Ticket to Ride

My oldest grand-nephew Devin. He was 2 here and is 3 now. I blended the large photo into the background. It was just a little pic from FB but I worked with it and love the way it turned out. I think it's my favourite page that I've made so far, haha.

I posted this at GingerScraps on September 7 and a few hours later it was nominated for Baker's Best 9/2-9/8 .

On Sunday September 9th is was nominated for LOTW (layout of the week) at GingerScraps. Such an honour! :)

Kit: 'One Day at a Time' (Kimeric Kreations)
Template/Sketch: 'Paper Lovers 3' (Kimeric Kreations)

Just Chillin'

I made this page for the August Template Challenge at The DigiChick. My niece and her hubby-to-be three years ago.

Kit: Licorice Parfait (Sherwood Studio)
Alpha: Charmed (Sherwood Studio)
Green leaves from Simply Sweet (Kimeric Kreations)
Template: tp homecoming TDC 08-11 (Chloe)

Mom = Love Forever

My beautiful Mom in 1945. I'm sure I've scrapped these pics before, but I love them.

Kit: 'Introspective' (Sherwood Studio)

Sweet Baby Girl

My niece's BFF with her beautiful baby daughter. I adore how the baby looks so content and is falling asleep on her mommy's shoulder. So sweet!

Kit: Simply Sweet (Kimeric Kreations)
Template/Sketch: The Big Picture 2 (Amber Morrison) * slightly modified

30 Years

My oldest nephew as a baby and 30 years later with his son.

Kit: 'Not So Ordinary (Kimeric Kreations)
Template/Sketch: Angelclaud ArtRoom freeboe Week 1.

Anything's Possible

I posted this page on GingerScraps this morning and it was nominated for Baker's Best 8/19-8/25. I'm so new to posting on GS I didn't even know what that meant, haha. I figured it out and it was such a thrill and an honour to be nominated.

Kit: 'Anythings Possible' by Kimeric Kreations
Mud Puddle WA from Elegant WordArt by Bethany

Update: On Sunday August 26 this page was nominated for GingerScraps LOTW (layout of the week) and voting began.

Further Update: On September 3rd I found out my page had WON Layout of the Week!! I had no idea there was a prize for this, lol. I was honoured to be nominated and more than happy with the LOTW blinkie, but I also got a $5.00 gift certificate to the store. So cool.

You Fill My Heart

Kit: 'Anythings Possible' by Kimeric Kreations
Template: Aug Blog Challenge by Little Green Frog Designs
WA: 'You fill my heart with gladness' by WordArtWorld by Jennifer (re-coloured)
Font: Pea Anderson

YeeHaw! Thanks Maw!

I won this amazing bundle from Wendy Tunison on her Facebook page. I adore it, and it's huge! Between the kit and the bonus addon there are 100 ellies, 2 full alphas and 32 papers to play with, and I love all of them, haha. Plus the CT gave away lots of fab freebies with this kit.

Kit: Simply Turquoise' (Wendy Tunison Designs).
I couldn't resist using Amy's freebie cluster border on the bottom. (Mind you I added more ellies on top and behind it, haha). So fun!!

Dream Dreamer

My youngest grand-nephew Tyler. Such a cutie-pie!!

Kit: 'Wishful Thinking' by Kimeric Kreations
Template/Sketch: 'Have No Fear' by Simple Girl Scraps

Live, Laugh, Love

We had a family gathering at our brother John's house today and while we were there I asked my brother if he would take a photo of my sister Lil and I using my camera. Well, he's such a goof he had us both cracking up. I asked him to take a close-up, from about the waist up, but he wouldn't zoom in ... so he'd take a pic and we'd look at it and Lil and I would be really tiny but he took a ton of background of his pond, haha. We'd ask him to try again... and again. By the time we got this last photo Lil and I were laughing so hard that tears were pouring down our faces. (The pic in the circle up top .... it still had way too much background, but I cropped it, lol.)

I'll have to go back and figure out what kit's I used .... I grabbed bits and pieces from lots of old kits.

You Are My Sunshine

Our sweet Becky... Seilatan's Rebecca Sunshine. The photo on top of Becky with me was taken on her 13th birthday, July 2, 1996. We had just found out she had cancer. She crossed The Rainbow Bridge the following Spring. :(

Kit: 'You Are My Sunshine' by Kimeric Kreations
Template/Sketch: 'Copperhead' by Little Green Frog Designs

Outdoor Adventure

I won a $5.00 coupon on Albums to Remember Designs FB page. WooHoo. I put it towards Barb's newest kit ... it's so fab. Scanned some old pics (because it's been "awhile" since I last went camping, lol). These are my nephews Eric and Jordan when they were younger, and their dad, my brother John :)

Kit: Outdoor Adventure (Albums to Remember)
I used a layout similar to the WM Squared Template on SO's August 2012 Template Challenge, but added a bunch more "stuff" to it :)

Tuskinny Chicken

One of my favourite recipes - yummers!! I take pics of food a lot, haha.

Kit" My Country Kitchen (Kimeric Kreations)

Here Fishy, Fishy

Jen Balding had a freebie mini kit on her Facebook page. I thought it was really cute and it reminded me of a very old photo of mine. I had to go digging for it and found it in rough shape (really faded and blurry), but I scanned it anyway. The pic is not very clear and the colour of the wallpaper looks wonkier than it was back in the day, but you get the idea of what was going on. :)

I used a wave svg shape so I could use a couple of the papers from the kit. Later Jen posted this, "Has anyone use the "Here Fishy, Fishy" kit? I'd love to see what you've done :) " ... so I posted it on her page.

Mini Kit: 'Here Fishy, Fishy' Girl Boy Girl Designs by Jen Balding

I Love Colour

I made this page yesterday, for no particular reason.... just "because" I wanted to scrap and was looking at photos taken in my garden last summer. I have almost no flowers this summer.... everything is nearly dead from this horrendous drought we've had for the past two months, the worst on record, and there are water shortages so we're not allowed to water our yards. I feel like I've lost some of my best friends and pray for rain every day, but it never comes :(

Anyway, I was just playing around in PSP when I made this overlay or whatever you call it. I cut out holes in a bkg paper and then added papers behind it. I don't know if there is a name for that "technique", lol. It was almost like making a quick page. I saved it with a white background first, so I could replace it with paper easily if I ever decide to use it again.

I've come to the conclusion that the reason I love digital scrapbooking so much is due to my love of colour and design. I've had all kinds of artistic hobbies relating to them. For a kit to appeal to me it has to have fabulous colours, and/or unique and interesting designs.

Kit: 'Market Square' by Kimeric Kreations

The Digichick is broken :(

There has been a major disaster at The Digichick. Their server died this week. Apparently they pay big bucks to have a dedicated server and backups, but when the site went down the company that they pay as a server found out that even their backup was corrupted! YIKES!!! They were able to save some of the site, but they lost the entire store and possibly all of the galleries. (ACK!). The staff and designers have been working like crazy behind the scenes to get things up and going as soon as possible.

The amount of work involved getting a whole store, going back to 2005, with dozens of designers and their hundreds of kits, and layouts, and zipped files and x-cart, all back into place is ginormous! Ugh. So some of my links to kits that are from TDC will not work until this is all fixed. I feel so bad for the owner Sinead (a lovely Irish lass), and all the designers and staff. What a nightmare this is.

Kit: 'I'm Sick' by Albums to Remember.

Update: TDC was offline for about 10 days, but it's back up and running and better than ever. :)

I ♥ Clematis

Some pics from our backyard gardens (from last summer). This year we had such a terrible drought and such high heat every single day that we didn't have many flowers :(

Kit: 'One Summer Dream' by Kimeric Kreations

Second Child

My niece and her two babies, Tyler and Hayden. It's hard to tell from the size of this photo, but you can just barely see Hayden's feet and head peeking out from the front of the double stroller :)

Kit: 'Summer Sunset' by Kimeric Kreations

1974 Music Festival

Today is my hubby's 64th birthday. Holy Moly!!! Time sure does fly. We've been together for 38 years. Hard to believe!!! I made this page for him this morning. This was from our first summer together :) By August I had turned 22 and he had just turned 26.



Happy Birthday Dennis. I ♥ U
BTW, we weren't posing, we were walking that way. :) My friend took a bunch of candid shots. I didn't even know we were getting our picture taken at the time. You can't tell from that pic but my hair was below my waist ... I could almost sit on it. Weird... I can remember so much about back then, but half the time I can't remember where I tossed my car keys now, lol. That's a sure sign, too many senior moments, haha!

Kit: 'Hippie Kit' by Etc by Danyale
I love this kit. I bought it the moment it came out, haha.

Sunset Sail

The gorgeous photo on top is from my friend Meghan, taken here in my home town (used with her permission). The bottom two are close-ups from the same pic.

Kit: 'Summer Sunset' by Kimeric Kreations
Template/Sketch: freebie from Rosey Posey (No#fr01)

"Unique" Carrot :)

And now for something completely different....


Picture from The Ellen DeGeneres Show's Facebook page, lol
Wordart from Create with TLC :)
Carrot embellies from Dreamsfulfilled