Winter Wishes

It doesn't seem possible that it has been eleven days since I have last posted. It has been a very busy eleven days. I have been busy at my new job and I find it is more taxing on the brain as you get older to start a new job, but it is invigorating and I am really excited about the work I do. But as a result, I am having to find a new balance for my hobbies, digital scrapping included. Granted the holidays have thrown off the schedule a little. I am excited about some of the holiday pictures that I took yesterday and couldn't wait to use a great picture of a cardinal I took. I thought the stark contrast of red against a blue themed kit would be great.

I created this page using Danielle Christiansen's Winter Wishes kit. The kit provided such a wonderful canvas to promote this beautiful red cardinal that was flying around in the trees outside my parents' living room window. He seems to be looking right at me...waiting for his picture to be taken.

Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Christmas and will look forward to the holiday pages that so many with scrap.

Trying to Stay Warm

Hard to believe Monday has rolled around already. I got my Christmas cards back (for the second time) today. I had ordered my cards and they came in the mail stuck together obviously they had gotten wet and then dried on their trip to my mailbox. UGH! Well at least they are here and now I can work on getting them mailed out. At least they arrived in good condition this time and the second set were free!

The last few days I have been able to put together a few pages using some various kits. One page was my second layout for Winter Flannel by Tiger Lily's Designs and Gone Scrappin' Designs over at Designs in Digital. If you haven't check it out over there, they have some great challenges and great people!

The interwoven snowflake papers are not in the kit, as shown, but are available individually. I took the two papers and wove them together.

The next page I created was by Danielle Christiansen using her Winter Fun kit. I had to use the father/daughter picture again. Hope you'll check out her store.

I also finished a page created by Lost Gurlz 'Ventures who is a designer over at Designs in Digital as well. She has a great kit called Slumber Party with some great elements and papers. It is available at the Designs in Digital store.

Hope everyone has a great evening and stay warm if you're here in the midwest!

Winter Flannel

Well, what a busy day. I started a part-time job today for a large funeral home in the area and will be a part of the support staff to the funeral directors. I will be a member of the team that creates the folders for the services, creating memorial DVDs and other items that pay tribute to loved ones that have passed on. I look forward to utilizing my skills to help others during their time of grieving. It will be a job that comes with gratification of helping others.

In the meantime...

I have added another to my list of those that I CT for. I have joined the creative team over at Designs in Digital. One of the kits that is a collaboration kit this month is called Winter Flannel. It was created by Gone Scrappin' Designs and Tiger Lily's Designs. Here is a layout I created using the kit. I have it posted in many of my online galleries.

Will only post a short post for this evening. Must cook dinner. Have a good evening.

Another Freebie

Yesterday was so hectic, as the kids didn't have school due to the icy road conditions. Earlier in the day at least I had a chance to finish some snowman word art. I created a snowman using the words from Frosty the Snowman. It was great fun to do and I knew I had the perfect pictures to use for a layout.
If you would like to pick up the snowman word art, you can pick it up HERE.
You will need to add your own hat to the snowman though.
Credits for this page go to:
Snowman word art - mine; using PSP X2. (corncob pipe was a pic from internet)
Snowman's hat from Winter Dreams kit from Oscraps by Nina Scraps Designs
Remaining background and elements all from Silva's kit Cold Winter Days

Christmas Freebies

We received our first two Christmas cards yesterday and I was inspired to create a wonderful Christmas tree using the words "We Wish you a Merry Christmas!" I have created one in white and one in red. If there is another color you would like, please let me know and I would be happy to make it available.

You can download the tree with white wording HERE.

You can download the tree with red wording HERE.

Please leave some love if you download either of these. I would love to see what you create with this tree, so feel free to drop me a message to let me know where I can find your page, as I would love to post some other samples.

Here is a sample of a page I created using my tree and pictures of my nephews at Christmas two years ago. I love how my one nephew's present is as big as he is. Sooo cute!

Credits for the background and remaining elements are from CuddleBeez Scraps kit Christmas Blessings.

Oh, the weather outside is....

frightful, but the inside the scrappin' is delightful! It has begun to freezing rain here tonight and I sit here hoping son will return home from work this evening safe and sound. I must go out and put some sand down at the top of the driveway, or he might not make it up the incline as DH has just said he about slid into the neighbors yard. EEEK! I don't like freezing rain. But to cheer me up a little, I will post a page I completed yesterday with a beautiful Christmas picture of my DD in 2003. Every year I would take pictures of the kids in their Christmas best. Oh the memories. Have a good evening!

Credits for this page go to:
Paper & Elements: Love Christmas by Ingrid7459
Snow in Snow Globe: In a Snowflake World by WaterLO Project
Snowglobe Template: C.W. Picket & Company

It's Snowing Again

Well, the snow is flying again today. Luckily it doesn't look like a whole lot right now, but enough to cover the sidewalk again anyway. Today is a short post, but wanted to at least post some pages I did with a Retro kit of Danielle Christiansen's. I had some fun with this and dug up some old Halloween pics to match the theme. Have a good rest of the weekend.

It's Friday!

What a busy day yesterday was! We switched out our Dish Network system for a DirecTv system. We'd had Dish for over 5 years and frankly the equipment was getting old and our DVR receiver had crashed at least once and we had lost everything we had recorded. It was time for new equipment and a better price for at least the next year! Of course, it wasn't as simple as swapping out the satellites and then just swapping receivers, with updates come new things to do to install the receivers. Wish they would have at least sent out a "what to expect" list, then we could have had some or our prep work done before they arrived, but hey, oh well, it's done and things are working great!

I have a couple of pages from Wednesday that I'd like to post for you all. One is created for a Marriage Is Challenge on Scrapbook Flair. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Credits for this page are:

Photo: Taken by a friend at our wedding

Little Hearts: "Just a Little Bit of Love" kit by Mia Design; http://designofmia.blogspot.com

Quote: Unknown (taken from website http://scrapsaying.com/say-love.com

Rest of elements and paper: "In Love" kit by Zalinka & Dallien

I also finished a second page working with Danielle Christiansen's Lemonade & Pink Lemonade Stand kit. I decided to work with some birthday pictures back when dd turned eleven. It was a pretty page with the pink and yellow. Made the day just a little brighter when it's cold outside. LOL.

You can pick up this kit at Danielle's site: http://www.danicdigiscraps.ecrater.com/.

Hope everyone has a great day. I see the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies are ready on their blog, so I am off to see what great Christmas and winter kits have been created by their hard working designers.

New Kits to Use!!

I received an e-mail last night from Danielle saying that she had two new kits for her creative team: Lemonade & Pink Lemonade kit and a Retro kit. They have great colors and look forward to using them to create new pages! I already created one this morning as it is cloudy and starting to snow again today. Another 1-4 inches is possible. So what better way to brighten the day then to think about lemonade and summertime activities. I found this great picture of when my daughter and her cousins had crawled into a toy box and it was absolutely perfect to modify to make it look as though they were at a lemonade stand with their hands over the front of the stand.

I will mess around with the kits some more today and see what creative juices start going. Have a great day!!!

Sorry, It's Been Awhile

Well, I guess the weekend flew by and with so much to do, I guess the blog didn't get its needed attention. We received our first snowfall of the winter on Sunday/Monday. Only about an inch or two, but enough to stick around and not leave. A reminder that winter has arrived in Iowa.

I have not scrapped much in the last few days as I began to create the annual "Year in Review" video from all my pictures and video clips from the year. I have to make two, so the first one has been completed. Takes time to determine songs, pictures, video, etc. It has been a successful venture for Disc #1, so I will take a break and catch up on my scrappin' stuff. Hope your week has started out well.