Garden of Gnome

Talk about a fun kit!  I just love this one! We just had Aurora's Senior pictures done and I thought it would be perfect to cut out the background and sit her down on the park bench from the kit.

Since I had so much fun removing the background from the fist pic, I thought it might be fun to have Luke growing out of a pot on the second layout.

Two more senior pics. I love all the flowers in this kit!

Here's a preview of the kit and you can pick it up at 

http://gingersscrapsnpixels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76&products_id=35

Dandelion Dreams and Le Vie en Rose

CatDesignz has given us two new kits that are just beautiful!

These two were made with "Dandelion Dreams."  I love the wings! Now Luke can be the angel he is!

The kit is found on MyMemories at 

http://www.mymemories.com/store/display_product_page?id=CDCR-CP-1308-38811

and the second kit is La Vie en Rose

I love all the flowers!  It's got lots of little tags like "B = Beautiful," 

but I thought "A - Adorable" was perfect for this page

I also picked "A - Adorable" for this page because her name starts with "A."  I changed the photo to a sepia tone, because I thought it would make the flowers pop. You can find La Vie en Rose on 

http://www.mymemories.com/store/display_product_page?id=CDCR-CP-1308-38978

and it's on sale for $2.99 through 8/24/13.

Science Class 101, My Lil Artist and a Freebie!

Ginger Scraps N Pixels gave us two new kits to play with. Here are my layouts for Science Class 101:

I had so much fun making this cluster.  I especially like how Ginger had a lot of scientists in the kit and one of them looked like my daughter.  All the beakers and test tubes and such really brought the cluster to life.

I love this photo of my daughter and her beau.  They have such great chemistry together. Don't you love all the flowers?  I love a kit with lots of flowers and leaves. The alphabet bow brings school to mind, but it's not so juvenile that you can't use it for a layout involving teens.

Here's the kit preview. It doesn't show everything in the kit. There is a ton of stuff in this kit! 

Click on the kit to go to Ginger's Blog.

And now I'm going to attempt to do something I've never done before!  I've made a cluster and I'm going to try to give it to you.  Click on this cluster and it's supposed to download for you.  Try it out and let me know if it works or not.  

The next kit was "My Lil Artist."  My grandson is only 2, but does that boy love to draw and color and scribble and have a blast!  Don't you love this background paper with all the markers?  I love the way the flower has polka-dots that echo in the mat around the photos.

Another huge cluster! Oh!  How I love to make clusters!!! And there are so many choices with this kit: crayons, paint, markers, brushes and palette... and a cute lil artist!

Look at all these elements.  She ain't stingy!

Click on the kit to go to Ginger's Blog.

Fruitful Enterprise

Raspberry Road always has lovely fruits and foods to use in my layouts. Isn't this just perfect for the Watermelon Festival?   I especially loved the Watermelon Alphas.  You can find the kit and some fantastic freebie clusters on: 

http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.ca/search/label/Watermelon

I really loved the plaids I made on the alphas in the next layout.  I just chose a really fat font and filled it with a plaid paper. FUN! My grandson really loved the corkscrew slide and I loved the flow from one pic to the next.  It took a while to find a graphic of the corkscrew slide and I finally found it on: http://www.mymemories.com/store/product_search?term=Playground+EquipmentZ

Two New Kits & links to Freebies

I'm really loving being on Creative Teams.  Ginger's Scraps N Pixels has two kits out today and as part of her team, I got the kits early and got to make some layouts.  Love this kit! It's called "Celebrate With Me." It's so much fun!!!

Don't you just love the colors? Here's what the whole kit looks like.  Tons of elements and adorable backgrounds.  As you can see, even the word art is fun!

 to CELEBRATE, she's got all this going on:

Click here to go to Ginger's store

The second kit is called "Home Tweet Home." Gorgeous shades of blue and adorable little birds made this kit a real joy to work with,

Here's what the kit looks like:

It's HUGE! You are going to love it!

You can get this kit Here!

Getting Started with Digital Scrapbooking

I've had so much fun with digital scrapbooking I thought I'd share with you. I tried making layouts using Photoshop, but it was a little complicated for me. I found this page on Facebook called MyMemories. I lurked for a while and thought maybe I would give the software a try. Everyone said it was really easy, so I decided I was going to "bite the bullet" and buy the software. It was $40, but a friend gave me a code to use to get $10 off the software, plus $10 to spend in the shop mymemories.com. I figured that was like half price, and I'm a real bargain hunter, so maybe this would be the thing for me.

First, I went to the website and took a look around. They had all these free kits you could download, whether you had a PC or a Mac. Plus, if you choose not to buy the software, you could download them as "General" files and use them in Photoshop. Well, what's better than free? Then I looked at the Dollar Store. So many kits for $1!! Wow! You get the papers and embellishments with some of these kits - for $1. Loving that.

Downloading the software was easy and so was downloading the kits. Once I got the software installed, I opened up the file for one of the kits, and it automatically downloaded to my Applications folder. Cool Beans! I decided to try one of the "Quick Pages." The designer puts together everything but the photo. I have SO MANY photos I need to get scrapbooked! Holy cow! It was so easy! And it looked really professional. I really liked it, so I decided to try a page using the kit and make it up myself. Not super good, not super bad. I uploaded a jpg of the page to the MyMemories facebook page and asked for critique. A lady said it would look better with "shadows" so I gave that a try. What a difference! It looked like all the photos and embellishments jumped off the page!

I am having so much fun with this! If you think you might want the software, I'm going to do for you what my friend did for me. If you buy the software, when it asks for a Promo Code, cut and paste this:

STMMMS31635

It's best to cut and paste so your get all the letters and numbers correct. That will get you $10 off the software and the software will come with a coupon for $10 any purchase in the store.

If you decide to give it a try, let me know. I'd love to share pages and tips with you. If you decide not to get the software and continue to use Photoshop or something like that, also let me know. I'd love to swap ideas!

July 4th kits

Hope y'all had a great Independence Day!  I've been playing all day with two new kits from Ginger's Scraps & Pixels. The first kit, she's giving away a download a day, It's called "Let Freedom Ring" and you can find the daily downloads at: http://www.gingersscrapsnpixels.blogspot.com/

Here's what the kit looks like:

And here are my layouts:

Be sure to go to Ginger's Facebook page and "like" it.  As soon as she has 250 likes, she's giving away a free mini-kit.  Her facebook page it on: https://www.facebook.com/GingerHewettPhotography

Ginger also put out a new kit called "For Those Who Served" and here's a look at that kit:

I made these pages from this one: