She loves her daddy

I got to scrap today, and you know what that means, right? Yep... a layout pieces set for everyone! Here is the layout I actually made. You can see the full list of credits here.


Here is the preview of the pieces you can download here. I added two of the "daddy" pieces; one with shadows and one without since I thought it looked better with them. I really am kicking myself tonight... lol... I made the entire alphabet with the red glitter, and after I had the "daddy" title in place I unthinkingly closed the alpha page without saving it. Duhhh!! Apparently just starting to feel better doesn't mean my brain is back 100%... lol

And since I had made a big portion of the layout, I thought I would add a bonus quickpage to the set if any of you like using those.

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I had planned to post a freebie set I had all figured out in my head, but I have been very sick and couldn't think straight for most of the last week or so. I didn't get to any of my regular holiday activities, and we had a very quiet Christmas, but I have no complaints because it all still came together nicely. I generally scrap and create according to what inspires me at the moment, so I am probably going to jot down the Christmasy ideas I had and revisit them when I need them. I have a couple of new things I really want to work on now, so look for a new freebie or two in the next couple of days!

Christmas Quickcard

I am madly addressing envelopes tonight and sending my Christmas cards out in the mail tomorrow. I should start my Christmas shopping by the 23rd if things go well. Sigh... nothing like the last minute for this kind of stuff! This is the card I am sending out this year. I have to take a hundred shots or so to hopefully get one where they are all looking in my general direction.

There might be somebody out there who is even further behind than I am, so I made a 5x7 quickcard out of this. Or maybe somebody is just extremely organized and ready to prep cards for next year... lol. I have never made quickpages of any kind before, so I just saved this in 300 dpi png format. I left the white painted edge on the inside of the photo frame. You can download it here. I should be back before then, but if not, Merry Christmas!!

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All that glitters...

is green... lol.. so far at least. I have been playing with glitter, and made this alphabet for you. I haven't had a chance to scrap anything with it yet, but I might add it to our Christmas cards that I HAVE to get finished tonight. I drew the letters by hand, and then made the crumpled up paperbag mats for them. As promised, the file comes with individual pngs and a full sheet because I think having choices is a good thing... :0) They do work well with Christmas projects, but I really just made them green because that is my personal favorite color. You can download them here.

I found another layout with my stitched music alpha... I love all the textures on this layout! CLick here to see it.

It is snowing here right now, and we are under a "severe winter weather watch." Hope you are all staying dry and warm!

Locks of Love

Despite her rather dramatic moments, my little girl really is a pretty sweet child. On her own she decided she wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love, and has spent a year growing it out just for that purpose. She ended up with a ten inch ponytail to send to Locks of Love! You can see the credits for this layout here.



I only made a few of the pieces for this layout. The pink paper was actually blended into another designer's paper, and then erased to show the cardboard background. I made the stitching and the matting sloppy on purpose... left the lines on the mat and skipped some stitches in the framing. You can download this set of layout pieces here.

If you don't already have the cardboard background, the link for it is here.

I am off to get my munchkins to bed and spend some time scrapping. I'll be back!!

Christmas tape labels

I took the pictures for our Christmas cards this weekend, and wanted to make some tape labels so I could scrap them. I made two versions of these. One is plain, and one is a bit wrinkled as if somebody bent the tape. I made them life size, and instead of a traditional tape label font I used one that just looked a little more Christmas-y to me. You can download these here.

I found a couple more layouts using some of the freebies I have posted. Thanks for using my stuff and crediting it! Here are the links to the layouts.

embroidered felt alpha (I love how she used the crocheted flower as a snowflake!)

stitched music alpha (cute!!... and thank you so much for linking to my blog!)

I started a layout this weekend, and fell asleep in the chair with the laptop on my lap. I really want to get it finished up and posted tomorrow, which means there will probably be a new page set freebie to post as well. In the meantime, have a good week!

another cardboard alpha

First of all, thank you very much for the phenomonal response to the music alpha! The sheer volume of comments and downloads simply blew me away!

I promised to upload this the other day and then didn't have much of a chance to get to it. I haven't had much time this week to get much of anything on a scrap level done, but I am hoping to get to work on a couple of pages tomorrow. My kids are in a parade tomorrow, and then I am taking our Christmas card pictures, so I should have plenty of inspiration to work with! I have started a couple of items that I am looking forward to finishing up as well. In the meantime, I have uploaded this cardboard with a pink melted felt texture over it here for you. The letters are all on a single sheet, and are only lowercase. This was a set I made to create my banner and I never got back to it to cut it apart. However, when I do have alphas that are in seperate files from here on out, I will add the single sheet of the alphas as well for those of you who prefer to store them that way. (I know this isn't the best follow-up to the alpha, but it's what I have at the moment... LOL)

Have a great weekend!

Christmas Music Alphas

This is my personal favorite of all the different bits and pieces I have made so far. There are actually two sets in this download... the one you see and the exact same set but in a very wrinkled version. This version is in individual filesand the wrinkled set is all on one sheet. I didn't have time to cut it apart. This alpha took me forever because I could not figure out how to stroke a path to make the holes follow my stitches, so I ended up brushing every single stitch hole on each of the letters one hole at a time. T-E-D-I-O-U-S!!! There has to be a better way, and someday I may figure it out. Until I do, if (well, when) I make more stitched alphas, I can guarantee they are going to be this size and this font... lol. I deliberately inked the edges and let the inking stray off the edges for a goopy look I wanted for the project I am using these for. I just wanted you to know it wasn't an excessively bad case of stray pixels... :0) You can download these here. Enjoy, and don't forget to link me up to what you do with them! I cannot wait to see these in action!

7 snowflakes

I was playing around with some different styles and textures, and thought snowflakes would be an easy pallate to work on. So in true snowflake fashion, no two of these are alike. There are a few I like more than the others, but I put all seven of them in the file to let you choose which ones you would like better. That is the nature of experimenting, I suppose... sometimes it turns out well and other times not as well. I used felt, glitter, gemstones, sequins, sheet music, and cardboard on different parts of these. You can download them here. Have fun with them!

I need to head out to Bible study class now, but I have an alpha done that I will probably get zipped and uploaded later tonight. It is the cardboard/felt set I used in my new banner if you want a little sneakpeak... :0)

Felt alpha and some Americana brackets

Last night I was working on making a wrinkled up felt alpha for Christmas cards, and when I was grabbing my intended layer style I accidentally grabbed an embroidery one and was pleasantly surprised with the results. If you also like the results, you can download this set here. This is a lowercase alpha, no numbers, but each letter is in its own png file. (Somehow I forgot to put the "x" in the preview but it is in the set, I promise!) I still want to make the set I was initially planning on, so I will work on that very soon since I need to get those Christmas cards made!

This is a set of brackets I made quickly to coordinate with the Americana color swatches from my last post. I didn't make a preview for them, but they look like the one in the "best friends" kit from a few posts down. There are twelve in the set. You can download those here.

Have a nice weekend!