Template Give-A-Way!

EVERYDAY in December there will be a FREE template on the Funky Playgournd Designs blog!

The templates are designed by the FPD designers.  I can't wait to see what they have in store for us!  I love templates, and I especially love free templates.  Go check them out each day in December.  http://funkyplaygrounddesigns.com/blog/

Support a Newbie Designer!

My new friend Sarah aka MoonIsGone Designs is fairly new to selling digital scrapbooking products.  She has a new kit called "Puffy Garden Fun."  It is a sweet kit with the feel of puffy stickers and cute felt.  I like those the little puffy felt flowers, the tree is super cute too, and isn't that bird just darling?!!

She let me try out her kit and I did a page with it.  It is of my son's little friend who is a little cutie and was the perfect photo for the cute little flowery goodies in the kit.

The kit can be found at Denim & Daisies  and DigiScraps3  so go and give this new, super nice designer some support!    

Sarah Bennett's new CT Blog will be up soon! There will be a free Daily Download!

The CT at "Designs By Sarah Bennett" are excited about the new CT blog!  To introduce the new CT blog there will be a two week daily download full of fun freebies!

Here is the ad...

I hope you can make it!

What was your latest digi-scrap purchase?

When I was a teenager I liked going to the mall with my friends.  It was so fun to show each other what we got (Of course I spent all my hard earned baby sitting money on worthless stuff back then).  With DSD and Black Friday there were lots of great sales going on.  I want to know what kinds of things you have been purchasing lately!  Dump out your shopping bag and show me the goods- or just tell me what you got in the comments!  I'd love to hear from you whether you see this post now or in a few months from now. 

A really cool challenge opportunity at Faith Sisters

I think that Faith Sisters is arranging a really cool challenge that they are starting in January.  I thought some of you might like some info on it.  I know I plan on participating.  I think it is a really neat opportunity.

Here is the info from their site: 

As the year is coming to an end Faith Sisters is busy planning for next year.  In 2010 we are going back to the basics of leaving a legacy of faith.  This years challenges at Faith Sisters are all focused on YOU and your lifetime story.  When you join us in this challenge you will be creating a mini-autobiography.  We are counting down the days till January 6th because we are so stinkin' excited about the My Lifetime Story challenges!!!

 
Wouldn't you to know what your grandma's favorite toy was as a child, how she felt when she met your grandpa, her favorite scripture and the song that expressed her heart? Your children and grandchildren will have that treasure when you join us in this challenge!
 
We will start out with your family roots in January and move into your childhood in February.  We will continue throughout the year with your teen and adult years as well.  The last challenge of the year will be a letter to your future generations or anyone who reads your book.

Completing a project like this does require preparation. I have spent many wasted hours when I go to create searching for a photo, scanning or making a duplicate. We are posting in advance so you have the opportunity to prepare and gather photos for this project. Once your photos are gathered you will be ready to create each week the challenges are posted.

*My life collage- an assortment of photos of you ranging from baby, childhood, teen, and adult. That showcase you and the milestones through your life. 6-18 photos

*My Birth Story- your first photos, baby photos, /birth certificate.

*My family tree- names, birth dates & photo of yourself, your parents, your grandparents, your great grandparents.

*4-6 additional photos of your parents and grandparents for a layout about them.

*Photos of your siblings (childhood and adult photos)

*Homes you have lived in/your home town

*Childhood Favorites (toys, memories, vacations, family members, cousins)

*Childhood Friends/Pets

*Churches you attended when you were young, photos of you at religious activities or baptism.

Who else thinks they might like to join this challenge?

 

Cut it out! And stuff....

Today's post is about: Sarah's cute newly released shape templates, pointing you to some free templates provided by some scrap pals, and sharing some of my layouts.

Sarah just released these really cute shape templates.  How fun are these?!!!!  Just put them on your layout and clip what ever paper you want to them (or use a layer style!).  They come in png's and some of them have psd layers too!!!  You can pick up this whole set for a buck today only, but if you don't get them today they are nicely priced at the regular price too!  SO worth it!

I didn't have a ton of time to play with them, but I just had to use them!  I made a layout about the kitten that just randomly showed up at our house.  I applied a metal layer style to the frame, clipped some blue paper to the scallop edge, and clipped two different papers to the psd layers in the brackets.

I used all kinds of products on the Kitty layout, so click the image for credits.


The layout below is cool because I had my camera handy when my baby started rolling over.

I used the collab between Sarah Bennett and Valorie Brown called In a Boys's world 

and Daniela Austen's Messy Stitched Felt Alpha for that layout.  


I did my first "Me" layout.  I used the "This is Me"kit by Valarie Ostrom.  You can get this kit free...

... at Scrapable.  Read Scrapable's November 19th blog post to find out how.  Here is a little peek at the cute kit!  It will eventually be going into Valarie's shop, so if you want it FREE you better hurry.

Valarie has the cutest kit that will soon be re-released.  It is called "Life is Good."  I had the perfect picture of my mother-in-law gazing at my baby with so much love and it went perfectly with the adorable kit.

It will be available at Sunshine Studio Scraps and Scrapable later this week

I wanted to point you to some free templates!
My fellow Sarah Bennett CT member Katie has a free template on her blog here

And so does Stacy here

I probably won't be on before Thanksgiving, so I hope you all have a great day.  Take lots of pictures!!

My new look...

...on the blog that is.  How do you like it?  I've been going a little blog crazy lately, and have been learning a little about customizing blogs.  Does everything look normal on this one?

Sharin' some layouts { a free template too }

Hey did you all enjoy DSD activities last weekend?  I hope so!  I sure did!  It was a fun time.  I hope you took advantage of the awesome sales, fun games, and the freebies out there in digi-land.
Here are my DSD layouts.  This one was for Heidi's scrap by numbers game at the Funky Playground.

I used a couple of Christmas kits sold at FPD The first one is by Sarah Jones called "Fabulously Festive," and the second one is called "Funky Joy" by Wendy Page.  The images below are linked if you want to take a closer look. 

My second DSD layout was for the template challenge by Amy Melniczenko.  She is the guest designer at FPD this month!  She has some really great templates in the shop.  She had this awesome template for the template challenge, and I snagged it up and made this layout.  It is our baby getting some smooches by his daddy.

I used Miss Tiina's new kit called Sweet Tweets.  I love the blues and the doodle-y frames in the kit.  The preview of the kit is below.  The image is clickable.

Here are some things I have been working on for Funky Playground Designs.  

Last year we got a ton of snow!  We don't get over an inch or two ever and we usually only get one or two snow days.  Last year we got over a weeks worth of snow.  I was amazed that we had over a foot of snow in our yard.  The whole city was shut down for days.  Here is a layout of my son sampling an icicle!

This was my first time using something by Daniela Austen, and I loved it.  I liked how the kit was mixed with many different types of elements.  I used Valorie Brown's wired alpha.  It is a really cool alpha, and I love how it looked when I shadowed it.  It looked like real metal.

I also used a template from Amy Melniczenko's Funky Sampler pack

I have also been doing some layouts for Valarie Ostrom Designs.  I loved how this one turned out using Shabby Boy.  A collab with My Creative Pixels Designs.  Here is my "Hard Workin' {little} Man."

The image below is linked so head over to Sunshine Studio Scraps and take a closer look for yourself.  It is a kit packed with all kinds of cuteness!

My boy looked so cute in a Santa hat.  This is him a few years ago.

The kit is Valarie Ostrom's newest release, "Home for Christmas."  She teamed up with MoonIsGone Designs from DigiScrap3 to create this sweet, homey-feeling Christmas kit.

As soon as I saw the kit "Through The Patch" I wanted it, and lucky for me I am a guest on Valarie Ostrom's Creative Team, so she gave me the kit to make this layout.  I had some perfect photos for the kit.

This is my sweet baby just last month wearing his cute pumpkin hat in a field of pumpkins.  The kit is by Valarie Ostrom and Sweet DigiScraps.  I really wanted to put that cute scare crow onto my layout, but it just didn't fit.  I guess I will just have to do another page so I can use him!  I really love the kit!

I just made this layout this morning.

I used Valarie Ostrom's contribution to the designers collab at Sunshine Studio Scraps

Here is Valarie's portion.  I thought it was really cute!

To thank you for looking at my blog post, (and maybe even considering purchasing things from "my designers") I want to give you a free template.  I hope you like it and can use it.  Thank you!! I really enjoy all of you that visit my blog
And of course a comment would be lovely!!

 Here is the template~

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 I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend, and are out doing something scrap-worthy!

Happy DSD to you! ~WARNING: Freebies included~

Digital Scrapbooking Day; DSD, a great opportunity to sit back and reflect on why we embrace this hobby called digital scrapbooking. A day to ponder the legacy we are leaving the next generation with the layouts we so lovingly made with dedication to preserving our memories....

ok FORGET it

We know it is actually all about the spectacular SALES and fabulous FREEBIES around digi land (we'll reflect and ponder and yadda yadda yadda another time).

Thank you for stopping by today! This is one jammed packed post today!
I'm so excited for DSD.
I am participating in TWO blog trains today:

****First is an amazing Fall themed huge collab kit by Sarah Bennett's CT "Home Sweet Home!" ****
****The second is a fabulous template blog train by Valarie Ostrom's CT!****

You are definitely in for a treat because both trains are awesome.

For the first train...
Here is the preview of the entire kit that you will end up with if you chug-a-chug-choo-choo through this whole blog train.

plus this adorable quick page will be on one of the stops along the way too

Cute huh?


Here is my portion of the kit

If you want this portion of the collab click, here to download the entire thing it from Media Fire.


It is a pretty big file, so if you want to download it in three separate downloads than grab the solid papers here the pattern papers here, and the elements here.


Before you click to download please leave me a comment. I'd love to hear from you. Here are other stops along the way on this train~
Sarah
Jude
Li
Stacy
Amy <---You are here
Meggan

Please remember that since there are a variety of time zones represented here (from Australia to Europe) you may run into someone not having their link up yet. If that is the case please try back later.

The next train...
Next up we have a really fun blog train. Get aboard the template train Woo wooooo! Here is my contribution to this oh so cool blog train...

I made it with psd's AND png's

The template design is made using the layout I did using Valarie Ostrom's cute kit Little Spook.
The layout can be seen bigger in my previous posts.


Click the image below to download the template from Media Fire.

psd & png's included in the download
Don't forget to comment before you click.

Train Order:
Agnieszka:
Stacy
Sugar n Spice
Dalis
Amy <--you are here
Julie
Sarah
Valarie

Again, if you don't see what you are looking for it is probably because someone in a later time zone hasn't posted yet. If that is the case please try back later.

Grab Bag Goodness
Don't forget about Sarah Bennett's super cute, super inexpensive grab bag!!!

The grab bag is $3. You'll get an adorable kit, 2 alphas, a template pack, a date pack, a word art pack... what a deal! There is also a coupon in the grab bag! it is almost like you are getting paid to buy this! I'm not kidding. What a steal! These products are probably $15-$20+ worth of digital scrap stuff plus the coupon. If I wasn't on Sarah's CT I would be be waiting for FPD to release this so I could purchase it... open, open, open.





Here is the page I did with it. I used one of the templates in the pack, the digi-kit, one of the word strips, and the date pack.

People are making all kinds of pages with this kit- girly pages, boy pages, couple pages- even a puppy page. The pages the other CT members are making are stunning, and yours will be too!


Don't ya just love sales?!!!
Sarah's entire store will be on sale too...
(The grab bag is already a low price, so it won't be half off, but everything else will be.)

50% off is such a great sale!

A chance to win Sarah Bennett products!
There are some little contests going on at DigiShop Talk, My Scrapbook Art, and DigiScrap Addicts for a chance to WIN some of Sarah's stuff . All you have to do is post the product you want, and you can WIN it! Free is my favorite price.
Go here to find the DST contest
Go here to find the DSA contest
Go here to find the MSA contest


Games & Give-a-ways!
I also wanted you to know that there will be lots of give-a-ways at Funky Playground Designs.
Click Here and find many ways to win free stuff from the FPD designers.
Here is the give-a-way I am hosting over there, click Here

Have a great DSD
There are so many great sales, promotions, and give-a-ways this weekend! Have fun stocking up on some goodies! I would really appreciate hearing from you a quick little shout out when really make my day!


Before I sign off I wanted to show you my friend Lisa's adorable charms. I thought some of you might like these since they are photo related and so is scrapbooking. I think I am going to get one of these for my mom for Christmas.

you can get a closer look at her gorgeous work on her blog: TJ Designs

Are you excited for Digital Scrapbooking Day?

I am very excited for DSD! There will be TWO blog trains running through my blog! They will be two different ones, so you won't want to miss them because they will both be COOL! You are going to be getting some great freebies.

I'm gong to be hosting a little game at Funky Playground Designs. Come on over and check it out. The winners will be getting gift certificates! There will be many games and challenges at FPD with lots of give-a-ways so if you get the chance stop on in because, well someone has to win all those goodies and it may as well be you.

Sarah Bennett has an awesome grab bag she will be releasing at Funky Playground for DSD tomorrow. Here is a little sneak peek...



I had the wonderful privilege of getting to scrap with the items in the grab bag. It is full of great things. I highly recommend getting this grab bag. There just might be a coupon inside too!!! So really it is a steal!



Sarah's store will be on SALE for DSD!



Do you have any DSD plans? Are you heading somewhere for a great sale? Going to go get in on the games and challenges? Going somewhere for a little chattin'? Plan on snagging some freebies? What will you be doing?

Have you scrapped Halloween yet?

I have been trying really hard to get things scrapped within a short amount of time after downloading the photos onto my computer. I still have tons of catching up to do with old photos (don't we all), but I don't want to get behind with my current photos either. I want to get Halloween scrapped before too much time passes.

Here are my oh so cute nephews age four and a half and one and a half. The older one is a fire fighter that sweet baby is a dalmatian.

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of being able to use an incredible cute Halloween kit by Valarie Ostrom to make the above layout. It is called Little Spook.
Isn't it cute?!!!

If you have some Halloween photos that you need to get scapped, then you need this kit.



As you probably know there are so many fun things going on for Digital Scrapbooking Day throughout the digi land community. There will be some freebies right here, so "stay tuned" for details!

Enjoy your day... and the go scrap it!