Scrap Girl

Since many kids are getting out of school for the summer, I decided to do a quickpage that you can use for those pictures.  I made it with a “Sunny With a Chance” digital kit from my friend Karyn, a designer for Digital Arts Cafe.  She has it on sale now, so if you like this page, you should definitely check it out!

Download this quickpage HERE

Today is my kid’s last day of school and I messed up.  I usually get a picture of them getting off of the bus.  DANG!  Anyway, I dug out some pictures I took on the last day last year and whipped up a page with a new digital kit called “Sunny With a Chance” by Karyn Robinson at Digital Arts Cafe.  Tomorrow I will be offering the freebie quickpage for it so be sure to come back and get it.

Hello all.  This is another page I did at the scrapbooking crop weekend.  I wanted to do something different for an Easter picture this year, so I decided to take a picture of the eggs we colored and not the whole egg coloring process.  Besides, I kind of get into the whole egg coloring process and you don’t want egg dye on your camera, right?  This picture turned out great so I decided to use some bright paper to go with the picture of the bright eggs.  I just cut paper strips and then used the same paper to cut out the title on my Cricut cutting machine.  I also cut out some tags to use below the picture.  Now all I have left is my journaling piece and this page is done.

I’m finally getting around to taking some pictures of the layouts I did at my scrapbook weekend crop a couple of weeks ago.  This page came about as a result of my youngest daughter acting purely spontaneously!  I managed to capture different moments of her doing a sparkler dance of sorts.  I’m so surprised they turned out because there is so much movement in these pictures.  My mom and dad always have sparklers (firework wands) at their place in the woods.  Usually we do them on July 4th, but they make their way out just about everytime we go up there.  The gold shimmer letters I found at an unclaimed freight store.  I chose the papers because of the green leaves of the trees in the pictures and she was wearing purple so I used that to matte the pictures.  The rest of the title was cut on the Cricut Electronic Cutting Machine.  I still need to complete the journaling and tell the story of the “sparkle dance.”

Hello scrappers.  I would be curious to know if any of you have scrapped a Memorial Day page?  I do some scrapbook pages about our Memorial Day traditions–like going to my parents place in Wisconsin on the lake, but none really associated with the actual holiday itself.  Happy Memorial Day to you as you are remembering your loved ones that have gone before you.  My latest scrapbook pages will be coming to the blog for your viewing this coming Tuesday.  I had a garage sale this week and all of my attention has been focused there.  I made over two hundred dollars and unloaded a bunch of stuff so I am content.  Most of my scrapbooking items went of course.

Hello scrappers.  I’m starting to get into designing for digital scrapbooking and have something for you to try out.  I decided I would start with digital papers first and then move into embellishments and alphabets.  My first paper pack is called “Desert Dots.”  There are four papers for you to use.  I’m working on coordinating embellishments, so be sure to stop back for those.  I’m temporarily calling my digital creations operation ”Scrapalicious.”  Leave me a comment or suggestion if you have any ideas for me.  Hopefully that hasn’t been used yet.  Enjoy your free digital papers! 

Download this free paper pack HERE

Hello fellow scrappers.  I’m just back from a crop weekend up in Fargo, North Dakota.  My friend from college lives up there and invited me to go along to a weekend crop.  We didn’t stay over night.  It was just a weekend meeting place where we could set up our stuff and have meals.  It went from Friday night through Sunday afternoon so we actually got quite a bit done.  Over the next few weeks, I’ll be showing you the pages I made.  I have to unpack everything and take some photos of my pages so check back in a few days for some page ideas and pictures.

Hi everyone.  I had such a great response to my last freebie that I wanted to make another one for you.  I got the go ahead from my designer friend, Karyn Robinson, to use her kit to make another freebie.  This one could be used alone or to make a two-page spread with the “Mom & Me” free quickpage from a couple of days ago.  There is just something about brown and pink colors together.  This is such a versatile kit and the wordart kit that coordinates with it is too cute!  If you like the look of these pages go to Digital Arts Cafe to check out this “I’m Gonna Tell Mommy” Kit and the matching “I’m Gonna Tell Mommy” Wordart Kit.   

Download this free quickpage HERE

Happy Mother’s Day to my fellow scrapbooking friends!  I came up with a freebie for you that is a quickpage.  You can just add a photo to this page and some text and you’re done.  It doesn’t get any simpler than this.  This quickpage was made from a kit that you can also get for free called “I’m Gonna Tell Mommy.”  My designer friend, Karyn Robinson put it all together.  If you like this page, you should definitely go get it at Digital Arts Cafe.  Hope you have a great day tomorrow!

Download this freebie quickpage HERE

To celebrate Mother’s Day, I’ve decided to dig out some pictures and do some layouts of me with my kids and my mom.  I recently got my hands on a new digital kit called “I’m Gonna Tell Mommy!” and I have to say it’s options are endless.  I also just found out the papers and embellishments are being offered for free right now!!  Follow the link to get over to Digital Arts Cafe and get it.  I decided to do a “My Mama Rocks” page because there was a cute piece of wordart in the kit.  It also sounds like something my youngest daughter would say.  I used a grid template I downloaded from Creating Keepsakes that went along with my Computer Tricks for Scrapbooking 2 book by Jessica Sprague.  She also designed the grid.  After that it was easy.  I just put whatever paper I chose under the grid layer and then used the elliptical marquee to draw my cutting line, chose the inverse(so it cut everything except my cutting line) and presto one space filled.  Finish the rest and add embellishments and text and here is the finished page.