Template 4 and Driving

Wow, quite a few people have downloaded my templates already^_^ Awesomeness. And a few people have left some very nice comments. Thank you! It's funny, when I started digiscrapping nearly 3 months ago, I had NO idea I would actually contribute anything to the digiscrapping world! Let alone apparently develop a knack for it, if you go by how many downloads I've had so far. At this point, I don't think I'll try my hand at kits, but...you never know. I didn't expect to be making templates, either.

Speaking of, I made another template to share. This one was designed to work with this week's challenge on my mommy forum. The challenge is a numbers challenge: 4 papers, 3 fasteners, 2 photos, and a 1 word title. I did a page using my new template, too. It was fun! I don't usually use fasteners (I like them, I just don't think to use them most of the time), and I tend to use more than 2 pictures per page. And using only 1 word for the title tripped me out for a little bit - and then I searched through my pictures and found the perfect subject for it: Emma "driving" the car. I like how this page turned out:)

Anyway, enough babbling from me. Here's the page I did:



Credits:
Cardboard and damask paper - Gunhild Storeide, cardboard and damask papers kit
Pink argyle paper - Brandy O'Neal, MegaDoodle Inspired, argyle papers kit
Pink flower paper, brown glitter flower paper, ribbons, glitter stars (slightly modified), staple, and metal fastener - Happy Birthday Collab kit by Choukette, Nini-lolo, Kafrounette, MissVivi, Newlifedreams, and Digiscrap_ch
Buttons and little flowers - Susan Darter, Raspberry Road Designs, Mother's Love kit
Pink flower - Sweet Blossom Designs, Love Me Forever kit
Binder clip - CuddleBeez, Treasured Past kit
Alpha - Digitreats, Giggle apha add-on
Actions - Atomic Cupcake, simple tear, torn cardboard

And here's the free template:



You can download it here.

Thanks for stopping by! If you use one of my templates, I'd LOVE to see your page! Feel free to send me links:)

Valentine's Page - Using Template 2

I made a page using my Valentine's template. I would have posted it sooner, but my upload speed is ridiculously flakey. Sometimes I can upload, but most of the time, I have to email my uploads to either my sister or one of my close friends and have them break into my Photobucket account for me:D

Anyway, back to the page. I love how it turned out! I used soooo many bits and pieces from several different kits (all freebies, too)! Seriously, this page is loaded. This will be my Valentine's card to John. Shhh, don't tell him! I think I'm going to make another one for Emma using this template. Anyway, here's the page:



Credits:
Template - me:D
Background paper - CuddleBeez, Cushy kit
Brown and red heart paper and labels word art - Piccolina Designs, Chocolate Valentine kit
Striped paper, plaid paper, double white hearts, and jeweled heart - Debbie Nolen, Paisley Passion kit
Other pink papers, tag, and heart tag - Colleen Keehne, Love Letter kit (tagger size)
Purple and pink fuzzy heart cluster - Madame Wing, Sunshine Studio Scraps, Love Me Not add-on
Pink striped heart - Colleen's Scraps, Hearts Abound kit
Pink framed heart - Josier Designs, My Sweet Love kit
Heart border - Joni Gray, Pink Valentine kit
Glitter frame heart - Claire7799, Mushroom kit (modified)
Glitter bracket - Delicious Scraps, Into Spring add-on
Glitter splatter - Gwen, Christelle kit (modified)
Butterflies, silver swirl, and How do I love thee word art - Fairly Fabulous, Love Thee kit
Jeweled heart love word art and For You word art - Marcela Crhova
Corner Valentine's word art - KL Winters
I love you overlay - Jamie Dell

*phew* That's a loooong list of credits!! Hope you like it!!

Speaking of holidays, I have yet to post my Christmas card and the Christmas present I made for our family. Our parents got 8x10s and our siblings got 4x6s. Which reminds me, I still need to mail a couple of them to the siblings we didn't get to see over Christmas. LOL, if they see this (I'm sending them the link here), they'll have a preview of what will be coming in the mail when I finally get around to doing it LOL. The envelopes are addressed, they just need stamps (which I already have, so that's easy enough) and a letter/note explaining and such. That's what's holding it up - I haven't written it yet. Aaaanyway. I ramble. A lot. On to the pages!

Christmas card:



Credits:
Paper and elements - Le Pingouin Designs, Winter Wonderland
Sparkly elements - Scraplandia, Christmas in Scraplandia
Wordart - Aquarius Designs, Christmas freebie

And here's our Christmas present for the family:



Credits:
Template - Lina's Layouts card template (modified)
Paper - Kafrounette, Happy Birthday kit
Alpha - Michelle Sims, Twilight Obsession (I think this is my fave alpha - I've used it 3x already!)
Hearts - A Work in Progress, Breakfast at Tiffany's kit (modified - now I have the song stuck in my head LOL)
Flowers - Clair7799, Mushrooms kit

Now, aside from a couple of signatures I made myself for my forum, all my pages are uploaded to this blog:D I should post those, but I'd have to go searching for which kits I used LOL!

In other news, Emma is now 14 months old today! Well, in about half an hour - she was born at 12:59 AM. She's been teething for the last few days. Ugh. TORTURE. I hate teething. It bites. Literally. But at least she's not sick anymore (I think?), so that's good. Her appetite is back now, and the diarrhea-induced diaper rash is almost gone.

Anyway, I'm off to download more freebies:) Or maybe make another template. We shall see. I should start on our taxes, since we got the W2 today...but I don't really want to:D

Templates 2 & 3

I made 2 more templates today! I'm just in template making mode, I guess. Both are free 12x12 PSD templates. I'm a definite fan of free^_^ I signed up on DigiFree and DigiScrapDepot, but I have yet to see Template 1 there. It probably takes while for them to show up.

The first one is a cute Valentine's template. Of course, you can use it for other things, too;) I'm going do a page with this one soon (like, right after I finish this post, so stay tuned). Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

Next, I made a fun lattice-work template. The lattice was impossible to do the way I wanted with the layers and all, but I think it still turned out nice:) Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

Hope you like them! Feel free to send me your LOs using my templates:)

First Template - Template 1

I decided to make a template out of my In Daddy's Shoes layout. This is my first attempt at making a template. It's a 2 page LO in PSD format. I hope people like it! Here's the preview:



You can download it here.

Hope you like it!

New LO - Week 12

This is my page for the week 12 challenge on BAM, using a kit made by one of the ladies there. It's a 2 page spread. I absolutely LOVED working with this kit! It's so fun to scrap with! I will definitely be using it again.

I'm happy with how this one turned out:) All the pics had bad red eye in them, and since I have an older version of Photoshop, I don't have a tool for it. But I found a tutorial online and it worked great:D

Anyway, here's the page:



Credits:
Papers, elements, and alpha - GeniaBeana, Queen for a Day kit (original and add-on)
Actions - Atomic Cupcake: simple tear, tear, wild tear, rub on

Enjoy!

Sick Week

Not sick day, not a few days, but yes, a whole week. Well, close enough, anyway. Just a day shy of it, really, and though things are definitely improving, I don't think we'll be completely sick-free by tomorrow.

Just a quick recap of our sick week (not that anyone reads this blog yet anyway): on Saturday, Emma started having diarrhea...and it's not gone yet. It's now in small amounts and less frequent, and she's had a couple of normal poops today. But it's not completely cleared up. (I'm sure when she's a teen she'll LOOOVE that I talked about her poop all over the internet;)) By Sunday, she had a bad diaper rash from the diarrhea. Sunday night/Monday morning, Emma woke up screaming at 4:30 AM. She had a blow out diarrhea diaper and had thrown up in her crib. Needless to say, she got a bath right then and there. Then on Monday, John started throwing up. Greeeat. Sick baby AND sick hubby.

Emma's diaper rash got progressively worse - it was AWFUL - until we took her to the pediatrician on Tuesday. He prescribed her Westcort, an ointment with a steroid, to help clear up the rash. It has worked WONDERS. The rash had already improved drastically by Wednesday morning. Now, only a little remains. But we're still not in the clear. Either on Tuesday or Wednesday, I started feeling queasy, too! Guess it's a family illness. It's hard to take care of a sick baby when you're sick, too. Thankfully, I never threw up. John and I have both been queasy off and on. Wednesday morning, Emma had a fever. It lasted all day, and finally broke this evening. We took her in to the pediatrician again today as a result. The doctor thinks she'll start getting better very soon, but that we have to let this nasty virus run its course. I hate cold and flu season.

Emma hasn't had much of an appetite this week, so getting her to eat has been difficult. Because of the diarrhea, her pediatrician wanted her on a BRAT diet. Well, she kept refusing the foods on it. She WAS willing to eat a few things NOT on it, and at this point, I just want her to eat. We know for a fact that she's lost 5 oz in less than 2 days (since we went to the doctor twice this week), and since she was in the 2nd percentile for weight prior to getting sick...yeah, I'm concerned. She's also refusing to drink anything. I'm trying to keep her hydrated while she has diarrhea, but she is making it difficult.

The fever may have been caused by something other than being sick, though. I noticed a little white speck in her mouth after dinner...so I picked her up and took a peek. Sure enough, there's a new little tooth that just popped through. No wonder she's been fussy and clingy today!! Poor baby! We thought it was just from being sick, but she was teething as well! So maybe her fever was from teething? She didn't have a fever when she cut her bottom teeth, but this is a top tooth and I've heard those are worse. At this point, I think the fever was a combination of being sick and teething.

So yeah, that's our crazy sick week in a nutshell. I really hope we all start feeling normal again tomorrow. Being sick is no fun at all!

Our Wedding Book - Complete

Here's my first complete digiscrap book. Obviously, it's of our wedding;)

I've tweaked a few things on some pages, but haven't uploaded them.  I may make more changes later. These are all in 2-page spreads (except the cover LOL), so the credits are for 2 pages at a time. So here's the whole book, in order:



Credits:
Template - Lina's Layouts, #14 (modified)
Papers - Claire7799, Mushroom kit
Alpha - Michelle Sims, Twilight Obsession



(I changed the font on this one; may tweak it a bit more)


Credits:
Photos by Kimi
Blue paper, alphas, and glitter by Juno, Pretty Funky kit
Green paper by Pure Scrap, Cosy kit
Flower and fastener by Thaliris, Just For Me kit
Butterfly by Fanette, Evanescense





Credits:
Photos by Kimi
Papers and elements by Thaliris, Just For Me kit
Alphas by Tangie
Heart by Boyerville, Gratitude kit
Butterfly by Fanette, Evanescense kit





Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Invitation - me, with design help from Kimi
Paper - Maria Designs, A Walk in the Park
Sparkles - ScrapLandia, Christmas in ScrapLandia
Thin frame (modified - changed color/saturation) and heart - Kuznyec, Dream minikit
Thick frame - Juno, Pretty Funky
Chrome "forever" - Shawn Headley, Chrome Words
Font - Merced
Sparkly words - Atomic Cupcake's sparkle action (thanks Kimi!)



Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Template - Simply Yin 74 - modified
Paper - Scraplandia, Christmas in Scraplandia megakit
Font - Merced
Sanded Away action - Atomic Cupcake
Dancing couple, black flower, Always & Forever wordart (modified) - TrixieScraps, Sunshine Studio, A Formal Affair kit
Remember This wordart - R Penn, Express Yourself kit
A Love Like No Other wordart (modified) - AE Designs, Sunshine Studio, Love Like No Other kit
Silver roses - Ninie, Cherry Moka kit
Heart - Amanda Dyken, Sunshine Studio, Vintage Sparkle kit
Butterfly - Fanette, Evanescence kit
Black stamp - Shabby Princess, Urban Kiwi kit
Swirly thing under text - Glayce, November Freebie kit





Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Paper and elements - Amanda Dykan, Sunshine Studio Scraps, Vintage Sparkle kit
Frame - Kuznyec, Dream minikit
Alpha - LiviaY, Sunshine Studio Scraps, Winter Sparkle kit

(I removed the lace ribbons on these pages :) )




Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Paper (modified) and tiny flowers - veroj4, n'oublie pas kit
Lacy ribbon - nini-theo, Naturellement add-on kit
Butterfly - CuddleBeez, Treasured Past kit
Jeweled circle - Boutique Cute Doll, Dreaming sampler
Roses (modified) - Ninie, Cherry Moka kit
Swirly doodle - Nanine, Love add-on kit





Credits:
Photos: Kimi
A Formal Affair kit, Tracy Anderson, Sunshine Studio Scraps
Frame - Linda Walton, Acryllic Frames freebie





Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Template - Karah Fredricks, sketch 1
Paper and elements - Bidouille, Cherry Moka kit
Alpha - Michelle Sims, Twilight Obsession
Sanded Away action - Atomic Cupcake





Credits:
Paper - http://digikeepsake.blogspot.com/2008/06/s...usic-paper.html (modified) - thanks Kristan for finding this for me!!
Alpha - thisispapier.blogspot.com
Journal tab - snippetsink, Bentley girl kit
Green flower and ribbon - A Work in Progress, Hazy Summer kit
Metal flower - CuddleBeez, Blues and Browns kit - modified
Rusted brad - Shabby Princess, Festival kit
Music brushes - Obsidian Dawn - thanks Kimi!!





Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Paper (modified) - petit moineaux, frisson kit
Alpha and elements - Juno, Sunshine Studio Scraps, Winter Whites kit



Credits:
Photos - Kimi
Template - www.just2morethings.blogspot.com, #21
Paper and elements - Tracy Anderson, Sunshine Studio Scraps, A Formal Affair kit
Alpha (modified) - http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm
Wordarts (modified) - no TOU for either :( Just have the pngs.





Credits:
Photos - Kimi and Critt (Kimi couldn't take the pics she was IN obviously )
Paper and blue flowers - LiviaY, Sunshine Studio Scraps, Winter Sparkle
Acrylic frame - Linda Walton
Hearts and ribbon - A Work in Progress, Baby Boy kit
Imagine and Believe word art - Sweet Blossom Designs, Enchanted Forest Collab kit
Purple flowers - Thaliris, Just For Me kit