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Monday, August 31, 2009

Fall Festival Blog Train..WOOT!

It's time for the Stuff to Scrap blog train to leave the tracks!! I have done up 3 quick pages for you using Maurine's part of the kit, which is fantastic! It's a great mix of "real" elements and hand drawn characters, so you can get lots of different looks! Great for so many types of layouts. Here is a preview of the full kit:

And here is a preview of my quick pages for you:

And everyone please note, there are passwords on my downloads!! If you have any trouble, please email me so I can fix it for you, and please leave me your email address as well, as I have had several wonderful people message me that there was a problem on previous downloads, but I had no way to contact them to let them know the issues were resolved. If you're using a blogger account, make sure your email is enabled, otherwise I get the dreaded "no-reply(at)blogger.com" which means I can't reply!! I'm honored that you even download my pages, so I want to make sure you're able to get them!!

For my first layout, I used a photo of my kids from last year, as it was my daughters first Halloween, she was only a month old. The fonts I used were DJB Angel Baby and Elephants in Cherry Trees by Kevin and Amanda and the date stamp font is FH Ink. Images are linked, password is leaves.

For my second layout, I chose a hunting photo of my son and his Daddy out hunting, they brought home Chase's "first" chicken. Relax all, he didn't shoot it!! lol Daddy knows he's a little young yet for that! For the background text I used Depot, the title is DJB Angel Baby, and the date font was Lexographer. Images are linked, password is leaves.

For this layout, I used a photo of the leaves in my front yard, can you believe the leaves are turning here already?! Sucks. Summer is officially over lol. I extracted some of the leaves to scatter across the page, to match the hand drawn characters (aren't they great!), as there are some leaves included in the kit, as you can see in the previous layout. I also removed my text and paper from the frame, so you can use this page for two photos if you like. The font I used was Libby Script. Images are linked, password is leaves.

So that's it for my portion!! Special thanks to Maurine for letting me use her kit to create these for you! Git going now and grab the rest of the parts to this fab train!! Here is the whole blog list, in case you get lost lol

Dreams Inspired
Strawbeary Designs' Blog
Ginger's House
Manda's Scrappin' Creations
Samantha Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Scrappin' Serenity
Scraps by Andrea
Stuff To Scrap
Christins Creations
Elegantly Funky Designs
Designed by Anya
A valóság tükre
Nibbles Skribbles
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Shel Belle Scraps
Pretty Pixel Designs
Grandma's Templates
The Scrappy Kat
Tonisha's Playground
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Threeunderfour Designs
Noelle's Little Corner in Scrapland
Every EverAfter Moment
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
Let Me Scrapbook!
Lovin' My Scrappy Life
Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Seal Scraps
Life is Not a Cereal (You should have arrived from)
Rants N Random Ramblings (You are here!!)
Designs By Mel (Next stop!!)
Borsmustár
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
Scrapping Rainbow
JW-DigiScraps
My Digaddiction
nitasthings
FlowerScrap
Tricia's Treasures

Happy Travels!! WOOT WOOT!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Summer Camp Blog Train Links Fixed!!

I would just like to apologize to anyone that tried to download the quick pages I offered in the post below and was unable to, due to my bandwidth issues...I'm brand new at offering freebies and don't even know exactly what bandwidth is, so I've moved my files to 4shared, and hopefully won't have these issues again. I'm researching the issue a little bit more so I can avoid this in the future. Thanks for visiting my blog, and again, if there are any more issues, please let me know! See the post below for the links to the Summer Camp Blog Train!!

Friday, July 31, 2009

Summer Camp Blog Train

Well, I think I am a little early with this, but we're leaving today to go camping (neat how that worked out, I should have some more cool pics to use with this great kit when I get back!!) so if I don't post it now, I won't get a chance to later as we'll be "unplugged". So I didn't want you to miss out on my quick pages, so I'm posting it now. Have a great weekend everyone! And thanks for stopping by my blog :)

Wow, I am so excited for my first ever blog train! The great people at Stuff to Scrap put together this great blog train, follow all the links and collect all the pieces and at the end you have this great kit! The theme for August was summer camp. I love Maurine's designs, and she asked if I'd like to make quick pages with her portion of this huge freebie kit, so of course I said yes!! Here is a preview of her portion of the kit which you can grab on her blog (all the links are listed below as well).

And here is the preview of my contribution, three quick pages created by little old me.

This first page, has my son roasting marshmallows at a bbq at my in-laws house. On this page, I extracted the marshmallows on the marshmallow stick, and the tree trunk from the tree to make the corner frame on the one picture. So while they aren't in the kit in that form, they are in the kit for you to extract if you want to! Also if anyone is curious, the font I used on this page is called Drift Type, which I found for free on Dafont.com, and the Marshmallows word art is part of the kit. Click on the image to grab this QP.

This layout is my favorite, I recolored the stitches to make them yellow for around the layout, and I used the yellow paper to create stars, and reduced the opacity on them to around 50%, then added a drop shadow. I used the green paper to make the hills, and used the same tree, made different sizes (and I lightened one for color) for perspective. The font I used is called Night Sky, also from Dafont.com. Image is linked.

On this one I used a paper tear that is not in the kit, and it's not listed as a freebie anymore on the site where I originally got it. You can find some similar tears on Gunhild's site (plus she has lots of other cool freebies too!). The paper tears are about 2/3 of the way down the freebie page #2. I used the yellow paper to create the beam for the flashlight, and again reduced opacity to about 50%. The font I used for this page is Alpha Wood (again from Dafont). Image is linked.