duty for both their books just by inserting each of their pictures in the left frame.






Be sure and check out this great kit here



Now for the freebie for anyone who wants it. I created a Quick Page from the layout I did of the Fairy Page.









You can download the Quick Page here.