Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mischief!!

When she has this look on her face - she's up to no good LOLI used Dawn Inskip's fab new kit, A New Start,...and Studio Buttercup's Paper Petals template.

Hot Chocolate

We have a decadent tradition of having Hot Chocolate and a yummy cinnamon cake with whipped cream for breakfast on Christmas Day :)I used a Caffeinated template from Queen of Hearts and lots of goodies from Studio Basic. The layout is linked for full credits.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas

Matthildur Inga on December 26, 2008 :)I used Lindsay Jane's fab new minikits, Holly Days and More Holly Days, available at Pickleberry Pop and Gotta Pixel. I also used Studio Basic's amazing template from her Jingle Bell Rock II template pack.

Memories

Lovisa Lin on her way to a Christmas party at school around the middle of the month :)I used a fabulous collab from Dream's Place Atelier & Queen of Hearts called Vintage Love. Available at Digiscrappers Brasil.

Santa Claus

Matthildur Inga on December 26, 2009 - discovering presents which Santa forgot to bring on Christmas Eve :)I used Just Because Studio's fab new Christmas kit, Christmas Ville, and Queen of Heart's Color Pops V1, both available at Digiscrappers Brasil. The layout is linked for full credit.

December 2009

This is our month of December 2009 :)I used Biograffiti's fantastic new template album, Project 365: 2011, available at OScraps. I am SO using this for my P365 project next year!! The layout is linked for full credit - and for a look at the right side of this double pager :)

Presents

Matthildur Inga experiencing for the first time the joy of Christmas Eve and a lot of presents :) She was 18 months old in December 2007.
I used Thaty Borges' fabulous kit, Other Colors of Christmas, and one of her Page Templates Vol2. Both are available at Digiscrappers Brasil and SugarHillco.

Winter Dreams

Matthildur Inga in January 2008
I used Three Sweet Chick's fab new Single Chick 5, available @ The Digi Chick. The layout is linked for full credit :)

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Dawn Inskip's Zodiac Collection

New fabulous collection from Dawn Inskip - fantastic Zodiac goodies...My girls are very preoccupied with the zodiac signs these days, always trying to figure out which family member belongs in which sign :)
I used Dawn's collection to scrap my younger daughter's Cancer characteristics...with photos from her fourth birthday in late June...
I used a couple of things from Dawn's Confessions of a Digiscrapper and her Everyday titles. The template is from Studio Q's My Circle Story @ Scrapbook Graphics. The layout is linked for full credits :)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Dawn's new holiday goodies

Dawn Inskip just released a fantastic bundle of goodies in her store at SBG...I used it to scrap Lovisa's anticipation when she was waiting to go on stage with her choir and perform with some of the greatest singers in Iceland today at a Christmas concert on December 1She was so excited, but also so tired and hungry. She had been in school until 4, then went straight to the hall to practice and since practice was running late, she never got the chance to come home to eat and change her clothes. We went there at 7:15 and took her the clothes she was supposed to wear and a little bit of food. However, she was too excited to eat much :) And it was a fantastic night with good Christmas music - and it was so much fun to see her there up on stage!!!

Friday, December 03, 2010

New links...

I hope they'll work for awhile :)

SBG: QP

SBG: Template

{the blog train lasted through December - the links have now been disabled}

And for today's goodies - be sure to visit the fabulous Studio Dawn Inskip's blog...

5/12 2010: I just tried out the links and they seem to be still working :)

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Sorry...

...for running out of bandwidth. I just woke up to it and I'm trying to fix it so new links should be up in a little while if you'd care to come back for the template & QP.

I just couldn't even imagine all the traffic and downloads LOL Thank you for stopping by and enjoying my freebies :)

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

SBG Christmas Blog Train...

Sorry - I ran out of bandwith. However, NEW LINKS are in the post named "New links..." :)

The Scrapbook Graphics Studio Girls and the Studio Crew are proud to present...You may have come here from Flergs' blog or Lisa's (Studio Gypsy) blog, but Lisa and I are your stops for December 2 :)

I have a template for you and a QP made from the template and the fabulous Santa Brings Goodies mega which the Studio Girls will be giving you on their blogs in December!!


Download links:
Santa Brings Goodies - Template
Santa Brings Goodies - QP

{the blog train lasted through December - the links have now been disabled}

And for tomorrow's goodies - be sure to visit the fabulous Studio Dawn Inskip's blog...

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Every Little Bit Counts

The season of giving, gratitude and joy upon us. It is also often a very busy and hectic time of the year, creating a challenge for those of us with lengthy To-Do lists. However, no matter how busy we all get, it really is important to remember that when it comes to charity, Every Little Bit Counts.
To demonstrate this simple truth, a call went out across the digital community to designers everywhere inviting them each to contribute only one element to a charity collaboration for the Sick Kids Foundation.

The end result is an eclectic collection of unique elements, ranging from classic to quirky and everything in between.

TheEvery Little Bit Counts collection will only be available until the last week of December. 100% of the profits will then be donated to the Sick Kids Hospital Foundation.

Find out how you can receive this very special collection for only $5 and let your little bit count towards this very worthy cause.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Cats and Dogs

Dawn Inskip just released two fantastic kits at Scrapbook Graphics. One is called Woof - for dog lovers - and the other is called Meow, and is perfect for cat lovers :)We have a cat - the cutest little thing, who just turned 2 years old :) She is tiny and feisty and defends our house like a lion LOL
She always comes with us on walks, but when we go to the playground, she gets tired of waiting and goes looking for mice - or fights, which is what she is doing in this photo LOL

Friday, November 05, 2010

Dawn Inskip's {i}DSD sale

Dawn is having a fabulous sale in her store at Scrapbook Graphics...And she has a brand new kit - AND a grab bag!! Check it out - it's not everyday you get Dawn's gorgeous goodies at such fantastic prices!!

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Two Little Pixel's DSD sale...

...it runs from November 4 until November 7Fantastic designers, fantastic sale - what more could one want :)

Biograffiti's {i}DSD sale

Biograffiti is having a 30% off sale on all her fantastic templates and kits at OScraps...
Now is the time to pick up her fantastic Project 365 template albums - they are definitely the best around!!

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

MScraps DSD sale...

Digital Scrapbooking Day is Saturday, November 6 - and some stores have started their DSD festivities a little early. MScraps started theirs, with sales, blogtrains, challenges and chats - and the festivities will be ongoing until November 7th!!!!MScraps is such a fantastic place to hang out and the designers are amazingly talented, so make sure you check it out!!

Monday, November 01, 2010

Studio True Blue Playday

Studio True Blue Playday
Jenn is the featured designer at Scrapbook Graphics this week - she is also a new template designer at SBG, designing some amazing templates! She is offering 30% off everything in her store until November 4, so make sure you take advantage of that!!

STUDIO Doodelle in November

Rachelle of Doodelle Designs is guesting for Scrapbook Graphics in November!! She has three brand new and exclusive products in her store there and is having a 20% off sale for the next 5 days!!!Check out her products - I've worked with all of them and they are totally amazing!!!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Doodelle's Guest Gig!!!

So, Doodelle will be a guest designer for a fab store in November!
To mark this exciting event, 3 brand new, exclusive product lined up for that store will be raffled off. Just leave a comment in this thread at DST for a chance to win one of the three products (see sneak peeks in the ad above).

Three (3) winners will be announced on November 1.

Dawn's Harvest

Fantastic new kit from Dawn Inskip today at Scrapbook Graphics. It's called Harvest...
It's totally gorgeous - I love Dawn's doodles!!!
I made this layout with it...
These are my girls and my nephew running down the path in the garden outside their grandma's house :)

Monday, October 25, 2010

Lilleyscrap RAK

Sarah will release a gorgeous new kit next week - and now, you have a chance to win it before release. Check it out at her blog...
The kit is fantastic!! Oh, and Sarah is also giving a way a Halloween QP on her blog right now!!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Playroom

Dawn Inskip released a new kit today, it's a fantastic collab with LorieM and it's called The Playroom...I have a lot of fun photos to use with this kit LOL
The one I used is not too good, though - but it's a good memory :)
This photo is from March 2007. My daughters had just gotten a little playtent, which was promptly put up on the livingroom floor - and then they proceeded to move their toys into it. When there was no more room inside the tent, they made a barricade of toys around it :) This provided for hours and hours of fun - albeit a bit messy for my taste LOL

Christmas 2009

Christmas kits are coming out :) I can't wait for Christmas this year, I'm totally ready for everything Christmas to come my way right away LOLThese are my girls on Christmas Eve 2009. They were anxiously waiting to get out of mom's photos and into the pile of presents hiding under the tree :)
I used Karen Funk's gorgeous new kit, Christmas Wishes, and one of Biograffiti's templates from her P365 October Template Album.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Fall

Ok, I've been making lots of fall layouts lately - I think mostly because I actually have fall photos to scrap LOL Fall has been unusually long and beautiful around here and we've been out and about a lot, enjoying the weather and beautiful fall colors :)Matthildur Inga definitely enjoys it - and hiding behind the few trees we have here LOL
I used Lindsay Jane's gorgeous new fall kit, Autumn Days. And a template from Kitty Chen.

Running

We went to visit friends at the end of May - and we went to the beach with them. The weather was amazing, swimsuit on the beach weather, really - and it was definately quite a bit earlier for that than we are used to in our rather chilly Northern Atlantic climate :)This is Matthildur Inga, running towards the ocean as fast as she could. Admittedly, it was a bit chilly - but fun none the less :)

I used Joyce Paul's gorgeous new kit, Into The Blue, available at MScraps.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Gathering Leaves

Matthildur Inga picking fall leaves for everybody at the vacation house we were at last weekend :)I used Karen Funk's new kit, Everlasting, available at Design House Digital

Dawn's NEW store - SBG!!

Dawn Inskip is the newest Studio Girl!!!I'm so excited for her!!! Dawn is an amazing artist and I know SBG will be the perfect fit for her!
And this is definitely the time to stock up on Dawn's goodies at 30% off - even her new kit, Softly Spooky, is at that discount...
I used it to scrap my little Cleopatra...I swear she could really well have blue blood, this girl - she looks regal, and she behaves like a princess LOL

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Taylormade in the Spotlight

Amanda Taylor, aka Taylormade Designs, is in the spotlight at OScraps this week. She is offering a free add on to her fabulous new kit, In Moderation, and $3 coupon to her store to all participants!! In addition, if you take part in the challenge, you have a chance to win a $50 coupon to her store!!! $50 - now who wouldn't want to spend that in Amanda's fantastic store???!!!

I made this layout for the challenge, using both the kit and the freebie add one...The photo is of Lovisa Lin and Matthildur Inga this summer, when they mustered up their collective courage to go up to the pastor of a church we were visiting, to ask him a couple of questions they had :)

The journaling goes somewhat like this:
Today I feel happy. It's not often you girls show how much you need each other, but it always makes my heart warm and fuzzy with happiness when I see you reach out to each other for strength and courage.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Happiness...

This face just oozes happiness :) I love her to bits and I love to watch her happy face!I used a couple of things from Lilleyscrap Designs. Her fab new Clipping Mask Frames and her This Photograph kit.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Hilarious

She just cracks me up :) She will look, very seriously, at something. Then she'll make a wise crack - with a very serious face. And then she'll laugh and laugh and laugh - doesn't matter if no one laughs with her, although most of the time someone does because she has a very catchy laughter :)She believes she is the funniest kid around - and I'm not going to argue with that LOL The funniest thing, though, is that she is starting to sound like The Nanny's Fran Drescher when she laughs these days. It cracks me up even more LOL

I used a fantastic collab from Studio Basic and Pink Reptile Designs, called Hilarious. I also used a template by Studio Basic.

Full Moon

When we last had a full moon, we also had really fabulous clouds in the sky - and it got a bit ghostly :) I've often tried to take photos of the full moon, and this time it sort of worked, shadows and all...Kaye Winiecki just released a fantastic Halloween kit, called Something Wicked, and since I didn't have any Halloween photos, just photos of an eery full moon, I decided to scrap it LOL I kind of like it, actually :)

Thursday, October 07, 2010

The Great Wall

Photos from the Great Wall of China - taken when we were there in February 2004I loved this place - so surreal to be standing there, with all this history under your feet. Just amazing!!

I used Yoshiko Designs' fabulous kit, Zen Garden, and Polly & Rufus' new templates, {Page Me} The Two of Us, both available at MScraps.

Relax

Isn't she cute?
She is 10 months old and we were at a vacation house with some friends - and social as she is, she never wanted to sleep when there were other people awake in the house. This morning, however, the older girls in the group had gathered together all the sheets, comforters and pillows in the house and made a huge pile on the living room floor. So she crawled in, got comfortable and went to sleep - knowing that she would be in the middle of all the action LOL

I used Joyce Paul & Designs by Anita fabulous collab, Just Breathe, available at MScraps.

The Hat

Matthildur Inga has always wanted to be in the middle of every action - and when friends come to visit Lovisa Lin, she has always insisted on being included! However, she is 3,5 years younger than Lovisa, so naturally, she is not always welcome company, so there have been different ways to try and get rid of the pesky little sister :) This was one of the cuter attempts...Lovisa and her friend were just trying to make her annoyed so she would leave, so they put a hat on her haid and pulled it all the way down her face. And then, the fight with the hat began. It took over 10 minutes for her to get it off - after all, she was only 8 months old :) However, once the hat was off, she was not the least bit annoyed and jumped into the big girls' play at once LOL

I used Polly & Rufus' gorgeous kit, The Two of Us, available at MScraps...stitches are by Verena Karolyi, alpha by Angela Powers and template by Designs by Anita.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Kim DeSmet retiring sale

I can't believe I'm saying this - but Kim DeSmet is retiring from designing!!! I will so miss her fantastic goodies!! You, however, have a chance to stock up before Kim removes all her designs from store - and she is offering 50% off her whole store...
You also have a chance to buy her whole store if you so choose, one deal is all of Kim's PU products for $20 and the other is all Kim's CU products for $20. This really is a deal not to be missed!!!

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Hide and Seek

Matthildur Inga at 11 months playing hide and seek with me and the camera :)I used a fabulous collab from the designers at Digiscrappers Brasil. It's called Keeping Memories, and it's free with any purchase of $10 or more...

Biograffiti Challenge...

Biograffiti is the featured designer at Persnickety Prints for the month of October. I think you can still get her fantastic calendar templates and take part in the calendar challenge - but there is also a template challenge...and here's my layout for that challengeThe template is free over at Persnickety Prints and if you participate in the challenge there is a chance you'll win some great prices...!!!

Apple Orchard

This is my nephew on his visit to an Apple Orchard at the beginning of SeptemberIsn't he the cutest little thing? He's got a mop of red curls and an impish grin forever on his face :)
I'm guesting for Kaye Winiecki this month and got to use all the fabulous October BYOC goodies over at The Lily Pad...!!!

Spider...!

We had this huge spider living on the bedroom window of a cottage we stayed at for a week in July. We didn't want to invite it in so the window remained shut throughout the week :) However, it provided hours of animal living education - we got to see firsthand how the spider webbed it's prey, and then we got to see how the spider ate the prey out of the web. FUN!!! At least it kept the girls entertained when it rained :)I used Misty Mareda's new Halloween kit, Midnight Hour. It's gorgeous and rather fun to work with - it gave me a run for my creative money, since for one we don't celebrate Halloween so I don't have any Halloween photos, and second - it's monochromatic in black and white, and I love color LOL I did borrow the yellow paper from another one of Misty's kits and recolored the flowers and wordart to match. But I do like how it turned out :)