October Eve - Heritage Scrap Designer Collaboration Kit

We had a beautiful palette to work with this month for October Eve. Kate had us envision old damask wall papers, rich textures of velvets and tapestries and the heavy scented air of October evenings, nights out at the theater or at home.  I tried to capture this through the textures of my background papers.  The layout is my Great Grandfather and I used it to highlight one way you could use the frame cluster included in the kit.

Here is the preview of my portion, which is found HERE.  You can find the whole collection HERE.  I encourage you to take a look at the other designers' kits.  There are lots of sparkles, satins, damasks and other beautiful features.  My kit is pretty simple in comparison but I'm kind of a "plain Jane" girl! The fun thing is that everything always works together when you take pieces from each portion and mix them together!  As always, the portions will be on sale for $2.50 each during the month of October.  Happy Scrapping!

School Days Fun!

Isn't this adorable?!  I love the picture of them holding hands and walking down the street.  These layouts were made by my new Creative Team gal, Anita using my School Days Kit.  I am very impressed with her work!

Her non-square layouts have inspired me.  Now I'm curious - what sizes do you create? I have to admit I have used the traditional 12x12 because I like a lot of room to spread out!  I was like that with my paper scrapbooking as well and I thought that would improve with digital, but it hasn't!  For wall art I have created 8x10 pages and I'm considering an 11x8 album for my heritage books.  It would be nice to hear from you what you have decided to use.  Happy Scrapping.

Our Home - Moving Day

One of my downfalls is never making the time to scrapbook my own photos of every day life. Remember our every day life is heritage in the making.  In 2009, the big event in our life was buying our first home.  It's modest and older, but it's HOME!  It was such a chaotic time.  My step Dad was right in the middle of cancer surgery and life was stressful, but we saw God's hand working in the details.  It was 7 weeks from thinking, "Maybe we could buy a home" to move in day on our twin daughters' birthday!  There is a lot to document in that time!  So I created some kits and I plan on making a book to tell the story so that my children can see God working in our lives. 

This page was created with Our Home - Digital Scrapbook Kit.  Look for the other kits, including the bundle pack.

School Days Layout

I was cruising through the Heritage Scrap Gallery (a great source of inspiration, by the way!), and I saw this lovely layout from Linda.  Linda is very talented and has been on the Heritage Scrap Creative Team from the start.  She taught me a lot when I was just a new digital scrapbooker!  I have loved seeing her heritage pages through the years and almost feel like I know her family a little bit through the photos and journaling!

If I find you in the gallery using one of my kits, I would love to feature you on my blog as well.  Happy Scrapping!

Layouts To Share

Recently I have begun going through my photos and memorabilia.  High on my priority list is to create an album for my little brother Danny (1967-1973).  This is my favorite photograph of him as a baby.  It really shows his personality, even though he wasn't old enough to sit up yet.  Our Dad played minor league baseball, so the baseball elements were a must.  This layout was created using two of my kits, My Family Tree - Baby Edition and My Family Tree - Baby Edition Add On.  These kits were created to make, soft neutral baby books.

While perusing the Heritage Scrap Gallery, I found this wonderful heritage layout from Creative Team friend Helene (Victoria32).  If you would like to see more of her beautiful artistry, you can find here gallery HERE.  Helene is an avid scrapbooker and all her layouts go into her family albums which she prints up for her grandchildren and family.  What a blessing that must be for them!  In this particular layout I was impressed with all her clustering and layering.  I almost didn't recognize it as coming from my own kit, but it is.  She created this layout with one of my new kits, Family Treasures.

If you post one of your layouts using my kits at the Heritage Scrap Gallery, I would love to see it and feature you as well.  Happy Scrapping!

Prelude To Autumn

Welcome to Fall - it's the first day of Autumn today. My favorite season!  You have one more week to purchase the September 2011 Designer Collaboration mini kits for $2.50 each at Heritage Scrap.  You can find all the Prelude to Autumn kits HERE.  And my portion is HERE.

Working on the designer collabs is fun!  Sometimes the theme is one that is more difficult for me or presents designing challenges and I learn to grow from those.  I particularly enjoy working with the other designers during these collaborations.  Every time we do one I remember and miss the late Jean Daugherty.  She was always ready to give encourage and help when needed.  Her beautiful artistry is certainly missed!

Hope you get a chance to look at these before the price goes up.  October's collaboration will be appearing soon.  Happy Scrapping.

Our Home ~ New Kits & Bundle

Our Home

Busy week here at the computer.  I've been working on a new set of kits that can be used to document your home and family, your ancestors's homes, building and remodeling projects, buying and selling a home or moving.  The elements are versatile and could be used to create other types of heritage or every day layouts as well.

Here is the preview of some of the homey elements.  I've included a mix of modern and vintage to help you use it for a variety of pages.

Here is a 2nd preview showing all the ribbons, bows and frilly stuff.

This preview shows all the journaling elements, including titles, title clusters and lots of labels.

I always like a variety of frames to choose from, so I've given you a lot in this kit and one frame cluster.

And this shows the papers with some neutrals tones and light blues and greens.  There are a few more modern prints, some blue print type papers, some old fashioned florals and damasks and a couple worn and torn overlay papers.

All of the above are from the main kit.  There are some add ons and a bundle as well. 

Our Home - Quick Pages

I had fun creating these quick pages.  There are two gallery pages, one stair case and wall where you can "hang" your family portraits and an open book page layered with lace, tabs and other "bits and bobs".  The preview doesn't quite do it justice, so I'll have to create some pages with them and share them.

Our Home - Word Art

This word art package contains titles and quotes for your home and family pages.

To help you save money, if you like the whole set, you can purchase them in a bundle, Our Home Bundle Pack.  Thank you for looking.  I hope you will enjoy this new kit!