Halcyon Kit & a QP freebie

This color scheme is so great to work with - Tracy just came out with another wonderful kit called Halcyon Days. Lucky for you - it's going to be free on her blog, BUT each piece is free only for one day so you don't want to miss any of it. Click the kit preview to head to her blog. Here's my layout along with a free QP for you.

Happy Scrapping!

click image to download QP

Summer Fun 2009

I'm taking my time on my 2009 family book. Not sure why the delay ... oh well. Here's my latest layout - Summer Fun. I always have so many pics of the kids getting wet so I wanted a fun layout with a lot of openings. Here it is- and if you like it you can get the QP freebie below.

Click layout preview to download.

Zippity Doo Dah Kit - Sherry Ferguson Designs

Baby of Mine kit and Freebies Galore

I just fell in love with this kit - Baby of Mine by Tracy and Nicole. It's a colab kit full of every yummy design you can think of for scrapbooking that little angel of yours. I love the colors they picked and the papers they designed to go with this kit are so varied and wonderful. I have two baby layouts (one girl and one boy) because my daughter wanted one for her after she saw her brother's. The other layout is more versatile for any occasion. Click the kit preview to head to Tracy's blog.


FREE QPs:

When I come across a fabulous kit, I just can't help myself... so here's 3 fabulously free QPs. I've removed the words and the little stroller so you can add your own embellishments to your liking. Click each image to snag them.

WORD ART:

Jen has some awesome word art, and with her permission you can get the altered WA that I used on my layouts. Click the image to download and click HERE to see more of Jen's creations (this one came from a bundle that is on sale right now, but I'm not sure for how long, hurry over). Birth Announcements:

I have always designed my own birth announcements for my kids and this kit is perfect for that. I went ahead and filled the boys announcement in so you can see where to put the text but the only text that will actually appear on the freebie is "announcing the birth of." Hope you enjoy these. Click the images to download.

Boys Only Kit and Freebies

I'm always on the lookout for a cute boy kit. Tracy put together a darlinge kit - Boys Only. You can click the kit preview to go to her blog for more information and a few other freebies. I did two layouts with this kit. The first one will be sold as a QP through Tracy's store in a QP bundle. But I can't leave you without a free QP, so check out my next layout.

I also thought it would be fun to make a party invite. Here's an example below and a blank one for your downloading pleasure. Happy scrapping!

FREEBIES HERE (click the images to download)

Called to Serve Kit & Freebie

Kathy is part of a fabulous LDS blog train. I love the colors she used in this "Called to Serve" mini-kit. I don't actually have mission pictures, so I thought I would show how this kit can be used for anything. click the kit preview to snag Kathy's portion and keep looking below for a QP freebie.Click the QP preview to get this layout.

Dump Truck QP freebie

After looking through some of Jen's wordart I decided to make a layout of my lil' guy and his trucks. What boy doesn't love to get dirty pushing around a big yellow truck. You can check out Jen's wordart HERE and you can snag a free QP of this layout by clicking the image below.

Lil' Boys Kit - The Scrappy Kat

Children's Museum 2009

This was such a fun trip and I had a hard time narrowing down the pictures to fit just 2 pages. Jen just came out with a fun "preschool" wordart pack. It was perfect for this layout from the children's museum - where it's all about PLAY. Check out her wordart HERE.

Love all year long kit - Jady Day Studio

Halloween 2009

Finally, back to scrapping our 2009 family book. This was one of my original designs with this kit and you can get this layout along with 2 others HERE. Happy Scrapping!

Boo to You Kit - Growing Pains Scrapped

Green Day QP

I ran across this cute QP by Sherri Tierney. You can click the picture above to go to her blog to get this. But when I opened it up to play around with it - I decided I wanted my openings to be bigger so my pictures didn't get lost in all the other stuff going on. I have redesigned this to fill a 12x12 more. All credit still goes to Sherri - as she came up with this great layout, I just did some editing. You can get my edited QP by clicking the image below. Hope you all have a great St. Patrick's Day.

Bunnies & Bows kit with a freebie

Tracy has been busy designing. She just came out with this fun Easter kit. The kit is going to her store but she will also have a freebie on her blog (click the kit preview). But what you're really here for (ha, ha)... here's my layout using this kit and more of Jen's wordart - you can check it out HERE. Keep going down for your QP freebie! I just love Easter and hope you can use this!


Happy Scrapping~

Hurry Up Spring kit and QP freebie

I don't know about you, but I'm ready for spring. Tracy's new kit is just in time "Hurry Up Spring." Click the kit preview to grab this kit while it's free. Also, if you like the word art you can see more of Jen's designs HERE. Don't forget to scroll down for a freebie QP just for you! Happy Scrapping.

click QP preview to download

Invite Freebie

My sister needed an invite for a church activity for girls - so I went to one of Tracy's kits "Girl Friends" and turned my layout into an invite. I love how it turned out and thought you might be able to use it also. I wanted to show the original invite with the diamonds used with the font - just an idea...

Click the blank invite to download - and just in case you missed when I did the original layout with this kit you can also get the QP below. SO... have a party and scrap it to!

All my Love Kit & Freebie

Honestly, my husband would probably die if he knew I used this picture. He's very much not a PDA guy. Anyhow - just had to with a cute kit like this. Tracy's "All My Love" kit is fabulous and full of some great papers and elements. The kit is in her store and she has some add on's on her blog - click the kit preview to check it out. And scroll down below for a freebie QP.

Click image to download.

Chores, Chores, Chores

Not a scrapbook freebie - but some good ideas...

I have tried several chore charts with my kids. I'm a big believer in kids doing chores and having responsibilities around the house. They make their own beds and clean their own rooms from about the time that they are 3. Now it doesn't always look great, and every so often I go in a do a good clean - but I want them to do their best and take responsibility for their things. So I've started a new "reward" program with Paige that has been fabulous. A friend gave me the idea and then I adapted it for our needs. We call it DOING DOLLARS. Paige earns printed dollars for doing her choirs or for doing things like being ready for school by 8:00. Then she is able to use those dollars to buy rewards. Below is the sheet that hangs on that back of her door.

This is the dollar I designed. She was so excited to have the CTR logo on it - which stands for Choose the Right.

My sister also just did this darling choir chart for her toddler. I had a similar one when Paige was young, but I love that this is on a magnet board and so she uses magnets to mark off when she has finished something. In the middle are some pictures of other choirs that she can choose to do - since they like to help at that age.

So I thought I would offer my dollars to anyone else who may want to try this. I have them 14 to a sheet, so they are fairly small - which is perfect. Then I printed them in grey scale on some colored cardstock. This program has made school mornings 100% better - no joke. Paige gets up without complaining and gets going on the day. No more hounding her to hurry and brush her teeth because her friends are already waiting for her. Now she is ready with plenty of time to work on practicing her piano and such. Can't say enough about it. It's worked FABULOUSLY for us!

You can download the Doing Dollars here.

Wishing for Spring kit & Freebies

Just in time for Spring, Kathy has released this fabulous kit. The colors make me anxious for spring - even though I wouldn't mind a bit more snow first. Actually, she and another designer did a colab so you can get two full kits that coordinate, which I love. Click the image to head to Kathy's blog to snag this kit and to get the link for the other. Here's my layout, followed by some fabulous freebies.

click image to get this QP freebie.

I have always enjoyed making my own blog backgrounds, but I have never offered them to the public, until now. You can also get this blog background for free. I don't plan on doing a lot of these, so I will not be offering the code because it has my account information inbedded in it. You'll have to download the image and upload it to a photo storage site and add the code yourself - sorry about that. Leave a comment if you need help with that.