Something new is coming ...

and it's FUN!  Here's a sneak peek at True North Scraps latest kit called ESCAPE TO THE CARIBBEAN which will be available on February 1 at Scraps-N-Pieces

 

Check back here later this week to see my layout with this cute kit!  and also a FREEBIE wordart!

 

 

Template Dreams

So far in January, I have done one project for Template Dreams - her beautiful new kit called DISTRESSED ELEGANCE

 

I combined the kit with Template Dreams CIRCLE FUN templates

 

 

and created this layout featuring my great grandparents, Otto and Katherine Mollenkopf! 

 

 

Be back with more later!

 

 

 

 

So many new products at Bella Zingaro Studio

I was able to work with 6 new kits from Bella Zingaro Studio this month.  And, I had a great time!  I started with Clooney & Me ACHOO

 

Here's my layout with a darling picture of Chase who insisted on taking his nap on the floor, wrapped up in a crochet blanket I made for him! 

 

 

Next, I selected Baby Cakes Scraps YOU'RE AMAZING - the color palette is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE

 

 

 

I couldn't resist using this picture of Blake and Chase having fun at the park behind their house!  I used a template from Jen C Designs DECEMBER 2012 GRAB BAG which is currently unavailable.  I think she is probably in the process of splitting the grab bag up, but it hasn't shown up in her store yet! Soon I hope!

 

 

Country Liv Graphics has a strikingly different take on A SNOWFLAKE DAY - the color palette is way non-traditional, but I love it! 

 

 

The color show off the chilly beauty of these photos by my friend Pat Kirk from Upstate New York ... no snow in Texas, you know!  I used Digital Designs by Amber Morrison WINTER'S KISS template on my layout

 

 

This Be Me Scraps WORLD TRAVELER inspired my to go back to my photo archive from a Cruise in October 2004 to Belize ...

 

 

I altered the background paper in my layout with a photo from the ship advertising snorkeling on Rendevouz Caye (which is that tiny island you see in the photo that was about 8 miles out from the Belize Coast in the Barrier Reef)  I was amazed at the coral garden on my first (and only) snorkeling adventure!  The photos of the reef were taken with a disposable underwater camera, and with a little editing I think they turned out beautifully!

 

 

 

Marion Ashton, who is a brand new designer at Bella Zingaro, has a classically beautiful SNOWY DAY  kit ... a much more traditional color palette for snow!

 

 

 

I used a photo from my friend Pat Kirk, and a template from Digital Designs by Amber Morrison CHEESECAKE to create my layout. 

 

 

The last kit I chose for January work at Bella Zingaro Studio was Jiovanna's Creations I LOVE COOKING ... if you know me, you can stop laughing now!!!!

 

 

So, at Thanksgiving we all contributed to the dinner ... but they only let me bring the salad!  I wonder why?

 

 

Blake was ready for dinner, long before we called everyone to the table... and there is my BEAUTIFUL salad prominently displayed next to the turkey! YUM!  makes me hungry just looking at it!

 

I'll be back in February with more beautiful goodies from Bella Zingaro Studio!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Belle Vie Designs - NEW in January

La Belle Vie Designs has a template pack and a kit new at Scrapable in January 2013 (so far)

Her template pack is called DIAMONDS

 

I loved the diamond cut-out in the template on the bottom right which I combined with La Belle Vie Designs THANK YOU BUNDLE

 

 

I used the template and kit to feature a flaming maple tree at Lost Maples Natural Park in Vanderpool, TX - the location of the only native Sawtooth Maples in Texas!

 

 

 

Hannah's kit STRONGER has a colorful palette that appealed to me right away

 

 

I featured the greens and navy blues in my layout, along with her cute flower and flair embellishments for my layout showing off this Monarch butterfly I "caught" (with my camera only!) in the San Antonio Botanical Garden in September 2010.

 

 

I'll be back with more from La Belle Vie Designs soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Digi Scraps promotions in January 2013

Liz at Sweet Digi Scraps is the FEATURED DESIGNER at Digi Scrap Talk this month, and created a fabulous kit called NEW ADVENTURES which is the GOLD MEMBER offering for January 2013. 

 

I have created two layouts using this fabulous kit ...

 

 

and this one which features Digital Designs by Amber Morrison CONFETTI CONFETTI template

 

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

 

My next kit from Sweet Digi Scraps was called CLEAN SLATE

 

 

I also featured a template by Amber Morrison CHEESECAKE in my layout.

 

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

I love the collaboration kit KASHMIR by Sweet Digi Scraps and ETC by Danyale which released at The Digi Chick back in September 2012

 

 

 ... and it was perfect, combined with Digital Designs by Amber Morrison JAWBREAKER

The photo in my layout is the Clark family at their "Christmas" gathering in the summer of 2012 in Denver! I got the photo from Amy's gallery, but I suspect that Seamus "did the sprint" so that he could be in the photo too!

 

 



(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

I just love the rich color palette of Sweet Digi Scraps HAPPY TO HAVE YOU

 

 

so I did two layouts with it in January 2013.  The first I combined with Digital Designs by Amber Morrison SIMPLICITY to show off my favorite hiking spot in Texas - Enchanted Rock in Llano County.

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

and I used HAPPY TO HAVE YOU again with Digital Designs by Amber Morrison OH, SO SWEET

 

 

That's Mike and poki at the Denver Botanic Gardens in June 2012.

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

HOLIDAY WONDER was one of Liz's Christmas blog giveaways which is now in her store at The Digi Chick

 

 

I combined this "holiday" kit with a "holiday" template - Digital Designs by Amber Morrison SPOOKTACULAR  but there is not a "holiday" in sight on my layout ... just nature at it's SPLENDID BEST!  Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on 6/19/2012.

 

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL says it all!

 

 

In my layout I combined it with Digi Designs by Amber Morrison template WELL ROUNDED (I just love clipping photos into shape with a mask!).  The photo was taken in my friend Pam's butterfly garden!  The flowers and the butterflies love her garden, as evidenced by an abundance of both each summer!

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

 

Just one more kit from Sweet Digi Scraps this month - IT HAPPENS!  (and OMG that was almost so true yesterday when a new software download hid all my files from my newly installed 3T hard drive!  Once the new software was removed, my files "magically" appeared again.  TG! It's lots of work to load over a Terabyte of files ... I know I did it recently!  Fortunately, if the drive had really failed I had gotten up early yesterday, and did a complete back up of the harddrive onto my external!)  Here's the lovely kit by Liz

 

 

and my layout featuring my cutie patootie great nephew Chase.  I also used Amber Morrison's template BRACKETS for this one

 

 

(This layout was featured on Tuesday, Jan 22 blog post of Digital Designs by Amber Morrison promotional work!)

If you haven't already collected my

 

FREEBIE

 

be sure to return to the post from 1/23/2013 and collect it! 

 

More goodies are on the way!  Be back soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAN freebie - made by me!

I created a this layout last week using Digital Designs by Amber Morrison template pack called BRACKETS and Sweet Digi Scraps IT HAPPENS (and today certainly proved that ... long story, happy ending! OMG - it didn't feel like a happy ending for a very tense hour!  All good now! I sometimes HATE my computer!)

Digital Designs by Amber Morrison

BRACKETS

 

 

Sweet Digi Scraps

IT HAPPENS

 

 

I just love combining these two designers work - I'm so glad they both sell exclusively at The Digi Chick now!  This is a true match "made in heaven" in my opinion.

 

Here's my layout that I did with a photo of my cutie patootie great nephew Chase.

 

 

After I finished this layout, and posted it on the CT forums for both designers, I decided that the cluster around the frame was pretty cute, and might make a great freebie!  I had to do some re-work on it  since I wanted my cluster to have internal shadows but none on the outside edges so you could add them or not when you use the cluster.  Here is the preview I made with my cluster:

 

 

You can download the freebie

HERE

 

I would appreciate hearing from you here on my blog if you download my freebie!

 

And don't forget to visit

 

Digital Designs by Amber Morrison TDC store and

 

Sweet Digi Scraps TDC store

 

You won't be disappointed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New from True North Scraps

Central Texas had a "brush with stardom" in the middle of 1958 when Elvis Presley was stationed at Ft Hood for 6 months for Basic Training before being shipped to Germany where he spent most of the rest of his tour of duty!  His commanding officers were insistent that he receive "training like everyone else" although some of the chaos  couldn't be avoided!  I researched the time and found an article published in the Temple Telegram  over a year after Elvis had left Ft Hood.  The local news had a "gag order" placed on them, although Ft Hood couldn't control national and international news media!  What I learned from my research inspired me layout with True North Scraps THANK YOU VERY MUCH

 

 

Here's my layout

 

 

Photo used from article in Temple Daily Telegram in September 1959!

 

It is definitely cold and flu season, and here in Texas it is allergy season for those who are unfortunate enough to be allergic to cedar pollen ... it is flying!  Both Mike and I are allergic so our time together recently has been punctuated with loud ACHOO sounds ... like the kit by the same name by True North Scraps. 

 

 

Dawna has some cute little "germs" in this kit ... Chase seems to have caught the "bug!"

 

 

and I did this one for the Template Challenge at Scraps-N-Pieces

 

 

More coming soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very Busy January

Digital Designs with Amber Morrison opened her store at The Digi Chick with a large variety of her kits!  I had worked with some of them before, but I wanted to be sure to highlight only products from the Digi Chick,so ... I've done 13 new layouts using Amber's templates and other product from The Digi Chick designers during January!

 

All kit titles in RED are links to The Digi Chick store!

I started off 2013 with Digital Designs by Amber Morrison's WINTER'S KISS

I combined her wonderful templates with Sweet Digi Scraps WINTER WONDERLAND

 

 

This was a "match made in heaven" in my opinion - I love combining templates from Amber with kits from Liz!  Thanks to my friend, Pat Kirk, for the great photos to work with - there is NO SNOW to speak of in Texas, but upstate New York has had some this year!

 

 

Next on my work agenda was Digital Designs by Amber Morrison THE BIG PICTURE

 

 

which I also combined with Sweet Digi Scraps WINTER WONDERLAND! This is another beautiful photo from my friend Pat Kirk

 

 

Then I jumped over to SUMMER TO REMEMBER from Amber (which it were that quick to get to summer! ... I'm not so fond of winter!)

 

 

I did two layouts with this template, just to show it's versatility (I used the same template on both layouts).  The first one is combined with Kimeric Kreations OH HAPPY DAY (which was a collaboration wtih Digital Designs by Amber Morrison)

 

 

My first layout features a cute pictures of my great niece Gaby!

 

I love this photo with the bright, cheerful color palette of OH, HAPPY DAY! But, I discovered that the template also works well with a more muted palette like Sweet Digi Scraps DESTINATION: THE PAST

 

The photo is one I took last summer in the canyon below the Yellowstone River Lower Falls ... that was an amazing day for photography & me!

 

 

I then moved on to Amber's sweet kit CHEESECAKE

 

 

which I combined with a new kit from Sweet Digi Scraps called CLEAN SLATE. 

 

 

I actually used my own photos of the one-and-only SNOW in Texas in February 2010!

 

 

So, how about a party with CONFETTI, CONFETTI

 

 

I combined a template from this pack with Sweet Digi Scraps GOLD MEMBER KIT at DST (Liz is the Featured Designer at DST for January 2013!

 

 

The photo is my friend's Jolon and Sarah's children walking to their neighborhood school.  Logan is such a good big brother, taking great care of little sister Chloe on her first day!  Thanks to Jolon for sharing this great pix!

 

 

Next, Digital Designs by Amber Morrison JAWBREAKER

 

 

Love the chevrons in these templates!  I combined it with the super luscious collab from Sweet Digi Scraps and ETC by Danyale called KASHMIR ...

 

 

and featured a photo of the Clark family "Christmas" gathering last summer in Colorado!  The photo was in Amy Clark's gallery, but I'm sure Seamus did the sprint to get in the photo!  Thanks for the used of this lovely photo, Amy!

 

 

Here's Amber's GOLDEN DAYS

 

 

combined with ETC by Danyale CHRISTMAS MAGIC

 

 

I used these to highlight photos from my nephew Bryan's first family Christmas in their new home!  Such a cute little family, and a beautiful new home!  I am proud for you all! 

 

 

 

Next, Amber's SIMPLICITY

 

 

with Sweet Digi Scraps HAPPY TO HAVE YOU (love this color palette, so I used it again in a layout that will come farther down on this post!)

 

 

My layout shows one of my favorite hiking spots in Texas - Enchanted Rock!  On November 8 (at 62+ years old) I made my second successfully climb, cutting about 30 minutes off my climb time!  My first climb was made at 60+ but I didn't make it to the top that time!  The view from the top of that rock is AMAZING!

 

 

Only four more projects completed in January (so far ... but I'm supposed to have something new in my inbox soon  for Thursday, Jan 24)  This is Amber's template pack called SPOOKTACULAR although you won't find skeleton's "in the closet" here.

 

 

I combined it with Sweet Digi Scraps HOLIDAY WONDER

 

 

to create this layout for my view of the Grand Teton in Wyoming!  No holiday at all in this layout, just nature at it's SPLENDID BEST!  I really love the versatility of Amber's templates and Liz's kit!

 

 

 

WELL ROUNDED makes cropping photos into circles so easy-peasy! 

 

 

I used Sweet Digi Scraps kit LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

 

 

and featured this beautiful Eastern Yellow Swallowtail butterfly which I "caught" at my friend Pam's house in San Saba County!  She has an amazing butterfly garden which she waters from a deep well!  The flowers and the butterflies both love her for it!

 

 

Next is BRACKETS

 

 

combined with Sweet Digi Scraps IT HAPPENS!

 

 

Here's my cutie patootie great nephew Chase

 

 

Check back here tomorrow for a

 

FREEBIE

 

from this layout! (1/23/2013)

 

Just one more template pack (so far) - Digital Designs by Amber Morrison OH, SO SWEET

 

 

with Sweet Digi Scraps HAPPY TO HAVE YOU

 

 

and my layout SO HAPPY TOGETHER - Mike and poki at the Denver Botanic Gardens in June 2012!

 

 

Stay tuned ... more to come!