Template 26 and Soon to be MIA

I've got template 26 up and ready! But first, a public service announcement: I'm going to be MIA for a few days to clean my disgusting house (at least, that's the plan - please kick my butt if I'm online). I've been neglecting my housework lately, and it's gotten out of hand. Sooo...I need to take a few days to clean everything up. Especially since we're having one of John's best friends and his family over for Easter! They have a 2 year old and 10 month old twins. I'll have 4 little kids and 4 adults in my tiny apartment! So yeah, I definitely need to clean! I was going to take time away from the computer to clean regardless, though.

I also need to install my 500 gig hard drive and CS4. I have NO room left (ok, 21 gigs free...but that's not much, especially in the digiscrap world) on my master drive - need to get the slave plugged in! I got internal, since they're cheaper and I have a toddler;) I don't want her to have breaking access to something like that. I would have installed it sooner, but it didn't come with mounting screws, so I had to wait for those to arrive first. But I'm not going to let myself play computer surgeon until my house is clean. Hopefully it won't take long!

Anyway, template 26 is a 2-page LO in PSD format. There's a nice white space section on there, which you are free to add an extraction or photo to, but be careful: don't put anything you care about on the crease, or you will lose part of your image. The awesome brackets are courtesy of Scrappin Cop. She has some awesome CU stuff! Have fun with it, and I can't wait to see what you do! Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

I'm going to be good and go to bed soon! I need to stop staying up till 4 AM...night!

Template 25!!

Template 25 is here! Wow, I've made 25 templates. How cool is that? And I'll keep making more! This is the first time I've experimented with making paper strips, so it should be fun to use. Template 25 is a single page LO in PSD format. And, of course, I'd LOVE to hear back from you and see your pages:) Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

I think that's enough templates for tonight;) I think 26 will be another 2-pager. Then, I'll have 13 1 page templates and 13 2 page templates:) Yes, I'm a nerd - I've counted. Anyway, I think that's it for tonight. Night all!

Template 24, Eating Cake, and New Siggy

We had another speed scrap tonight, and I turned my LO into template 24 for you to enjoy:) I also made a new signature, using some papers I made. I still need to do the elements, but the papers are done:D I really like using my own stuff to make pages these days.

Ooo, some awesome news!! I bought CS4 today!!! YAY! John is a student, so we were able to get the full extended version for $189!!! It's normally $1000. Sweeeet! It's the student license, since that's all they had at the school bookstore, but that's not going to be an issue. From what I read on Adobe's site about it, we just have to install it ONLY on ONE personal computer and not resell the program (why would we?!). Of course, it's going on MY comp;) John doesn't know how to do anything with graphics, and if he needs something, he asks me to do it anyway. I'm excited!! I haven't installed yet, since I didn't want to have to re-learn where things are during a speed scrap! Plus, I'll need to import all my brushes, actions, and layer styles. I'll probably install it tomorrow:D

I made a new signature for BAM. I made everything in it, too:) I had issues editing the middle photo, and I don't think I'll ever be able to get it JUST right. Ah well. I still think it's cute. Here's my new sig:



And now for the speed scrap. These were the rules:

1. Use an even number of photos, all photos need to be in color.
2. Use at least 5 pieces of paper, at least one must be a square.
3. Use at least 2 frames.
4. Use a fastening element.
5. Add a ribbon.
6. Add something white.
7. Add three more elements
8. Use at least one font and one alpha in your title.

And here's my page:



Credits:
Almost everything - me, BAM color challenge 2
Fastener - NewLife Dreams, Happy Birthday
Glitter styles - Kimi's Kreations, BAM color challenge 2
Atomic Cupcake action - colored chrome

I think I'm in the running this round, though I didn't get many comments on it, which generally implies ambivalance. So who knows. I think it's one of the better pages this round;) But I don't think I can vote for myself;)

Aaaanyway, I made a template out of my LO to share. Template 24 is a single page LO in PSD format. I would LOVE to hear back from you and see your pages with my templates or kits! Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

Template 25 is in the works, so be on the lookout! I may or may not get to it tonight; we'll see. Anyway, that's it for now!

Template 23 and Happy Family

Notice anything different around here? Yep, I changed my blog LO! And I used stuff I made myself! Well, I used CU overlays, Atomic Cupcake's tearing, Kimi's glitter styles, and Obsidian Dawn's swirl brushes...but I put it all together;) And I photographed, extracted, and recolored the ribbon. LOL, it's the drawstring of my favorite PJ bottoms!! I have a real blog header now, too!

Template 23 is here! But first, a new LO! This week's weekly challenge on BAM has us browsing galleries around the digiscrap world for scraplifting. The challenge is to scraplift a LO we really like. This was the first time I've done a scraplift. It was really fun! I saw this gorgeous LO and had to lift it:



And this is my version:



Credits:
Scraplifted from Leila at ScrapMatters: http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showp...t/all/limit/all
Papers - me, BCC2 (not released yet)
Glitter styles - Kimi's Kreations, BCC2 (not released yet)
Obsidian Dawn - swirl brushes
Atomic Cupcake - colored chrome

Be sure to head over to ScrapMatters and leave Leila some love for her gorgeous LO!

And now for the template. Template 23 is a 2 page LO in PSD format. Please feel free to send me your pages with my templates or kits! I'd LOVE to see them, and to post them here with your permission:) Here's the preview for template 23:



You can download it here.

LOL, I WAS going to go to bed earlier tonight...ahahaha, right...it's nearly 3 AM. I really need to force myself to go to bed earlier. But...it doesn't really work, because I can't sleep. I just lay there TRYING to sleep. If I'm going to be awake at this hour, I might as well be productive, right? ;) Anyway, I'm going to TRY to get some sleep now. Night all!

Template 22

I told you I was freebie happy today, didn't I? LOL, 3 freebies all in a row. Be sure to check out the previous 2 posts for my color challenge expansion kit and template 21!

Template 22 is based off my LO from our speed scrap the other day. It's a single page LO in PSD format. Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

As always, I'd love to hear back from you and see your pages with my templates and kits! Also, if you have any requests, just let me know and I'll see what I can do about them;)

Aaand it's nearly 4 AM (again...) and I need to get some sleep. But first, I need something to eat. I WAS going to have cereal, but the milk went bad - 4 days before the sell by date. Grrr. I hate when that happens. Anyway, off to the kitchen for food, and then time for bed!

Retro Rainbow Expansion

I finally did my expansion from our March color challenge blog train! I had to finish Emma's ABC book first, but now that that's finished and sent off to print, I can work on my myriad other projects.

It took me forever to get this uploaded, since our internet is very tempermental about upload speeds. It was around 30-40 Kb/s when I finally got it to work, but it was more like 5 Kb/s when I tried earlier...and 4shared kept canceling it as a result. Very frustrating. But it's now up and available for download! Here's the preview:



Retro Rainbow Expansion includes everything shown in the preview and a full alpha (used for the title in the preview). It's a full 12x12 size kit in 300 DPI. For some reason, one of the papers wouldn't open as a JPG, so I had to save it as a PNG instead. *shrug* I have no idea why, but it works;)

Here are your links:
Alpha
Elements
Papers 1
Papers 2

**Edit: fixed alpha link. Sorry about that! I accidentally uploaded it twice, so I deleted the duplication. I already had the link pasted and I guess it was for the one I deleted. It SHOULD work now. Let me know if you run into any problems!**

If you haven't picked up my blog train minikit yet, you can do so here.

As always, I'd love to hear back from you and see your LO's with my freebies:) I have an addon for Emma's Toybox in the works, and I've started on April's color challenge for BAM. I got to pick the palette this month, so I got a head start;) I had to try out the colors a little beforehand to make sure they'd look good as papers and such. I also have 2 new templates; one in the post before this, and another is coming in just a few minutes in the following post. LOL, I'm freebie happy today!

Template 21 and April Fool's!

It's my turn to host the color challenge on BAM. It's a monthly challenge where the hostess picks the palette and everyone makes a LO or a minikit (3 papers, 3 elements) using those colors. The minikits will be posted as a blog train at the end of the month.

So...since it's April Fool's Day, I HAD to make an ugly palette and post it as the real one;) I loved reading the responses after the truth was revealed! Everyone was very tactful until I edited the post with "April Fool's" and the real palette:D Oh gosh it was hilarious. Here's the nasty, ugly, April Fool's palette, just so you can see how hideous it is:



Isn't that awful?! I was going for ridiculously bright, non-matching, and diarrhea. I think I succeeded:D The REAL palette is pretty, but I'm holding off on sharing it for now;) Go join BAM (Baby and Me) if you want to see it;) We have an awesome digiscrap section, FYI.

I've got a new template for you! It's based off my Y LO, but with more slots for pictures or papers, or what have you. It'd be way cute to alternate between pics and papers on the small squares, or use 2 papers and alternate between them. Feel free to play with it as you wish! Here's the preview:



Template 21 is a 12x12, single page LO in PSD format. As always, I'd love to hear back from you and see your pages with my templates:)

You can download it here.

My expansion for the March color challenge is done!! I'm uploading the last of the papers now, so it will be posted in just a little bit! AND I have yet another template for you today. Lots of freebies today:D They'll be in separate posts, so stay tuned!!