Karen Diamond Designs

S4H: Canadian Rockies

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Jennifer

I finished the album I was making for my parent’s trip through the Canadian Rockies a while back, so these layouts have been in my queue to share for some time. I hope you enjoy them. Creating the album was like traveling with them for me.

Digikit: Trixie Scraps Designs & Luv Ewe Designs – Great Wilderness Lodge
Font: Joyful Juliana

Digikits: Scraps N Pieces – The Last Frontier; pink ellies/paper from Wendy Tunison Designs – Just Us February
Fonts: Sophomore Yearbook (journal/date), Stamp Act Jumbled (title)

Digikit: Designs by Helly – Beloved
Template: AK Designs – July 2012 SNP Template Challenge
Font: Doctor Soos Bold (title); Another Typewriter (journaling)

Digikits: Connie Prince – Just Imagine; Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ
Sketch: SketchAbilities #65
Font: Candy Buzz BTN

Digikit: Trixie Scraps Designs & Luv Ewe Designs – Great Wilderness Lodge
Font: Fatkid (title); Times New Roman (date)

Digikit: Trixie Scraps Designs & Luv Ewe Designs – Great Wilderness Lodge
Font: Times New Roman (journal)

Digikit: Word Art World – Destination Vacation
Font: Annie BTN (journaling)

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – The Last Frontier
Template: SNP Template Challenge Dec 2012
Font: Fatkid

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – The Last Frontier
Template: Connie Prince – Project2012 February
Fonts: Doctor Soos Bold, BacktalkSerif BTN

Digikits: Amy’s Designs – American Spirit; Karen Diamond Designs – Proud 2 Be an American; leaf from Queen Wild Scraps – Fabulous Fall used as template for leaf element
Template: Fit 2 Be Scrapped – February 2013 SNP Template
Font: GrilledCheese BTN

Digikits: Wendy Tunison Designs – World Traveler, Keystone Scraps – World Traveler
Font: Kaushan Script

Digikit: Keystone Scraps – World Traveler, World Traveler Beach Escape, World Traveler American Southwest; Wendy Tunison Designs – World Traveler
Font: Kaushan Script

Family Traditions & Squared Templates

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jennifer

Inspired by You Designs is a new designer at Scraps N Pieces. Her templates are pretty cool. Squared has four templates that all have lots of square shapes.

Karen Diamond Designs has a beautiful kit to document your family memories. The colors and some of the elements are very fall/thanksgiving themed, but the kit is very versatile. It would be great to scrap some manly layouts.

I used two of the Squared templates with Family Traditions to document some memories from our 2011 Thanksgiving.

Digkit: Karen Diamond Designs – Family Traditions
Template: Inspired by You Designs – Squared
Font: Impact

Digkit: Karen Diamond Designs – Family Traditions
Template: Inspired by You Designs – Squared
Wordart: AK Designs – Little Cutie (freebie)
Font: Impact

I have a freebie frame cluster for you. I’ve included both shadowed and unshadowed versions. You can download by clicking on the preview or clicking here. I’d love to know what you think of it.

Have a great weekend!

Layouts, Layouts, and More Layouts

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Jennifer

Today, I’m sharing a bunch of layouts.

Since today is Aspen’s birthday, I’ll start off with a layout from her birthday party last year. I have plans to make a few more layouts from that party, but I haven’t yet.

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Hello Birthday

Next up is a layout from Jason and Julia’s wedding.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – Two Hearts, Two Hearts Add-on
Template: Wendy Tunison Designs – Temptations Vol. 10
Word Art: Word Art World – Swap 69 (A Love Story)

This next layout has even older pictures.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – The Pursuit of Happiness
Template: Mommy Made This – Chevron Love Templates (June 2013 Template Challenge)
Word Art: Word Art World – Cousins
Font: Sweet Home Oklahoma

Back to some layouts with more current photos. Journaling reads: “We took a bike ride to the Capistrano playground to enjoy our Friday morning. Janette definitely wants to be just like her big sister. Janette saw Jessica climbing up the spiral steps and she wanted to climb up too. She saw her on the climbing wall and wanted to climb up that too. It is so cute how she admires Jessica.”

Digikit: Amy’s Designs – Playground
Template: Connie Prince – Project 2013 January Templates
Fonts: Pacifico (title), Mountains of Christmas (quote), Catherine’s College Days (journal, date)

These next two are coordinating pages. Journaling reads: “Mom and Dad spent the night at our house on their way to Houston for Dad’s appointments at MD Anderson. We went out to eat dinner and on the way back home, we stopped at the Gatling Gun Park to let Jessica and Janette play for a bit. Janette absolutely loved the bouncy pony.”

Digikit: Connie Prince – For You, For You Add-on, For You FB Mini Sampler, Little Explorer
Mask: Indigo Designs – Gotta Pixel Mask Challenge June 2013
Template: Karen Diamond Designs – Border Curves Templates
Font: Humble Beginnings

Digikit: Connie Prince – For You, For You Add-on, Little Explorer, Little Explorer Embossed Papers Frebbie (Designs by Shari)
Template: Connie Prince – Topsy Turvy Template Challenge June 2013
Font: Humble Beginnings

Then I have a layout I made for a speed scrap last weekend.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Little Explorer, Little Explorer Freebie Embossed Papers; anything green from Karen Diamond Designs – Biology Class
Alpha: Connie Prince – Little Explorer Alpha Freebie
Font: PegsannaHMK (title); Humble Beginnings (date/journal)

And last, I have a layout made for last month’s template challenge at SNP. Journaling reads: After Jessica’s Tiny Tumblers class, we out for dinner. While we waited for our food, Jessica and Daddy did the word find on the kid’s menu together. Jessica is getting really good at recognizing all her letters. She’ll see something and ask “What word does [it] start with?” When we tell her which letter, that will start a barrage of words. I love her desire to learn.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – Grandma’s Junk Drawer
Template: AK Designs – SNP Template Challenge July 2013
Font: Catherine’s Lazy Days

Have a wonderful week.

Furry Friends

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Jennifer

This week Connie Prince has a huge new collection available in all of her stores. This one focuses on our furry friends and will be perfect to document all of your pet memories! There are three bundles available at a great discount or you can purchase the packs individually, on sale 40% off through July 25!

Available at: Connie Prince Store, Ginger Scraps, Gotta Pixel, & Scrapbook-Bytes.

The big bundle has both collections for cats & dogs!

Or if you prefer the smaller bundles for just Cats or Dogs!

There are some additional packs (not included in the bundles): Alpha Add-on, Word Bits, Kitty Cats Word Art, Kitty Cats Flair Pack, Kitty Cats Cluster Pack, Kitty Cat Quick Pages, Puppy Dogs Word Art, Puppy Dogs Flair Pack, Puppy Dogs Cluster Pack and Puppy Dogs Quick Pages. These are on sale 40% off too!

I have a layout to share that uses the Puppy Dogs kit and border clusters. I took these photos of my sister-in-law Julia and their dog Bella at Thanksgiving 2007. Although, technically at the time, Julia and Jason were just engaged.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Puppy Dogs; Puppy Dogs Border Clusters
Template: Karen Diamond Designs – SNP Template Challenge July 2013
Font: Pristina (date)

I went to the doctor today, since I haven’t been feeling well. I have strep throat. Hopefully, no one else in the house gets it.

Five Layouts

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Jennifer

I realized I have a back log of layouts I haven’t shared here on my blog yet, so here are a number of them in no particular order.

This layout features Janette on her first day wearing her orthotic helmet.

Digikits: Queen Wild Scraps – all but 1 paper from Sweet Baby Girl, 1 paper and all ellies but 1 flower from Forty Weeks and 1 flower from Little Princess
Template: Amy’s Designs – SNP Template Challenge February 16-28, 2013
Fonts: Minnie, Kiss Me Quick and Life BT

I’m really happy with how this next layout, a speed scrap layout, turned out. I made it shortly after finding out my Dad had been diagnosed with cancer and I wanted to document how I am really my father’s daughter. It garnered me a layout of the day award at Scrapbookbytes.

Journaling reads: My Dad and I both enjoy taking photos and planning trips. I definitely know that my desire to type up an itinerary and label my photos comes from him. We also both like to read historical markers and look at maps. Out of all of my siblings, I am the only one who takes just as many photos of the architecture as my Dad. He’s always there when I need his advice. I can’t imagine life without him.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – World Traveler; camera from An Extraordinary Life, scatter from Two Hearts
Fonts: One Starry Night (title); Annie BTN (journal and date)

This layout was made during my photoshop techniques class. The technique was align and distribute, which I used on the title and subtitle.

Digikit: Karen Diamond Designs – Nature’s Beauty
Alpha: Designs by Shari – Daily Inspiration (Connie Prince freebie)
Template: Connie Prince – Sea the World
Font: Crazy Girls Blond BTN

This was another speed scrap layout. It’s interesting how for the most part my most recent vacation destinations are my favorite.

Digikit: Wendy Tunison Designs – World Traveler; Keystone Scraps – World Traveler, World Traveler Beach Escape, World Traveler Bonus Alpha
Font: Doctor Soos Light

This is about our neighborhood’s Christmas party. Journaling reads: Before leaving the holiday party, we paused on the community center lawn so the girls could run and twirl in the falling “snow” from the snow machine.

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Winter Wonderland
Alpha: Karen Diamond Designs – Everlasting Love
Font: Candy Round BTN

I hope you enjoyed these layouts. I’ll be back with more later this week showcasing some new kits.

JAMSquared

Tag Archives: Karen Diamond Designs

S4H: Canadian Rockies

Family Traditions & Squared Templates

Layouts, Layouts, and More Layouts

Furry Friends

Five Layouts