To the Daisy ~ FREEBIE

It turns out, there are people just like me who love the quickpages with extra's. A quickpage is great, it's even better when you get the bits-n-pieces too. For later, to add on to that special project that needed just that one more touch, or to twist and alter that quickpage just a tad, just to make it yours. So I did another. A Quickpage Extra FREEBIE I call: To the Daisy

I love Daisy's. Such a simple, sweet flower. I have a LO done with this quickpage of my daughter. It's a very up close & beautiful shot. I converted it to black & white and I find the result just stunning. I'd share, but, well, I haven't yet found the words for the journaling & the page looks a little empty without it. I'm not much for rambling tonight. Here's what's included in To the Daisy:

• 1 Quickpage
• 1 paper
• 1 Ribbon-n-bow wrapped frame
  
• 1 "just" the frame
• 1 "just" the ribbon-n-bow
• 1 staple
• 1 journaling block

The name "To the Daisy" comes from that beautiful poem by William Wordsworth. It makes me think of days in my childhood stringing daisies together for my hair, my neck, my wrists and sometimes my ankles. I don't do that anymore, I can't stop thinking of dogs peeing on the daisies before I string them together. Instead I took great joy in creating this little set. Computer art is much safer than wild, open fields.

Please note that unless specifically listed, none of the files come with drop shadows seen in the preview (except, of course, for the quickpage itself). And, as always now, please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my designs.

A quickpage with extra's: Freesia Blossoms

Ha! I had a quiet-ish Sunday. As quiet as can be expected in a house boasting 6-ish kids (depending on who is/isn't home). My quiet-ish Sunday translates as an extra Freebie for any avid fans out there LOL. I really wanted to practice two new techniques I learned. I didn't feel like making an entire mini-kit but I also don't want my work to be wasted on just me.

Introducing the quickpage with extra's! In this Freebie you will get the quickpage seen in the preview (sans my little ego-header), as well as each of the individual elements used to create the quickpage. I personally get frustrated with quickpages because they frequently have an element I love, but I can't just grab it. So, TADA, the quickpage with extra's: Freesia Blossoms

• 1 quickpage (as seen in preview)
• 1 paper
• 1 frame
• 1 flourish
• 1 blossom
• 1 sidebar, shadows included

And just a little funny, because quite a few of you were amused at the Shark Tooth Fairy story (btw, the shark tooth did not net my poor daughter any monies). I'm cooking dinner this evening, and I cook dinner for a crowd, and because I cook for a crowd I'm cooking the cheap scraps/leftovers our butcher packages after butchering the pig into perfect little cutlets/chops/loins. As I stand there cooking up a storm I realize that what I'm really cooking up is Piggy Scraps. And I start giggling to myself, and giggling even harder as I hope someone will walk up and asks me why. My darling DH does walk up, while I'm still giggling, and asks why. Thank God he gets why cooking Piggy Scraps is so funny to me. Good night all!

Please note that unless specifically listed, none of the files come with drop shadows seen in the preview. And, as always now, please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my designs.

The girly-purpley mini kit: Crocus Love

There are those weeks when there’s not enough time in a day. This week was one of those days. All week. A couple of times I managed to forego sleep and undertake a couple of online tutorials. I now wish there was even more time in my days-that-have-not-enough-time. There are an incredible amount of cool techniques out there. All of which are begging to be mastered and transformed into art for my digital scrapbooking kits.

I took a couple tricks from the lessons, reluctantly putting my boys stuff to the side, and finished up my girly-purpley mini kit. Though finished up might be strong wording to use on what I actually did with it. Just about the only thing I kept from my original foray into girly-purpley is 1) the color purple; and 2) crocuses (crocusi???).

I’m still a little tired, beat, behind-the-eight-ball, but I really wanted to share. Here it is, my girly-purpley mini kit, a FREEBIE: Crocus Love

• 4 papers
• 2 flower elements
• 1 flowered, scalloped frame
• 1 journaling tag
• 1 word art doodle
• 1 staple

Please note that unless specifically listed, none of the files come with drop shadows seen in the preview. And, as always now, please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my designs.

Another Boy FREEBIE: Sailing Away

I'm going to try to explain how my mind works. Because. I'm laying in bed a couple of nights ago, really hoping to sleep, when my 6-year-old daughter pipes up:

"Oh no! Where did it go!" I hear this because A) she's kinda loud; and B) she's sleeping with me that night. Because, DH is traveling and she gets to sleep with me, and the baby, when he travels. Turns out the "it" is the shark tooth she mined at Gem Mining earlier that day.

Gem Mining, for those of you not in the know, is like panning for gold. But for gems. You get a bucket of sand. You get a sifter. There's a sluice of water. Swirl. Tada! Gems. Unless you get the bucket of sea gravel. Then, tada! Shark's teeth. Very cool activity. I digress...

My darling daughter had placed her precious sharks tooth under her pillow in the desperate hope the tooth fairy would mistake it for one of her teeth and leave some money. At almost 7 she doesn't even have a loose tooth. The only one in her class. It is the bane of her existence. So much so she tried to fool the tooth fairy with a shark's tooth.

What does this have to do with digital scrapbooking? Well. I was, after my foray into boys kits, going back to my purpley-girly one. But sharks teeth got me thinking ocean. Comments had me thinking boys. And next thing I know I come up with another boy kit. Sharks just aren't very cute to me though, so while there's a fish, it's more of a sailing kit.

So whether you are looking for some elements for a boating trip, a sailing ride, a fishing excursion or just a maritime museum tour (I did one once you know), I hope this kit floats your boat. Introducing my newest12-piece mini kit, another FREEBIE: Sailing Away

• 4 boy-colored papers,
  
• 3 sailing doodles
• 1 word doodle
  
• 4 photo corners
  

Please note that unless specifically listed, none of the files come with drop shadows seen in the preview. And, as always now, please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my designs.

Mini-kit FREEBIE: Space Flight

Huh. I was (am) working on a girly/springy/purple-y freebie when my 10-year-old son looked over my shoulder. He happened to look over when I happened to be checking my blog to see if it had been "found" yet. He wasn't thrilled with my work. And it made me feel so sad. So I asked what was wrong with it.

"Well." He began, "if it was space it would've been so cool." And off he walked.

And that was the end (temporarily, I assure you) of my foray into girly/springy/purple-y design. Instead I've spent parts of the last couple days greatly refurbishing First Flight to become Space Flight. It was never my intention to have two mini kits so similar, so close together. Yet here you have it.

So for any of you out there with aspiring astronauts... my 2nd FREEBIE: Space Flight

• 4 primary-ish color papers,
  
• 1 spaceship doodle
• 1 word doodle
  
• 1 space seal
• 2 bows
• 1 pre-bent frame, including custom drop shadow
  
• instructions on how to use the pre-bent frame

Please note that except for the pre-bent frame, none of the files come with drop shadows. Those are for you to add in to your tastes. And, as always now, please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my designs.

First Post, First FREEBIE!

I have the totally uncool habit of saying "when pigs fly." It has, very unfortunately, caused my near & dear loved ones to toss me the occasional decorative pig. Um. Yippee? However, since I, once-upon-a-time, swore I'd never scrapbook. Then scrapbooked. Then swore I'd never digital scrapbooked. Well, "pigs fly" is a very appropriate title when I also start venturing out into the world of digital scrapbook design.

Without further ado, here is my very first FREEBIE a mini kit: First Flight

• 4 primary color papers,
  
• 1 rikrak ribbon
  
• 2 twirly rikrak ribbons
  
• 1 airplane doodle
• 1 first flight seal
• 2 bows
  

Note I didn't say first design, there's others, just none were even close to good enough to share. Please leave me comments, suggestions, helpful hints or thank you's! I'd also love to see any LO's done with my design.