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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!

Live Laugh Love October

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Jennifer

Live Laugh Love: October is a beautiful kit that is kicking off a series of kits. This month’s kit is such a beautiful seasonal but a typical colour palette of peaches, rusts and greens. I liked it when I first decided on it, but now that the kit is finished and I’ve seen the LOs my team has made using it, I LOVE it! I think you will agree with me when you see the LOs you make with it too.

This is another large kit – there are 60 elements and 24 papers. You are definitely getting your money’s worth with this kit! And remember, it’s just the start of things to come. Once you collect all of the series, you will have a huge collection! It’s currently on sale.

Here’s the layout I made. It is of my friend Lori and me. Jounaling reads: I was so happy when I convinced Lori to join me for the Lonestar Shoebox Swap held October 8, 2011. We both spent a fair bit of time to prepare enough supplies for everyone attending (25 ladies) to make the card of our own design. Then we were able to spend all day together, stamping and chatting. I’m so thankful for a friend like Lori.

Digkit: True North Scraps – Live Laugh Love October
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Inspired Templates Vol 2 (part of the DSD Template Grab Bag)
Word Art: Word Art World – Friends for Life (title, quote)
Font: Old News (subtitle), KG Be Still and Know (journal)

Let’s see what the rest of The North Stars created!

And there’s freebies for you!

Facebook Clusters

Here’s an extra freebie that Janet created for you. I include this freebie in with the Facebook ones too. But if you do not do Facebook click on the preview or here to go to Janet’s blog.

Here’s what the Newsletter subscribers got in their email today.

Have a great weekend!

Tooth Story

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Jennifer

I’m here today to tell you about a kit from Marie H Designs. Tooth Story is an adorable little kit, designed to document all the little stories regarding your children’s tooth moments. It covers everything from first tooth, to lost tooth, to braces. I especially love the adult and baby teeth charts. It happens to be in the Super Saturday Sale bin, so you can pick it up for $2 today.

I have two fun layouts about going to the dentist with Jessica and Janette at the end of September.

The first layout is about Jessica. Journaling reads: Jessica had gone to my dentist a number of times with her appointment following mine, but she never let Dr. Evans look in her mouth and barely let Melissa the hygenist brush her teeth with a regular toothbrush, so at the last visit Dr. Evans suggested it was time to change to a pediatric dentist. We decided to try Dr. Kim Hoang who opened her practice, Petite Dental ,right next door to Dr. Evans. When we arrived, Jessica said Janette could go first, but after Janette had her teeth checked out, she excitedly went off with the hygenist to have x-rays taken and then hopped right up on the seat to have her teeth cleaned. Dr. Hoang then checked out her teeth and told Jessica it was time to stop sucking her thumb.

Digkit: Marie H Designs – Tooth Story
Template: AK Designs – Template Pack 11
Font: KG Eyes Wide Open (title), Gabriola (journal, date)

The second layout is about Janette. Journaling reads: Today was Janette’s first ever dental check-up. She had visited my dentist before when I went in for cleanings, but this was the first time she had a check-up. Dr. Hoang had Janette sit in my lap facing me and then we lay her back so her head was in Dr. Hoang’s lap. She brushed Janette’s teeth with her new Princess Belle toothbrush. Janette did great!

Digkit: Marie H Designs – Tooth Story
Template: AK Designs – Template Pack 47
Font: Grilled Cheese BTN (title), Gabriola (journal, date)

I also have a fun freebie for you. It contains two clusters with both shadowed and unshadowed versions. Download here or by clicking on the preview.

I hope the rest of your weekend is great. We attended a Halloween party tonight and plan to go to trunk or treat at our church tomorrow.

Rivals

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Jennifer

Amy’s Designs has a new kit releasing today, Rivals. In case you can’t tell, Amy is an Alabama girl. An Auburn Alabama girl to be exact. So it’s no surprise that this kit is close to her heart with the Auburn Tigers and Crimson Roll Tide being big rivals. With such a specific theme, you might think this kit isn’t versatile, but it is. You could make a zoo layout with the tigers, eagles, and elephants. You could make a sports layout with the various sports elements. Or you could do something totally different with it by just using the blue/orange or crimson/black colors. For the first week, you can pick up for 50% off.

I have two layouts to share today. I pulled photos more than a decade old for both of the. The first is when UTSA’s American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter made it to the National Concrete Competition in 2001. It was our chapter’s 6th year in a row to go to national competition. This was big, because we beat bigger schools in our area (UT and Texas A&M). And yes, it is made of concrete and yes it did float. It’s all a matter of the density of the concrete being lighter than the density of water. Obviously, we did not use the rocks typically used in concrete for applications such as house slabs or bridges. Instead, we used a lightweight aggregate. I’m the girl in the white shirt just right of center. Our team had some mis-communication about what to wear as can be seen by some of us wearing our mirror image t-shirts (name of the canoe) and most everyone wearing the student chapter polo shirts and the professors wearing whatever.

Digkit: Amy’s Designs – Rivals
Font: orange juice (title), Sophomore Yearbook (journal)

This second layout is my sister in high school. She played varsity softball all four years and yes, I’m a little proud of her for that. I had the photo labeled 1998, which was her sophomore year.

Digkit: Amy’s Designs – Rivals
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – SNP Template Challenge October 2013
Font: Myriad Pro

Janece, Katherine, and Lori (guesting for this kit) have freebies for you.

Y’all have a great day!

Autumn on My Mind

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Jennifer

Autumn is definitely on my mind. I can’t wait until we get some fall weather, although I’m sure it’s still a few weeks away for central Texas. Yesterday’s high was 82°F and it has to be under 80°F for me to consider it fall. We did dip into the 50s for the low, so we’re getting close. This month I had the chance to work with a kit from Grace Blossoms 4 You. It is called Autumn on My Mind. It is a fun fall kit with lots of colorful leaves and pretty flowers. Today is the last day to pick it up on sale for 50% off.

I have three layouts to share using this kit. The first is a school photo of my sister-in-law.

Digkit: Grace Blossoms 4 You – Autumn on My Mind
Template: Little Green Frog Designs – Froggy Freebee Vol 23
Font: Just Gotta Smile

The second and third are a double-page spread showcasing an afternoon of a family trip we took to Vermont back in 2008 (see this blog post for more details about that trip). The title is the extracted sign I photographed.

Digkit: Grace Blossoms 4 You – Autumn on My Mind
Template: AK Designs – Two Pager Pack 3
Font: KG Lego House

Here’s a close-up of the left side.

And the right side.

I also have a fun border cluster freebie for you. You can click on the preview or here to download it. I hope you like it and I would love to know what you think of it.

Have a fabulous week!

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