Template Time

As I mentioned before, I've been a fan of the Speed Scraps over at the Stuff to Scrap forum. One week I decided to scrap a photo from my daughters 1 year portraits and I completely LOVED how it turned out! I may have bent the SS rules a little, or a lot, to fit my idea, but I was so happy with it! (and that's what counts right?! hehe)So after bedtime today I decided to try my hand at making a template for all of you! It is a 12x12, 300ppi layered PSD file. I tried drawing out some of the elements I used (like the button and staples), feel free to swap them out for better ones. I also left on the stitching. It is a free download from an amazing designer named Gunhild Storeide. You can get your own to use in you LOs here along with many other goodies. Or if it doesn't fit the style of your layout just delete it and replace it with some other frame or border. Anyway enough chit chat, you can download this template HERE. ::Link is now EXPIRED::

Purchase this template HERE.

Enjoy! And let me know if you use it. I'd love to see what you do!

Oh, and I should note I used products from the following designers in my original layout: Maurine Stettler, Jessica Sprague, Gunhild Storeide, Daisy Trail, Every Ever After Moment, Jacabean, and Christin's Creations.

October Blog Train: Afternoon Delight

Choo Choo! I'm so excited to be participating in my very first blog train! I've always admired all the amazing designers out there (and maybe secretly hoped to be one someday). I have followed the Stuff to Scrap blog train before and decided on a whim one day to jump in! I've never designed any scrapbook items before so this was a stretch for me. I founds some great tutorials online and started trying different things. I'm not going to lie it was a lot of work and I have a whole new admiration for designers that put together whole kits all the time! I was able to come up with some RicRacs and Fuzzy Fibers that looked pretty decent. :) Hope you can use them! Leave some comments and let me know what you think!

Download the RicRac set HERE
Download the Solid Fibers HERE
Download the Mixed Fibers HERE

And here are the links to the rest of the Train! Have fun and don't forget to leave some love along the way!

Digi-designs by Nicole
Life Is Not a Cereal
Stuff To Scrap
Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Scraps N Pieces
Grandmas Templates
Desertgirl Designs
Shel Belle Scraps
Tonisha's Playground
Ginger's House
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Seal Scraps
Craft With Me
Midnight Scrapping
Tricia's Treasures
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Dream Big Designs
a thousand words by Brooke
Adriana's Cafe
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
The Scrappy Kat
moms unique possibilities
Chubby Bird Blog
This Little Missy <<---You are HERE
Borsmustár
Saphira's Scrapdesign
A valóság tükre (Osli's blog)
StashHappy Designs
light's digiscrapworld
Citygurl Creations
Lovin' My Scrappy Life
nitasthings
JW-DigiScraps
The Latest Scoop, Too
Let Me Scrapbook!
Little Red Scraps
StrawBearyDesigns
Mad Genius Designs

Speed Scrapping

Have you ever tried it?! I'm going to admit I've only done it twice and we definitely have a love/hate relationship going on. For one, it's great because I'm a little motivated to actually get some scrapping done (amazing what a time limit and a prize will do!). However, when it comes to putting my pages together I've been known to spend WAY to long debating and tweeking and playing and debating some more. I don't know that I DARE tell you how long I can spend on just picking the photos and papers. In speed scrapping you get 10 minutes to perform each step. Just 10 minutes. That's torture! But I love it. hehe Here's my last Speed Scrap layout.


If you haven't tried Speed Scrapping yet Stuff to Scrap is hosting one Monday, September 28th at 1pm MST (12p PST, 2p CST, 3p EST). Just join the Stuff to Scrap forum and log in to the chat section just before the scheduled time. You'll get 7 steps to completing your layout (one every ten minutes) and then have one additional hour to get everything polished and posted online. Hope to see you there!

Special thanks to Scrappin Cop, Gunhild, DigiDesigns by Nicole, Grandma's Templates, Summer Driggs, Maurine Stettler, & Shabby Princess whose elements and products were used in my layout. :)

Sick Day

I've been having a sick day...or couple of days. Blah! Darn colds are starting early this year. I guess it's a been a good excuse to hunker down and sort and maybe, possibly USE all of these digital scrapbooking supplies I've been collecting. I always seem to spend all my time downloading new goodies and have neglecting to get any actual scrapbooking done. (Anyone else have this problem??) hehe And now, in the midst of all that, I'm considering actually designing something for the Stuff to Scrap Blog Train. My daughter is going stir crazy from being cooped up with a sick mommy all day, my house is a disaster, and... I think I'm going to try designing something I've never done before that hundreds of people will see. Crazy...yes. Must be the medicine. Bolstering my courage or something. hehe We'll see if I can get something together in time... or if I just end up face down at my desk, drooling on my keyboard. Regarless, I know I'll be making my rounds Oct. 1 to download all the goodies that will be on the Train! :)

Chatter

As I sit here, I'm listening to my 15 month old daughter talk to herself in her crib. She's been in there an hour. She SHOULD be sleeping.

I could hear her drop her blanket, pacifier, and stuffed bear out of her crib one by one. Each followed by a loud "uh-oh". I could hear the scrapping noise of her pulling the picture frame off of the bookcase next to her and into her crib. Its a picture of her daddy and I. And now she sits jabbering and chattering to the faces in the picture... when she should be sleeping.

It's times like this that I think about how a like we can be sometimes. How we both seem to have so much to say even when no one is listening. A good 70% of my day is spent talking to a toddler... who in turn talks back... in her own language. And while I love every minute of it some days I find myself talking to...MYSELF... just to have a little adult interaction! I was having one of those conversations one day when I realized that maybe if I typed to a blog instead it wouldn't be quite so weird. HA! So here's to my attempts at normality and sanity. Where ever they are. Perhaps someday we'll be friends!