Well, I’m posting a couple days later than my usually Thursday spot this week! I’ve been super busy, and sick too, so I completely lost track of the days. We’ve been looking to buy a mini-van to accommodate our expanding family, and finally found one we loved yesterday. Buying a car when you’re sick is not fun! Sounds like the makings for a great digital scrapbook page to chronicle our adventure!

Lately, my free time for scrapbooking has been practically non-existent. During those times, I find it extremely helpful, and a big time-saver, to use a template. If you’re not familiar with templates, they are a great tool to jump-start your creative process. I have lots of favorite places to get them, but one of my favorite template designers is Chrissy W. and she sells at Elemental Scraps. She often has a free one available in her store, but she also has bundles at a great price. I took a quick look through her store, and thought these would work great to make a brag book to get printed at MyPicTales. Don’t forgot there is free shipping on any order over $50.00 right now!

If you haven’t used a template before, it’s really easy and you should have any trouble finding a tutorial on it! You can also rotate them to get different looks too! They are very versatile, and are just a starting place, so don’t be afraid to put your own twist on it.

And now for the Layout of the Day! I took a quick look at the recently uploaded layouts in the Elemental Scraps Gallery and this one immediately caught my eye! I love everything about it. The title is fabulous, it tells a great story, and the kit used is perfect! Plus there is a lot of great clustering, which I love. This is Kisses from a Bee by kim21673:

I hope you have a great Sunday! Thanks for reading,

My Internet connection failed me again!  We’ve been offline for most of 4 days (woe!).  One more week and this snowbird flies (well actually drives) home to family (and my own DSL).  I treasure the friendships from our Florida winters, but love home most.

WOW, free shipping until April 15th — what a great time to get your projects sent in!  My favorite layouts are of my grandchildren, but a close second place would be heritage layouts.  I’m fortunate to have old photos to scan and share with family.  So I’m thrilled with this month’s Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild kit, Origins.

What’s not to love about this layout — give her some love here.  Gather your photos and create photo gifts for yourself or family — scrapbooks, baby photo albums, memory books — head to the PicTales design center for ideas, then upload!  Free shipping!

As Ever,
Pam

The warmth is peaking in here in Raleigh, NC.  And I’m beyond overly anxious!  Axious enough that I flipped through last years Digital Scrapbook collection of flowers, grass, and sunshine inspired pages!  I just can’t get enough of the vibrant happy colors or the constant reminder of growth and new beginnings it unfurles!  Would you like to join me in this lovely little garden of happiness?  Check out the layout of the day for some spring inspiring goodness!

Spring by DirtyFeetDesigns

The simplicity is just stunning, and the picture drool worthy!  Fabulous job capturing the beginnings of such a wondrous time of year DirtyFeetDesigns!  Be sure to head over and leave this stunning layout some love!

I’m currently taking classes to reinvent myself, so I’m on a creative kick…not just in the arts department, but in the mundane life as a worker bee department as well.  So when I ran across this kit the name captured my interest, but the colors and quality sold me!  Needless to say it piqued my interest enough to be marked product of the day by little ol’ me!  Check out Free Spirit by Amanda Resende & Kristen Rice:

Free Spirit by Amanda Resende & Kristen Rice

That is all the fabulous digital scrabook goodies I have in store for you all today!  Enjoy your Monday!  See you soon!

Whether working on pages for photo greeting cards, custom photo books, or to create a photo album, I like when the photo (or photos) are the feature and there is journaling to explain or tell a story.  Many scrapbook ideas come from templates and product reviews.  Spend time browsing through online galleries and scrapbooking magazines to find styles that you like.

I find this layout delightful, from the special photo, balance, journaling, white space, and appeal.  It can be found here, share the love.  The kit is called “Light” and is found at Oscraps.  Tell your story in a memory album or in a special page made for framing — I hope you find layout inspiration here, and in the many galleries found online.

Happy Scrapbooking!

As Ever,
Pam

I’ve got a confession. I’m looking forward to spring. Yup. About this time every year the itch starts. The please, let all this snow melt and the days get warmer. The attempts to reason with the kids that, yes you do need to still wear hats and/or gloves is growing old.  The other day, my 7 year old asked me when he can wear shorts to school! As I bit back laughter, I replied not until it’s at least 70 degrees!

So, in my quest for spring I found this semi-fantasy kit from Studio Alana entitled Golden Moments.  This scrapbooking kit can be found at Scrapbookgraphics. 

I’m usually not drawn to fantasy kits, but this one caught my eye. I loved the colors, the sparkle and the angel wings.  I can imagine this kit being used from cards, to calendars and of course, scrapbook layouts!  It even seems to me that it is something that can be used year round.

The layout I’ve chosen is entitled Dear Baby.

This layout is done by Alana from Studio Alana and can be found in her gallery at StudioGraphics. The letter is incredibly touching - it is to her unborn child 5 days before he was born.

So, Happy Friday and What Stories will You Tell this week?

Mary

Hi Everyone,

This past weekend sure had a lot of tragic events occuring throughout the world and some scary ones.  On Saturday, an earthquake hit Chile which then triggered a tsunami that was headed for Hawaii.  My oldest daughter and SIL live in Waikiki so I was more than a little apprehensive.  I started calling her before she was even up, needless to say, she didn’t hear the phone.  What she did hear were the sirens when they went off at 6:00 am her time!  I guess they are incredibly loud, lol.  Well, we were texting all day.  She went to safeway to stock up on bottled water, but by the time she got there (7:00 am her time) the store was out.  Danielle said the lines were crazy - they waited for almost an hour to buy gatorade.  Then they filled up every available container at home with water, just in case the sewer system was compromised.  We weren’t too worried that they’d be flooded out though, as their condo is on the 9th floor.  As it turned out, Hawaii dodged a bullet that day.  The waters rose about 3 feet, no major flooding and no loss of property or life.  Great news.  Everyone was back out on the beaches that afternoon.  Close call.

I want to remind everyone that the quickpages are out at Rakscraps.com.  It’s a beautiful set this month and they’re free to members.  Simply sign up in RakCenter.  I think you’ll really love these and they’re so combatible with the mypictales printing options.  Simply download a qp, plop your photos in them and then upload to MyPicTales.  You can have single pages printed, or photo albums.  The quality here at MyPicTales is wonderful. 

Until next week,

Hugs,

Snackpackgu

Ok, so I’m sicker than a dog :(  Needless to say this post is gonna be short but you know what, being sick is yet another memory to scrap about right?  Honestly what memory book would be complete with out a few down sided pages!  Life is after all a roller coaster!  So the product of the day and layout of the day, well they will get you to scraping after that bout of sickness!  Without further ado, enjoy the eye candy!

Layout of the day Sickie You by Nietis

Sickie You by Nietis

And the product of the day is:

Ouchies and Ickies by Jady Day Sudio and Suzy Q Scraps

I’m off to drink a hot cup of tea and scrap

Last week I mentioned that I picked up the pack of 10 best selling fonts by Darcy Baldwin, which are available here at MyPicTales this month! Since then, I’ve decided that DJB Another Mandy is my favorite of the bunch. Don’t get me wrong, they are all great! But this one is just my style. Sometimes a great font is the icing on a great digital scrapbooking layout.

So I went searching for a layout to feature today that showcased my new favorite font. Here is a page I found in the gallery at Sweet Shoppe Designs. It’s by lmccandless and called You lucky Dog. I’m a dog person, so I’m always drawn to pages that show amazing pictures of beautiful canines! The handwriting font DJB Another Mandy just gives the page a handmade feel. It’s perfect! If you’d like more information about what was used to create this page, just click it to visit the gallery for all the details.

Don’t miss out on the great deals here at MyPicTales while Darcy Baldwin is the featured designer this month. Just a few more days to get these great fonts!

Hi Everyone,

Well yesterday was my youngest daughter’s birthday, she turned 18.  I honestly can’t believe how fast these past 18 years have gone!  It seemed like yesterday when she was born and now she’s an adult and finishing her first year of college. (She skipped a grade and yes, she’s incredibly brilliant :)   In some ways I feel a bit old, even though I’m actually not that ancient, lol.  Oh well…..

As I was looking for the layout of the day, I came across this wonderful page about age and survival and loved it.  Hope you do to.  It was made by Myra at Rakscraps.  She’s just a doll, always thoughtful and surprising layouts.

Easter isn’t too far off and it’s not early to be thinking about what scrapbooking elements you might want to add to your photo albums.  Here’s a cute set of bunnies to help you out.  You can find these at Digitalscrapn.

Hugs,

Snackpackgu

Have you looked at the MyPicTales Premium Design Center lately? There are some new names popping up, and I’m excited to see what goodies they will be offering! There are plenty of quickpages available for making beautiful custom photo books. Here are a couple of things that caught my eye. They are all linked to the store:

And don’t forget about this months guest designer Darcy Baldwin. I picked up this pack of her 10 best selling fonts!! They are awesome, so don’t hesitate to grab them for yourself!! If you are new to Darcy’s fonts this is a great way to get off to a great start:

And here is today’s Layout of the Day. This is Happy Feet by Keely~B at DigiShopTalk. A very cute page & I love the fun colors!! Image is linked to the gallery: