New Kits!

Regina is the Latin word for Queen.  One of my interests is reading biographies of women in history.  I am definitely not a feminist, but I do find it interesting to see how women have lived the gift of life they have been given and how they have used their talents.  Over the last several years, I have been reading biographies of many of England's and western Europe's queens.  Last night I finished a well researched work on Catherine of Aragon, the first and real Queen of England's King Henry VIII.  When I saw the Queen stamps from Idgie's Heartsong ~ Scrap's in the Key of Life, I was inspired to transfer my interest into a kit.

Some people have royal lineage in their family history, some people are history buffs, some love to re-enact and go to Renaissance fairs.  This kit would be perfect for you.  You will also love it if you enjoy the colors of teal and aqua, and you could use it for many elegant occasions like weddings, anniversaries, feminine photographs, your "Princess" or whenever you feel like being "Queen for the Day"! :-)

You can purchase Regina at Heritage Scrap.

Regina contains 30 12x12 300 dpi papers, plus one fancy lace mat and a worn and torn overlay.  I have tried to create layered patterns with texture and color reminiscent of fabrics found in the royal castle, along with other bygone touches, such as handwriting and lettering.  Some of the papers have Queen's images on them.  The preview doesn't do them justice!

Of course every Queen or Princess needs her jewels and is surrounded by elegance, texture and color.  I've provided 65 elements so hopefully you can find something you enjoy!

Here are the journaling elements provided in the kit, along with the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Charlotte, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II makes a showing on the postage stamp.

Here are the many frames of the kit including the elegant border cluster featured on the bottom.

My Family Tree is my second new release at Heritage Scrap.  It is designed to be a vintage and elegant family history kit without taking itself too seriously.  You can make both casual and dressed up layouts with a choice of 58 elements, 32 papers, a pedigree page (in 2 colors) and a quick page.

The papers are designed to be soft and textured and mostly monochromatic so that you can let your family story and photos shine.  They are suitable for creating a book with continuity in the pages and design.

Here is a view of some of the elements you have to choose from.

Frames and frame clusters for My Family Tree digital scrapbooking kit.

Naturally several journaling options are included as well as a 4 generation pedigree chart/family tree page in 2 different colors.

Included is a lovely quick page to get you started and word art titles in 2 different fonts - elegant and casual, as well as 2 different styles - glitter and wood.

I had so much fun designing My Family Tree, that I created an Add-On Kit which is available separately at Heritage Scrap or in a Combo Pack which will save you money.

Here you can see the quick page, the quick page album cover and the stacked paper pages which are ready for you to use and further embellish.

Next you will find an additional pre-made 4 generation pedigree/family tree page in a more casual style, a frame cluster and a border cluster.  In addition there is a floating png 4 generation pedigree chart in the 5 colors of the kit which you can also use as a clipping mask with any papers you have from other kits.

Last, but not least, there is word art to complete your pages!

Switching, gears, in my Faith Sisters shop, I have a new faithbooking kit called Love Conquers All.  It features papers and elements in burgandies and roses with a touch of green and cream in a heart and love motif.

Here is a preview of the colors and papers.

There are lots of elements to choose from.

These are the frames and journaling elements.

And no faithbooking kit would be complete without word art!  Here you will find quotes from Scripture and about love.  The word art is also available separately.

Thank you for looking at my latest work.  I hope you will enjoy it.  Currently the gallery at Heritage Scrap is down due to some coding errors from the old server, but we are hoping to get one up soon.  You can also post in the gallery at Faith Sisters with any of my kits.  I would really like to see what you are creating with my art. Please contact me via email, facebook or one of the stores to let me know if you have posted any work.

Happy Scrapping!

A Friend Loves At All Times

Have you stopped in at the Faith Sisters Shop recently?  One of the fun things I do there is participate in a themed collaboration kit with the other designers.  Each designer puts together some papers and elements that get put in together with everyone else's to create a large kit.  The best thing about this is that you can get it for FREE! 

This is what you have to do:

Buy $10.00 or more and get this product for FREE!

Just follow these simple steps:

1. FIRST add $10.00 or more of digital scrapbooking products into your shopping cart

2. THEN add this product to your shopping cart

3. Enter this coupon codeduring the check out process: FSCFLAAT_13

One of the neat things about collaboration kits is that you get to check out different designer's styles.  Each kit has been a challenge for me, in a good way.  I learn something new in my designing.  I use color choices that don't come naturally to me.  And I am stretched to fit my designs to a theme.

This month the theme is A Friend Loves At All Times and is about loving your neighbor.  Stop by the store and check it out!

While you're there, take a peek inside my small, but growing, shop at Faith Sisters where I have some of my heritage designs but also some faithbooking designs.

Jean's Friendship

As I have written previously, this January we lost our dear friend and designer at Heritage Scrap, Jean Daugherty.  Jean was a magnificent heritage designer and while there are other lovely designers out there, no one quite matches her grace and style.  In addition to designing and genealogy, Jean was a loving wife and mother and a Godly woman, serving her church's Sunday School more than 40 years.  Sadly she lost her battle with breast cancer but she has Victory and battles no more.

February marks the end of sales on her designs at Heritage Scrap.  You can go directly to her store here.  All proceeds go to Jean's family.  In addition, some of the designers worked together making a collaboration tribute kit called Jean's Friendship which is a tribute to our love of Jean and is to benefit her family.  You can find my portion here.

These kits are available only through February 2011.

This layout was created by Helene, my wonderful CT designer, using my portion.

Here is my preview for the kit.

Another lovely layout from Helene using Jean's Friendship and title art from my Beloved kit.  Thank you for looking!

Sale At Heritage Scrap - New Kits

Hello Blog Friends!  I haven't been posting because I have had a host of electronic issues over the last several months and now Blogger isn't playing nice so I can't post a picture or link.

I wanted to let you know that my shop at Heritage Scrap is having a sale.  Most kits are 50% off through February!  You can find the link in the side bar since I can't post one here at the moment.  I will also be hosting a sale in my shop at Faith Sisters starting in a couple days as well.

At Heritage Scrap we have put together a tribute kit for our beloved Jean Daugherty who went to be with the Lord in January.  That will be in the shop soon with all proceeds going to Jean's family.

Next in the lineup is our February Designer Collaboration kit at Heritage Scrap.  These are always so fun to do and this month was no exception.  I loved the colors!  It should be up this weekend, so stay tuned.

Soon I'll be blogging on a more regular basis (if blogger cooperates!).  Thank you for stopping by.

40% Off Grand Re-Opening Sale

We've had a rough month or so at Heritage Scrap, losing our dear Jean Daugherty to cancer and being hacked and having server problems!  We have finally moved to a new server, though we are still haven't gotten the forum and gallery up to par.  Everything else is doing so much better and the shop is re-opened!  If you are still having problems getting in, you may need to clean your internet cache and clear your cookies.  Sometimes an older and saved version of the site comes up if you don't.  But we are on a new server, cleaned up and no viruses or hacking problems - Yeah!

So, most of the designers are having "housewarming" specials.  My designs will be 40% Off!  I'll be uploading some new things soon.

2nd Thursday Heritage Challenge At Faith Sisters

Last month I began a heritage scrapbooking challenge at Faith Sisters and today I posted my 2nd portion. You can read about the challenge here and post your layouts here to earn a posting bonus. I've also copied and shared the information in this post below. I hope you will join me. I think it will be a lot of fun. Each month we will cover a different topic and you will have some ideas to include in your heritage albums, life story or life books or your every day family album. If you have an idea of a topic you would like me to cover, please comment or send me an email.

Welcome to our first heritage challenge of 2011.  When we think of the New Year, we often think of change. Most change in our lives occurs moment by moment and we don’t even think about it.  Or we are doing busy experiencing the change to stop and write down what we fell at the time.  It may seem obvious, but documenting the change in your life, your family’s life or your ancestors, could tell a lot about you as people.

This layout is the opening page in my Grandmother’s life book. Most of her grandchildren only knew her as a white haired “little old lady”. I wanted to show more than that – the incorrigible toddler, the bright student, the young woman in love, the new mother, the widow, the teacher, the woman of God and so much more. It was really eye opening for me to see her life unfold on one layout. This layout demonstrates change that occurs on an ongoing basis for everyone.

Change is inevitable, or so “they” say and sometimes the changes are big or life changing. Some experiences in our life, define who we are as person, send us off in another direction or confirm that we are right where we should be. They challenge us, grieve us, bring joy and stretch us in negative and positive ways.

Try to think of ways you or your family member have changed or experiences that have changed you. Here is a partial list:



Salvation/Choosing to walk with God

Health/Illness Changes/Disease/Surviving Cancer

Tragedy

A National Experience (e.g. The Great Depression, 9/11)

Political changes and events

Education

Career Changes or Job loss

Losing a Child or Other Loved One

Moving to Another Country, State, Province or City

Missionary Adventures

Marriage/Divorce/Widowhood

Abuse

Adoption



I’m sure you can come up with more. This is just a basic list of things that change or can change us through the course of our lives. My Grandparents lived through The Great Depression of the 1930s and this shaped who they were as people and their attitude towards things in general. But you wouldn’t know this just looking through a photo album would you? Photos are wonderful and art is beautiful, but sometimes we are left with more questions than answers. It is our job as family historians to document some of these things. Don’t forget the “story” in His”story”!

This layout doesn’t have a lot of journaling because some things I just don’t want to share with the whole Internet Scrapbooking Community! But it talks about the changes that occurred from the starry eyed bride to the comfortable and trusty love I share with my Husband now, 12 years later. The photos, one on my wedding day and one on my 12th wedding anniversary, show that to me, but maybe others can’t see that. So, this page reflects those feelings.




I hope you’ll join me in this challenge. It’s such a broad topic, you will be sure to find something to scrap and journal about. Everyone who posts in the gallery challenge section  here and then lets me know here in the forum before the next challenge on Thursday, February 10, 2011, will receive the following word art as a posting bonus:

Thank you for participating.  I look forward to seeing your layouts!

Catching Up - New Kits and Sale

My apologies for not keeping up on the blog.  Sometimes real life takes precedence over virtual life! :-)  Because I have been neglectful, there is a lot of catching up to do!

Through the new year, I will be having a 50% off sale at both myHeritage Scrap shop and my Faith Sisters shop.   Happy shopping and scrapping!  Now for my recent kits:





Winter Song is found here (FS) and here (HS) and was designed for the December 2010 My Sweet Song Challenge - The Perfect Gift at Faith Sisters.  The kit is filled with both musical and wintery, snowy elements and backgrounds with a touch of glitter in near neutral tones.  Here are some of my layouts created with this:

This is my wonderful Hubby and me on our wedding day, almost 12 years ago.  The lyrics are from the hymn we chose for congregational singing during our wedding.

This layout features a picture of my brother and I with our Daddy during the winter of 1968.  My brother was a year old and this was his first snow!  I should also mention that the ad above was created with this kit too.

Winter Wilderness is Heritage Scrap's December Designer Collaboration kit and there are some really beautiful kits.  You can see  my portion above.  I had so much fun making that plaid background that by the time I was done, I wanted to have a blouse made out of it! :-)  Winter Wilderness is designed to work with all your outdoor winter activities as well as your indoor get togethers.  I surely miss living where I could walk out in the woods in the snow!

In the past I have put some word art and title pieces in with kits but this is my first actual word art package.  It was really fun to create and is designed to help you journal and document your family traditions and your love of family and home.  You can find it at both Faith Sisters and Heritage Scrap.

This layout uses a title from the word art package and also my Holiday Baking kit which I released last November at Heritage Scrap and just loaded into my store at Faith Sisters.  It's fun for all your holiday baking and would work well for cookbooks, recipe cards and kitchen gifts.

More updates coming soon!